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Concerts, games, comedy, theater and more.
This weekend
See everythingDeirdre Loughridge: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Deirdre Loughridge: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
Rockefeller Chapel · 4:30 PM
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Doc Films · 7:00 PM
All Eight
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:30 PM
Hamlet
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:30 PM
Fall Game Day
Blackstone Branch Library · 10:00 AM
Family Day: Seeing the Invisible World to Build a New One
Smart Museum of Art · 10:00 AM
Mrs. Dipsworth's Storytime
DuSable Black History Museum · 10:30 AM
South Side Fireflies
Arts + Public Life · 11:00 AM
Open Classroom: Titanic
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 11:30 AM
Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? Gallery Hours
Arts + Public Life · 1:00 PM
Science Club
Blackstone Branch Library · 1:00 PM
ISAC Discovery Tours
ISAC Museum · 1:30 PM
Clara Han: Echoes of a Death
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 3:00 PM
Some Chance Operations / 'A santanotte (1999 / 1922)
Doc Films · 4:00 PM
American Doctor (2026)
Doc Films · 7:00 PM
INTERMISSIONS: FRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD & AYMERIC HAINAUX
Renaissance Society · 7:00 PM
University Chamber Orchestra
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 8:00 PM
Archaeology and the Bible Tour
ISAC Museum · 1:00 PM
Music Teachers of Hyde Park Artist Series: Romance in Black Part 2
Blackstone Branch Library · 2:00 PM
University Wind Ensemble
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 3:00 PM
Legacy by Lilly Camp (Staged Reading)
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 5:00 PM
The Bridge #2.12
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:00 PM
Come Closer / Endless Dreams and Water Between (2008 / 2009)
Doc Films · 7:00 PM
Open Writing Workshop
Blackstone Branch Library · 12:30 PM
Baby Time
Blackstone Branch Library · 10:30 AM
Brown Bag Lecture with Dr. Aurore Motte, Université de Liège
ISAC Museum · 12:00 PM
Play Along Tuesdays: Improv Day
Blackstone Branch Library · 3:00 PM
Will Quam: Fire and Clay
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Toy Skateboard Science Showdown
Blackstone Branch Library · 4:30 PM
Third Tuesday Jazz: Thaddeus Tukes
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:30 PM
ISAC Visiting Scholar Lecture with Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper
ISAC Museum · 4:00 PM
Elizabeth Margulis: Transported
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
An Evening with Venerable Ani Choyang
Rockefeller Chapel · 5:30 PM
Spanish Conversation Group
Blackstone Branch Library · 6:00 PM
Reflecting through Objects: A Logan Center workshop
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 6:00 PM
Figure Drawing Workshop with Outside the Lines and Zespo
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:00 PM
Story Time
Blackstone Branch Library · 10:30 AM
Sarah Stankorb: Damned If She Does
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Anjan Chatterjee and Judith Schaechter on Neuroaesthetics
Smart Museum of Art · 5:30 PM
ISAC Exhibit: Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia
ISAC Museum · 7:00 PM
Ground Rules: Film Night
Experimental Station · 7:30 PM
Benedict Sheehan's A Christmas Carol for Choir and Orchestra
Rockefeller Chapel · 7:30 PM
Jazz Ensemble
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 8:00 PM
Yasmin Solomonescu: Reimagining Persuasion
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Bedtime Stories with Chicago Public Library
Smart Museum of Art · 4:30 PM
Suicide Note with Fred Camper (Chicago Restoration Premiere)
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:00 PM
ASOR-ISAC Teacher Workshop: Bring Archaeology to your Classroom
Hilton Hotel · 10:00 AM
Azania Day vol.III
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 10:30 AM
MasterMine: A Docuseries Special Screening
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 3:00 PM
Ask an Archaeologist! Youth and Family Workshop
ISAC Museum · 1:00 PM
A Night in Good Company
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 6:30 PM
LEGO Night
Blackstone Branch Library · 4:30 PM
ChiBrations Presents... The Portal
Experimental Station · 7:00 PM
Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration
Rockefeller Chapel · 11:00 AM
Gary Slutkin: The End of Violence
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 3:00 PM
Peter C. Mancall: Contested Continent
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Christine Laquet, Jennifer Pitts, and Zachary Cahill on the Climate Crisis
Smart Museum of Art · 5:30 PM
Phillip Huscher: Passing the Baton
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
WTTW Kids Learn & Play
Blackstone Branch Library · 4:30 PM
Grace Lavery: Personal Demons
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Caroling with the Carillon
Rockefeller Chapel · 5:00 PM
Cuba & Alaska
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:00 PM
Grossman Ensemble: “Stitched from Silence”
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq: How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 3:00 PM
Storytime with Doctor Waffle
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 11:00 AM
Sunday Somatics: Healing with Meditation
Smart Museum of Art · 11:00 AM
New Music Ensemble
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 3:00 PM
Handel's Messiah
Rockefeller Chapel · 3:00 PM
UChicago Middle East Music Ensemble
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 5:00 PM
K-12 Teacher Workshops: Object Based Learning and Artifact Analysis
ISAC Museum · 4:00 PM
SPARK: Building Skills. Igniting Creativity.
Arts + Public Life · 7:00 PM
Rachel A. Shelden: The Political Supreme Court
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at Midway Plaisance
Midway Plaisance · 5:00 PM
CHOSEN SON: A Conversation with Adrienne Young
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 7:00 PM
Angela S. Garcia: Enduring Illegality
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Emily Ogden: Darkness Becomes Bright
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Naughty or Nice (21+)
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry · 7:00 PM
Tituba
Court Theatre · 7:30 PM
Winter Lounge
Arts + Public Life · 4:00 PM
In Conversation: Christine Hume, Laura Larson, and Sarah Minor
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Chris Dingwall: Black Designers in Chicago
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Family Day: Sky is the Limit with SkyART
Smart Museum of Art · 10:00 AM
Holiday Skate with Santa at Midway Plaisance
Midway Plaisance · 1:00 PM
Justin Willson: The Moods of Early Russian Art
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 3:00 PM
Brass & Pipes for the Season
Rockefeller Chapel · 3:00 PM
Crafty Monday: Making Christmas Ornaments and Snow Globes
Blackstone Branch Library · 4:30 PM
Lisa M. Stulberg: How To Win A Culture War
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Storytime with Andrea Campos: The Singing Tamales Present Tis the Season for Tamales
57th Street Books · 4:00 PM
Avra Wing: Stride
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 3:00 PM
Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at Cornell
Cornell (Paul) Park · 5:00 PM
Family Night: Shadow Puppetry
Smart Museum of Art · 4:00 PM
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Court Theatre · 7:30 PM
Crafty Monday: Let's Start a Bullet Journal
Blackstone Branch Library · 4:30 PM
Laura Lee on Contemporary Art and Technology
Smart Museum of Art · 5:30 PM
Glow Nights Skate at Midway Plaisance
Midway Plaisance · 6:00 PM
Winter Wonder Fest at Midway Plaisance
Midway Plaisance · 3:00 PM
Third Tuesday Jazz: Juan Pastor's Chinchano
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:30 PM
Ruslan Talas, violin & Luigi Carroccia, piano
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 3:00 PM
Conversation Piece: Brian Callender
Smart Museum of Art · 12:30 PM
Endea Owens & The Cookout
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:30 PM
Jon Nakamatsu, piano, & Jon Manasse, clarinet
UChicago Presents · 3:00 PM
Christiane Paul on Immersion
Smart Museum of Art · 5:30 PM
Craig Taborn Trio
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
Family Day: Animating the Everyday
Smart Museum of Art · 10:00 AM
Love is in the Air Skate at Midway Plaisance
Midway Plaisance · 1:00 PM
Poetry Open Mic Night
Smart Museum of Art · 6:00 PM
Jackie Venson
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
CSO Chamber Music at the University of Chicago
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
Grossman Ensemble: “100 Journeys”
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
“Switched On Pop” with D-Composed
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu
UChicago Presents · 3:00 PM
Takács Quartet
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
Immanuel Wilkins’ “Blues Blood”
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
“The Long Walk: 1,674 Days”
UChicago Presents · 6:00 PM
Paul Jacobs, organ
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
Terence Blanchard featuring The E-Collective
UChicago Presents · 7:00 PM
On now: exhibits and runs
Coming up at Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Charles White Across Media: A Visual Archive
FreeAll Eight
From $6Hamlet
Open Classroom: Titanic
FreeUniversity Chamber Orchestra
FreeUniversity Wind Ensemble
FreeLegacy by Lilly Camp (Staged Reading)
FreeThe Bridge #2.12
From $10Third Tuesday Jazz: Thaddeus Tukes
FreeReflecting through Objects: A Logan Center workshop
FreeFigure Drawing Workshop with Outside the Lines and Zespo
FreeJazz Ensemble
FreeClose by, in West Loop, Pilsen, River North
Golden Hour Featuring Hungu
Epiphany Center for the Arts
Chill Set 2026
National Museum of Mexican Art
1st Set Singer Meets Saxophonist
Andy's Jazz Club
DePaul Opera Theatre presents: Scott Gendel's Everlasting Faint
DePaul Holtschneider Performance Center
Adirondack Chair Circle
Steppenwolf Theatre
Hayward
Steppenwolf Theatre
ComedySportz
iO Theater
Jersey Boys
Broadway In Chicago
Andrew Bird & the CSO
Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center
312 Comedy Festival Presents Nikki Glaser: The Stunning Tour
The Chicago Theatre
Michael Rowland
Zanies Comedy Club Chicago
Luke Pytel with Mzz Reese
Blue ChicagoPlaces in Hyde Park
- ISAC MuseumMuseum · 45 coming up
- Court TheatreTheater · 38 coming up
- Blackstone Branch LibraryLibrary · 29 coming up
- Reva and David Logan Center for the ArtsArts center · 26 coming up
- Rockefeller ChapelChapel and concert venue · 24 coming up
- Seminary Co-op BookstoresBookstore · 22 coming up
- Arts + Public LifeArts center · 21 coming up
- UChicago PresentsConcert series · 17 coming up
- Smart Museum of ArtArt museum · 12 coming up
- Chicago Park District events: Hyde ParkPark district events · 6 coming up
- Doc FilmsCinema · 4 coming up
- DuSable Black History MuseumHistory museum · 2 coming up
- Experimental StationCommunity center · 2 coming up
- Griffin Museum of Science and IndustryScience museum · 2 coming up
- Renaissance SocietyContemporary art museum · 2 coming up
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