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SUMMARY:The Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry
DESCRIPTION:The Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry\nThe 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. \nWe 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.\n​\nVolunteers 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. \nTime and Location \nEvery Saturday (including Christmas\, New Year’s Day\, and July 4th) from 10 am to 1 pm; \nHyde Park Union Church\n5600 S. Woodlawn — enter by the side door at 1169 E. 56th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/the-hyde-park-kenwood-food-pantry/2025-08-16/
LOCATION:Hyde Park Union Church\, 5600 S. Woodlawn Avenue\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Community,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hyde Park Union Church":MAILTO:office@hpuc.org
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SUMMARY:Our Lan'
DESCRIPTION:Our Lan’ \nJoin Court Theatre for a staged reading of Our Lan’\, part of their 2025 Spotlight Reading Series. \nA notable play at the time it was written in 1947 that successfully ran on Broadway\, Our Lan’ focuses on the Reconstruction South and the broken promises made to newly freed slaves at the conclusion of the Civil War. A post-show discussion with this year’s Spotlight director\, Charles Andrew Gardner\, will follow. \nAugust 15\, 2025 | Penthouse\, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th St\, Chicago\, IL 60637) | 6:30pm Doors | 7:00pm Reading \nArtwork: Stephen Flemister\, Jobari (2012)\, graphite on paper\, 22 1/4” x 30”
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/our-lan/
LOCATION:Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts\, 915 East 60th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:Kids Phli Zone - Connect Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Kids Phli Zone – Connect Gallery \nJoin us for blue jeans & bling x Phli\, a back-to-school celebration in partnership with Chicago’s own Dave Jeff. \nWe’re bringing the city together with free manicures\, fresh haircuts\, a backpack giveaway\, and a special shoe donation to help students step into the school year in style. \nFriday\, August 15\, 4-8 p.m. \nConnect Gallery – 1451 E. 53rd Street\, Hyde Park
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/kids-phli-zone-connect-gallery/
LOCATION:Connect Gallery\, 1451 E. 53rd Street\, Chicago\, Chicago\, 60615\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Free
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SUMMARY:the undercommons : New Work by Brandon Carlton
DESCRIPTION:Arts + Public Life presents the undercommons\, the first solo exhibition by painter Brandon Carlton. The exhibition explores the complexities of contemporary Black life through Carlton’s distinct approach to stylized figuration. Drawing influence from Alex Katz\, David Hockney\, and Jordan Casteel\, his work engages with portraiture and spatial composition to evoke intimacy\, distance\, presence\, and longing. \nCarlton’s paintings consider the undercommons as a site of fugitive sociality—an ungovernable space where collective life unfolds beyond dominant structures. His figures occupy liminal environments\, neither fully contained nor entirely free\, reflecting a continuous negotiation of belonging\, agency\, and historical memory. Inspired by Casteel’s attention to everyday Black life and the layered surfaces of Katz and Hockney\, Carlton’s work reimagines the aesthetics of presence\, using gesture\, color\, and space to suggest ways of seeing and being that resist fixed narratives.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/the-undercommons-new-work-by-brandon-carlton/2025-08-15/
LOCATION:UChicago Arts Incubator\, 301 E. Garfield Boulevard\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="UChicago Arts + Public Life":MAILTO:artsandpubliclife@uchicago.edu
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SUMMARY:Community Reads: Native Son
DESCRIPTION:Community Reads: Native Son \nJoin Court Theatre for the newest installment of Community Reads\, part of their 2025 Spotlight Reading Series. \nFollowing a screening of Native Son (1951)\, explore the film’s themes through dinner and discussion. As you reflect on the film\, you will be able to connect with neighbors and friends through intimate guided breakout discussions. \nThis portion of our program will also launch the next Community Reads Book Club series selection\, Richard Wright’s Native Son. \nAugust 14\, 2025 | Penthouse\, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th St\, Chicago\, IL 60637) | 7:30pm Dinner and Facilitated Conversation  \nArtwork: Stephen Flemister\, Jobari (2012)\, graphite on paper\, 22 1/4” x 30”
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/community-reads-native-son/
LOCATION:Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts\, 915 East 60th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Free,Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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ORGANIZER;CN="Court Theatre":MAILTO:info@courttheatre.org
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of Native Son (1951)
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening of Native Son (1951) \nJoin Court Theatre for a screening of the 1951 film\, Native Son – part of their 2025 Spotlight Reading Series. \nOne of the most controversial novels of its day\, Richard Wright’s Native Son (first published in 1940 and staged by Court in 2014) exposed the injustices of urban Black life\, witnessed through the eyes of Bigger Thomas\, whose violent tendencies and moral confusion were the natural result of a lifetime of deprivation. In prison for murder and sentenced to death\, Bigger (portrayed in the film by the author himself) reflects on the circumstances that led to his fate. \nThe film adaptation of the novel was similarly contentious\, engendering its complex position in the annals of cinema history. Heavily censored by regional film boards upon its 1951 release\, Native Son was not viewable in its intended form for over half a century; its depiction of interracial relationships and commentary on racial injustice proved too problematic at the time\, and large segments of the film were withheld from American audiences for decades. A recent restoration effort helmed by the Library of Congress\, in collaboration with the Buenos Aires Film Museum and film historian Fernando Martin Peña\, reconstructed the film in all of its original 107 minutes using a 16mm Argentine print and a 35mm duplicate negative of an uncensored cut found in an abandoned nitrate film vault in Puerto Rico. This restoration premiered in 2016\, bringing the film to American screens in its entirety for the very first time. \nAugust 14\, 2025 | Screening Room\, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th St\, Chicago\, IL 60637) | 5:30pm Screening \nArtwork: Stephen Flemister\, Jobari (2012)\, graphite on paper\, 22 1/4” x 30”
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/film-screening-of-native-son-1951/
LOCATION:Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts\, 915 East 60th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film
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ORGANIZER;CN="Court Theatre":MAILTO:info@courttheatre.org
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SUMMARY:the undercommons : New Work by Brandon Carlton
DESCRIPTION:Arts + Public Life presents the undercommons\, the first solo exhibition by painter Brandon Carlton. The exhibition explores the complexities of contemporary Black life through Carlton’s distinct approach to stylized figuration. Drawing influence from Alex Katz\, David Hockney\, and Jordan Casteel\, his work engages with portraiture and spatial composition to evoke intimacy\, distance\, presence\, and longing. \nCarlton’s paintings consider the undercommons as a site of fugitive sociality—an ungovernable space where collective life unfolds beyond dominant structures. His figures occupy liminal environments\, neither fully contained nor entirely free\, reflecting a continuous negotiation of belonging\, agency\, and historical memory. Inspired by Casteel’s attention to everyday Black life and the layered surfaces of Katz and Hockney\, Carlton’s work reimagines the aesthetics of presence\, using gesture\, color\, and space to suggest ways of seeing and being that resist fixed narratives.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/the-undercommons-new-work-by-brandon-carlton/2025-08-14/
LOCATION:UChicago Arts Incubator\, 301 E. Garfield Boulevard\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="UChicago Arts + Public Life":MAILTO:artsandpubliclife@uchicago.edu
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Spotlight Reading Series \nCourt Theatre’s Spotlight Reading Series returns! This year’s Spotlight Reading Series will feature works of Theodore Ward (1902-1983)\, often referred to as the “dean of Black dramatists\,” whose works explored the complexities of Black life in America\, from the Civil War\, to the Second Great Migration\, and beyond. Court will stage Ward’s Big White Fog as the first production of the 2025/26 season. \nThe Spotlight Reading Series will run from August 13–15 at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th Street). All events are free and open to the public and reservations are required. \n\nStaged reading of Just Before Day\nFilm screening of Native Son (1951)\nCommunity Reads: Native Son\nStaged Reading of Our Lan’\n\nArtwork: Stephen Flemister\, Jobari (2012)\, graphite on paper\, 22 1/4” x 30”
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/spotlight-reading-series/
LOCATION:Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts\, 915 East 60th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance/Theatre/Cabaret
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