Go out in
Hyde Park.
Concerts, games, comedy, theater and more.
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
Family Day: Seeing the Invisible World to Build a New One
Smart Museum of Art · 10:00 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
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
Archaeology and the Bible Tour
ISAC Museum · 1:00 PM
Come Closer / Endless Dreams and Water Between (2008 / 2009)
Doc Films · 7:00 PM
Brown Bag Lecture with Dr. Aurore Motte, Université de Liège
ISAC Museum · 12:00 PM
Will Quam: Fire and Clay
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 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
Figure Drawing Workshop with Outside the Lines and Zespo
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 7:00 PM
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
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
MasterMine: A Docuseries Special Screening
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts · 3:00 PM
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
Grace Lavery: Personal Demons
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq: How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 3:00 PM
Rachel A. Shelden: The Political Supreme Court
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 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
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
Justin Willson: The Moods of Early Russian Art
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 3:00 PM
Tituba: Artist Talk Featuring esperanza spalding and Josephine Lee in Conversation with Avery Willis Hoffman
Court Theatre · 6:00 PM
Lisa M. Stulberg: How To Win A Culture War
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 4:00 PM
Avra Wing: Stride
Seminary Co-op Bookstores · 3:00 PM
Family Night: Shadow Puppetry
Smart Museum of Art · 4:00 PM
Laura Lee on Contemporary Art and Technology
Smart Museum of Art · 5:30 PM
Conversation Piece: Brian Callender
Smart Museum of Art · 12:30 PM
Christiane Paul on Immersion
Smart Museum of Art · 5:30 PM
Family Day: Animating the Everyday
Smart Museum of Art · 10:00 AM
“Switched On Pop” with D-Composed
UChicago Presents · 7:30 PM
“The Long Walk: 1,674 Days”
UChicago Presents · 6:00 PM
On now: exhibits and runs
Close by, in West Loop, Pilsen, River North
Golden Hour Featuring Hungu
Epiphany Center for the ArtsChill Set 2026
National Museum of Mexican Art1st Set Singer Meets Saxophonist
Andy's Jazz ClubDePaul Opera Theatre presents: Scott Gendel's Everlasting Faint
DePaul Holtschneider Performance CenterAdirondack Chair Circle
Steppenwolf TheatreHayward
Steppenwolf TheatreComedySportz
iO TheaterJersey Boys
Broadway In ChicagoAndrew Bird & the CSO
Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center312 Comedy Festival Presents Nikki Glaser: The Stunning Tour
The Chicago TheatreMichael Rowland
Zanies Comedy Club ChicagoLuke 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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