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CAB Studio
The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) CAB Studio is a year-round exhibition space located on the first floor of the Chicago Cultural Center. The Studio is a space to explore design and present innovative ideas. Here, CAB will host exhibitions, programs, and events, including youth and family activities.
Chicago Blues Festival
The largest FREE Blues festival in the world, the 2024 Chicago Blues Festival features four days of top tier talent performing in Chicago’s Millennium Park, plus a special opening night performance at the historic Ramova Theatre in Bridgeport.
Chicago Cultural Center
Drawn by its beauty and the fabulous free public events, hundreds of thousands of visitors come to the Chicago Cultural Center every year, making it one of the most visited attractions in Chicago.
Chicago Cultural Center Building Tours
Gaze at the world's largest Tiffany stained-glass dome, as well as beautifully ornate multi-colored mosaics, marble and molding during guided architectural tours of the Chicago Cultural Center.
Chicago Cultural Center Learning Lab
The Learning Lab at the Chicago Cultural Center is an interactive studio that offers sights, sounds, and experiences for visitors of all ages and a wide range of abilities.
Chicago Cultural Center Open House
The Spring Open House celebrates the new visual exhibitions on view in the Chicago Cultural Center.
Chicago Cultural Center Welcome Center and Neighborhood Cultural Spotlight
Check out the current Neighborhood Cultural Spotlights in the Welcome Center and then nominate your favorite 2023 neighborhood cultural asset.
Chicago Cultural Center — Claudia Cassidy Theater
The 200-seat multi-purpose theater has been transformed with all new theater seats and major technology upgrades, including a state-of-the-art movie projector, screen, and speaker system.
Chicago Presents
A new program to support cultural programs that help Chicago neighborhoods rebuild, unify, and heal from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Common
Common will be performing alongside the Grant Park Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Parnther at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Saturday, July 20.
Dance Residency Open Studio Series
The Dance Studio Residency provides space, time and funding for Chicago dancemakers to create new work, and each artist or group offers free public engagements – artists talks, workshops, works-in-progress and more – to build diverse intersections and welcome more dialogue between audiences and artists.
Grant Park Orchestra
The music from your favorite films come to life when guest conductor Anthony Parnther leads the orchestra in favorites from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and more.
Great Ideas of Humanity: One of a Series
Featuring works that embrace the increasing globalization of our world and celebrate the resulting cross-pollination of ideas, philosophies, societies, and cultures. The exhibition is a visual response from a variety of artists on the idea of great design and creativity in history.
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s presents a range of photographic practices that used the medium as a tool for collectivity and empowerment within interconnected lesbian, trans, and queer grassroots organizing.
Kerry James Marshall Mural at the Chicago Cultural Center
Renowned artist and MacArthur Fellow Kerry James Marshall created an epic, large-scale mural for the Chicago Cultural Center, honoring 20 women who have shaped the city's vibrant arts and culture landscape. The 132-foot by 100-foot mural is the largest artwork he has ever designed or created.
Millennium Park
Discover a state-of-the-art collection of architecture, landscape design and art that provide the backdrop for hundreds of free cultural programs including concerts, exhibitions, tours, and family activities. In Millennium Park, you’ll find a new kind of town square – a lively, spectacular gathering spot located in the heart of the city and a destination for Chicagoans and visitors alike.
Opening Passages: Artists Respond to Chicago and Paris
Opening Passages brings together ten photographic commissions by French and American artists that survey the dynamic social landscapes of Chicago and Paris.
Parades
Find out when your favorite parade is taking place in Chicago.
Performance Residency: Tend
Tend is a service-based performance experience. Structured as a one-hour appointment, the self-care informed dance and music scores simultaneously envelope the audience while leaving space to allow your nervous system to settle and contemplate the inherent power differentials in human interaction.
Surviving the Long Wars: Transformative Threads
The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Hall was built as a memorial to the sacrifices of Civil War veterans and their families and is a great site to consider the threads of connection that emerge between artists differently impacted by US long wars, from veterans to civilians.
The S&S Chicago Experience
On Sunday, July 21 the four-day Millennium Park 20th Anniversary Celebration will conclude with The S&S Chicago Experience from 4-7pm on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion stage, curated by Steve “Silk” Hurley and Shannon “Skip” Says.
Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories
This one-person exhibition features the art of Chicago-based creative Victoria Martinez who works in a variety of materials and scales.
¡Súbelo!
Kicking off Millennium Park's 20th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, July 18 is the ¡Súbelo festival, headlined by Fruko y sus Tesos, the popular salsa group from Columbia.