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Talk | On Thinking and Being Caribbean: A Roundtable Discussion at MCA

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago

What is the Caribbean? What does Caribbeanness mean to artists of the Caribbean diaspora? On opening day of the MCA exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora 1990s-Today, join Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates and artists Christopher Cozier, Teresita Fernández, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons for a roundtable discussion. Building upon an in-depth […]

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  • Wheelchair Accessible

Elizabeth Alexander on The Trayvon Generation at MCA

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago

This event is a collaboration between the MCA Chicago and the Chicago Humanities Festival. Join us for a conversation with one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander. In her latest book The Trayvon Generation, Alexander tenderly writes about the young people whose worldview has been indelibly shaped by persistent and visible […]

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Youth-Led Programming | Hip-Hop & Healing: Intersecting Paths to Abolition

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago

Join Circles & Ciphers’ Youth Care Collective (YCC) to discuss how restorative justice is connected to hip-hop and how it meets at the intersection of prison abolition. This includes sharing examples of the earliest roots of hip-hop in Chicago, and how hip-hop and the arts can be used for harm prevention and reduction for a […]

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Family Day: Telling Our Stories

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago

Artist-Led Workshop 11 am–3 pm The Commons Create mobiles that tell stories inspired by Alexander Calder’s exhibition Intricate: Calder and the Poetry of Science with Chicago artist Miriam Bahena-Cardona Bisby. […]

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Family Day | Telling Our Stories

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago

Enjoy free admission while taking part in workshops and performances, all designed and led by Chicago artists. • 11 a.m.–3 p.m. at MCA Commons: Create mobiles that tell stories inspired […]

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Kinetic Light: Wired

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Event Series Kinetic Light: Wired

Wired is an immense and intimate experience that traces the fine line between “us” and “them” through aerial and contemporary dance and the metaphoric use of barbed wire. The dancers of Wired spin and soar together in this meditation in sound, light, and movement on the gendered, racial, and disability stories of barbed wire in […]

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  • Audio Description
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual

Kinetic Light: Wired

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Event Series Kinetic Light: Wired

Wired is an immense and intimate experience that traces the fine line between “us” and “them” through aerial and contemporary dance and the metaphoric use of barbed wire. The dancers of Wired spin and soar together in this meditation in sound, light, and movement on the gendered, racial, and disability stories of barbed wire in […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual

Kinetic Light: Wired

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Event Series Kinetic Light: Wired

Wired is an immense and intimate experience that traces the fine line between “us” and “them” through aerial and contemporary dance and the metaphoric use of barbed wire. The dancers of Wired spin and soar together in this meditation in sound, light, and movement on the gendered, racial, and disability stories of barbed wire in […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual

Kinetic Light: Wired

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Event Series Kinetic Light: Wired

Wired is an immense and intimate experience that traces the fine line between “us” and “them” through aerial and contemporary dance and the metaphoric use of barbed wire. The dancers of Wired spin and soar together in this meditation in sound, light, and movement on the gendered, racial, and disability stories of barbed wire in […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual

Autumn Knight: M___ER

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Event Series Autumn Knight: M___ER

Combining improvisation with sculpture, sound, and lights, M___ER taps into the tangled relationships we have with familiar people and things to examine the shifting dynamics of intimacy between audience members' senses of self, others, and objects. The title suggests various interpretations of its missing letters; the performance itself addresses ideas such as “mother,” “murder,” and […]

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  • Captioning
  • In Person
  • Virtual

Autumn Knight: M___ER

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Event Series Autumn Knight: M___ER

Combining improvisation with sculpture, sound, and lights, M___ER taps into the tangled relationships we have with familiar people and things to examine the shifting dynamics of intimacy between audience members' senses of self, others, and objects. The title suggests various interpretations of its missing letters; the performance itself addresses ideas such as “mother,” “murder,” and […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Captioning
  • In Person
  • Virtual

Autumn Knight: M___ER

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Event Series Autumn Knight: M___ER

Combining improvisation with sculpture, sound, and lights, M___ER taps into the tangled relationships we have with familiar people and things to examine the shifting dynamics of intimacy between audience members' senses of self, others, and objects. The title suggests various interpretations of its missing letters; the performance itself addresses ideas such as “mother,” “murder,” and […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Captioning
  • In Person
  • Virtual