Wayfarer Theaters

Wayfarer Theaters will host Emmy-award winning Chicago journalist Jenniffer Weigel on stage for an evening of storytelling and inspiration on Monday, January 13 at 7:00 p.m. Written by Jenniffer Weigel and directed by Joe Foust, "I'm Spiritual, Dammit!" is a humorous journey that follows Jen's life from a skeptical journalist to spiritual adventurist. Jen will take attendees on a ride that will both enlighten and awaken their senses.

Local Event: "I’m Spiritual, Dammit!” at Wayfarer Theaters 

Lakeview

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"I’m Spiritual, Dammit!” at Wayfarer Theaters 

Monday January 13, 2025: Wayfarer Theaters will host Emmy-award winning Chicago journalist Jenniffer Weigel on stage for an evening of...

Rockwell on the River

Local Event: SongShop Live presents Fresh Airs Concert at Rockwell on the River, Chicago

Chicago

SongShop Live presents Fresh Airs Concert at...

Wednesday January 22, 2025: Join Working In Concert's Song Shop Live singers&nbsp;for an entertaining evening on Wednesday, January 22, at...

SongShop Live presents Fresh Airs Concert at Rockwell on the River, Chicago

Skokie Theatre - Performing Arts Center

Comedy in 2025! Come see The Therapy Players!

Local Event: The Therapy Players-Icy Hot Comedy!

The Therapy Players-Icy Hot Comedy!

Tuesday January 28, 2025: Comedy in 2025! Come see The Therapy Players!

Verve Wine Chicago

Start the new year by meeting new people and growing your network at <a href="https://www.lincolnparkchamber.com/event/business-after-hours-at-verve-wine/?utm_source=patch_event&amp;utm_medium=listing&amp;utm_campaign=biz_after_hours_verve&amp;utm_id=biz_after_hours_verve" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Business After Hours at Verve Wine</a>! This event is the perfect opportunity for professionals to connect, unwind, and explore some of the best wines from across the globe. Enjoy delicious food from ilixir as you sip and mingle in a welcoming atmosphere. Don’t miss this chance to build new relationships and kick off the year with fresh connections!
Sponsored by <a href="https://www.thorntonpowell.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Thornton Powell Insurance</a>

Local Event: Business After Hours at Verve Wine

Business After Hours at Verve Wine

Wednesday January 29, 2025: Start the new year by meeting new people and growing your network at Business After Hours at Verve Wine! This event...

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, is a vital center for Indigenous art, past and present. Through the perspectives of four artists with connections to Zhegagoynak, the exhibition <a href="https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2025/woven-being-art-for-zhegagoynak-chicagoland.html" target="_blank" title="https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2025/woven-being-art-for-zhegagoynak-chicagoland.html" contenteditable="false" rel="nofollow">Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicago</a> (January 25-July 13, 2025) explores confluences that continue to shape Indigenous creative practices in the region and beyond.
The Chicagoland region is the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa—as well as of the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations. The richness of Indigenous experiences and contributions are often excluded from Chicago's histories. Woven Being counters this by centering the ideas, perspectives, and voices of Indigenous artists with connections to Chicago.
Woven Being showcases more than 80 works by 33 artists, from the 1940s to the present day, including multiple new works that will be seen in the exhibition for the first time. Exhibition themes include kinship among natural materials, relations across landways and waterways, and the weaving together of ancestral ties across past, present, and future.
Our opening program will celebrate the contributions of collaborating exhibition artists Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent), Kelly Church (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Tribe of Pottawatomi/Ottawa), Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), and Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) in dialogue with Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa), Woven Being Terra Foundation Guest Co-Curator. Their keynote discussion will touch on the interwoven stories that are part of their practices, and the questions the exhibition raises about the histories, present experiences, and futures of Zhegagoynak.
A public reception in the Louis Room at Norris University Center (1999 Campus Drive, 2nd floor) will follow the opening program. The galleries will be open 12PM to 6PM.
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

Local Event: Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicago - Opening Celebration

Evanston

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicago -...

Saturday February 1, 2025: Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, is a vital center for Indigenous art, past and present. Through the...

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicago - Opening Celebration

VanderCook College of Music, Great Hall, 3125 S. Federal St., Chicago, IL 60616 

Artemis Singers, <a href="https://artemissingers.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.artemissingers.org</a>,&nbsp;Chicago’s lesbian feminist chorus, presents “All About Love” concert in Bronzeville. The 53-member nonprofit chorus specializes in performing music written or arranged by women. The program features love songs, breakup songs, friendship songs, sapphic songs, and more. The chorus is showcasing lesbian songwriters of all generations. The building is wheelchair accessible. A free parking lot is nearby.

Local Event: Artemis Singers “All About Love” concert

Artemis Singers “All About Love” concert

Saturday February 1, 2025: Artemis Singers, www.artemissingers.org,&nbsp;Chicago’s lesbian feminist chorus, presents “All About Love” concert in...

InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile, an IHG Hotel

Are you ready to take your brand and business to the next level?
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📅 February 21-23, 2025 📍 Intercontinental Hotel, Chicago
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If you're serious about upleveling your impact, Cre8tive Con is the event you can’t afford to miss.
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Local Event: Cre8tive Con : Three- Day Business Networking Event

Cre8tive Con : Three- Day Business Networking...

Friday February 21, 2025: Are you ready to take your brand and business to the next level?
Join us at Cre8tive Con, the premier conference for...

Cre8tive Con : Three- Day Business Networking Event

Join us for an exhibition keynote conversation in celebration of <a href="https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2025/jordan-ann-craig.html" data-uw-rm-brl="PR" data-uw-original-href="https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2025/jordan-ann-craig.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig. </a>Artist Jordan Ann Craig is known for her large-scale paintings that draw from the complex geometric and color-based abstraction of Northern Cheyenne beadwork, Pueblo ceramics, and other Indigenous sources. The work’s titles—at times playful or confounding—are drawn from comments the artist collects from family, friends, and life experiences, inviting viewers to make meaning in the space between image and words.
Jordan Ann Craig will be joined by poet m.s. RedCherries, a friend and collaborator of the artist, whose poem “Spinning Air” has inspired the title of the exhibition. Their conversation will be moderated by Jordan Poorman Cocker, 2021-2025 Terra Foundation Guest Co-Curator of <a href="https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2025/woven-being-art-for-zhegagoynak-chicagoland.html" data-uw-rm-brl="PR" data-uw-original-href="https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2025/woven-being-art-for-zhegagoynak-chicagoland.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland</a> and the Curator of Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. 
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

Local Event: Exhibition Keynote:  It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig.

Exhibition Keynote:  It takes a long time to...

Wednesday February 26, 2025: Join us for an exhibition keynote conversation in celebration of It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by...

Exhibition Keynote:  It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig.

Crowne Plaza Chicago Ohare Hotel & Conf Ctr, an IHG Hotel

Crossing Over With John Edward live in Chicago, IL – April 3, 2025!
See Psychic Medium John Edward live on tour!
This is your chance to be part of a live group audience to watch John Edward connect with the other side.
There will be question and answer sessions and messages from the other side.
Is someone waiting to talk to you?
Tickets on sale now exclusively through Etix!
Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare
5440 N. River Road
Rosemont, IL 60018

Event 7:00pm - 9:00pm
This event is general admission, first come first serve seating!
Regular tickets: This ticket is good for one general admission seat into the 2 hour John Edward event.
VIP tickets:
Each VIP ticket includes a 3 month subscription to Evolve Plus (John's new app).
Also included in the as a VIP is the opportunity to stay after the event for a conversation, question and answer session with John and the other VIPs.
This event lasts a minimum of 20 minutes right after the regular event. In addition to that each person holding a VIP ticket gets to bypass the regular line and join a special VIP line. In addition to the live event, VIPs will be given access to a special virtual event you can participate in from the comfort of your home ($100 value). That’s two events for the price of one!

Local Event: Crossing Over with Psychic Medium John Edward Live in Chicago!

Crossing Over with Psychic Medium John Edward...

Thursday April 3, 2025: Crossing Over With John Edward live in Chicago, IL – April 3, 2025!
See Psychic Medium John Edward live on tour!
This...

Crossing Over with Psychic Medium John Edward Live in Chicago!

Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago

The critically acclaimed Trinity Irish Dance Company kicks off their landmark 35th anniversary season with a four-performance engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Art and an opening night gala on Friday, May 16 from 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. 

The Museum of Contemporary Art performances will include the world premiere of “The Sash,” choreographed by Trinity Founding Artistic Director Mark Howard, Associate Artistic Director and dancer Chelsea Hoy and guest contemporary choreographer Stephanie Martinez, founder and Artistic Director of Chicago’s PARA.MAR Dance Theatre. Completing the program will be a selection of TIDC’s diverse repertoire, featuring original music performed live by TIDC’s band, fronted by Killarney-raised, NYC-based Brendan O'Shea. 

Tickets for the opening night gala performance are priced at $275 and include the performance and post-performance celebration with drinks, hors d'oeuvres and mingling with the artists. 

Photo: Trinity Irish Dance Company Dancers. Photo by Todd Rosenberg

Local Event: Trinity Irish Dance Company’s MCA Opening Night Performance & Gala 

Trinity Irish Dance Company’s MCA Opening Night...

Friday May 16, 2025: The critically acclaimed Trinity Irish Dance Company kicks off their landmark 35th anniversary season with a...

Trinity Irish Dance Company’s MCA Opening Night Performance & Gala 

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Monday, January 13

Local Event

"I’m Spiritual, Dammit!” at Wayfarer Theaters

Wednesday, January 22

Local Event

SongShop Live presents Fresh Airs Concert at Rockwell on the River, Chicago

Tuesday, January 28

Local Event

The Therapy Players-Icy Hot Comedy!

Wednesday, January 29

Local Event

Business After Hours at Verve Wine

Saturday, February 1

Local Event

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicago - Opening Celebration

Local Event

Artemis Singers “All About Love” concert

Friday, February 21

Local Event

Cre8tive Con : Three- Day Business Networking Event

Wednesday, February 26

Local Event

Exhibition Keynote: It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig.

Thursday, April 3

Local Event

Crossing Over with Psychic Medium John Edward Live in Chicago!

Friday, May 16

Local Event

Trinity Irish Dance Company’s MCA Opening Night Performance & Gala

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