All events on Saturday June 21

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Art
Videodance
Saturday June 21 (9am–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
Free
Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival. The results of these... View details »
Videodance
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Mustache Fest
Saturday June 21 (7pm) @ Various locations
Saturday night's annual salute to rock music, manliness, and upper-lip shrubbery has grown so much that it now takes over two Joliet bars. Attending the... View details »
Mustache Fest
Music: Rock/Pop
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Saturday June 21 (9pm) @ Abbey Pub
Giveaway
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players wear many genre hats, from indie and vaudeville to conceptual art rock. The NYC-by-way-of-Seattle trio, which features mom (Tina Piña),... View details »
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Film
The Golden Compass
Saturday June 21 (8:30pm) @ Holstein Park Fieldhouse
Free
For a film ostensibly geared toward children, The Golden Compass, based on the first installment of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, inspired a great... View details »
The Golden Compass
Film
Radical Anticorporate Film Festival
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ The Hideout
DIY agitator Anne Elizabeth Moore puts the "rad" back into "radical." With her fierce opposition to the advertising industry, her "cultural intervention" at American Girl... View details »
Radical Anticorporate Film Festival
Music: Rock/Pop
Detroit Cobras
Saturday June 21 (9pm) @ Double Door
Detroit's retro-inspired garage group might not write its own songs (they're actually cribbed from '50s and '60s rock and soul albums), but frontwoman Rachel Nagy... View details »
Detroit Cobras
Music: Rock/Pop
Damon & Naomi
Saturday June 21 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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Since the breakup of Galaxie 500 in 1991, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang have released six well-received full-length albums under the guise of Damon &... View details »
Damon & Naomi

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Saturday June 21 (9am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater More times »
Free
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially Chicago. This exhibition comprises... View details »
Tony Fitzpatrick
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Jeff Koons
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in Heaven series includes photographs... View details »
Jeff Koons
Art: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Saturday June 21 (9am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11 young artists from Chicago's... View details »
Three Hours Between Planes
Film
The Visitor
Saturday June 21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
The Visitor
Art
Ladylike
Saturday June 21 (noon–4pm) @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery More times »
Free
In a post-third-wave landscape of mommy wars, Sex and the City fever, and continuous political upheaval, feminism is having a bit of an identity crisis.... View details »
Ladylike
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Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Randolph Street Market More times »
This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly summer-shopping hub that takes... View details »
Randolph Street Market Festival
Film
Son of Rambow
Saturday June 21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
Son of Rambow
Art
Christa Donner
Saturday June 21 (10am–4pm) @ International Museum of Surgical Science More times »
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays of bizarre artifacts and... View details »
Christa Donner
Performing Arts: Comedy
Campaign Supernova!
Saturday June 21 (8 & 11pm) @ The Second City e.t.c. More times »
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by Second City. Where... View details »
Campaign Supernova!
Art
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Saturday June 21 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Walsh Gallery More times »
Free
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999, the curator and scholar... View details »
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Art
Mark Booth
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
In the current installment of the UBS 12x12 series, Mark Booth presents drawings and paintings that combine text with biomorphic forms and recall both cellular... View details »
Mark Booth
Art
Collecting for Chicago
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode — its world-class collection was... View details »
Collecting for Chicago
Art
Amanda Browder: Cyclone
Saturday June 21 (1–6pm) @ Green Lantern More times »
Free
Dynamic fiber and performance artist Amanda Browder spins into Chicago again — this time with a stuffed tornado in tow. Browder is known for large... View details »
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Free
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits of William Wrigley, Jr..... View details »
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Art
Everyday People
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ estudiotres More times »
Free
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People at estudiotres in Chicago's... View details »
Everyday People
Performing Arts: Theatre
For Keeps and a Single Day
Saturday June 21 (3–5 & 7:30–9:30pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Lookingglass Theatre Company has chosen to revive the 2000 hit For Keeps and a Single Day for its 20th season. Thomas J. Cox won raves... View details »
For Keeps and a Single Day
Art
Jim Tansley
Saturday June 21 (9am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both carefully structured and completely... View details »
Jim Tansley
Art: Photography
Ben Gest
Saturday June 21 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
Free
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina Barney, and Alec Soth... View details »
Ben Gest
Art: Photography
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Saturday June 21 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
Free
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic exhibition at City Gallery... View details »
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Performing Arts: Dance
The Sky Hangs Down Too Close
Saturday June 21 (7:30pm) @ The Galaxie More times »
Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle of Cities — sans convoluted vendetta, lumber, and prostitutes — is an ideological wrestling match, with an exhortation to... View details »
The Sky Hangs Down Too Close
Film
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Saturday June 21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Film
Refusenik
Saturday June 21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
A chronicle of the 30-year international movement to free Soviet Jews, Refusenik is old-school — full of talking heads, historical footage, and blissfully, very little... View details »
Refusenik
Film: Documentary
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Saturday June 21 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Scott Hicks' documentary on the legendary composer Philip Glass is an admiring portrait, not a warts-and-all exposé. Hicks, the director of the musical biopic Shine,... View details »
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Art
ISN'T IT
Saturday June 21 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
At first glance, ISN'T IT appears to be a loose collection of sculptures that brings modest materials to life. But the exhibition rewards close viewing,... View details »
ISN'T IT
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Saturday June 21 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Film: Documentary
Up the Yangtze
Saturday June 21 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
Up the Yangtze
Art
Shape-Shifters
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Alfedena Gallery More times »
Free
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates the ways that familiar... View details »
Shape-Shifters
Art
Clouds, et al
Saturday June 21 (11am–5pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work of multiple artists. In... View details »
Clouds, et al
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Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Saturday June 21 (7:30am–7:30pm) @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool More times »
Free
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance to the Alfred Caldwell... View details »
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
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Flower Power
Saturday June 21 (9am–5pm) @ Garfield Park Conservatory More times »
Free
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little more spacious and herbaceous,... View details »
Flower Power
Performing Arts: Theatre
Superior Donuts
Saturday June 21 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the Festivus episode of Seinfeld."... View details »
Superior Donuts
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bess
Saturday June 21 (7:30pm) @ Storefront Theater More times »
Bloody Bess isn't a pirate story for children, and it's definitely not your standard, polite downtown theater — the show's full of swashbuckling swagger, clamoring... View details »
Bloody Bess
Art
Boys of Summer
Saturday June 21 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you don't know where to... View details »
Boys of Summer
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Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Russell Bowman Fine Art More times »
Free
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their work at the Hyde... View details »
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Art: Photography
Beyond the Backyard
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
Free
Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much by postmodern thinkers as... View details »
Art: Architecture/Design
Design in the Age of Darwin
Saturday June 21 (noon–5pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
Free
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we make of the canon-splitting... View details »
Design in the Age of Darwin
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Barbara Hashimoto
Saturday June 21 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St More times »
Free
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it's a... View details »
Barbara Hashimoto