Tour the Arts Block
You're invited to take a walking tour of all four venues managed by Arts + Public Life: Arts Incubator, Green Line Performing Arts Center, L1 Retail Store, and the Arts Lawn.
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Arts in Bloom: A Teen Arts Showcase | 6PM Show
Join us for a unique journey through the minds of APL’s young artists, designers, and performers. Witness the creativity, innovation, and the limitless possibilities of the next generation of makers. Let their art inspire you, and ignite your creative spark as you explore design objects, a thought-provoking exhibition, and be moved by a dynamic theater performance.
Arts in Bloom: A Teen Arts Showcase | 7:30PM Show
Join us for a unique journey through the minds of APL’s young artists, designers, and performers. Witness the creativity, innovation, and the limitless possibilities of the next generation of makers. Let their art inspire you, and ignite your creative spark as you explore design objects, a thought-provoking exhibition, and be moved by a dynamic theater performance.
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
First Monday Jazz Micah Collier
First Monday Jazz, APL’s longest-running program features live performances by established and emerging Chicago artists.
Our May artist is Micah Collier
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Rear View Mirror Sessions
Celebrated music historian and DJ, Duane Powell dedicates the second installment of the 2024 Rear View Mirror Sessions to great Gladys Knight.
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Odyssey
Odyssey narrates a brief self-portrait of a family awakening amidst tragedy and loss. The short film shows glimpse of their lives and pockets of found joy as a family and as women finding their own voice and identity amidst the tapestry of life.
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Spirits, Spirituality & Craft | Reading & Panel
Is it a memory purge? Or a necessary part of their work? How do they bring in or welcome these influences into their writing space?
Walking the Middle Path: Using Hoodoo to Tell Your Story
If your goal is to get over that writer's block and finally tell your story--hoodoo can help! Participants will walk away with a basic understanding of how to read tarot, how to pull information from oracles, astrology, and herbs in relation to their creative writing project, and how to respectfully engage hoodoo practices when running into narrative blocks in their work.
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Parkway Picture Show Presents: Scenes of Parkway Ballroom from the South Side Home Movie Project’s Ramon Williams Collection
The South Side of Home Movie Project will partner with the Bronzeville Historical Society and Cliff Rome, owner of the Parkway Ballroom, to host the next Ramon Williams watch party.
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
¿Para Qué? - Perdón Que No Fue Pedido
Celebrate South Side EXPO Night!
Join us for a dance performance in connection with Marcela Torres exhibition I Brought You Flowers / Te Traje Flores | Marcela Torres Exhibition Opening
Rear View Mirror Session | Ashford & Simpson
Celebrated music historian and DJ, Duane Powell returns for the audience favorite Rear View Mirror Sessions
Office Hours with Fabi + Olu
Join us for Office Hours with Fabiola Ramirez, APLs Associate Director of Creative Entrepreneurship and Operations + Oluwaseyi Adeleke owner of prgrssn and current L1 Fellow.
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
First Monday Jazz featuring Edwin Daugherty
First Monday Jazz, APL’s longest-running program features live performances by established and emerging Chicago artists.
Our April artist is Edwin Daugherty
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
South Side Seventies: Video Screening and Conversation
Join us for a special screening of a collection of rarely-seen videos from the 1970s, which were made by and about the residents of the South Side
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
I Brought You Flowers / Te Traje Flores | Exhibition Opening
Artist Marcela Torres offers handmade altars as sites of reconciliation for past relationships and matriarchal bonds.
L1 Retail Store Grand Opening
You're invited to the Grand Opening of the L1 Retail Store on March 15th!
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
World After This One: A Performance by Benji Hart
World After This One uses movement and spoken word to examine how Black people have historically reclaimed the materials of empire to construct portals to impossible futures.
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Denean Pillar-Jackson
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
2024 Residents Welcome Reception
Arts + Public Life is excited to introduce you to the 2024 cohort of Artists in Residence, Performance Residents and L1 Fellows.
First Monday Jazz featuring MAIA
First Monday Jazz, APL’s longest-running program features live performances by established and emerging Chicago artists.
Our February artist is MAIA
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!
Community Yoga with Tiffany Mangum
Grab your mat and join Arts + Public Life's free weekly yoga classes every Friday and Saturday on the Arts Block!