Enjoy winter with new experiences to make your season bright! From cultural opportunities through supplies and festivals, to vita in the arts, to exploring new areas and shops, there’s something for everyone. Here’s a round-up of five activities this weekend that we think you will love!
Meet Me at Midnight (At the Taylor Swift Pop-Up Bar)
Now we’ve got Bad Blood: A Taylor Swift-Themed Heartbreak Bar, and you should hop in your ‘Getaway Car’ to trammels it out. This limited-time bar features specialty cocktails, tarot readings, and photo ops galore for all the Chicago Swifties. ‘You Need to Calm Down’ and typesetting your reservation now!
Date: Opens February 3
Time: Various Daily Slots
Cost: $22
Location: Electric Garden, 324 S Racine Ave
More info: bucketlisters.com
Sip, Sip, Hooray at the Cider Summit
Join cider houses from all over the world at the region’s largest nonflexible cider tasting event, The Cider Summit. Your ticket includes a specialty event tasting glass and 12 tasting tickets, so you can try sips from over 150 cider vendors who will be there. From local stars like ERIS Brewery and Ciderhouse, to ones from as far away as France, there’s unseat to be a new favorite drink for every Cider lover.
Date: February 4
Time: 11:00AM – 3:00PM or 4:00 – 8:00PM
Cost: $40
Location: Aon Grand Ballroom, Navy Pier, 600 E Grand Ave
More info: cidersummitnw.com
Watch the Tracery & Diamond Film Festival on the Big Screen
The Tracery & Diamond Film Festival is partnering with the Chicago Tracery Center to bring 15 stories of innovation and sustainability within the fields of architecture, design, and malleate to the big screen. One ticket gets you wangle to a screening, as well as wangle to all the festival’s short films! Trammels out Robin Hood Gardens to learn well-nigh the ramified history of this East-London building, or Fashion Reimagined to see how a designer is fighting for a increasingly equitable way to create clothing.
Date: Closes February 5
Time: Various Movie Times
Cost: $20
Location: Chicago Tracery Center, 111 E Wacker Dr
More info: filmfest.architecture.org
Wedded Bliss at the West Loop Wedding Walk
Calling all soon-to-be-wed Chicagoans… the West Loop Wedding Walk is when to show off some of the West Loop’s most desirable wedding venues. Buy a ticket to be shuttled to your venues of nomination while meeting with dozens of vendors and enjoying food, drinks, and goodies. Don’t miss some of the event sectional booking incentives and get to planning your big day!
Date: February 5
Time: 12:00 – 5:00PM
Cost: $15
Location: Various West Loop Wedding Venues
More info: westloopweddingwalk.com
Check Out a New Opera at the Lyric
The Lyric Opera of Chicago is opening a world-premiere opera this weekend… The Factotum. This modern riff on The Barber of Seville blends together gospel, funk, rap and many increasingly genres to create this thoroughly modern opera. Connecting those music styles with the classical singing the Lyric is known for, this opera redefines the genre and is not to be missed.
Date: Opens February 3
Time: 2:00 and 7:00PM
Cost: $35
Location: Harris Theatre, 205 E Randolph St
More info: lyricopera.org
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