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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 6:15 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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FITZGERALDS PRESENTS: Chris Greene Quartet FREE SHOW! Click , "rdquo" -> Book Now" to reserve a table. We always leave room for walk-ins so if you can't find a reservation, don't sweat it, c'mon over! The Chris Greene Quartet - led by the Evanston saxophone colossus - played its first gig in 2005 and has since become one of the most highly visible, award-winning and critically lauded bands in the Chicago area. While honoring jazz's tradition, the band incorporates elements of funk, hip-hop, rock, Afro-Cuban, the blues and reggae, reflecting their diverse backgrounds. CGQ is currently celebrating the release of , "rdquo" -> Conversance," the first ever jazz release for Chicago's longest-running indie rock label, Pravda Records. Enjoy dinner from BABYGOLD BARBECUE ***PARKING*** There is rather limited street parking in the area, we recommend arriving by rideshare, bicycle, or rickshaw.

The CHRIS GREENE
QUARTET in the SIDEBAR!

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:00 PM

📍  FITZGERALDS SIDEBAR

Berwyn, IL

Berwyn

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Capturing light is not easy: ask any outdoor photographer. In order to capture the perfect shot, one has to be ready for fragmentary shifts in illumination. In that spirit, Caught Light is Great Lake Swimmers' ninth album, and perhaps their most nimble: be prepared, don't overthink, act fast. Founder Tony Dekker has always been akin to a wildlife photographer, often choosing to make records in unique surroundings with a connection to Ontario history. This time, he holed up in the Ganaraska Forest, between Peterborough and Port Hope, with producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas) and engineer Jimmy Bowskill (Blue Rodeo). Their goal was to tap the warmth of early '70s folk/pop/rock, whether it be the cozy sonic sweater of Gordon Lightfoot's classic work, or the gentleness of underrated American songwriter Dory Previn. Dekker made everyone listen to John Martyn's 1971 album Bless the Weather before the session. For the first time, Dekker ceded control to a producer, albeit one who had once been the bassist in Great Lake Swimmers (2007-08). Yates chose the studio and the backing band, which included veteran drummer Gary Craig (Bruce Cockburn, Jann Arden), who Dekker calls , "rdquo" -> the Jim Keltner of Canada." Tracking was completed in three days, Nashville-style, with only two days of overdubs, including Colleen Brown's backing vocals. Compare that with 2023's Uncertain Country, which took three pandemic-stricken years to make. Caught Light was captured in the shortest amount of time Dekker had ever spent making a record, and it's likely to be the one with perhaps the longest impact. That's because Caught Light is not just the most fully realized Great Lake Swimmers album in years, but it also leads off with two of Dekker's strongest singles. , "rdquo" -> One More Dance Around the Sun" is an open-window, summer-driving song to accompany a golden-hour trip through the backroads of your childhood hometown. Dekker himself moved back to the Niagara area during the pandemic, with his partner and two young children. , "rdquo" -> I spent the first half of my life trying to get out of the small town where I was born and raised, and I'm spending the second half getting back there," says the songwriter who lived in Toronto his entire adult life until now. , "rdquo" -> It's an ode to the familiarity and the joy in that and the repetition of seeing the same faces and places, knowing all of that very well. It's also important to feel grounded in community, to feel the power of that in a specific place, keeping one's moral compass fixed in the right direction."

Great Lake Swimmers w.
Colleen Brown

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:30 PM

📍  SPACE

Evanston, IL

Evanston

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Vape! The Grease Parody is a hilariously unhinged spoof of the iconic and timeless musical film Grease. The show pokes loving fun at all of the wonderful moments, sexual innuendos, outrageous characters, rivalries and secret romances from the original. The hair products may have changed, but the drama, the rivalries, and the thirst for hallway clout remain timeless. It is the musical you know and love, but dragged through a cloud of strawberry scented vapor and a TikTok filter. It's the show that you want (Ooh! Ooh! Ooh, honey!) Don't miss the Chicago premiere of this hit musical, straight from NYC. GREASE is no longer the word. Now the word is VAPE! - New York Post A must-see! A fun, irreverent night out. I couldn't stop laughing. - Hollywood Press Corps VAPE! is the one that you want! Clever, goofy and camp. - Theater Pizzazz Brash, fast and unapologetically smart. - Theaterscene.net VAPE! The Grease Parody is 85 minutes with no intermission.

Vape! The Grease Parody

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:30 PM

📍  Apollo Theater

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Normal Dreams 'Normal Dreams' is a new performance by dancer Liana Zhen-Ai and musician Astrid Sonne. First presented as a part of the Pairings series at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in New York, curated and produced by Cameron Sczempka, now brought to London via Club Cheek and Qu Junktions. Expect never heard before songs, movement, noise, props and a video call from the big apple. About Liana Zhen-Ai Liana Zhen-ai is a Brooklyn/London-based dancer and interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles. She has performed as a soloist with choreographers Holly Blakey, Andrea Miller, and Akira Uchida. Her dancing has been featured in Vogue US, NOWNESS, and Face Magazine, and in venues including MoMA, Lincoln Center, Southbank Centre, and Théâtre Chaillot de Nationale. Liana's work uses the lenses of new materialism and object-oriented ontology to interrogate shame, nature, and narrative. Her choreographic practice sits at the intersection of dance, dramaturgy, and scholarship, and her work has been presented at Prototype Festival, Amant, Center for Performance Research, and Green-Wood Cemetery in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic. About Astrid Sonne Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours. On her most recent album Great Doubt (January 2024) this skill is refined, now with the distinct addition of the composer's own vocal in the fore. The tone of each track is unmistakably Sonne's, structured around contrasts through an impeccable sense of timing. Lyrics on the album are sparse, merely highlighting different scenes or emotional states of being, leaving the music to fill in the blanks. Yet they also form a pattern of ambiguity, consolidated through the album title, searching for answers through looking at how and what you are asking, questions for the world, questions of love.

Liana Zhen-Ai & Astrid
Sonne present "Normal…

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 8:00 PM

📍  Three Top Lounge

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 1:00 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 2:00 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 3:30 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 6:30 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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UIC Flames Women's
Basketball v Chicago…

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:00 PM

📍  Credit Union 1 Arena at UIC

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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It's A Wonderful Life -
A Live Radio Play

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:30 PM

📍  Citadel Theatre Lake Forest

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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eldon - Ages 17+

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:30 PM

📍  Subterranean

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Event features a General Admission Dance Pit in front of the stage! All sales are final, no refunds/exchanges permitted, but tickets may be transferred through your TM Account. Garcia's is fully ADA compliant featuring wheelchair lifts and ramps between the various levels of the venue, assisted listening devices upon request, and allows official service animals. Premium Table seating is located closest to the stage offering the most intimate music experience for guests and includes table service. Reserved Table seating is located on our main floor, behind the Premium section, and also includes table service. Both Premium and Reserved table seating is cabaret style which means you may be sitting with other fans. Private Booths are available and depending on the booth seats 1 to 4, 5, or 6 guests. General Admission/Standing Room is located around the sides of the room on an elevated level for quality viewing and easy bar access.

Donna the Buffalo

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 8:00 PM

📍  Garcia's Chicago

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 1:15 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 2:15 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 3:45 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 6:45 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Disney's Frozen the
Musical

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:00 PM

📍  Marriott Theater…

Lincolnshire, IL

Lincolnshire

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Shyne: 2622 LGND Tour -
Ages 18+

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:30 PM

📍  Vic Theatre

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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The Second City's:
Pandemonium, Please…

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 8:00 PM

📍  Second City-Chicago…

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB PRESENTS:Frank Catalano Celebrates Eddie Harris!Swiss Movement, Cold Duck Time, Exodus To Jazz, Freedom Jazz Dance $25 General Admission SEAT / Reserved Tables Available Legendary saxman Frank Catalano consistently headlines world-class festivals and sells-out venues throughout the USA, Europe, and Japan. Thanks to his signature sound and renowned reputation, Catalano averages 150 concerts a year with his jazz quartet.As a coveted guest artist, Frank often lends his sax stylings to high-profile rock groups. Recent highlights include playing a 7-minute improvised sax solo at The Hollywood Bowl with The Smashing Pumpkins, closing out the Chicago Blues Festival with Los Lobos, and performing with Les Claypool, Sean Lennon, and the Violent Femmes. He also teamed up on a unique version of the Janes Addiction hit Jane Says with Perry Farrell, Billy Corgan, and Jimmy Chamberlin, Franks longtime friend and collaborator.Eddie Harris was born October 20, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. He began his career as a singer in various Baptist churches throughout Chicago. Around the age of 3, Eddies cousin, Bernice Benson, who played piano at Eddies mothers church, began teaching him how to play the piano where he learned to play by ear and eventually learned to read music.Eddie learned to play the clarinet, vibraphone, and saxophone while attending DuSable High School in Chicago, Illinois under the guidance of a well-known and influential musical director, Captain Walter Dyett. Captain Dyett was responsible for the development of several Jazz musicians who came out of Chicago from the 1940s to the early 1960s. Eddie always wanted to play the saxophone simply because he admired the way it looked, however in order to play saxophone for Captain Dyett one had to play the clarinet first, so Eddies first wind instrument was the clarinet. Grab dinner before the show at BABYGOLD BARBECUEOr enjoy full service dining inside the club when doors open.***PARKING***There is rather limited street parking in the area, we recommend arriving by rideshare, bicycle, or rickshaw. ***AGE RESTRICTIONS***21+, minors admitted with guardian

FRANK CATALANO
Celebrates Eddie…

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 8:30 PM

📍  FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB

Berwyn, IL

Berwyn

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 1:30 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 2:45 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:00 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Chicago Bulls vs. San
Antonio Spurs

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:00 PM

📍  United Center

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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For decades, Alexander James has been a part of Backstreet Boys, one of the most successful groups in music history. Also known as AJ McLean, (or simply Alex to his friends), the star of the iconic boy band has consistently helped shape modern pop culture. A multi award winning and GRAMMY nominated performer, AJ has delivered some of the most recognizable pop music of the last three decades. From tightly crafted songs and unmistakable harmonies to arena filling performances, he remains one of pop s most influential voices. His work with Backstreet Boys has gone gold or platinum in 46 countries, with the groups first nine albums debuting in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200.AJ has introduced his most personal solo work to date. His new album - My Name is Alexander James represents an honest and unfiltered creative statement. fully present and unmistakably AJ.

AJ McLean

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 7:30 PM

📍  George Van Dusen Theatre at…

Skokie, IL

Skokie

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Hovvdy (17+ Event)

📅  Wed, Nov 11 · 8:00 PM

📍  Thalia Hall

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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Join Pete the Cat on a groovy adventure filled with music, friendship, and fun! Based on the beloved book series, this family-friendly musical teaches the value of being yourself and embracing life's surprises. All ages welcome. Recommended Ages: 2-9 Running Time: Approximately 55 minutes, no intermission.

Next Page Productions
Presents: Pete the Cat

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 10:00 AM

📍  North Theatre at North Shore…

Skokie, IL

Skokie

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Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 1:45 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

View Event
Balloon Museum brings EmotionAir to Chicago for the very first time, transforming The Fields Studios into a space where art, inflatables, and emotions collide. This interactive exhibition invites all ages to explore air as both a physical and symbolic medium, featuring large-scale installations, light displays, and hands-on artworks for an unforgettable experience. For more information, please see our FAQ.

Balloon Museum |
EmotionAir - Art You…

📅  Thu, Nov 12 · 3:00 PM

📍  The Fields Studios

Chicago, IL

Chicago

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