Join us for an afternoon of fun, crafts, food, music, and holiday festivities! Our first HOLIDAY FUN FAIR will feature s’mores and caroling, face painting and crafting, books and games and merriment!

This event is made possible through the generosity of Theatre Y and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

Join Litter-Free Lawndale for a celebration of our year of helping make North Lawndale a cleaner place!

Experience the healing and wellness-promoting effects of shinrin-yoku, the practice of bathing the senses in the atmosphere of the forest. Part of “ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy” exhibition.

Our final party of the year! A Halloween spectacular with pumpkin carving, grilling, s’mores, crafts, and more! This is a COSTUME FRIENDLY event so feel free to dress up

Free TREE WALK in collaboration with TREEmendous Lawndale and the Morton Arboretum. Led by Trinity Pierce, the walk will be a great opportunity to learn about the various trees that make up our urban canopy, and give insight about what we need to do to maintain and grow North Lawndale’s canopy. Brought to you in connection with “ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy” exhibition.

The third annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival kicks off three weeks of programs! Visitors will experience six unique Sukkah designs, meet the designers and community partners that created them, enjoy music, dancing, crafts, free food, and activities galore!

Are you a poet? performer? singer? comedian?

Cornelia’s Lounge is a juke joint exhibition curated by Keshé Clay that highlights the juke joint as a crossroads of the sacred and the secular in African American culture.

Join us for an Open mic night, hosted by Keshé Clay and Khing Kwon.

Join us as we kick off Reimagining 16th Street with a trolley (and bike & scooter) ride up and down 16th Street. We will stop at a number of spaces, talk about what used to be there, and ask what it could look like in the future! We’ll also invite participation in our upcoming “Createshops” this summer to help build art that will go up along the 16th Street corridor this fall.

Registration is free - visit R16S.eventbrite.com

Join best selling author Natasha Tarpley at the opening of “Readers Are Leaders,” a kid & family-friendly early learning education installation sponsored by the 1 Lawndale Children’s Discovery Center.

Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, music, and more! Current exhibition: special sneak peek at “Readers Are Leaders”

Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Calling in the Ancestors: Healing Our Hearts.

One of our favorite annual traditions: the Tyrone Blair Trio will perform live at Love Blooms Here Plaza! Join us for food, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Calling in the Ancestors: Healing Our Hearts.

Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Calling in the Ancestors: Healing Our Hearts.

Join us for food, arts & crafts activities, and more - with an environmentally friendly twist! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

Join us for grilling, arts & crafts activities, and more! Current exhibition: Pay What You Want bookstore.

Join us for the Opening Celebration of the second annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival! Visitors will experience the six unique sukkahs for the first time and learn more about the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot. Over the course of the afternoon, visitors will enjoy food, art-making activities, communal rituals, participatory performances, and more. Family friendly!

At 3:00pm, the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival will join forces with the Terrain Biennial block party, also located at James Stone Freedom Square, for additional festivities (lasting until 6:00)!

Join us at Love Blooms Here Plaza (3601 W. Douglas Blvd.) for the opening of the community-curated exhibit, “Pressure Makes Diamonds.” Food, music, and crafts!