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  • Inga Books Turns 6!

    • August 9 @ 1:00 PM
    • until 7:00 PM
    • Inga Books
    • 1740 W. 18th Street Chicago, IL 60608

    🎆 ✨ Join us on Saturday, August 9th to celebrate Inga’s six year b-day. 🪅 We’ll gather around drinks, snacks, cake, printed freebies, and some newly released, limited edition merch. 🪢 Festivities set to take place during our 1-7pm open... Read More

  • Drawn Together in Struggle & Hope Community Fundraiser

    • August 9 @ 5:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Walls Turned Sideways
    • 2717 W. Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612

    Come out to support artists inside IL prisons and organizations working together towards freedom! Artworks from Castaway (a group of artists at Western IL prison) and formerly incarcerated artists will be on sale. Join us for food, drink, music and more! 100% of proceeds will support ILARJ & WTS! Sliding scale tickets start at $10, including a dinner plate and free drink! RSVP and buy your ticket at Givebutter.com/DrawnTogether! The... Read More

  • Erotic Photography Workshop

    • August 9 @ 6:30 PM
    • until 8:30 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626

    Learn how to shoot bold, sensual, and kink-inspired imagery. Led by Kristopher Daniel of La Petite Mort Photography (www.lapetitemortphotography.com), this hands-on workshop covers lighting, posing, and working with erotic themes using live models. All skill levels are welcome. The second hour is open shoot time to practice what you’ve learned using Kris’ lighting setup.... Read More

  • Quimby’s Show & Tell: Marc Fischer of Public Collectors

    • August 9 @ 6:30 PM
    • Quimby's Bookstore
    • 1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

    Join Chicago-based publisher Marc Fischer of Public Collectors to discuss his latest Public Collectors publications, and read from the recent booklets: “Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?” and “Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?“ Marc Fischer is the administrator of Public Collectors, an initiative he formed in 2007.... Read More

  • Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours

    • August 10 @ 3:00 PM
    • until 4:30 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood, Chicago IL

    Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 3-4:30 pm and every third Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm. This is the time to pick up new seeds (free!), gift your surplus, or just hang out and talk seeds!

  • Pass the Aux: A Collective Sharing and Listening Session

    • August 10 @ 4:00 PM
    • until 5:30 PM
    • Unity Park, at the pergola
    • 2636 N Kimball Ave, Chicago

    Pass the Aux: A Collective Sharing and Listening Session August 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm “What are we listening to these days, and why?” Prompted by this and other questions, Josh Rios invites you to this all-ages gathering to share and reflect on music in an open, collective setting.... Read More

  • NEW YORK CITY INFERNO: A Bijou Video Screening at the Leather Archives & Museum

    • August 10 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626

    Get your tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/new-york-city-inferno-a-bijou-video-screening-at-the-leather-archives-and-museum Come early for sex and love life tarot reading by oracle Jessika Cutts. Plus so much more to be announced! Structured around the journey of Jerome (hairy, uncut Christopher Dock) in search of his lover, this French production also serves as a study of NYC's gay sex culture/locales and includes, along with its truly hot sex scenes and story, an interview with a gay political activist and performer/poet Camille O'Grady fronting a punk band in the film's epically wild orgy scene shot in the infamous Mineshaft! Raw, gritty, kinky, occasionally bizarre, this artfully made, historically significant classic is a major film of the '70s French gay porn boom. New... Read More

  • Fetish, Erotic and Kink Figure Drawing

    • August 12 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave

    Join us on the 2nd Tuesday each month for a studio drawing class where you can practice your figure drawing skills individually. We'll provide the sexy fetish models, tables and chairs.... you provide whatever materials you want to use for your art. This... Read More

  • Bondage with the Persian Prince

    • August 14 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:30 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave

    Learn techniques and skills, and practice your ties with an expert. All experience levels are welcome. Thursday sessions are scheduled for June 26, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, and Sep 4. $5.00

  • Film Screening “The Body Electric,” Six Films By Paul Sharits” by Tone Glow

    • August 14 @ 7:00 PM
    • International Museum of Surgical Science
    • 1524 North Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60610

    Tone Glow is excited to announce a special screening of an film Paul Sharits! Tone Glow Presents “The Body Electric: Six Films By Paul Sharits” August 14th, 7:00pm-9:00pm Doors: 6:00pm Tickets: $15 GA Presale $10 Student Presale (Use code STUDENT at checkout) $10 IMSS Member Presale (Use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout) -$20 at Door $15 Student at Door $15 IMSS Member at Door Tone Glow is excited to announce “The Body Electric,” a program highlighting six films by the visual artist and filmmaker Paul Sharits (1943-1993).... Read More

  • BIPOC Solidarity Benefit Cookout

    • August 15 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Cedillo’s Fresh Produce
    • 325 W. 70th Pl

    Join us for an evening of community, care, and collective action at this BIPOC-only, alcohol-free benefit cookout. Friends and neighbors are coming together to raise funds for BIPOC-led efforts and solidarities through shared food, connection, and a silent art auction featuring local talent. There’s... Read More

  • Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours

    • August 16 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 7:30 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood, Chicago IL

    Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 3-4:30 pm and every third Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm. This is the time to pick up new seeds (free!), gift your surplus, or just hang out and talk seeds!

  • Join 505051: No Camps / No War / No 1984

    • August 23 @ 12:00 PM
    • until 2:00 PM
    • TBD!
    • Chicago, IL

    On August 23rd we will gather to demand an END to the concentration camps, END to the wars, and END to the march towards fascism. Silence serves the oppressor, so come get loud. We will release more details soon! Please note, we will be holding this event instead of an event on August 2nd.

  • Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: Jarrod Shanahan in Conversation with Lake Effect Collective

    • September 3 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us in celebrating this long-awaited collection by Chicago author and agitator Jarrod Shanahan, who will appear in conversation with members of Lake Effect Collective. Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help (PM Press, 2025) collects a decade of reflections on recent US struggles—Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Rebellion—alongside accounts of the rise of Trumpism, the alt-right, and an apocalyptic shift in popular culture, to paint a dense and complex portrait of a decade of protracted social crisis. Jarrod... Read More

  • Bondage with the Persian Prince

    • September 4 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:30 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave

    Learn techniques and skills, and practice your ties with an expert. All experience levels are welcome. Thursday sessions are scheduled for June 26, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, and Sep 4. $5.00

  • Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation with Eileen Flanagan

    • September 8 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St Chicago, IL

    Join us as we welcome Eileen Flanagan to the store for an event in celebration of her new book Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation. As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly, it has become apparent that we have a shared stake in protecting the air, water, and climate—for ourselves and for future generations.... Read More

  • Fetish Film Forum - Queen Bee Empire (2014)

    • September 20 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626

    This raunchy and campy DIY film is about the sexcapades of friends Tracey, Stacey, Lacey, Kacey and Macey over 24 hours during a hot and sweaty summer. Single Tickets can be puchased in advance and cost $10 per screening, or $8 for LA&M Members & Students.... Read More