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Hundreds attended the 23rd annual Aging Well Conference hosted by the Levy Senior Center and enjoyed workshops, music, a raffle, food and recreation Friday. With May being Older Americans Month, the center held the event to provide artistic, physical and informative services to older individuals as a way to engage and celebrate them, according to...
North Shore Senior Center’s (NSSC) Tuesday Club will host Jevoid Simmons, author and artist, who will discuss how his paintings and carvings reflect warmth and tranquility in the presence of turbulent surroundings and events of the day.
Candidates for the 2nd Ward councilmember seat discussed public safety, economic development and more during a League of Women Voters of Evanston candidate forum Saturday. Evanston/Skokie School District 65 teacher Patricia Gregory and Equity and Empowerment Commission member Darlene Cannon are challenging incumbent Krissie Harris. Mayor Daniel Biss appointed Harris to City Council in September...
The Evanston Performing Arts Collective is the latest arts initiative to rethink how local groups can continue to share stories in a pandemic. The collective moved their work online to bring joy to the Evanston community. “We’re storytellers; we have to tell stories,” said John Frank, co-founder and artistic director of Evanston 2nd Act Players, a group in the collective. “If we can’t do it in public we’ll do it online.” At least 11 organizations, including 2nd Act Players and the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre, united to form EPAC. The collective unveiled their second installation ...
Coming together is more important now than ever. Three arts organizations are turning that philosophy into reality. Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre, The Musical Offering, and Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre have formed the Evanston Performing Arts Collective.