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March 2020

 

(events are subject to change)  

 
Featured Events
In Flux_ Chicago Artists and Immigration _6018North - Living Architecture - Installation view of The Library of Refuseniks by Lise Haller Baggesen - Photo by Jesse Meredith_










Maxwell Street Market










Luis A. Sahagun: Both Eagle and Serpent
Through April 26
In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration
Through May 10   
NKAME: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Balkis Ayón (1967-1999)  
Through May 24
Three new exhibitions have opened at the Chicago Cultural Center this month.  
Sundays, 9am-3pm
The Chicago tradition reopens this month with an eclectic mix of handmade crafts, resale housewares and clothing, live music, family fun and some of the best street food in Chicago. You never know what you're going to find!  
 
Presenting Sponsor
  Humana 
March Events
Ganavya Doraiswamy _ Rajna Swaminthan HPSCHD_50 Music In The Key Of Chicago
Ganavya Doraiswamy & Rajna Swaminthan
March 1
Chicago Cultural Center
Through March 1
Chicago Cultural Center  
March 4 
The Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. W
Dame Myra Hess Concerts University of Chicago First Friday Lecture Series Porchlight Music Theatre
Dame Myra Hess Concerts
March 4, 11, 18 & 25
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Cultural Center
March 6 & 7    
Chicago Cultural Center & Garfield Park Conservatory   
ChicagoMade 12X12 Short Film Showcase Chloe Johnston and Coya Paz Brownrigg
ChicagoMade Gospel Music A&R Auditions
March 7
Westpoint Missionary Baptist Church, 3566 S. Cottage Grove Ave. 
12X12 Short Film Showcase
March 7     
Chicago Cultural Center
March 9  
Chicago Cultural Center     
East Lake Meadows_ A Public Housing Story One Earth Film Festival Screening Belkis Ay_n Gallery Talk with Honey Pot Performance _photo credit Seed Lynn_
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
March 9 
Chicago Cultural Center  
Chicago Cultural Center
March 13    
Chicago Cultural Center     
If_Then New Music Chicago Presents SAG-AFTRA Senior Radio Players
March 15   
Chicago Cultural Center     
Chicago Cultural Center  
Chicago Cultural Center
Bach in the Subways The Doc Talk Show_ Music Videos Atomic Sharks
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Cultural Center  
Chicago Cultural Center & Garfield Park Conservatory
Youth-Produced Films by Free Spirit Media Chamber Mondays Open Studio_ Nejla Yatkin
Chicago Cultural Center
Chamber Mondays
March 23   
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Cultural Center
Open Contemporary Hafla _social dancing_ Chicago Dance Month Kickoff Celebration Open Studio_ See Chicago Dance
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Cultural Center
Open Studio: See Chicago Dance
March 31
Chicago Cultural Center
Luis A. Sahagun_ Both Eagle and Serpent In Flux_ Chicago Artists and Immigration _6018North - Living Architecture - Installation view of The Library of Refuseniks by Lise Haller Baggesen - Photo by Jesse Meredith_ NKAME_ A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Balkis Ay_n _1967-1999_ _Belkis Ay_n_ Nlloro_ 1991_ Collograph_
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Cultural Center
Setting the Stage_ Objects of Chicago Theatre Growing Community Screenhouse by Edra Soto
Expo 72, 72 E. Randolph St.
Growing Community
Through May 31
City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower
806 N. Michigan Ave.
Millennium Park 
Ongoing
Hanging from the street poles along Wabash Ave. between Washington and Randolph Streets
Chicago Cultural Center  
 
 

Featured News
Chicago In Tune
Chicago In Tune 

As a part of the 2020 Year of Chicago Music, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot recently announced the NEW Chicago In Tune - an 18-day celebration of music at venues and organizations across the city from May 21 to June 7. The event is anchored by three free-admission city music festivals - the Chicago House Music Festival, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival and the Chicago Blues Festival - that spotlight three genres of music born and innovated in Chicago. Music will stretch to every corner of the city with free and ticketed events at participants including the Lyric Opera, Chicago Sinfonietta, the People's Music School, Little Kids Rock, Chicago Blues Revival, Blues Heaven Foundation, the Logan Center for the Arts, the Irish American Heritage Center, Refuge Live, the Old Town School of Folk Music and The Promontory. A full listing of participating events will be listed at Do312.com.

It_s Been Another Record Year for Chicago_s Film Industry_
It's Been Another Record Year for Chicago's Film Industry!
The Chicago Film Office and Illinois Film Office are announcing that 2019 was a record year for television, film and media production activity in Chicago and around the state. In all, the Chicago Film Office permitted 522 projects in 2019 and now ranks first in the Midwest region for production, third in the country for commercial advertising production and in the top six nationally for overall production. Last year resulted in an estimated economic impact of nearly $560 million in local job creation and expenditures, an 18% increase over the previous year. Over 15,000 non-extra job hires generated over $350 million in wages, with women and minorities representing 51% of the reported crew hires.

Save the Date
Chicago Kids and Kites Festival
Free, Free, Free!
Chicago Park District
Jazz City at Garfield Conservatory
Friday, March 6, 7-9pm
Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave. 
 
Women of Chicago Jazz: Featuring bassist Marlene Rosenberg with guitarist Scott Hesse, pianist Franchesca Romero and drummer Xavier Breaker, and pianist Jo Ann Daugherty with saxophonist Rajiv Halim, bassist Joshua Ramos and drummer Ryan Bennett. JazzCity is a free concert series initiated in 1997 by the Jazz Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Chicago Park District to bring people together from across the city to listen to Chicago's top jazz musicians.
 
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