Events on Sunday, April 20

Green Apple Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Green Apple Festival

Sunday 4/20 @ Lincoln Park

Held on Earth Day in eight cities across the country, the Green Apple Festival kicks off the warm season with music... 

Millennium Park Lurie Garden Lecture Series: Landscape and Eco/Psychology

Special Event

Landscape and Eco/Psychology

Sunday 4/20 @ Millennium Park

The Lurie Garden Lecture series sets up camp in the Chicago Cultural Center for some botanical education. Gardening experts take the... 

The New Pornographers w/ Okkervil River

Music

The New Pornographers

Sunday 4/20 @ Riviera Theatre

Harmony is a funny thing; voices of different timbre combine like chemicals to form the single compound that reaches your ears.... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Sunday 4/20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema

Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... 

<em>Unseen Current</em>

Art

Unseen Current

Sunday 4/20 @ Extension Gallery

Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange... 

<em>Three Hours Between Planes: Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and Chicago</em>

Art: Photography

Three Hours Between Planes

Sunday 4/20 @ Chicago Cultural Center

In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11... 

<em>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Sunday 4/20 @ Royal George Theatre Center

Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only... 

Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

<em>The Year My Parents Went on Vacation</em>

Film

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Sunday 4/20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema

It's the summer of 1970 in Brazil, and 12-year-old Mauro's radical parents have left him at his grandfather's house so hastily... 

<em>Black Is Black Ain't</em>

Art

Black Is Black Ain't

Sunday 4/20 @ The Renaissance Society

The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively... 

<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

<em>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Sunday 4/20 @ 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,... 

<em>Snow Angels</em>

Film

Snow Angels

Sunday 4/20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema

Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of... 

<em>Nine: The Musical</em>

Theatre

Nine: The Musical

Sunday 4/20 @ Porchlight Theatre

Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2.... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Sunday 4/20 @ 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....