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Talks, Lectures & Courses in Chicago
Talks, lectures, tours and short courses in the Loop, the West Loop, the North, Northwest and South Sides, Evanston and Oak Park, each checked against the venue’s own listing.
28 talks and courses in Chicago
FRI, OCT 23Pegasus Awards Reading
Poetry Foundation · Downtown & Near North · 2 h
One-time
Free · registration encouraged
FRI, OCT 23Franny Choi: We Radiant Things
Women & Children First · North Side · 1.5 h
One-time
Registration via Eventbrite
SAT, OCT 24Ask a Master Gardener
Garfield Park Conservatory · West Loop & Near West · 2.5 h
One-time
See listing
SAT, OCT 24Designing for Dignity 04: A Convening of Possibilities
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Downtown & Near North · 7 h
One-time
See listing
SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS · 1 PMMonarch Migration Nature Walks
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum · North Side · 0.5 h
Recurring
Free with Admission
SUN, OCT 25Composting Demo
Garfield Park Conservatory · West Loop & Near West · 2 h
One-time
Included with general admission reservation
MON, OCT 26ISAC Brown Bag: Horses, Lions, and Onagers in Assyria and Elam
ISAC Museum (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) · South Side
One-time
Free per person
TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS · 7 PM & 8:30 PMHaunted History Tours
Lincoln Park Zoo · North Side · 1.5 h
Recurring
$28 Members / $35 Nonmembers
TUE, OCT 27J. Vanessa Lyon: Blackness Thirteen Ways
Women & Children First · North Side · 1.5 h
One-time
Registration via Eventbrite
FRI, OCT 30Conversation Piece: On Cosmo Campoli's Birth of Death
Smart Museum of Art · South Side · 0.5 h
One-time
Free; drop-in program
SAT, OCT 31Glitterati on the Gold Coast Walking Tour
Chicago History Museum · Downtown & Near North · 2 h
One-time
$25 non-members; $22.50 members
THU, NOV 5Accessible Birding
Cantigny Park · Oak Park & West Suburbs · 1.5 h
One-time
$6 (includes parking)
SAT, NOV 7Artist Talk: Karla Wong
Intuit Art Museum · West Loop & Near West
One-time
$20 (free with regular Museum admission and for Members)
SAT, NOV 7Rashid Johnson in Conversation with Jack Schneider
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Downtown & Near North · 1.5 h
One-time
See listing
SAT, NOV 7Treasure Fit for a Queen: Royal Burials from El-Kurru, Sudan
ISAC Museum (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) · South Side · 1 h
One-time
Free per person
SUN, NOV 8Bird Walk
Trailside Museum of Natural History · Oak Park & West Suburbs
One-time
Free
SUN, NOV 8Greenhouse Tour
Cantigny Park · Oak Park & West Suburbs · 1 h
One-time
$25 (includes one canned or bottled beverage)
MON, NOV 9Sara Paretsky: Bad Company
Women & Children First · North Side · 2 h
One-time
RSVP via Eventbrite
WED, NOV 11Ebony Walden and Deborah D. Douglas: Where I'm From
Women & Children First · North Side · 1.5 h
One-time
Registration via Eventbrite
SAT, NOV 14Ask a Master Gardener
Garfield Park Conservatory · West Loop & Near West · 2.5 h
One-time
See listing
SUN, NOV 15Thankfulness Poetry Reading
Oak Park Art League · Oak Park & West Suburbs · 2 h
One-time
See listing
SUN, NOV 15Exhibition Opening Program: Hollywood on Trial: The Blacklist and the Red Scare
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center · Evanston & North Shore
One-time
Free · reservations required
THU, NOV 19Anjan Chatterjee & Judith Schaechter on Neuroaesthetics
Smart Museum of Art · South Side · 1.5 h
One-time
Free; registration encouraged
THU, NOV 19Monumental Conversations: Rebecca Zorach
Intuit Art Museum · West Loop & Near West · 1 h
One-time
$20; free with Museum admission and for Members
THU, NOV 19Gallery After Dark: Meet the Micro Artists and Curator Elaine Luther
Oak Park Art League · Oak Park & West Suburbs · 2 h
One-time
Free, but please RSVP
SAT, NOV 21Ask a Master Gardener
Garfield Park Conservatory · West Loop & Near West · 2.5 h
One-time
See listing
TUE, DEC 1Dipesh Chakrabarty, Christine Laquet, Jennifer Pitts & Zachary Cahill on the Climate Crisis
Smart Museum of Art · South Side · 1.5 h
One-time
Free
TUE, DEC 8Michelle Tea: Free Love
Women & Children First · North Side · 1.5 h
One-time
Registration required via Eventbrite