Re-Thinking Soup @ Hull House

UIC hosts Re-Thinking Soup, a free weekly lunch where participants eat soup cooked from ingredients found at Hull House's urban gardens and chat about an assortment of topics. Event runs today from noon-1:30p at Hull House, 800 South Halsted.

The Silent Film Society of Chicago presents: The Bat @ The Portage Theater

The Silent Film Society of Chicago presents a screening of Roland West's 1926 thriller The Bat starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda at the Historic Portage Theater with live photoplay accompaniment by Jay Warren on a restored 1927 Kimball 3 Manual Grande Theater pipe organ. Come in a bat outfit and you could win a prize for best costume. The Portage Theater is located at 4050 N. Milwaukee Avenue, right across the street from Halloween megastore Fantasy Costumes, so you won't have to go far to find a prizewinning ensemble.

The film screens tonight only at 7:45pm. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. For more information and tickets call (773) 205-7372 or visit The Silent Film Society of Chicago.

A Cultural Reader @ MCA

This is a series of 7 minute micro-lectures curated by Golden Age with Marco Kane Braunschweiler and Martine Syms as your evenings emcees.

Feature lecturers:
Christopher Roeleveld
Paige K. Johnston
Hunter Husar
Nicholas O'Brien
Greg Stimac
Lisa Smith
Caroline Linder

Tonight 6-8pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60611
FREE