Committed Knitters
2025-05-14 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-28 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-11 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | UChicago Arts Incubator, 301 E. Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
Committed Knitters
Arts Incubator: flex space (second floor)
Wednesdays 12:00-3:00 pm
Committed Knitters welcomes you to our bi-weekly gatherings at the Arts Incubator Flex Space! Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just picking up needles for the first time, there’s a spot for you. Share ideas, make progress on your projects, and enjoy a cozy, creative time with us!
We’ve got supplies ready for you.
Just drop in—no registration needed!

Sip & Sing
2025-05-15 17:00 - 21:00 | Sip & Savor, 78 E. 47th Street, Chicago, IL, 60653, United States
Sip & Sing
Be Bold. Be Heard. Let’s sing to our heart’s desires. Sip & Sing is every Third Thursday at Sip & Savor. Handcrafted beer By Turner Haus Brewery and Kocktails 4 da Krib for purchase.

Craft Meetup
2025-05-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-16 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-22 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-23 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-29 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-30 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-06 18:00 - 20:00 and 1 more date | Fiber Friends Studios, Inc., 1744 E 55th Street, Chicago, 60615
Be a part of a cozy crafting evening at Fiber Friends Studios! Enjoy the warmth of creativity while sipping on delicious hot tea. Join us for a night filled with fun and inspiration! All crafts and level welcome.

Hyde Park Garden Fair
2025-05-16 09:00 - 18:00, 2025-05-17 09:00 - 15:00 | Kimbark Plaza, Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Don’t miss the Hyde Park Garden Fair on Friday, May 16 from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 17 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Kimbark Plaza – 53rd Street and Kimbark Avenue.
Dating back to 1959, the Hyde Park Garden Fair is Chicago’s oldest community garden sale.

The Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry
2025-05-17 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-24 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-31 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-07 10:00 - 13:00 | Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637
The Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry
The food pantry, located at Hyde Park Union Church, provides nonperishable groceries and limited refrigerated and frozen foods to 500 to 800 people every month on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm.
We serve the area of 39th – 63rd St., Cottage Grove east to Lake Michigan, and patrons can come twice a month. All will be served on their first visit, regardless of residency. If you are looking for food outside of our service area or hours, you can visit the website of the Greater Chicago Food depository to find additional services.
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Volunteers order food, unload deliveries, pre-pack bags and distribute food. ​If you would like to volunteer, please contact the Church Office or Margy Mitchell, the Food Pantry coordinator.
Time and Location
Every Saturday (including Christmas, New Year’s Day, and July 4th) from 10 am to 1 pm;
Hyde Park Union Church
5600 S. Woodlawn — enter by the side door at 1169 E. 56th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

CityStep Presents VOICES
2025-05-24 15:00 - 17:00 | St. Thomas the Apostle School, 5467 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, 60615, United States
CityStep Presents VOICES
CityStep, in conjunction with St. Thomas the Apostle School and Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, presents their Spring Dance Recital. Come and watch incredible performances by both groups.

St. Thomas the Apostle Informational Session
2025-05-28
St. Thomas the Apostle Informational Session
💻 Learn More About STA – Join Our Open Zoom Call! 💙
Thinking about joining the STA family? 💭 Come learn what makes St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School a place where students grow in faith, academics, and community!
👂 Drop in, ask a question, or just listen!Wednesday, May 28, 2025 Time: 10 am-12 pm or 1 pm-3 pm
Hi there,
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: May 28, 2025 10:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wBGfCJezTlWaEpX5ZdROqg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We’re here to connect with you—because choosing the right school matters! 💙 Reach out to sissa@stapostleschool.com with any questions.
#DiscoverSTA #STAPride #FutureRaiderFamilies

Early Childhood Fun Day at STA
2025-06-03 12:00 - 15:00 | St. Thomas the Apostle School, 5467 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, 60615, United States
Early Childhood Fun Day at STA
St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School invites families with children in Preschool through 2nd Grade to our Early Childhood Fun Day! Join us for an exciting afternoon filled with face painters, carnival games, and so much more. This is a perfect opportunity to meet our dedicated teachers, visit the classrooms, and engage with current students and parents. Come see the joy, learning, and faith that fill our Early Childhood spaces every day. We want your child to have an education that exceeds your expectations—and it all starts here at STA!

MELONCHOLIA: A Black Rage Ritual
2025-06-04 07:00 - 21:00 | Greenline Performing Arts Center, 329 E. Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, 60637, United States
MELONCHOLIA: A Black Rage Ritual
Fibroids — mysterious uterine tumors prevalent in Black people — are often compared to fruit in size. Some are as small as blueberries while others grow as large as watermelons. Their origins continue to stump researchers, but some point to stress and repressed anger as a cause.
Who’s allowed to be angry? Repression is a form of social control that weakens both the physical and collective body. With no safe way to be expressed, our anger can turn inward, becoming shame and silence, powerlessness and pain. How can we reclaim our right to feel and express anger? What would transform — inside and around us — if we set our anger free?
Where does anger live in your body, and what does it want you to know? Join poet and Northwestern Feminist-in-Residence Kemi Alabi for a speculative theory of fibroids and fruit-filled Pride Month rage room. Featuring music by DJ Love Marie, fruit banquet and libations by Alexandra Antoine, and somatic support by Liberation Wellness, we’ll shake, smash, speak, feel, and air out what ails us.
7:00 – 7:30 | Call & Response
An interactive gallery walk. Enter the world of fibroids and share your own relationship to pain, stress, and anger.
7:30 – 8:00 | Opening the Vent
Doors close, vents open. An audio immersion, the pouring of libations, and a toast to begin.
8:00 – 8:45 | Rage Banquet
A fruit banquet table to dine on or smash. A shake space with vibes by DJ Love Marie. Somatic invitations to let the anger move you.
8:45 – 9:00 | The Balm
Closing it out with conversation, herbal supports, and calls to action.
Supported by the Northwestern Women’s Center in collaboration with UChicago Arts + Public Life.

Harper Court Summer Music Series - Isaiah Collier
2025-06-05 18:00 - 21:00 | 5235 S. Harper Court, 5235 S Harper Ct, Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Harper Court Summer Music Series – Isaiah Collier
FREE OUTDOOR CONCERTS SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SILVER ROOM
Thursday, June 5ISAIAH COLLIER from 7-8 p.m.DJ DUANE POWELL from 6-7 and 8-9 p.m.
Harper Court, 5235 S. Harper Court, Hyde Park (53rd Street and S. Lake Park Avenue).www.harpercourtmusic.com.

ParkingPaid parking is available in the Harper Court garage (entrance on S. Lake Park Avenue just south of McDonald’s) or in the surface lot on S. Harper Avenue. Paid street parking is also available. We encourage you to take public transportation or carpool.

SeatingSeating is not provided – please bring folding chairs, but remember to leave lots of room from dancing!

DiningEnjoy Bob’s Pizza, Chipotle, Daisy’s Po’ Boy & Tavern, Deep Purpl, Ja’ Grill, Roti Modern Mediterranean, Stan’s Donuts & Coffee, and Strugglebeard Bakery – all in Harper Court. Or sample one of the many great eateries on 53rd Street. For a complete list of restaurants go to welcometohydepark.com.

Shop LocalSupport our neighborhood businesses by shopping local. Recycled Modern and Suuri Design are in Harper Court, and The Silver Room and other shops are right around the corner. For a complete list of stores go to welcometohydepark.com.

To Washington Park, With Love: Book Talk & Signing with Rose Blouin
2025-06-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Call & Response Books, 1390 E Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, 60615
To Washington Park, With Love: Book Talk & Signing with Rose Blouin
Join us on Thursday, June 5 in welcoming beloved Chicago photographer Rose Blouin as we celebrate and discuss her recently-published collection, To Washington Park With Love—a stunning collection of black-and-white photos capturing the events, landscape, and people of Washington Park during the summer of ’87. Come through if you have an interest in local Chicago history, if you want to excavate your own nostalgia, or if you just have a love for visual arts and photography!
Rose Blouin has created documentary and fine art photography since 1980. Blouin’s work has been exhibited in a number of museums and galleries including Woman Made Gallery, Nicole Gallery, The South Side Community Art Center, Artemesia Gallery, The North Suburban Fine Arts Center, Evanston Arts Center, and the State of Illinois Art Gallery. Her work has received awards in juried exhibitions including Tall Grass Arts “From Earth” exhibition, Black Creativity (Museum of Science and Industry), University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts “Chicago Jazz: A Photographer’s View,” the DuSable Museum Annual Art Fair, and the Milwaukee Inner City Art Fair. Her photographs have been published on the covers of South Side Stories (City Stoop Press), Columbia Poetry Review (Columbia College Chicago), and Killing Memory, Seeking Ancestors by Haki Madhubuti (Lotus Press). Photos of Gwendolyn Brooks are included in Say That the River Turns: The Impact of Gwendolyn Brooks (Third World Press, 1991) and Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating The Writing Of Gwendolyn Brooks(Curbside Splendor, 2017.) Blouin has had solo shows at the South Side Community Art Center and at the Ferguson Gallery of Concordia University featuring photographs from South Africa. Most recently, Blouin mounted a solo exhibition of photographs from Havana at The New Studio in Evanston (2016). She is also a founding member of Sapphire & Crystals, a collective of African-American women artists.

Jazz in Harper Court - Jeremiah Collier & The Re-Up Band
2025-06-06 12:00 - 14:30 | 5235 S. Harper Court, 5235 S Harper Ct, Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Jazz in Harper Court – Jeremiah Collier & The Re-Up Band
FREE OUTDOOR JAZZ PERFORMANCES SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Friday, June 6 – JEREMIAH COLLIER & THE RE-UP BANDFriday, July 11 – BETHANY PICKENSFriday, August 8 – DEE ALEXANDERFriday, September 5 – TIM GANT PROJECT
Harper Court, 5235 S. Harper Court, Hyde Park (53rd Street and S. Lake Park Avenue).www.hpjazz.com

ParkingThe Harper Court parking structure will offer limited free parking between 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Standard parking rates will apply for those entering the garage before 10 a.m. or exiting after 4 p.m. Enter on S. Lake Park Avenue just south of McDonald’s.

SeatingPlease bring your favorite chair. Limited seating will be available, but we cannot guarantee seats. Please, no seat saving.

DiningEnjoy Bob’s Pizza, Chipotle, Daisy’s Po-Boy & Tavern, Deep Purpl, Ja’ Grill, Roti Modern Mediterranean, Stan’s Donuts & Coffee, and Strugglebeard Bakery – all in Harper Court. Or sample one of the many great eateries on 53rd Street. For a complete list of restaurants go to welcometohydepark.com.

Shop LocalSupport our neighborhood businesses by shopping local. Recycled Modern and Suuri Design are in Harper Court, and The Silver Room and other shops are right around the corner. For a complete list of stores go to welcometohydepark.com.

JA' MMIN on the Patio - Ja' Grill
2025-06-06 16:00 - 21:00 | Ja’ Grill, 1510 E. Harper Court, Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
JA’ MMIN on the Patio – Ja’ Grill

This Friday, June 6th
First Fridays Chicago Presents…
JA’ MMIN on the PATIO
Professionals After-Work Happy Hour Party…Live DJ outside on the Patio with full bar and food menu.
Featuring DJ Mark FLAVA
4 pm-9 pm
Happy Hour drink specials 4 pm-6 pm
No Cover with RSVP – Early Arrival Recommended

57th Street Art Fair
2025-06-07 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-08 10:00 - 17:00
57th Street Art Fair
Kick off the summer at the first major art fair of the season, located in the beautiful Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. The 57th Street Art Fair is THE place to buy art, whether you’re a seasoned collector or new to the art scene. Listen to some of Chicago’s best blues music at the Buddy Guy’s Legends Stage, meet friends, bring your family, and enjoy the day at this historic, welcoming, fun event. All artists exhibiting at the fair are stationed in their booths throughout the weekend to discuss their work.
The 57th Street Art Fair is the oldest juried art fair in the Midwest showcasing 155+ artists and their original works of art. In our 78th year, the 57th Street Art Fair is a beloved community event! The fair features artists from all over the country, live blues music on the Buddy Guy’s Legends stage, hands-on children’s activities, and a variety of delicious fare from food trucks. Admission is always free and there is something for everyone at the 57th Street Art Fair!

Fun with Photography!
2025-06-08 12:00 - 16:00
Fun with Photography!
Take photos to travel back in time at the ISAC Museum! Check out our new special exhibit on photography. Then, make your own viewfinder, complete an interactive scavenger hunt, and learn all about what kids like you were doing at the Chicago World’s Fairs!
At 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm, join us for kid-friendly talks from Dr. Tasha Vorderstrasse, Manager, Continuing Education Program. We’ll take a look at children’s books from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and an 11-year-old’s scrapbook from the 1933 Century of Progress.
All ages welcome! Drop in any time from 12 pm – 4 pm. Talks at 1 pm and 3 pm.
