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Hyde Park Art Center Celebrates Pride | Culture & Leisure

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On Sunday, dozens of LGBTQ people attended Hyde Park Art Center’s (HPAC) first-ever ‘Art of Pride’ event, with music, drag performers, arts and crafts for sale and outreach activities of local health and social service organizations. “We’ve been supporting the queer community for a while now, but we really wanted to do it in a … Read more

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to Florence Price | Culture & Leisure

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The Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was held from 1933 to 1934 and changed the life of composer Florence Price. It was for this international event that his first symphony was selected as one of the works for a celebration concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) conducted … Read more