"Free, Free, Free!" is an e-newsletter and website that provides a monthly curated list of free programs, events and activities happening throughout the city in our libraries, museums, cultural centers and parks. We encourage you to express your culture through the arts and take advantage of the many opportunities the City of Chicago provides you to engage, create and participate!
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Rahm Emanuel
Mayor
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Mark Kelly
Commissioner
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Year of Chicago Theatre
2019
Citywide
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Commissioner Mark Kelly, League of Chicago Theatres Executive Director Deb Clapp, and many other civic, arts and theatre leaders announced plans to designate 2019 as the '
Year of Chicago Theatre.' This citywide, year-long focus on theatre is the first of its kind in the U.S. The initiative will include theatre performances - including improv, dance, opera, puppetry and more - and special events for the public at hundreds of cultural venues, theaters, parks and neighborhood locations throughout the city.
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Open through Sunday, April 7, 7pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East, 78 E. Washington St.
Curated by
Filter Photo,
Furtive is a photography-based exhibition that explores the complexity of memory, both personal and collective. Through an examination of place, archive and the intersection of perception and knowing, artists Daniel Hojnacki, Karolis Usonis, and Krista Wortendyke ask us to reconsider what we think we know based on our past experiences, communal knowledge and memory. By using photography as a conceptual tool rather than an objective medium for documentation these artists are able to examine and question our collective use of photography in the making of both memories and histories.
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Where Rivers Meet: Songs and Stories from Masters of Arabic Music
Sunday, April 28, 2-4pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, 3rd Floor South, 78 E. Washington St.
Along the banks of a river, people wash clothes, sing songs, and tell stories. Spices, fabrics, and melodies are carried downstream, and villages are woven together by the current. The Shatt Al-Arab, the Nile, and the Jordan converge at Lake Michigan as Chicago Folklore Ensembles explores the music and stories of three master musicians from Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine.
Where Rivers Meet is a show of traditional Arabic music interwoven with personal stories of Middle Eastern immigrant musicians. String ensemble and storyteller accompany master musicians who share melodies and memories passed down in song and story.
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Flashlight Egg Hunt at Garibaldi
Friday, April 5, 8-9:30pm
Garibaldi (Giuseppi) Park, 1520 W. Polk St.
Welcome in springtime and enjoy this Bunny Holiday time at this
Flashlight egg hunt.
Participants must bring their own flashlights or cell phones for light. The fun is for ages 3-12 years.
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Civic Orchestra Chamber Ensemble at Indian Boundary
Saturday, April 13, 3-4pm
Indian Boundary Park, 2500 W. Lunt Ave.
Join musicians of the
Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony, for a varied program featuring William Grant Still's
Lyric Quartet alongside Piazzolla's
Tango Ballet and Debussy's String Quartet in G minor.
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Skill Share Saturday at Wilson (Frank J.)
Saturday, April 20, 10am-12pm
Wilson (Frank J.) Park, 4630 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Join us for Skill Share Saturday. The topic of this event will be "Chainmail Jewelry." Make a pair of lightweight aluminum earrings using ancient chainmail techniques.
First Hour is explaining and demonstrating about a specific cultural skill. The second hour is hands on, with you participating and learning the skill.
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April Fool's Film Screening: The Three Stooges
Monday, April 1, 2-3:30pm
Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St.
There are many theories to origin of April Fool's Day. Whichever school of thought you subscribe to, all can agree that it is an international celebration of harmless pranks on unsuspecting people. With the digital age, the pranks have grown more sophisticated with major corporations participating by offering unbelievable and impossible services to the gullible viewer.
Join us as we celebrate April Fool's Day with a screening of classic Three Stooges episodes. The kings of pranks, foils, tricks and slapstick will be screened on the big screen.
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Chicago Sinfonietta Concert
Monday, April 22, 4-5pm
Back of the Yards, 2111 W. 47th St.
Join the
Chicago Sinfonietta for a monthly series of performance by world class musicians. In April join us for Christian Dilingham on the double bass and Paul Bedal on the piano.
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Adler Planetarium
Illinois Resident Discount Days April 2-4 and 9-11: Open 9am-4pm
Museum Campus, 1300 S. Lake Shore Dr.
Countless galaxies, unfathomable distances, exploding stars, diamond planets, black holes, there's no way around it, space is freaking awesome! Come learn more at the
Adler Planetarium during our Illinois Resident Discount Days-where Illinois residents receive
FREE General Admission to the museum. General Admission provides access to all exhibitions and experiences (excluding the historic
Atwood Sphere Experience and sky shows.*)
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Clarke House Museum
Free tours Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays in April, 1pm and 2:30pm, Space is limited 1827 S. Indiana Ave.
Built in 1836 for Henry B. Clarke, the
Clarke House Museum is Chicago's oldest house. The house shows what life was like for a family in Chicago during the city's formative years before the Civil War. Its fascinating history began at a time when Chicago received its city charter and much of the area was still undeveloped prairie.
Over the years, the house survived fires, belonged to a church, and was moved twice - during the second move, the house was stuck in the air for two weeks. The house is now located in the Chicago Women's Park in the Prairie Avenue Historic District, and operated as a museum by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
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