Join us for food, arts & crafts activities, and more - with an environmentally friendly twist! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

One of our favorite annual traditions: the Tyrone Blair Trio will perform live at Love Blooms Here Plaza! Join us for food, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

Join us for the Opening Celebration of the second annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival! Visitors will experience the six unique sukkahs for the first time and learn more about the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot. Over the course of the afternoon, visitors will enjoy food, art-making activities, communal rituals, participatory performances, and more. Family friendly!

At 3:00pm, the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival will join forces with the Terrain Biennial block party, also located at James Stone Freedom Square, for additional festivities (lasting until 6:00)!

Join us at Love Blooms Here Plaza (3601 W. Douglas Blvd.) for the opening of the community-curated exhibit, “Pressure Makes Diamonds.” Food, music, and crafts!

A special event as part of Qyjon the Icon’s exhibition, The Body of Evidence, “A Conversation About Reparations” features guest speakers Ernest Crimm, Richard Wallace, and Alonzo Waheed.

This event is free, but $25 donations to E.A.T.’s Chicago Future Fund are encouraged. Proceeds will go towards providing $500/month to 100 formerly incarcerated individuals for one year.

To register and donate, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-body-of-evidence-a-conversation-about-reperations-tickets-619273412447.

Join us for a kite flying festival to close out the Black Plant It: Herbal Exhibit!

Tea service by Herbal Conjure

Tunes by DJ Johnny Jones

Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

Join us for pizza, arts & crafts activities, and an Easter egg hut! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

Join us online on Wednesday, January 25 for a community meeting to discuss and brainstorm around our 2023 slate of exhibitions!

This meeting will be held online on Zoom: bit.ly/LPUS2023

Between the Closing Day of the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, Open Boulevards, Journey Chicago, and Open House Chicago, Douglas Boulevard will be the place to be! Join us for food, music, and activities for all ages as we prepare to reinstall the sukkahs in their permanent neighborhood locations. Among the highlights:

• The Haitian American Museum of Chicago will present “We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community,” while Crossing Borders Music will perform specially commissioned music as part of Journey Chicago

• Stone Temple Baptist Church is one of the Open House Chicago sites, and will hold guided tours of the building (originally the First Roumanian Congregation synagogue) every half hour from 2:00–5:00 p.m.

• The Chicago Mayor’s Office, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Department of Transportation, and others will present the second of three Open Boulevards events in 2022. This one will close down Douglas Blvd. from Central Park to Independence (and up to 13th St.) for biking, walking, scooting, and games, music, rollerskating, and much more!

• The Sukkah Design Festival will have its closing day, as we look to transition the sukkahs to their next phases, and begin collaborations toward a 2023 festival!

Join us for the Opening Day of the first annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival! Visitors will experience the three unique sukkahs for the first time and learn more about the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot. Over the course of the afternoon, visitors will enjoy food, craft activities, learning sessions, and more. Family friendly.

Join Librarian Lazerrick Kennard for an afro futurist summer reading series.

The August book is An Unkindness of Ghosts by River Solomon

This group will meet the 4th Thursday of every month to discuss that months book. You can get the physical copy or you can access the books through the app Hoopla.