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Upcoming Pride Events 2024
Past Events
2023 PRIDE MONTH EVENTS
All over Evanston, amazing Pride events are happening. Please consider attending any or all.
June 4th
Make Your Own Pride Mini-Float, crafting kits available for pickup at the Evanston Public Library, Robert Crown branch, 1801 Main St - all day!
JUNE 7th
Gerber/Hart Library & Archives: Chicago’s LGBTQIA+ History, Virtual Tour, 7pm-8pm on Zoom.
JUNE 8th
DIY Mini-Pride Float Crafting Drop-In, Evanston Public Library Robert Crown branch, 1801 Main St. Supplies available for use by anyone!
JUNE 14th
Teen Pride Party at Robert Crown! Evanston Public Library, Robert Crown branch, 1801 Main St, 6:00pm-8:00pm
JUNE 15th
“Pride Unites Us” Art Exhibit Open House, Evanston Public Library Main Branch, 1703 Orrington Ave, Falcon Room, 4:30pm-7:30pm
“A Night at the Eldorado”, an on-site Pride Event at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL 60077, 6:30pm
JUNE 20th
Better Off Read Book Club, “Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank” Evanston Public Library, Robert Crown Branch, 1801 Main St, 6:30pm-7:45pm
JUNE 24th
Storytime with Activist and Author Juno Dawson, reading her new book, “You Need to Chill” at Booked, 506 Main St, 10:30am
Drag Queen Storytime! Evanston Public Library, Robert Crown branch, 1801 Main St, 11:00am-12:00pm
Drag Queen Bingo for Family & Teens, Evanston Public Library Robert Crown branch, 1801 Main St, 3:00pm-4:30pm
JUNE 27th
Law & the Library series: LGBTQIA+ and The Law, by Zoom. 6pm-7pm
February 26, Unity on the North Shore, 3434 Central Street
11:30am Lunch, 12:30 Screening & Discussion
Screening & Discussion
Filmmakers chronicle Evanston's passage of the first tax-funded reparations for Black Americans -- an initiative that is said to have symbolically awakened the world.” Discussion with special guest Cheryl Judice to follow. (Cheryl's late husband, Hecky Powell is prominently featured in the film.)
$20 suggested offering, to be received at the event.
February 22, 7:00pm
Evanston Made “Get Down for Good!”
February Dance Party to benefit Evanston Pride!
Evanston Pour, 528 Dempster St Evanston
$5 donation at the door, 100% of the door benefits our organization.
PROGRAMMING & EDUCATION
EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY LGBTQIA+ BOOK CLUB
Highly recommended: the Evanston Public Library is revitalizing its LGBT+ book group open to all patrons. Please contact Kellye Fleming at kfleming@cityofevanston for more information about this general book club.
Evanston Pride was a proud sponsor of Evanston’s Lunar New Year Celebration!
Learn more about the Kitchen Table Stories Project, a multi-media healing justice project in Evanston, centering the voices and narratives of the local Asian, South Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora. The goal of this project is to create collective power through art, and to claim space in our community with our stories, traditional practices, and cultural wisdom.