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Exhibition - Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

Starting June 6, 2025
Evanston
Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland is an exhibition running January 25 to July 13, 2025.  For related exhibition events, click here. Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, is a vit...
Visual ArtsJune 20251749229200

Summer Cinema 2025

Starting July 17, 2025
Evanston
Summer Cinema is Northwestern University’s family-friendly summer movie series sponsored by the Office of Summer Sessions and Norris University Center.    Films will be screened at dusk (around 7:30pm...
July 20251752795000

Lunch on the Lake 2025

Starting August 13, 2025
Evanston
Join us at Norris and relax to the music and lake breezes on the Norris South Lawn. Bring your own lunch or purchase on-site in Norris’ ground floor food courts! Life performances will take place from...
August 20251755104400

On Collaboration: New Play Festival 2025 Panel

June 6, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Join us for a conversation with a panel of industry professionals about the importance of collaborating in uncertain times. Panel: Malkia Stampley (Artistic Producer, Goodman Theatre), Melissa James G...
FilmJune 20251749241800

Combined Choirs: The Choral Music of Sweden

June 6, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
With guest scholar Richard Sparks  Andrew Megill, A. J. Keller, and Tim Lambert, conductors; Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, University Chorale, University Singers, and Northwestern Camerata...
MusicJune 20251749256200

Documentary Media MFA Showcase 2025: Origins

June 11, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
Join us for two Documentary Media MFA Thesis screenings on June 11 and 12, 2025. These two nights of showcases are a culmination of ongoing cinematic explorations of Xiaolu Wang 王晓璐, Seunghee Chang, B...
FilmJune 20251749686400

Documentary Media MFA Showcase 2025: Departures

June 12, 2025
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM, Evanston
These two nights of showcases are a culmination of ongoing cinematic explorations of Xiaolu Wang 王晓璐, Seunghee Chang, Blair Barnes, Gríma Irmudóttir, Shawn Antoine II, and Blake Knecht. Expanding thei...
FilmJune 20251749772800

Looking Closely at The Indifference of Fire: A Woven Being Gallery Talk with Marisa Cruz Branco

June 21, 2025
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Join Marisa Cruz Branco, Terra Foundation Curatorial Fellow for Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, in a conversation on The Indifference of Fire, a work on paper by Andrea Carlson. Together...
Visual ArtsJune 20251750527000

Woven Being: Talk and Campus Landscape Walk

July 12, 2025
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Join Eli Suzukovich III (Little Shell Band of Chippewa-Cree/Krajina Serb), Director of Cultural Preservation and Compliance (Office for Research), Assistant Professor of Instruction in Northwestern’s ...
Visual ArtsJuly 20251752341400

Keyboard Conversations: Beethoven—The Young Genius

September 26, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano  Siegel explores the passionate Sonata Pathétique, the hilarious Rage Over a Lost Penny, the deeply moving Largo e mesto from t...
MusicSeptember 20251758933000
Rufus Reid sits with his upright bass.

Rufus Reid

October 4, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
“…a mesmerising player…”  —Jazzwise  An active presence in the jazz world since the 1970s, bass player and Northwestern alumnus Rufus Reid has recorded over 500 albums, including recordings with Dexte...
MusicOctober 20251759624200
Paul O'Dette and Aaron Sheehan in a collage.

Paul O’Dette, lute with Aaron Sheehan, tenor

October 25, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series Described as "the clearest case of genius ever to touch his instrument" by the Toronto Globe and Mail, lutenist Paul O’Dette has helped define the technical...
MusicOctober 20251761438600
Jeremy Denk at the piano in black and white.

Jeremy Denk, piano

November 7, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series "One of the most thoughtful and reliably interesting artists of our time." —Cleveland Plain Dealer  Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, proclaime...
MusicNovember 20251762565400

Keyboard Conversations: The Romantic Music of Chopin

December 12, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano  Siegel performs and discusses selections from Chopin’s exhilarating Polonaises, dreamy Nocturnes, charming Waltzes, poignant M...
MusicDecember 20251765589400

Dudok Quartet Amsterdam

January 9, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Judith van Driel and Marleen Wester, violin; Marie-Louise de Jong, viola; David Faber, cello   Acclaimed for its “sublime, incandescent” playing (Chicago Clas...
MusicJanuary 20261768008600
Lorenzo Micheli plays in black and white.

Lorenzo Micheli, guitar

January 10, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series “Hear him when and where you can.” —Classical Guitar Since winning the Guitar Foundation of America’s annual competition in 1999, Lorenzo Micheli has been a...
MusicJanuary 20261768095000
A bow sits on sheet music.

Bienen Faculty and Guests

January 11, 2026
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival An evening of chamber music with Bienen faculty and special guests from Chicago’s classical music scene.  Winter Chamber Music Festival subscription renewals ...
MusicJanuary 20261768165200
Vertavo String Quartet sits, smiling.

Vertavo String Quartet

January 16, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Øyvor Volle and Annabelle Meare, violin; Berit Cardas, viola; Bjørg Lewis, cello   “The whole concert was treasurable, the musicianship impeccable, and over a...
MusicJanuary 20261768613400
Trio Seoul poses onstage.

Trio Seoul

January 18, 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Jinjoo Cho, violin; Brannon Cho, cello; Kyu Yeon Kim, piano  Trio Seoul was founded in 2021 by Bienen School associate professor of violin Jinjoo Cho, pianist...
MusicJanuary 20261768770000

Isidore String Quartet

January 23, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violin; Devin Moore, viola; Joshua McClendon, cello  The Boston Musical Intelligencer praises the Isidore String Quartet’s “...
MusicJanuary 20261769218200
Stephen Hough poses outdoors.

Stephen Hough, piano

February 2, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series “In piano terms, he’s an Olympian...physical and mental prowess at its summit.” —The Spectator  One of the most distinctive artists and polymaths of his generat...
MusicFebruary 20261770082200
The Dover Quartet performs onstage.

Dover Quartet

February 14, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violin; Julianne Lee, viola; Camden Shaw, cello  Praised by Third Coast Review for their “astonishing and virtuosic” playing and “mag...
MusicFebruary 20261771119000

Keyboard Conversations: Poetic Tone Pictures

February 20, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano  Siegel shares gorgeous music inspired by words and visions, including selections by Liszt, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, and R...
MusicFebruary 20261771637400
Sérgio and Odair Assad on a park bench with guitars.

Sérgio and Odair Assad, guitar

February 21, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series “...supple, ­almost telepathic, guitar duo ­performances.” —San ­Francisco Classical Voice  Guitarists and brothers Sérgio and Odair Assad have brought thei...
MusicFebruary 20261771723800
Leif Ove Andsnes sits at the piano.

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

March 9, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series  2025 recipient of Northwestern University's Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance “...one of the most gifted musicians of his generation.” —The Wall Stre...
MusicMarch 20261773102600
Garrick Ohlsson smiles in front of a piano.

Garrick Ohlsson, piano

April 10, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series “Impeccable clarity and architecture” —International Piano Since triumphing as the first and only American winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competi...
MusicApril 20261775867400
Raphaella Smits plays the guitar.

Raphaella Smits, guitar

April 11, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series "...one of the most delicate and most cultivated performers of our time."   —Diapason  A renowned guitarist and pedagogue, Raphaella Smits plays worldwide o...
MusicApril 20261775953800
Marquis Hill plays the trumpet.

Marquis Hill

April 25, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
“His genre exchange has the ease of a walk across the street to a friend’s place.”  —Downbeat  Trumpeter and composer Marquis Hill has made it his mission to break down the barriers between contempora...
MusicApril 20261777163400
The Cliburn Gold Medalist logo.

Cliburn Gold Medalist, piano

April 26, 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is a quadrennial competition held in Fort Worth, TX since 1962. Elevating some of the most exceptional young pia...
MusicApril 20261777233600

Keyboard Conversations: Music of Joy and Peace

May 8, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano  Siegel closes the 2025-26 season of Keyboard Conversations with uplifting, buoyant works of Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schuman...
MusicMay 20261778286600
Xuefei Yang poses with her guitar.

Xuefei Yang, guitar

May 9, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series “with sparkle, clarity, and flair.” —New York Sun  Xuefei Yang is acclaimed as one of the world’s finest classical guitarists. Hailed as a musical pioneer, ...
MusicMay 20261778373000