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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]