
Fridays on the Plaza: Cinco de Mayo edition
Join us for live mariachi band in celebration of Cinco de Mayo!

Opening of "No Such Thing as Vacancy"
Join us for an afternoon of printmaking! Learn how to incorporate plants in your print practice. Turn a print into a postcard and send your thoughts into the world. Postage will be provided. Stop by for snacks and creativity!

Volunteer Day at 16th Street Gardens
Help us maintain and beautify the Green Infrastructure Gardens on 16th Street! These spaces were installed by the City of Chicago in 2017 to help mitigate flooding and beautify open lots along the corridor. We’re helping bring them back to life! Contact Jonathan at 312-420-2558 or jonathanmkelley@gmail.com if you’d like to help out!

Fridays on the Plaza
Join us for food, art making with Jesus Oviedo, and more! Current exhibition: No Such Thing As Vacancy.

Fridays on the Plaza
Join us for food, art making with Alexandra Antoine, and more! Current exhibition: No Such Thing As Vacancy.

Volunteer Day at 16th Street Gardens
Help us maintain and beautify the Green Infrastructure Gardens on 16th Street! These spaces were installed by the City of Chicago in 2017 to help mitigate flooding and beautify open lots along the corridor. We’re helping bring them back to life! Contact Jonathan at 312-420-2558 or jonathanmkelley@gmail.com if you’d like to help out!

Fridays on the Plaza
Join us for food, art making, and more! Current exhibition: No Such Thing As Vacancy.

Fridays on the Plaza: Jazz on the Plaza
Join us for food, art making, and live jazz with the Tyrone Blair trio! Current exhibition: No Such Thing As Vacancy.

Earth Day clean-up
Join Litter-Free Lawndale, Let’s Move, Lawndale, Friends of the Parks, the Chicago Park District, and more as we celebrate Earth Day with our annual clean-up of Douglass Park! Register here.

Fridays on the Plaza: Arbor Day edition
Join us for food, Arbor Day-related arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy.

Volunteer Day at 16th Street Gardens
Help us maintain and beautify the Green Infrastructure Gardens on 16th Street! These spaces were installed by the City of Chicago in 2017 to help mitigate flooding and beautify open lots along the corridor. We’re helping bring them back to life! Contact Jonathan at 312-420-2558 or jonathanmkelley@gmail.com if you’d like to help out!

Tree Walk to Betty Swan Arboretum
Join us on Wednesday, April 23 at the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot for a FREE tree walk with experts from Morton Arboretum. We will be walking along Douglas Blvd. and Independence Blvd. to the Betty Swan Arboretum on Arthington Ave. Click here to register.

Douglass Park Tree Walk
Join TREEmendous Lawndale and Let’s Move, Lawndale with an Earth Month tree walk through beautiful Douglass Park! Led by certified TreeKeepers from Lawndale, Manu Gamez & Risa Prezzano.

Fridays on the Plaza: Earth Day edition
Join us for vegan food, face painting, and more! Current exhibition: ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy.

Fridays on the Plaza
Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy.

Fridays on the Plaza
Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy.

What is your vision for 16th Street?
As part of our ongoing “Reimagining 16th Street” project, the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, NLCCC GROWSS Committee, and partners are excited to invite you to a community meeting!
We will:
LEARN about various projects in the works along the 16th Street corridor
DISCUSS what other projects our community wants to see
STRATEGIZE about how to continue to make dreams reality
We will be joined by Design Workshop Foundation, who will share the report they’ve compiled about the revitalization of the 16th Street corridor.
And we’ll have snacks!

Holiday Fun Fair
Join us for an afternoon of fun, crafts, food, music, and holiday festivities! Our first HOLIDAY FUN FAIR will feature s’mores and caroling, face painting and crafting, books and games and merriment!
This event is made possible through the generosity of Theatre Y and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Trash Bash!
Join Litter-Free Lawndale for a celebration of our year of helping make North Lawndale a cleaner place!

Forest Therapy Walk at Morton Arboretum
Experience the healing and wellness-promoting effects of shinrin-yoku, the practice of bathing the senses in the atmosphere of the forest. Part of “ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy” exhibition.

Halloween Party!
Our final party of the year! A Halloween spectacular with pumpkin carving, grilling, s’mores, crafts, and more! This is a COSTUME FRIENDLY event so feel free to dress up

Reimagining 16th Street Festival
Join us on Saturday, October 12 for the Reimagining 16th Street FESTIVAL! Featuring live music, storytelling slam, free food, face painting, games, artmaking, resources, and a look at the work of the 2024 Reimagining 16th Street art projects and createshops!

TREE WALK!
Free TREE WALK in collaboration with TREEmendous Lawndale and the Morton Arboretum. Led by Trinity Pierce, the walk will be a great opportunity to learn about the various trees that make up our urban canopy, and give insight about what we need to do to maintain and grow North Lawndale’s canopy. Brought to you in connection with “ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy” exhibition.

Chicago Sukkah Design Festival opening celebration
The third annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival kicks off three weeks of programs! Visitors will experience six unique Sukkah designs, meet the designers and community partners that created them, enjoy music, dancing, crafts, free food, and activities galore!




Cornelia's Lounge: Open Mic
Are you a poet? performer? singer? comedian?
Cornelia’s Lounge is a juke joint exhibition curated by Keshé Clay that highlights the juke joint as a crossroads of the sacred and the secular in African American culture.
Join us for an Open mic night, hosted by Keshé Clay and Khing Kwon.


Reimagining 16th Street trolley / bike / scooter ride kick-off
Join us as we kick off Reimagining 16th Street with a trolley (and bike & scooter) ride up and down 16th Street. We will stop at a number of spaces, talk about what used to be there, and ask what it could look like in the future! We’ll also invite participation in our upcoming “Createshops” this summer to help build art that will go up along the 16th Street corridor this fall.
Registration is free - visit R16S.eventbrite.com


Sundays on the Boulevard: Slide into Summer
Free food, fun for the whole family, and information on summer youth programs

Readers Are Leaders opening celebration
Join best selling author Natasha Tarpley at the opening of “Readers Are Leaders,” a kid & family-friendly early learning education installation sponsored by the 1 Lawndale Children’s Discovery Center.

Fridays on the Plaza
Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, music, and more! Current exhibition: special sneak peek at “Readers Are Leaders”

Fridays on the Plaza
Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Calling in the Ancestors: Healing Our Hearts.

Stories and House Music on the Boulevard
Join us for e closing event of our photography exhibit and the sharing of Chicago women’s stories. With house music and food!

Fridays on the Plaza: Jazz on the Plaza
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: Calling in the Ancestors: Healing Our Hearts.