The Millennium Art Festival is the last weekend in May and the beginning of June for a weekend located at the end of Millennium Park at the cross of Lake Street and Michigan Avenue. It's free and filled with booths of art, paintings, photography, innovative designs of jewelry, candles, wine/alcohol corks, wooden box musical instruments, glass [...]
Category: events
Praha Srdce Národů Gala Concert
Praha Srdce Národů is a cultural celebration, an international heart of nations. It is an annual joint performance and celebration of folk arts of minorities within the Czech Republic. One of my teachers invited us all to Gala Concert, not a lot of people said yes, so I went with two of my teachers and one [...]
Fringe festival
Fringe Festival is a large performance festival we attended in Prague. It happens all of the world, they have one here in Chicago. In Prague it happens every summer, so right on time for when we were there. The Fringe Festival is based off the model of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is the worlds largest [...]
United Islands of Prague
United Islands is a huge free international music festival in Prague with stages on different islands throughout the Vlatava river. The event is super popular and pulls in a huge crowd of people from around Europe. It started rather late in our trip to Prague and so on our last days we would gather and [...]
C2E2
For the past two years, the two years I've attended C2E2, a comic and entertainment convention in Chicago that also throws in wrestling and tattoos into the mix. It has happened each year at McCormic Place. The best way to get there is by the #3 bus. For some reason Google maps isn't very helpful, [...]
Noc Kostelu and Noc Museum
One of the events that one of our teachers told us about while we were in Prague was Noc Kostelu, Night of Churches. On this night many churches throughout the city are open for free. Usually the churches cost money to go into and look around. So Noc Kostelu is a great way to get [...]
Chinese New Year with Red Moon at Navy Pier
Instead of going to a parade in Chinatown or off of Argyle, this year I went to Navy Pier. Navy Pier partnered with Red Moon and the Cubs to put on the event. Red Moon is a theater troupe in the city. They utilized the room at the end of the pier. For the year [...]
Zoolights
I think, almost every zoo has some form or another of zoo lights during the winter holidays. I've been to the one hosted by the St.Louis zoo, but this year I went to the zoolights at Lincoln Park zoo. The Lincoln Park zoo is free and for their Zoolights they are open until 9pm. If [...]
Lifeline Theatre
Lifeline Theatre can be found in Rogers Park at 6912 N Glenwood Avenue near the Morse red line stop. The theater takes books and adapts them into plays. They split up their plays into main stage and kid series. I've seen one play in their actual theater, "The Count of Monte Cristo", and I loved [...]
Argyle Night Market
Argyle Night Market is a farmers market in Uptown off the Argyle stop. It started in late June and ends September 19th. Every Thursday night between 4pm until 8pm, there is live music or djs at least an hour after it opens. The vendors are friendly and most offer free samples. The restaurants in the [...]