At the end of each school year before students head home Columbia College Chicago takes over the South Loop with Manifest. It's open and free to the public but is at it's very essence the senior students art showcases. All buildings and galleries are open and the campus is packed with events. It's kicked off [...]
Category: festivals
Bit Bash
Bit Bash was hosted in September, and was a free independent gaming festival at Threadless Headquarters near the West Side at 1260 West Madison Street. I met up with some friends at the event. Originally in the event information you needed to order a free ticket, and then later they said they were sold out of ticket due [...]
Ravenswood Artwalk
Ravenswood Artwalk is located near the brown line Montrose or Damen stop or off the Ravenswood metra station from the Metra UPN North. The RAW tour of arts and industry is put on in order to celebrate Chicago artist month and allows visitors to take a look at different artists studios and a chance to buy [...]
Bristol Renaissance Faire
For my last road trip I went to the Bristol Renaissance Faire on the border of Wisconsin and Illinois. We actually passed Six Flags Great America on our way. The Faire is open from 10am until 7pm on the weekends from July through September 1st (Labor Day, the only Monday they're open). My aunt and I left [...]
Six Flags Great America
For my last ever RA fun day work took us to Six Flags Great America located at 1 Great America Parkway, Gurnee, IL. Great America first opened in 1976 and is open from 10:30am until 10pm. Six Flags is a chain of them parks throughout the US, it has thrill rides and a water park. [...]
Japan fest
Japanfest is an event in the suburbs around Arlington heights. This year it was held at the Forest View Educatonal Center at 2121 South Goebbert Road. They have different events, performances and exhibits. I attended with my family and looked around the exhibits then watched the Fuko Kyudojo or mediative archery demonstration. They explained in the [...]
Wisconsin- Downtown Bolder Junction
Bolder Junction Wisconsin was the small town near where we stayed on Fishtrap Lake. So we drove into town for supplies, wandered around, went to events and shops. Bolder Junction is home of the musky, a dinosaur like fish. The gas station is also the grocery, which when we went was still in the midst [...]
Millennium Art Festival
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 [...]
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 [...]