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 [...]
Category: festivals
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 [...]
Svět Knihy Praha: Book World Prague
In the Stromovka park, on the same day we first went to the Český pivní festival on the same Holešovice Exhibition Grounds an international book fair and literary festival was going on. One of our teachers asked if we were interested and got us tickets. The Holešovice Exhibition Grounds are so beautiful. We spent as much time as [...]
Český pivní festival
The Czech beer festival is an annual festival that happens for 17 days in May. Since it was happening while we were there we went often. The festival happens on the Holešovice Exhibition Grounds. We went by crossing through the Stromovka park. The festival itself is free, but the beer and food required when I went [...]
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 [...]
Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival
Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival can be found off the Morse Red line stop. Once you've exited the train and gone down to the street you've walked into the festival. The festival is usually a weekend in early August. With many different vendors and booths there is plenty to do. There are several stages playing music [...]
Lit Fest
Lit Fest is a literary festival that happens on Printers Row in June. The festival is packed with tents of different book stores, shops, publishers, writers and even historic art or music. There were also stages with poets and writers reading their work. Several of the events were free, but a couple were ticketed events [...]
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 [...]
Chicago Korean Festival
The Chicago Korean Festival is a summer festival that happens on Bryn Mawr Avenue, essentially on the Northeastern Illinois University campus. To get to the festival you have to ride the brown line to the end of the line which can be about an hour depending on where you get on. After getting off at [...]
Taste of Chicago
Taste of Chicago is a summer festival that happens in Grant Park and has been going on since 1980. If you're in town for a short amount of time during the summer and want to try as much food as possible without traversing the city this is probably the best thing for you. To buy [...]