Events on Monday, March 8

Efterklang w/ Balmorhea

Music

Efterklang

Monday 3/ 8 @ Lincoln Hall

Bands today are no strangers to strings and soaring orchestration; Even so, Efterklang feel singular. Call them Denmark's counterpart to the... 

Spooky Action

Dance

Spooky Action

Monday 3/ 8 @ Links Hall

A collision_theory evening of "silent movies" confronting disembodied performance.   Videos of improvised performances by select dancers and musicians will be... 

Ongoing Events

<em>11:11</em>

Theatre

11:11

Monday 3/ 8 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

A group of college-aged counselors at a Christian summer camp accidentally take ecstacy, resulting in a night of romance, hilarity, and... 

<em>Taming of the Flu</em>

Comedy

Taming of the Flu

Monday 3/ 8 @ The Second City

The Second City has recently mined the public lives of Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, and Rahm Emanuel for creative and box-office... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961&ndash;2008</em>

Art

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera

Monday 3/ 8 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

You've seen a William Eggleston or five, we'll put money on it, whether it's his famous ground-level trike shot or the... 

Stan Chisholm: <em>ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened</em>

Art

Stan Chisholm

Monday 3/ 8 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Very funny and very dark, Stan Chisholm's installation consists of line drawings on paper and foam board and multimedia dioramas that... 

Sonnenzimmer: <em>Vorab Fabrik</em>

Art

Sonnenzimmer

Monday 3/ 8 @ The Family Room

The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of... 

The Magnetic Fields

Music

The Magnetic Fields

Monday 3/ 8 @ Harris Theater

For the past 20 years, Stephin Merritt has cultivated a reputation as a suffer-no-fools mope, but one thing the Magnetic Fields... 

<em>Fish Tank</em>

Film

Fish Tank

Monday 3/ 8 @ Music Box Theatre

Acclaimed British drama Fish Tank follows troubled teen and aspiring urban dancer Mia Williams (played by first-time actress Katie Jarvis) as... 

Maya Lin

Art

Maya Lin

Monday 3/ 8 @ The Arts Club of Chicago

The name Maya Lin goes hand in hand with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC. Less well-known is Lin's long-running practice... 

<em>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero

Art

Angel Otero

Monday 3/ 8 @ Chicago Cultural Center

These aren't your grandma's still-life paintings, even if the artist is inspired by memories of his own grandma's house in Puerto... 

<em>50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered</em>

Art: Photography

50% Grey

Monday 3/ 8 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography

Full of black-and-white photographs with unassuming subject-matter, mostly tacked to the walls without frames, 50% Grey is resolutely low-key. That's not... 

Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>

Art

Christine Tarkowski

Monday 3/ 8 @ Chicago Cultural Center

It's clear now that the Cultural Center was really waiting for a mammoth, cardboard clipper ship with a broken corkscrew mast... 

Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle

Art

Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle

Monday 3/ 8 @ Rotofugi

 Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of... 

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Special Event

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Monday 3/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum

He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Monday 3/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for... 

Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico

Special Event

Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico

Monday 3/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum

As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...