Experience Manifest. Columbia College Chicago's urban arts festival celebrates the next generation of artists and creative professionals. Manifest is an urban arts festival celebrating the work and creativity of Columbia students. Each year it attracts an audience of students, faculty, staff, parents, friends, alumni, patrons, donors, industry professionals, neighborhood residents, and the Chicago arts community. The festival is free and open to the public and features music, exhibitions, screenings, presentations, performances, and much more!

For eleven days and nights, we will explore the best practices and boldest failures in interventionist, participatory, collective social, political, and cultural practices. This year's theme is presented in order to bring together groups and individuals seeking additional methods for the practice of art, education and social activism well into the next decade. We want to use this opening during the current economic and political crisis to amplify our shared ideals, values and strategies. Join us to amplify micro-movements and nowtopian ideas! The festival will include: historical re-enactments, antiwar organizing, Version tv shows, an art parade, an artist-run art expo, a catalog ...

Please join us for two days of art, books, talks, things for sale and for free, plus more from the following people, groups and organizations: Antena, AREA Chicago, Bad at Sports, CAFF, Esteban Garcia, Golden Age, Green Lantern Press, Half Letter Press, Terence Hannum, Harold Arts, Imperfect Articles, InCUBATE, Clifton Meador & Guests, David Moré, No Coast, Onsmith Dog Stew & Monkey Nudd Wine, Pros Arts Studio, Proximity Magazine, Radah & Team, Spudnik Press, Bert Stabler, threewalls and WhiteWalls.

This three-evening festival features new performances by School of the Art Institute of Chicago students who blur the boundaries between theater, movement and the visual arts. Performers include Libby O’Bryan, Jennifer Mills, Chryssa Tsampazi, André Lenox & Evan Lenox, Marissa Perel, Alan & Michael Flemming, Noah Logan, Millie Kapp and Isabella Ng, Chloe Seibert, Ethan White, Colin Self, students of SAIC choreographed by Stephanie Bailey, Christopher Bradley, Allison Fall, Elise Goldstein and Jillian Soto. For details, the schedule and reservations, see the website.

An exhibition featuring the work of Juan Angel Chavez, Dayton Castleman, Stephen Eichorn, Aron Gent, Jeremy Tubbs, Hilary Olson, Tom Torluemke, Gunsho (James Quigley), Berry Sanders, Montgomery Perry Smith, Hui-Min Tsen (with dozens of participants) and Justin B. Williams. A mural, sculptures, silk-screened prints, photographs, paintings, collage, and works on paper will be displayed in the gallery and storefront windows of the C-PS. The participants in this years festival are people we find inspiring and important to the cultural ecology of Chicago and beyond. For a ...

Make, organize and enjoy art in Chicago. For details and locations, see the website.