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  • OCT 3-6 | ALL DAY

    Chicago Exhibition Weekend (CXW) is a four-day initiative that spotlights Chicago’s vibrant cultural landscape. Presented in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO from October 3-6.

    This year’s edition of CXW encompasses programming including a partner kick-off dinner, a public Night Market Art Bazaar on Saturday night, a Mana Studio Crawl hosted by Stoodio, and more. In addition, CXW has partnered with local arts leaders Scott Vincent Campbell (curator, ICI), Nick Cave (artist), Bob Faust (artist), Laura Lester (art advisor), S.Y. Lim (arts organizer), and Carla Acevedo-Yates (curator, MCA Chicago) to develop customized routes throughout the city for attendees looking to explore Chicago’s galleries, arts spaces, and local businesses.

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  • OCT 5 | 1:00-3:00 PM

    To open their Garden Project at The Arts Club, titled Third Space, artist Latham Zearfoss will host a tree giveaway and lead a short tour of neighborhood points of interest, highlighting the five senses. Stops along the route will invoke historical milestones, imagined futures, and invite an embodied presence. Before and after the walking tour, a few small oak tree seedlings donated by Chicago Botanic Garden (while they last) will be available for attendees to take home and plant outdoors.

    Free and Open to All

    Access notes: This short tour (from 2 – 2:45pm) will include walking or moving via wheelchair and engagement with a wide array of stimuli.

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  • OCT 6 | 7:00 PM

    IMAN PRESENTS: A Benefit Concert For Gaza

    IMAN and community partners are coming together in the spirit of peace, justice and unity for a gathering dedicated to creating connections and communal healing, while raising desperately needed support for families in Gaza.

    Join us at the Ramova Theater in Chicago, IL for this powerful and spiritually-rooted moment, featuring Grammy Award-winning artists Common and K’naan, Grammy-nominated Mumu Fresh, Palestinian American comedian Mo Amer, Palestinian Canadian sensation Nemahsis, Jewish American artist Daniel Kahn, Laura Elkeslassy, Philly hip-hop legend Freeway and more.

    All net proceeds of this event will go towards humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza led by World Central Kitchen and Anera.

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  • OCT | ALL DAY

    National Museum of Mexican Art's Día de Muertos: Where the Past Is Present

    This year, the exhibition Día de Muertos, Where the Past Is Present, is dedicated to Ray Patlán (1946-2024), a Chicago muralist and painter who died this April. Nearly seventy works from the museum's permanent collection, mostly popular art, are part of this exhibition, which reveals the importance of collective feeling through the creative hands of different generations of popular artists. Art is a reflection of society, and with this celebration, all those who have died from violence are remembered in this exhibition.

    Curated by Dolores Mercado

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  • OCT 4 | ALL DAY

    Black Future Newsstand

    From Harlem to Austin, Black Future Newsstand has ignited important conversations around radical Black media and futures.

    Now we’re headed to Chicago to activate our understanding of a local history of justice organizing undermined by media, tech and narrative harm.

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  • OCT | ALL DAY

    Rebuild Foundation's Theaster Gates: When Clouds Roll Away

    Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive 

    Gallery Hours:

    Thursdays 12 PM - 8 PM
    Fridays 12 PM - 8 PM
    Saturdays  12 PM - 8 PM

    Rebuild Foundation is proud to present an exhibition by artist Theaster Gates featuring a suite of new works both inspired by and sourced from the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) archive.

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