Welcome, performance buffs, to the Chicago Humanities Festival!
Our fall festival is all about technology: it's 'technology' with knowledge at its center. Our programs are an array of terrific events: more than 80 in all, over 2 days in October and 2 weeks in November. The schedule is full of riches, and we've handpicked some to guide you through the festival offerings, especially if this is your first time visiting us. Tickets are very reasonable at $5-15 for many programs, and we offer free and reduced-price tickets to many programs for students and teachers.
Top CHF Performance Picks
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ASCAP Cabaret performance by Jason Graae with John Boswell pay homage to Jerry Herman by singing selections from classic musicals Hello Dolly!, Mame, La Cage aux Folles, The Grand Tour, Mack and Mabel , and more on Sunday, October 16.
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Encyclopedia Show founders Shanny Jean Maney and Robbie Q. Telfer perform in this literary variety extravaganza that creatively considers a different encyclopedia entry each month on Sunday, October 23.
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Local Chicago beatboxer and overnight internet sensation Yuri Lane showcases his new multimedia beatbox performance, which reflects on this exhilarating and strange experience by turning virtual reality into theatrical fantasy on Friday, November 4.
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Biomedical engineer David Odde in panel discussion with choreographer Carl Flink, discuss their ongoing Moving Cell Project, and prove what’s possible when their respective disciplines really combine forces on Saturday, November 5.
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Top flight musical team Doug Peck and Rob Lindley direct "A Night at the Oscars," which showcases seventy-seven consecutive years of American music through the varied songs that have garnered the Academy Award—in a one-night-only, five-hour spectacular on Monday, November 7.
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Performances by Dance Exchange offer four evenings of Liz Lerman's The Matter of Origins, which probes the physics of beginnings and the poetry of the mind starting on Thursday, November 10, concluding on Sunday, November 13.
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Celebrated violinist Rachel Barton Pine with early music ensemble Ars Antigua, and director Jerry Fuller showcase the viola d'amore in a romp through its repertoire, including works by Telemann and Vivaldi on Saturday, November 12.
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Guitarist Adrian Belew of King Crimson, lead guitarist for David Bowie, the Talking Heads, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Simon, and Frank Zappa, has built an extraordinary career melding soaring melody and acrid distortion, pop hooks and avant-garde forays discusses his personal history of the electric guitar on Sunday, November 13.
This list only scratches the surface. We hope that you find many more of our fall events of interest to you! Tickets are available online or by calling our box office at 312-494-9509, Monday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm.
