Events for December 5th, 2008
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Friday - December 5th
Museums / Museum Exhibit
The Aztec World
Field Museum - 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago
Includes artifacts, works of art and weapons detailing the rise and fall of the Aztec civilization.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters
Field Museum - 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago
Learn about the causes and aftermath of earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes and more
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Smart Home: Green + Wired
Museum of Science and Industry - 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
Tour a three-story sustainable "green" home constructed on the museum's grounds
Theater / Theater Event
Cold
Dream Theatre - 556 W. 18th St. - Chicago (Pilsen/Heart of Chicago/Little Village)
A dark Christmas love story by local playwright Jeremy Menekseoglu ("Anna in the Darkness") in which two people who always spend Christmas alone manage to find each other and begin a relationship.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Dia de los Muertos: La Vida Sin Fin
National Museum of Mexican Art - 1852 W. 19th St. - Chicago (Little Tuscany)
Billed as the nation's largest Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead exhibit, this 22nd annual collection highlights local and international artists and includes a tribute to student demonstrators killed 10 days before the 1968 summer Olympics in the Tlatelolco massacre.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
USA Today
Museum of Contemporary Art - 220 E. Chicago Ave. - Chicago (Gold Coast)
Browse works created primarily during the 1980s and '90s.
Theater / Theater Event
La Posada Magica (The Magical Journey)
Little Village Lawndale High School - 3120 S. Kostner Ave. - Chicago (Pilsen/Heart of Chicago/Little Village)
A teenaged girl encounters chocolate-gobbling sisters, graveyard ghosts and a heartthrob rock singer when she reluctantly attends a roving Christmas Eve neighborhood celebration. Penned by Octavio Solis ("Man of the Flesh"), with music by Marcos Loya; performed in English.
Events / Museum Exhibit
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Children’s Books
Newberry Library - 60 W. Walton St. - Chicago (Near North Side)
Features the library's collection of 65 books and manuscripts created for and by children in more than 100 languages, from the 15th Century to the present.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Wild Reef: Sharks at Shedd
Shedd Aquarium - 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago (Grant Park Museums)
Floor-to-ceiling windows provide guests with a diver's-eye view of a Philippine coral reef, housing more than 25 sharks, 500 species of reef fish and the largest public display of live coral in the Midwest.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Evolving Planet
Field Museum - 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago
Explore the history of evolution, from single-celled organisms to dinosaurs and humans.
