Chicago Cultural Center Open House

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.

4-8pm • FREE Admission • RSVP Online

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Join us at the Chicago Cultural Center on Thursday, April 11th for a Spring Open House event from 4-8pm! Experience live music, new visual art exhibitions, a poetry open mic, and great networking opportunities in our architecturally stunning home base.

Creatives are encouraged to attend as a photographer will be on-site to take portraits/headshots - free of charge! Artists will also have the opportunity to have their portfolio reviewed by professional curators (Aquil Charlton (High Concept Labs), S.Y. – 062, Denny Mwaura - UIC Gallery 400, Ines Arango-Guingue - Independent Curator).

Learn new moves at a dance workshop, meet artists in their studios, enjoy mocktails and more. Check out the schedule below. RSVPs are encouraged via Eventbrite; but not required.

1st Floor

Learning Lab

5-7pm: Meet An Artist in Residence, Pugs Atomz

 

Welcome Center

6pm: Building Tour Meet Up
Our classic tour, after hours

 

Dance Studio

6:30-8pm: Dance Studio Resident, Aaliyah Christina
Learn the fundamentals of Black majorette dance

 

Randolph Square

4-8pm: Hangout/Chill Space

5:30: After School Matters
Horticulture and Botany program demonstration

 

Buddy

5:30-6:30pm: Meet an Artist, Nayeon Yang

Until 7pm Store Open!

2nd Floor

Claudia Cassidy Theater

4-8pm: The Dyke Show & Under The Dome Concerts

 

Grand Army of the Republic Rotunda

4-7:45pm: Ask DCASE - grants, festivals, opportunities & more

 

Grand Army of the Republic Hall

4-8pm: Mocktails with In Good Spirits

4-5:30pm: OPEN MIC with The Chicago Poetry Center *

6-7:30pm: Portfolio Review/Curator Speed Networking *

Exhibition: Surviving the Long Wars: Transformative Threads

 

Chicago Rooms

Until 7:45pm: Exhibition: Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories

3rd Floor

Preston Bradley Hall

4:30-6pm: Artists Portraits with photographer Colectivo Multipolar *

4-8pm: Gerber Hart Library & Archive presents items from the collection in celebration of the upcoming exhibition Images on which to build: 1970s-1990s, opening April 20

4th Floor

Room 408

4:30-5:30pm: Application Info Session For Visual Arts Exhibitions

 

*These activities require onsite sign up and have limited slots for participation. Sign up opens at 4pm. It's free to attend and participate in all the activities.

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Admission is FREE
Open Daily, 10am–5pm
Exhibitions close 15 minutes before the building closes
(Closed Holidays)

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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602

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Take CTA to Chicago Cultural Center

  • From the elevated lines: exit at Washington/Wabash and walk east.
  • From the subway: exit at Lake (Red Line) or Washington (Blue Line) and walk east.
  • Served by Michigan Avenue buses 3, 4, 19, 20, 26, 60, 66, 124, 143, 147, 151, 157 and Washington St. buses 4, J14, 20, 56, 66, 147