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EVENTS AND THINGS TO DO NEARBY
DAWES PARK

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Our most popular events near Dawes Park include:
  • A New Eye on the Universe Opens: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • 2025 IIN Rosemary Schnell Symposium: Nanoscience Unleashed
  • Ali Zaidi: Reimagining Climate Policy
  • An Evening with Fran Lebowitz
  • Emerging Finance Leaders Dinner 2025 (formerly Women in Finance)
  • Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Frankenthaler’s World: Collaboration and Printmaking in Postwar America
  • Welcome Reception: Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding
  • AN EVENING WITH PATTY GRIFFIN & RICKIE LEE JONES
  • Lyrics & Laundry @ The Laundry Cafe
  • Colin Hay
  • Tommy Emmanuel CGP - Living In The Light Tour
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter / Brandy Clark
  • 2025 Queer History Symposium at Gerber/Hart
  • Off the Page — an evening of queer comix readings
  • LACONI Recharge Library Tour Series: Gerber/Hart Library & Leather Archives
  • Each Medium Affects the Other - Cora Chalaby on Helen Frankenthaler
  • Making Ritual Masks
  • Introducing DE Design Sports: Putting Ideas Into Play
  • EAC- Art Documentation Workshop #4 (9/20/25)
  • A Close Look: Igshaan Adams’s Klip Gooi, Stone Throw III
  • Exhibition Keynote: Alexander Nemerov on Helen Frankenthaler’s Diversions
  • Orrington Eagles Open (Community Golf Tournament & Fundraiser)
  • Turning Together: Ceramic Date Night
  • Art | Music | Wine | Community
  • Latte art for beginners!
  • Main-Dempster Mile 10th Anniversary Celebration
  • Yini's Erhu Performance
  • Sound Bath Meditation (SKOKIE, IL)
  • Workforce Wednesday Evanston: Employers & Resources | 10.29.2025
  • 5k Beer Run x Double Clutch Brewing | 2025 Illinois Brewery Running Series
  • Skin of a Killer: Twilight Bedazzling Night at Booked
  • THE FOREIGNER (Amos Poe, 1978) and ASCENDING/DESCENDING (Binion/Poe, 1978)
  • Rachael & Vilray w/ Moorea Masa & The Mood
  • A Close Look: Ken Fandell’s The Sky Above My Home
  • Thinning the Veil: A Ritual of Spirit Sight
  • GoodFest 2025
  • The Herbal Dog Live: The Royal Experience
  • Candlelite's 75th Anniversary Party - Rock Around The Clock
  • Thanksgiving Essentials from the Smoker & Grill
  • Coffee Tasting and Bean Swap
  • cloth + home-Threaded Stories: A Runway Show of Distinctive Fashion
  • 40 Hour Domestic Violence Training
  • From Vine to Wine: How Wine is Made
  • NO SOMMS ALLOWED: Spain Series--Coastal Spain and Sherry
  • Maker's Market in Downtown Evanston
  • Writers at Work: A Bookends University Book Club
  • Evanston Nouveau Club Gathering (In-Person) - 18 September
    • What else should I visit around Dawes Park?