Creative Writing Workshop
Are you interested in cultivating your creativity through writing? Write and share a poem, story, essay or memoir with writer Donna Pecore at the Budlong Woods Branch Writing Workshop. Open to all adults, no experience necessary. Share your workSupportive environmentFriendly group critique…
Changosnakedog and Friends: Live Music, Puppets and Storytelling
Explore bilingual world-building and song with Otto Anzures Dadda and friends as they celebrate building community through puppetry. Changosnakedog and Friends delivers a vibrant, interactive, multicultural and bilingual live music experience featuring puppet rockstars. For families with kids 3 and…
Adult Book Club
Join our book club for a discussion of a different book each month. AccessibilityNeed sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call (312) 747-8184 or email access@chipublib.org to request accommodations. Requests must be made at least…
English Class for Beginners With Erie House/Clases de Inglés Para Principiantes con La Casa Erie
Join us in the Popular Library at the Harold Washington Library Center for an English language class led by Erie House. In each class, you will learn basic English and about the library’s English study resources such as Cell-Ed. Erie House is…
Kids Coding Club / Club de Programación para Niños
Learn the basics of a lifelong skill at West Lawn Library! In this interactive workshop, kids will learn how to program on Scratch, a beginner coding platform. Whether you use it to create a game, make an animation, or just learn something new, you’ll…
Nathaniel Mary Quinn: A Love Letter to My Mother
Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s first solo museum show in Chicago explores the artist’s formative years growing up in public housing, which he describes as “my first studio.” Alongside works on canvas and paper at the new National Public Housing Museum, the…
Tangible Sound: Arrival to a Higher Ground
Imagine walking inside the thunderous sound of a taiko drum or feeling enveloped by the sinuous sounds of a saxophone, cello, or bass. What if your body became part of a visual landscape of colors, textures, and movements that resonated…
Castle
Don your armor, pull out your spellbooks, and straighten your crown; Castle, presented by Shriners Children’s, is coming back to Chicago Children’s Museum. In this original exhibit, children explore a castle complete with secret tunnels, a rope bridge, tower, dungeon,…
Flyway City: Architecture for a Flourishing Ecosystem
Flyway City: Architecture for a Flourishing Ecosystem, designed and co-curated by architecture and urban design practice Studio Gang in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Center, spotlights bird-friendly architecture and design. Chicago poses a particular danger to birds because of the…
Presence and Absence: The Space Between | Curated by Indira Frietas Johnson
Presence and Absence: The Space Between explores the dual reality of death—the physical disappearance of those we love and the enduring emotional, spiritual, and cultural traces they leave behind. Through sculpture, painting, performance, and participatory installations, the exhibition brings together fragile…