Events on Friday, February 29
Ninth Annual Chicago Irish Film Festival
Friday 2/29 @ Beverly Arts Center
The ninth installment of the Irish Film Festival showcases over two dozen shamrock-laden features, short films, and documentaries throughout its six-day...
Friday 2/29 @ Music Box Theatre
Someone's got to say this aloud: It's getting hard to rouse the will to see more films about the Holocaust. Only...
Friday 2/29 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In Brett Morgan's Chicago 10, stylish archival footage and original animation make an unusually powerful marriage of form and function: a...
Friday 2/29 @ Riviera Theatre
From death metal to disco, Sweden has no shortage of musical talent. Following the latest batch of the Knife DVDs and...
The Power of Forgiveness (2007)
Friday 2/29 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Filmmaker Martin Doblmeier's The Power of Forgiveness is a wide-ranging documentary about the ability of compassion to alleviate anger and grief....
Friday 2/29 @ SmartBar
When founding member Johnny Dark left Canada's Junior Boys, he seemed to take the electronic act's original, grime-meets-Timbaland aesthetic with him....
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/29 @ Stage 773
After its extended run on 54th Street in Manhattan (that's off-off Broadway, not off-off-off, thankyouverymuch), Tony Fiorentino's theatrical rom-com My Dinner...
Friday 2/29 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Thought to be the first feature film made by an African in the sub-Sahara, Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl is a near-forgotten...
Friday 2/29 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored...
Friday 2/29 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor...
Friday 2/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US...
Friday 2/29 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Friday 2/29 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Friday 2/29 @ Smart Museum of Art
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio...
Friday 2/29 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Friday 2/29 @ The Blue Theatre
Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart —...
Friday 2/29 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which...
Friday 2/29 @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded...
Friday 2/29 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective....
Friday 2/29 @ Dominican University O'Connor Gallery of Art
Was the late Wesley Willis secretly a Renaissance man? With magical musical hits like "Rock 'n Roll McDonalds" and "Smoke Crack...
Friday 2/29 @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means...
Friday 2/29 @ The Annoyance Theatre
When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work...
Friday 2/29 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut...
Friday 2/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring...
Friday 2/29 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Friday 2/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck...
Friday 2/29 @ Gescheidle
In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts...
Friday 2/29 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show...
Friday 2/29 @ Smart Museum of Art
It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,...
