November 16, 2018
10:30 am
WTTW Kids Big Idea Traveling Lab — Lincolnwood
BIG IDEA tour brings the BIG IDEA Traveling Lab to communities throughout Chicagoland! Join us for an exciting 45-minute FREE live show, perfect for children 2 to 7 years old, bringing to life the fun and learning from WTTW Kids’ most popular and beloved children’s shows.
November 17, 2018
10:30 am
WTTW Kids Big Idea Traveling Lab — Chicago Toy & Game Fair
BIG IDEA tour brings the BIG IDEA Traveling Lab to communities throughout Chicagoland! Join us for an exciting 45-minute FREE live show, perfect for children 2 to 7 years old, bringing to life the fun and learning from WTTW Kids’ most popular and beloved children’s shows.
2:00 pm
Free Screening and Discussion: Keep Talking
WTTW, in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and Kartemquin Films presents a FREE screening and Discussion of Keep Talking. Keep Talking follows four Alaska Native women fighting to save Kodiak Alutiiq, an endangered language now spoken by less than 40 remaining fluent Native Elders. Their small community travels to remote Afognak Island to start teaching kids Alutiiq. At the camp, Sadie, a troubled teen, is inspired to begin learning the language and dances of her ancestors.
November 21, 2018
10:30 am
WTTW Kids Big Idea Traveling Lab — Darien
BIG IDEA tour brings the BIG IDEA Traveling Lab to communities throughout Chicagoland! Join us for an exciting 45-minute FREE live show, perfect for children 2 to 7 years old, bringing to life the fun and learning from WTTW Kids’ most popular and beloved children’s shows.
November 27, 2018
6:00 pm
Free Screening and Discussion – POV: Tribal Justice
WTTW partners with the award-winning POV documentary series to present this free screening and discussion in connection with the film Tribal Justice.
November 28, 2018
6:00 pm
Free Screening and Discussion – POV: Tribal Justice
WTTW partners with the award-winning POV documentary series to present this free screening and discussion in connection with the film Tribal Justice.
December 5, 2018
11:00 am
WTTW Kids Big Idea Traveling Lab — Elburn
BIG IDEA tour brings the BIG IDEA Traveling Lab to communities throughout Chicagoland! Join us for an exciting 45-minute FREE live show, perfect for children 2 to 7 years old, bringing to life the fun and learning from WTTW Kids’ most popular and beloved children’s shows.
December 6, 2018
7:00 pm
Free Screening and Discussion – POV: DO NOT RESIST
WTTW partners with POV and the Chicago Public Library for this free screening and discussion of Do Not Resist, a vital and influential exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. The documentary puts audiences in the center of the action — from inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of "righteous violence" to the floor of a Congressional hearing on the proliferation of military equipment in small-town police departments.
The screening will be followed by a 15-30 minute discussion.
December 15, 2018
3:00 pm
Straight No Chaser Concert at the Civic Opera House — 3:00 pm Show
Don’t miss the hottest a capella group as they return to Chicago’s famous opera house. Don’t miss your chance to see them live!
7:30 pm
Straight No Chaser Concert at the Civic Opera House — 7:30 pm Show
Don’t miss the hottest a capella group as they return to Chicago’s famous opera house. Don’t miss your chance to see them live!
December 26, 2018
6:30 am
Free Screening – POV: THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES
WTTW partners with POV and the Chicago Public Library for this free screening of The Islands and the Whales. On the isolated North Atlantic archipelago of the Faroe Islands, filmmaker Mike Day shows us that the longtime hunting practices of the Faroese are threatened by dangerously high mercury levels in the whales, decimated seabird populations, and anti-whaling activists. The Faroe islanders consider themselves a canary in the mine, their tale a warning to the rest of the world.
This is a free event.
March 8, 2019
8:00 pm
Joe Bonamassa Live at Chicago Theatre
Internationally renowned guitar superstar Joe Bonamassa, known as a "tour de force," returns to Chicago for another rockin' concert. Don't miss your chance to see him live!
Tickets are non-refundable.
