Upcoming and Annual Events

Thursday, July 25 to Saturday, July 27, come out for the BIGGEST sales of the year at your favorite local merchants on Central Street! From the east end to the west end, shop outside tables and racks filled with fabulous discounts, grab local eats, and enjoy special activities and entertainment! 
*Insidewalk Sales continue on Sunday at participating businesses.

Central Street is home to so many great health and fitness businesses. June - August, we'll be teaming up with a variety of fitness and wellness studios to bring you "Wellness Wednesdays" a series of free classes! This series will run every week on Wednesdays at health and fitness businesses throughout Central Street. *We will not be hosting this event in Independence Park this year due to anticipated construction. 

The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Material Matters: Uncommon Approaches to Mixed Media. The exhibition will be on display from July 6–28, 2024, and will be free and open to the public. In Material Matters: Uncommon Approaches to Mixed Media, artist Dean Habegger works with a wide variety of materials and processes, including painting, drawing, and mixed media collage and assemblage, often incorporating dried organic materials in his works. Along with creating new works on paper, canvas, and wood, Habegger also upcycles materials and reworks older, incomplete pieces. Material Matters: Uncommon Approaches to Mixed Media is an exhibition employing some or all of his processes. Through reflection, he establishes a visual vocabulary that demonstrates his personal symbolism and iconography, with repetitive use of imagery and conceptual motifs. 

The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Finding Space & Other Stories. The exhibition will be on display from July 6–28, 2024, and will be free and open to the public. Finding Space & Other Stories is a collection of mixed media assemblages in artist Michael Liweski’s ongoing series examining the societal state of “house and home” – and beyond. The exhibition explores having to leave home and witnessing one’s past amidst a backdrop of intercontinental migration, massive pollution from plastic overuse, and global political unrest. The search for belonging is a central theme, while individual pieces present their own narratives. Through varied approaches, Liweskipresents the universal experience of moving forward while looking back, and of unpacking and re-examining once at a new destination; moreover, the exhibition reminds us that, despite adversity, “finding space” is often possible.