This September through November, Chicago Humanities Festival brings the humanities to your screen! Presenters include acclaimed author and poet Claudia Rankine on race in America, Professor Peniel E. Joseph on the legacies of civil rights icons Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore on the data-driven twenty-first century. More preeminent speakers will be announced as the season unfolds. We’ll continue to present our Chicago Neighborhood Check-In Series, started this spring, which brings together local artists, activists, students, educators, and business owners from Chicago neighborhoods to discuss the local impact of COVID-19 and social protests. This season we’re also launching a new series called “What’s Next?” which will envision the future for a range of issues like voting, the environment, and freedom of speech.

Nestled among the 41 Broadway theaters in Times Square are some remnants – and in some cases, full theaters – hiding in plain sight. Join Broadway Up Close Owner Tim Dolan in a virtual tour as he explores these Broadway ruins and tells the stories of their forgotten past.

Learn how to make food from one of Shakespeare’s plays, with chef and Shakespearean actor John Tufts. Each “Serving Up Shakespeare” will feature a different recipe.

Ube Craze is a baking kit + online workshop to make unique Ube desserts. These premium baking mixes take the fuss out of baking with pre-measured gourmet ingredients, foolproof recipes, and easy-to-understand directions. The limited edition ube baking kit includes three gluten free baking mixes to make ube mochi pancakes/waffles, ube samoa rice krispies, and ube butter mochi. Trader Joe’s ube mochi pancakes/waffles is sold out, but our version is fluffier, chewier, and moist. Our ube samoa rice krispies are inspired by Samoa Girl Scout Cookies with a marshmallowy flavor. Our ube butter mochi is soft, chewy, and creamy. Ube tastes like creamy coconut and gives these desserts the brilliant purple color. The limited edition ube baking kit also includes an exclusive ube souffle pancake mix. Learn how to make the popular Japanese, giggly pancake that is taking social media by the storm. The kit also includes an online workshop to learn how to make these ube desserts. Video instructions will also be sent on how to make souffle pancakes. Shipping is free and by USPS priority mail. Orders may continue to be placed after August 31st, but the kit may not arrive before the workshop. Kits can be shipped to any state.

Sarge is an extraordinary entertainer. A triple threat. A musical piano savant, amazing improvisational comedian and singer. After playing clubs and colleges all over America for three years, SARGE found himself opening for some of the biggest names in music – Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Paul Anka, The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, Taylor Dayne, Donna Summer and Wayne Newton, just to name a few. These high profile gigs enabled SARGE’s act to evolve from a comedy appearance to an entertainment performance because he learned to weave his own musical talents into his shows. SARGE has worked on some of the biggest stages in show business. From Radio City Music Hall to Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game to entertaining our nation’s troops in Iraq, SARGE’s ability to improvise and tailor his show to specific audiences is uncanny. He is one of the highest energy, multi-talented acts in show business today. Not only a hysterical stand-up comedian, SARGE sings in his own voice and in a dozen others including Harry Connick Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., Lionel Richie and Stevie Wonder. Additionally, his dead on impressions of Marv Albert, Mike Tyson, Kermit the Frog and Gilbert Gottfried leave audiences howling and clamoring for more. Triple threats who don’t dance are hard to find in show business today. With his mix of comedy, singing and piano playing, SARGE is a legitimate triple threat and a rare find.

Here is your opportunity to have some fun playing our live “Saved by the Bell” trivia game. This is a single player game. You will also get to socialize and make other friends from the safety and comfort of your home. Prize will be an Amazon gift card and free future events. (You must be visible on camera if you want a chance to win prizes, otherwise you can play off camera for fun.) This event will be held in a Zoom Virtual Room, which you would access through your computer and webcam, or via your smartphone/tablet. During the game we will virtually introduce you to some of the other participants (if for any reason you are not interested in meeting the other participants, you can opt out of this part). At game time, your host will read off several trivia questions from “Saved by the Bell”. Your goal is to come up with the correct answer to each question and write it down on your paper. Once the round is over (about six questions), we will go through the answers and determine which person/people had the highest score for the round. That person/people will get a raffle ticket for a chance to win a prize at the end of the event. We will play multiple rounds so each time you win a round, you will earn another raffle entry. Additional fees may apply. For events with a discounted price, no coupon or promo code is necessary to purchase tickets.

“Funny Women of a Certain Age” is a comedy show straight from the unfettered mouths and uninhibited minds of the funniest, most daring, most experienced people in comedy: the women that have seen it all. They’ve raised children both on and off the road with big hairy club bouncers cradling their babies while onstage. These women have stayed in comedy condos where you don’t want to use a blacklight on anything. They’ve been told women aren’t funny and asked to trade sexual favors for work. Trust us, they have A LOT to say, and they say it hysterically. “Women of a Certain Age Comedy” — created and produced by veteran comedian Carole Montgomery. A comedy show for the ages. Female comics who tell it like it is cause they just don’t give a crap anymore.

Acclaimed violinist Anne Akiko Meyers discusses everything from Baroque to Contemporary, including her recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Music Director David Lockington and her work with contemporary composers Arvo Part, Arturo Marquez and Adam Schoenberg.

Premiere episode of POPScast, hosted by Pasadena POPS Resident Pops Conductor Larry Blank, with special guest Michael Feinstein. The three-time Tony nominated conductor and orchestrator will welcome a star-studded array of Broadway, television and film’s best singers, song writers and musicians throughout the summer. Get up close and personal with the stars you’ve loved seeing on the POPS stage.

It’s not often that you hear the phrases “family friendly” and “improv comedy” in the same sentence, but that’s exactly what you get with this fun and funny show. “Improv 4 Kids” goes online with an entertaining production that has impressed audiences of all ages in New York City and nationwide. No two versions are ever the same as the high-energy troupe Eight Is Never Enough creates songs and skits on the spot based on audience suggestions. The troupe has played off-Broadway at the Lambs Theatre in New York City and presented more than 1,000 performances at the Laugh Factory in Times Square and the New York Improv.

Take a virtual tour of the French Impressionism Art Collection found at the National Gallery of Art. Your guide Meghan will point out her favorite Impressionism Artists as she takes you through the different key artists in this dynamic modern art movement. You will enjoy seeing several Claude Monet, post-impressionism, and learn what defines impressionism art. We will start the tour by taking a look at the iconic sculpture Little Dancer before moving into the National Gallery of Art Impressionism Exhibit Hall. The work that emerged from these rogue painters was infused with lightness, energy, informality and authenticity. Why? Because these artists of French Impressionism painted En Plein Air: they went out into the landscapes from which they were working to observe and paint the changing light and colors in real-time. The Impressionism art definition is widely talked about, and it is one of the most popular and beloved art movements to date. The National Gallery of Art has spectacular Impressionism and Post Impressionism artworks that will change the way you understand the Impressionism art definition. We will walk you through the rise and fall of this fabulous art scene by looking at several iconic artists and their work: Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, George Seurat, and Vincent van Gogh.

We spend so much of our lives learning to love and accept others, we can often overlook how we treat ourselves. This online course is designed to help you focus on self-love and self-acceptance, guiding you on a spiritual journey of learning to love who you truly are.

The perfect quarantine activity: an exciting puzzle-solving adventure you can play from home! Has canceling a subscription ever felt like a series of bewildering puzzles? Well now it literally is. “UNSUBSCRIBE” is a modern treasure hunt adventure you can play entirely from home — you just need the internet and your phone. Tackle it solo, or team up with friends (via video chat) to solve the increasingly perplexing puzzles on your way to canceling your unwanted subscription to DrossBox before it’s too late, and you’re committed to paying for three years worth of junk you don’t need!

Invite your friends or co-workers to a virtual murder mystery. The movie star/singer Dave Daly was poisoned on the movie set and you and your guests become the suspects; you might be the know-it-all psychic, the jealous understudy, the has-been actress, the hometown girlfriend, the sinister gambler or the director/detective. Everyone is suspicious, everyone has information to share and no one knows the identity of the murderer until the last minute. People will be “dying” to attend your online event. The game includes the host manual/instructions and seven character booklets with everything they need to know to play “Murder on the Set”.

We’re bringing the comedy club experience direct to your living room. Live Comedy On Zoom features the best and brightest touring stand up comics, who under normal circumstances would be busy performing at comedy clubs from coast to coast. Every week is a new line up and performers can be found on our website LiveComedyOnZoom.com