Events on Saturday, April 5
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Old Town School of Folk Music
Patrick McCarthy's circuit-bending workshop at the Old Town School of Folk Music offers a step-by-step course on how to rejigger your...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ The Empty Bottle
Allentown, PA, might not be the first place you think of for groundbreaking heavy rock — in fact, excepting Billy Joel's...
California Occidental Museum of Art
Saturday 4/ 5 @ California Occidental Museum of Art
And so it goes: another apartment gallery space is about to close its doors. The shuttering curse has infiltrated the California...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Chavisa Woods' characters know that heartbreak isn't fun. The New York writer/poet's latest work, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or...
Ongoing Events
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Western Exhibitions
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark...
Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Saturday 4/ 5 @ The Annoyance Theatre
Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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....
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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....
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Seldoms artistic director and choreographer Carrie Hanson is one of the most ambitious, exacting artists in the local scene. Not afraid...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 65GRAND
For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series...
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Various locations
For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
While Hubbard Street's first week at the Harris featured some choice pieces — notably the latest from in-house choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 5 @ 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...
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Saturday 4/ 5 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 4/ 5 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
