All events on Monday June 30

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Music
Broadway in Chicago: Concert in the Park
Monday June 30 (6pm) @ Petrillo Music Shell
Free
In keeping with both the egalitarian spirit and sample-it-all ethos of the Taste of Chicago, the Broadway in Chicago theatre series presents a free concert... View details »
Broadway in Chicago: Concert in the Park
Film
California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)
Monday June 30 (6:30pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
With multiple Romanian films grabbing awards at 2007's Cannes Film Festival, the critics nearly anointed a "New Wave on the Black Sea." And although it's... View details »
California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)
Music: Rock/Pop
The Killer Whales
Monday June 30 (12:15–1:30pm) @ Millennium Park
Free
Although they're still small players in the city's indie jam-band scene — which counts Mahjongg and Cave as its torch-bearers — the Killer Whales are... View details »
The Killer Whales
Music: Global
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Monday June 30 (9pm) @ House of Blues
Seun Kuti first took to the stage with his father's Egypt 80 group when he was nine-years-old. Today, he's the one fronting the large band,... View details »
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

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Art: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Monday June 30 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11 young artists from Chicago's... View details »
Three Hours Between Planes
Film
The Visitor
Monday June 30 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
The Visitor
Art
Collecting for Chicago
Monday June 30 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode — its world-class collection was... View details »
Collecting for Chicago
Art
Videodance
Monday June 30 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
Free
Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival. The results of these... View details »
Videodance
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Monday June 30 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Free
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits of William Wrigley, Jr..... View details »
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Art
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Monday June 30 (10am–5:30pm) @ Richard Gray Gallery More times »
Free
At 81, Alex Katz has only recently emerged as one of America's major contemporary artists. The Richard Gray Gallery shows why the artist's profile has... View details »
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Art
Jim Tansley
Monday June 30 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both carefully structured and completely... View details »
Jim Tansley
Art
David Hockney
Monday June 30 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago More times »
Free
David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based work, like pieced-together canvases... View details »
David Hockney
Art: Photography
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Monday June 30 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
Free
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic exhibition at City Gallery... View details »
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Film
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Monday June 30 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Film
Milos Forman
Monday June 30 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
Given his terrific contribution to cinema, it's surprising that director Milos Forman isn't more of a household name. His relatively under-the-radar profile may stem from... View details »
Milos Forman
Film
Brick Lane
Monday June 30 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
Brick Lane
Film
My Winnipeg
Monday June 30 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
My Winnipeg
Film: Documentary
Up the Yangtze
Monday June 30 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
Up the Yangtze
More Flavor: City Gem
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Monday June 30 (7:30am–7:30pm) @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool More times »
Free
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance to the Alfred Caldwell... View details »
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
More Flavor: City Gem
Flower Power
Monday June 30 (9am–5pm) @ Garfield Park Conservatory More times »
Free
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little more spacious and herbaceous,... View details »
Flower Power
Performing Arts: Theatre
Superior Donuts
Monday June 30 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the Festivus episode of Seinfeld."... View details »
Superior Donuts
Art: Photography
Beyond the Backyard
Monday June 30 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
Free
Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much by postmodern thinkers as... View details »