Chicago Sukkah Design Festival: Opening Celebration
About the program
Join us for the Opening Celebration of the second annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival! Visitors will experience the six unique sukkahs for the first time and learn more about the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot. Over the course of the afternoon, visitors will enjoy food, art-making activities, communal rituals, participatory performances, and more. Family friendly!
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1:00–4:00pm: Artist Rachel Ellison of Bat Sarah Press will lead a make-your-own local lulav workshop; learn about the cultural rituals surrounding these unique harvest bouquets, and take one home with you!
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1:30–2:00pm: Pastah J of Lawndale Christian Community Church and Rabbi Lizzi of Mishkan Chicago will lead a participatory, interfaith song session.
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2:00–3:00pm: Norman Teague Design Studios will offer a flag-making workshop inspired by African and African-American quilting practices.
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3:00–4:00pm: Ytasha Womack, a critically acclaimed author, filmmaker, dancer, and champion of the imagination, will lead a communal Afrofuturist dance experience.
At 3:00pm, the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival will join forces with the Terrain Biennial block party, also located at James Stone Freedom Square, for additional festivities!
No RSVP Required.
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Could Be Design
Chicago and Urbana, United States
WebsiteCould Be Design creates seriously playful spaces that foster participation, companionship, and solidarity across communities. Directed by Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison, the practice imagines the built environment as an animate being with agency. From exuberant interiors to interactive public spaces, their work positions architecture as an active character, expressed through vibrant colour, shapely form, and intimate encounters. Could Be Design is a curatorial partner for the 2024–25 cycle of Exhibit Columbus and Artistic Director of the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, a community-driven public art and architecture exhibition in North Lawndale. Their work has been featured in Exhibit Columbus, This is a Rehearsal (Chicago Architecture Biennial), Miami Art Week, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Elmhurst Art Museum. They received the 2024 Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award (AIA Chicago Foundation) and the 2023 Architectural League Prize (The Architectural League of New York). Altshuler teaches at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Morrison is a frequent guest critic at schools across the Midwest.