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Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Touch of RED at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Event Series Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Touch of RED

Shamel Pitts and the Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE debut an electrifying new live performance in their ongoing Red Series exploring Black multiplicity and human connection. The new work, titled Touch of RED, is a duet for two Black men set inside a contemporary boxing ring—a space that might traditionally suggest an aggressive competition between male […]

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Family Day | We Are Rooted, We Are Flowing at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Designed and led by Chicago artists, Family Day is a monthly program at the MCA for all families and youth. Enjoy FREE admission while taking part in workshops, open studio sessions, gallery tours, and performances. Artist-Led Performance Raíces to Roots 1–2 pm 4th-floor lobby Join Raíces to Roots for a performance that celebrates and examines […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Free Event
  • Quiet Spaces

Talk | Shamel Pitts in Conversation With Jafari S. Allen at Wirtz Center

Join us for a talk between On Stage: Frictions artist Shamel Pitts and Jafari S. Allen, author of There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (2021), for a wide-ranging conversation on Pitts’ practice and current project with the MCA, Touch of RED. This event will be held off-site at Wirtz […]

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Alfred Caldwell Lecture: The Intersection of Public Space, Art, and Social Justice at IIT

Join the College of Architecture’s Master of Landscape + Urbanism Program on April 12, 2023 at 5pm for the annual Alfred Caldwell Lecture and explore the intersectionality of public space, art, and social justice. Devon Henry, Franklin Cosey-Gay, and Makeba Kedem DuBose will discuss how memory and representation have expanded the narrative about the built […]

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Susanna Hoffs: From Pop Star to Novelist at Chop Shop

Susanna Hoffs is a legend in the music industry. As the co-founder of the Bangles, she produced three platinum-selling albums and is the voice behind indelible pop hit after pop hit. Now, this famed songwriter has ventured into a new kind of writing with her debut novel, This Bird Has Flown, a story of music, […]

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  • In Person
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Poetics in Practice: Art Writers Panel at the Poetry Foundation

Join us for a panel on art writing with Camille Bacon, Amarie Cemone Gipson, Daria Simone Harper, and Jessica Lynne during the weekend of EXPO CHICAGO. Taking up the question of “poetics in practice,” the panel will consider the function and responsibility of art writing in the contemporary moment, the lineages we draw from and […]

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  • Hybrid Program

Crafting Care with Maggie Bridger at Curb Appeal Gallery

We are delighted to be hosting Maggie Bridger on April 15 as part of her Crafting Care series. In anticipation of her performance “Scale”, Maggie is holding open crafting sessions centered around collectively creating objects of care—including masks, blankets, and cushions. The culmination of our care work, made visible in the items we craft together, […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Masks Required
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Talk | Access Praxis: Cripistemology and the Arts at MCA

The MCA Advisory Partner organization Bodies of Work invites you to Access Praxis, a collaborative and participatory event in The Commons. Combining theory and practice, “praxis” is ideas in action. […]

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  • ASL Interpreted
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  • Hybrid Program
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Blue Hour Reading & Workshop Series at Haymarket House

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. Blue Hour is in-person for this season! Each event takes place at […]

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Rainn Wilson On the Importance of Spirituality at Francis W. Parker School

Rainn Wilson–beloved comedic actor, producer, writer–brings his unique perspective and humor to the traumas of our modern world. Wilson is calling for a Soul Boom, a spiritual revolution that could […]

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Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features (Online)

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online […]

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  • Virtual