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Cultural Advisory Council Meeting Schedule for 2025
The 2025 Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Cultural Advisory Council meeting schedule.
Cultural Advisory Council
List of current Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Cultural Advisory Council Members’ Names and Affiliations.
DCASE Cultural Advisory Council Meeting Minutes
Meeting minutes from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Cultural Advisory Council.
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration explores the profound impact of the Great Migration on the social and cultural life of the United States from historical and personal perspectives.
Buddy at the Chicago Cultural Center
Public Media Institute's shop in the Chicago Cultural Center gives Chicago's artists and small manufacturers a place to showcase and sell their goods and artwork.
Chicago Cultural Center Dance Studio Residency
The Open Studio series is a wide variety of public engagements during each residency cohort. Open Studio events are free, informal, and open to the public. They allow for milestones moments and processes to be shared, and can take the form of artist talks, works-in-progress, story circles, workshops, topical panels and other activities.
Chicago Poet Laureate Program
avery r. young – Inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate
Creative Worker Resources
This is a listing of resources available locally and nationally to support creatives, from job boards to professional advancement programs to emergency funding.
DCASE 2025 Spring and Summer Festival and Event Dates
The 2025 dates for some of the City of Chicago’s most beloved summertime traditions presented by DCASE.
DCASE Artist-in-Residence
Current and past DCASE Artist-in-Residence.
DCASE Impact Snapshot 2024
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) 2024 Impact Snapshot.
File a Cultural Affairs and Special Events FOIA Request
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Mural Registry
The Mural Registry catalogues Chicago’s collection of murals, and includes a growing list of completed murals created on private and public property.
Navigating Recovery: Arts and Culture Financial and Operating Trends in Chicago
SMU DataArts has partnered with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) to produce this first look at the health of many of the city’s arts and cultural organizations before, during, and emerging from the pandemic.
Parades
Find out when your favorite parade is taking place in Chicago.
Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close
Chicago is home to a rich and growing ecology of puppetry, bridging mediums and communities of makers. This sampling of puppets by local artists challenges expectations about puppetry and inspires the public to tell their own stories.
Special Events Resource Guide
Download the 2024 Special Events Resource Guide.
two hundred and fifty-one days
two hundred and fifty-one days, a solo exhibition by Bryana Bibbs, is an artist's exploration of loss, ancestry, time, and memory.