Community Corner
Get Out! Your Weekend Planner
This weekend, enjoy anything from a spaghetti dinner to a symphony orchestra.
Feature Film: The Kids Are Alright
February 17
7:00 p.m.
FREE
The Morton Grove Public Library is proud to present a free screening of the recent film, “The Kids Are Alright” followed by a discussion of the movie’s themes including homosexual parenting, midlife crisis, and children of sperm donors seeking out biological parents.
Thodos Dance Chicago
February 19
8:00 p.m.
$46
Skokie’s North Shore Center for Performing Arts is partnering with Broadway performer and choreographer Ann Reinking and Artistic director Melissa Thodos for a unique show performed to live music by the Carpe Diem String Quartet.
Ars Viva Presents Pianist Lori Kaufman
February 20
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
$40-70
Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Alan Heatherington, will be performing music from Hungary and Finland including a Piano solo by award winning virtuosa pianast Lori Kaufman.
Spaghetti Dinner and Dessert Auction
February 20
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
$8.50/person or $20/family
This Sunday Temple Beth Israel presents a family friendly night of bingo, raffles, a spaghetti dinner and a dessert auction. Proceeds help raise money for the TBI Youth Israel Scholarship Fund.
“Eclipsed” at the Northlight Theater
February 20
8:00 p.m.
$50
Join the Northlight Theater for a gripping tale of set in the wreckage of the Liberian civil war. The "wives" of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community - until the balance of their lives is upset by the arrival of two newcomers and the return of a former "wife" turned rebel soldier.