Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism, 1968–72Ongoing Evanston An exhibition drawn from the collections of The Block Museum and Northwestern Libraries During a pivotal period in American public life, Bev Grant participated in and photographed radical political m... | Visual Arts | November 2024 | 1732125600 |
Federico Solmi: The Great FarceOngoing Evanston Past and present, history and amusement, reality and spectacle are conflated and distorted in Federico Solmi’s monumental media work, The Great Farce (2017). This immersive video is made up of nine vi... | Visual Arts | November 2024 | 1732125600 |
Looking 101Ongoing Evanston Class is in session. Learn to look through art. The average museum visitor spends fewer than 30 seconds looking at a work of art. It usually takes us far less time than that to draw conclusions about ... | Visual Arts | November 2024 | 1732125600 |
The Block Collects - Fall 2024Ongoing Evanston Every year The Block brings new works of art into the collection to support Northwestern University’s teaching and learning mission. Each work becomes part of an expanding resource that students, facu... | Visual Arts | November 2024 | 1732125600 |
 Benjamin Britten's "Albert Herring"Starting November 21, 2024 Evanston Joachim Schamberger, director; Jason Gluck and Giang Vo, conductors; members of the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra When none of the local girls in the village of Loxford are deemed virtuou... | Music | November 2024 | 1732239000 |
 Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/ChicagolandStarting January 25, 2025 Evanston Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, is a vital center for Indigenous art, past and present. Through the perspectives of four collaborating artists with connections to Zhegagoynak—Andrea C... | Visual Arts | January 2025 | 1737828000 |
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 Jazz Small Ensembles: New Beginnings—Student OriginalsNovember 20, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Joe Clark and Darius Hampton, conductors Students in the Joe Clark and Darius Hampton ensembles showcase their creativity with a program of original compositions and new arrangements. Selections by ... | Music | November 2024 | 1732152600 |
 Inside Chinese Theater: Archive of the Invisible in American MusicNovember 21, 2024 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Music Studies Distinguished Speaker Series Presented by Professor Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Head of Music Theory, Rutgers University Nancy Yunhwa Rao has produced award-winning research on a ran... | Music | November 2024 | 1732226400 |
 AntigoneNovember 21, 2024 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM, Evanston Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by poet and MacArthur Fellow Anne Carson, remains unequaled in its ability to combine all the fundamental contradictions of the human condition into a single, universa... | Theatre and Dance | November 2024 | 1732239000 |
James Baldwin Centennial SymposiumNovember 22, 2024 All day, Evanston The Black Arts Consortium at Northwestern University is thrilled to announce the James Baldwin Centennial Symposium, taking place from November 22 - November 24. This three-day celebration of Baldwin’... | Humanities | November 2024 | 1732255200 |
 Clarinet ChoirNovember 22, 2024 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston Bienen School clarinetists present a program featuring music by Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky. Camille Saint-Saëns (arr. Kenneth Abeling), Danse macabre Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Allegro molto vivace ... | Music | November 2024 | 1732318200 |
 AntigoneNovember 22, 2024 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM, Evanston Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by poet and MacArthur Fellow Anne Carson, remains unequaled in its ability to combine all the fundamental contradictions of the human condition into a single, universa... | Theatre and Dance | November 2024 | 1732325400 |
 MFA Collaboration: Sunday on the RocksNovember 22, 2024 7:30 PM - 9:45 PM, Evanston On a beautiful Sunday morning in mid-October, three housemates decide to have scotch for breakfast. As they drink and joke, Elly, Jen, and Gayle try to figure out what it means to be a woman in the wo... | Theatre and Dance | November 2024 | 1732325400 |
 Symphonic Wind Ensemble: CourageNovember 22, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Robert Taylor, conductor This concert explores themes of wholeheartedness, resilience, and bravery. Two epic works—Catherine Likhuta’s Bury and Rise and Karel Husa’s Music for Prague 1968—anchor the ... | Music | November 2024 | 1732325400 |
 MFA Collaboration: Sunday on the RocksNovember 23, 2024 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston On a beautiful Sunday morning in mid-October, three housemates decide to have scotch for breakfast. As they drink and joke, Elly, Jen, and Gayle try to figure out what it means to be a woman in the wo... | Theatre and Dance | November 2024 | 1732392000 |
 AntigoneNovember 23, 2024 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM, Evanston Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by poet and MacArthur Fellow Anne Carson, remains unequaled in its ability to combine all the fundamental contradictions of the human condition into a single, universa... | Theatre and Dance | November 2024 | 1732411800 |
 Guitar EnsembleNovember 23, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Anne Waller, director Music for guitar soloists, small ensembles, and full ensemble. | Music | November 2024 | 1732411800 |
 MFA Collaboration: Sunday on the RocksNovember 23, 2024 7:30 PM - 9:45 PM, Evanston On a beautiful Sunday morning in mid-October, three housemates decide to have scotch for breakfast. As they drink and joke, Elly, Jen, and Gayle try to figure out what it means to be a woman in the wo... | Theatre and Dance | November 2024 | 1732411800 |
 AntigoneNovember 24, 2024 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, Evanston Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by poet and MacArthur Fellow Anne Carson, remains unequaled in its ability to combine all the fundamental contradictions of the human condition into a single, universa... | Theatre and Dance | November 2024 | 1732478400 |
 MFA Collaboration: Sunday on the RocksNovember 24, 2024 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston On a beautiful Sunday morning in mid-October, three housemates decide to have scotch for breakfast. As they drink and joke, Elly, Jen, and Gayle try to figure out what it means to be a woman in the wo... | Theatre and Dance | November 2024 | 1732478400 |
 Music Academy Faculty RecitalNovember 24, 2024 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston Join the faculty of the Music Academy for a free recital to raise awareness and support for the Academy. With a Northwestern history that dates back to the late 1800s, the Bienen School’s community mu... | Music | November 2024 | 1732478400 |
 PhilharmoniaNovember 24, 2024 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Diego Hernandez, conductor Gustav Holst, Mars, the Bringer of War from The Planets Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy Georges Bizet, Selections from Carmen, Suites 1 and 2 | Music | November 2024 | 1732482000 |
 Heritage/Evolution: NorthwesternNovember 24, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Taimur Sullivan and Derrick Gardner, directors In a first-ever collaboration, the Northwestern University saxophone studio and jazz program come together to present a concert of music by jazz luminari... | Music | November 2024 | 1732498200 |
 Jazz Small Ensembles: New Beginnings—Student OriginalsNovember 25, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Derrick Gardner and Kevin Fort, conductors Enjoy original compositions and new arrangements by students in the Derrick Gardner and Kevin Fort ensembles. Kevin Fort Ensemble Eli Sullivan, Swallow’s F... | Music | November 2024 | 1732584600 |
 Marimba ConcertNovember 25, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston She-e Wu, director An evening of music spotlighting the distinctive sonic palette of the marimba. J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 Mike Perdue, Meta-Marimba Arnold Marinissen, Tote... | Music | November 2024 | 1732584600 |
 Northwestern University Chamber OrchestraDecember 5, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Harvey Felder, conductor; Giang Vo, graduate assistant conductor Gioachino Rossini, La Cenerentola Overture Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Prayer from Suite No. 4 in G Major, Op. 61 (“Mozartiana”) George ... | Music | December 2024 | 1733448600 |
 Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Tom Garling and Joe ClarkDecember 5, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Derrick Gardner, conductor The Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra’s second fall-quarter performance highlights music by two Bienen School faculty members. Trombonist Tom Garling began his career t... | Music | December 2024 | 1733448600 |
 Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble: Scattering Dark and LightDecember 6, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Andrew Megill, conductor Join the singers of BCE as they explore the choral works of Samuel Barber, who has been praised as America’s most profound composer of vocal music. The program will include h... | Music | December 2024 | 1733535000 |
 Symphonic BandDecember 6, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Shawn Vondran, conductor The Symphonic Band’s second fall-quarter concert opens with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s monumental Toccata Marziale, which turned 100 this year. Joel Love’s Musica Dei, donum op... | Music | December 2024 | 1733535000 |
 Northwestern University Symphony OrchestraDecember 7, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Donald Schleicher, conductor; Natalia Warthen, saxophone (Northwestern Concerto Competition winner) Carl Maria von Weber, Oberon Overture Paul Creston, Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Op. 26 Sergei Pr... | Music | December 2024 | 1733621400 |
 A Festival of Lessons and CarolsDecember 8, 2024 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Evanston Stephen Alltop, conductor; Alice Millar Chapel Choir; Philharmonia; Millar Brass Ensemble A beloved holiday tradition continues, where readings and musical gems combine to portray the Christmas mira... | Music | December 2024 | 1733675400 |
 A Few of Our Favorite ThingsDecember 13, 2024 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano Beloved music of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Brahms, and Gershwin. W. A. Mozart, Rondo alla turca, K. 331 Frédéric Chopin, ... | Music | December 2024 | 1734139800 |
 Dover QuartetJanuary 10, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Bienen School of Music Quartet-in-Residence Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violin; Julianne Lee, viola; Camden Shaw, cello; Jerod Tate, guest composer Praised by Ch... | Music | January 2025 | 1736559000 |
 Third Coast Percussion with Jessie MontgomeryJanuary 11, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Jessie Montgomery, violin; David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, Sean Connors, and She-e Wu, percussion Grammy Award-winning composer and violinist Jes... | Music | January 2025 | 1736645400 |
 Trio ValtornaJanuary 12, 2025 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Ida Kavafian, violin; David Jolley, horn; Gilles Vonsattel, piano The Danbury News-Times praises Trio Valtorna’s balance of “gentleness and power.” Bringing t... | Music | January 2025 | 1736715600 |
 Vertavo String QuartetJanuary 17, 2025 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 “With phenomenal expressive flexibility, the Vertavo moved from warmest sensu... | Music | January 2025 | 1737163800 |
 Viano QuartetJanuary 19, 2025 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou, violin; Aiden Kane, viola; Tate Zawadiuk, cello In a recent review of the Viano Quartet, the Boston Globe proclaims, “…one stopped lis... | Music | January 2025 | 1737320400 |
 Dudok Quartet AmsterdamJanuary 24, 2025 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 ChicagoClassicalReview.com praises the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam’s ... | Music | January 2025 | 1737768600 |
 Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane DuoJanuary 25, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series Pianist, conductor, and scholar Jeffrey Kahane is in the fifth decade of an expansive and versatile career which has included concertos with the New York Philha... | Music | January 2025 | 1737855000 |
 Miró QuartetJanuary 26, 2025 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Daniel Ching and William Fedkenheuer, violin; John Largess, viola; Joshua Gindele, cello Hailed for their “explosive vigor and technical finesse” by the New Y... | Music | January 2025 | 1737925200 |
 Louis Lortie, pianoJanuary 31, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series “immaculate pianism and artistry” —The Guardian Pianist Louis Lortie appears in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals, including London’s Wig... | Music | January 2025 | 1738373400 |
 Opening Celebration - Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/ChicagolandFebruary 1, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston Join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland. Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, has long been a critical hub for Indigenous art. Throu... | Visual Arts | February 2025 | 1738440000 |
 Woven Being Community Room Drop InFebruary 5, 2025 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston Presented conjunction with the exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/ Chicagoland, our Woven Being Community Room is a dedicated space within the exhibition for conversation, reflection, laughte... | Visual Arts | February 2025 | 1738798200 |
 Claudia RankineFebruary 6, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Litowitz MFA+MA Graduate Program in Creative Writing and English is proud to present a reading by Claudia Rankine. Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An Amer... | Literary Arts | February 2025 | 1738882800 |
 Meng Su, guitarFebruary 8, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series “Pure musical alchemy… the audience jumped to its feet in ovation.” —Courier & Press Multifaceted guitarist Meng Su captivates audiences around the world wi... | Music | February 2025 | 1739064600 |
 Tom Borrow, pianoFebruary 14, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series “In a world teeming with gifted young pianists, Borrow stands out with a touch that’s both light and powerful, and supremely incandescent” —Cleveland Plain Deal... | Music | February 2025 | 1739583000 |
 The Indians Won: Woven Being Gallery Talk with Marisa Cruz BrancoFebruary 15, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston Join Marisa Cruz Branco, Block Museum of Art Terra Foundation Curatorial Fellow for a conversation on works in the exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland. Branco's talk will explore... | Visual Arts | February 2025 | 1739644200 |
 Billy Childs QuartetFebruary 15, 2025 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston Downbeat praises Billy Childs for “seeing colors and vignettes where others might just hear notes,” and the pianist and composer remains one of the most prolific and acclaimed artists active today. Hi... | Music | February 2025 | 1739669400 |
 Schubert: The Sorrowful and the SublimeFebruary 21, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano Beloved Impromptus and the joyous Sonata in A Major, D. 664. | Music | February 2025 | 1740187800 |
Exhibition Keynote: Jordan Ann Craig in conversation with m.s. RedCherriesFebruary 26, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston Join us for an exhibition keynote conversation in celebration of It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig. Craig is known for her large-scale paintings that draw from the compl... | Visual Arts | February 2025 | 1740614400 |
 Woven Being Curator Tour with Jordan Poorman CockerFebruary 27, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston This Exhibition Tour will be led by Jordan Poorman Cocker, Terra Foundation Guest Co-Curator for Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland. Through the perspectives of four collaborating artists... | Visual Arts | February 2025 | 1740681000 |
 Woven Being Community Room Drop InMarch 5, 2025 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/ Chicagoland, our Woven Being Community Room is a dedicated space within the exhibition for conversation, reflection, laug... | Visual Arts | March 2025 | 1741217400 |
 Gallery Talk: It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann CraigMarch 8, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston Jordan Ann Craig is known for large-scale paintings, prints, and painting-inspired installations. Her work develops out of an engagement with abstraction rooted in Northern Cheyenne and other Indigen... | Visual Arts | March 2025 | 1741458600 |
 Shin-ichi Fukuda, guitarMarch 14, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series “Sensuously beautiful tone…lyrical and sublime” –San Francisco Classical Voice Shin-ichi Fukuda began playing the classical guitar at the age of eleven unde... | Music | March 2025 | 1741998600 |
 Christopher Guzman, pianoApril 4, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series “coiled...explosive” —New York Times Pianist Christopher Guzman enjoys an international performing career that showcases a broad range of styles from the Baroqu... | Music | April 2025 | 1743813000 |
 The Moore Lecture Series presents John KeeneApril 17, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Moore Lecture Series is proud to present acclaimed author and poet John Keene. His 2022 poetry collection, Punks: New and Selected Poems, received the National Book Award for Poetry. He is the aut... | Literary Arts | April 2025 | 1744927200 |
 Michelle Cann, pianoMay 2, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series “a pianist of sterling artistry” —Gramophone Lauded by audiences and critics alike, Michelle Cann has become one of the most sought-after pianists of her genera... | Music | May 2025 | 1746232200 |
 Aniello Desiderio, guitarMay 10, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series Following his first public performance at the age of eight, Aniello Desiderio quickly established himself as a concert artist with a distinct voice. He has ... | Music | May 2025 | 1746923400 |
 Humor in MusicMay 16, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano Witty and whimsical selections by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Stravinsky. | Music | May 2025 | 1747441800 |