All events on Sunday March 09
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- Inquiring Nuns
- Sunday Mar 9 (1:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum
- Inquiring Nuns follows Sister Marie Arné and Sister Mary Campion as they roam the streets of Chicago, asking bewildered passersby if they're happy. The brief,... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Sally Shapiro and Johan Agebjörn
- Sunday Mar 9 (7pm–2am) @ Sonotheque
- Giveaway
- It's not quite a Thomas Pynchon book signing, but the prospect of a DJ set from the notoriously publicity-shy Sally Shapiro is still pretty intriguing.... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade
- Sunday Mar 9 (11am–2pm) @ St. Cajetan Church
- Free
- The South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade is celebrating its 30th year as the official jump-start to the holiday's beery festivities. In 1979, South... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Writers on the Record: Richard Price
- Sunday Mar 9 (11:45am–1pm) @ Lookingglass Chase Studio Theater
- Free
- For most of Chicago, Sunday morning is prime time for extra hours under the covers. But for the city's literati, one Sunday morning a month... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- The New Authentics
- Sunday Mar 9 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
- Free
- In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which faith and history color... View details »
- Art
- Gordon Matta-Clark
- Sunday Mar 9 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring to the loss of... View details »
- Art
- Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
- Sunday Mar 9 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
- Free
- Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio apartment with his art... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Rania Matar
- Sunday Mar 9 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant inner conflicts of Lebanese... View details »
- More Flavor: Sports
- See and Ski Beverly Hills
- Sunday Mar 9 (1–2pm) @ Beverly Bike and Ski More times »
- Free
- Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic workout for every major... View details »
- Art
- Soft Life
- Sunday Mar 9 (noon–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art mines the often-excruciating emotions... View details »
- Art
- Peter Hoffman: Post-Paintings
- Sunday Mar 9 (1–5pm) @ Mini Dutch Gallery More times »
- Free
- Chicago artist Peter Hoffman drew inspiration for his newest art from… an Internet questionnaire. For his exhibit Post-Paintings, Hoffman created his pieces by interpreting selected... View details »
- Art
- Adaptation
- Sunday Mar 9 (11am–5pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
- Free
- It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation, of combining tropes from... View details »
- Art
- Edward Hopper
- Sunday Mar 9 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
- Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective. It includes his most... View details »
- Art
- Watercolors of Winslow Homer
- Sunday Mar 9 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
- Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor painting, with landscapes depicting... View details »
- Art: Photography
- This Land Is Your Land
- Sunday Mar 9 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
- Free
- Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US national identity, politics, and... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Craig Doty
- Sunday Mar 9 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often focus on the human... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Sunday Mar 9 (2–4pm) @ The Blue Theatre More times »
- Free
- Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart — this scenario might sound... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- My Dinner with Amy
- Sunday Mar 9 (3pm) @ Theatre Building Chicago More times »
- 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 with Amy arrives in... View details »
