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Chicago Sukkah Design Festival

October 6, 2024 - October 26, 2024

Aerial view of a green space filled with sukkahs and people.
Chicago Sukkah Design Festival 2023 opening celebration at James Stone Freedom Square. Photo by Brian Griffin.

Returning for its third edition on Sunday, October 6, 2024, the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival pairs community organizations in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood with diverse architectural designers to design and construct sukkahs, small outdoor pavilions built for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Working collaboratively, teams explore design literacy, social justice, and neighborhood futuring. The Festival celebrates cultural heritage and amplifies solidarity among the Jewish community who lived in North Lawndale historically, the predominantly Black community that resides there today, and the broader Chicago community. It engages the neighborhood’s multicultural history, builds interfaith partnerships, and elevates the role of design in building an anti-racist city. During the Festival, the landscape of unique sukkah structures is activated with cross-cultural public programming bringing together intersectional pairings of neighborhood groups. After the Festival, each sukkah is relocated and permanently re-installed at the facilities of the community organizations that co-designed them as vibrant new program spaces, such as a garden pergola, rooftop playscape, heritage museum, meditation pavilion, community memorial, and tool library.

From October 6–26, the sukkahs are open daily from 10:00 am–5:00 pm. Five public programs during the run of show offer specific opportunities to engage deeper with the structures, the designers, the community partners, and the communal celebration. 

 

Details

Details

Start:
October 6, 2024
End:
October 26, 2024
Event Categories:
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Accessibility

Free Admission

Wheelchair Accessible

Other

Region
West Side
Audience
Life-long Learners, Teens, Families
Accessibility
Free Admission, Wheelchair Accessible
Event Topics
Community, Design, Public Art, Racial Identity, Social Justice

Venue

Locations

Location

James Stone Freedom Square
3615 W. Douglas Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60623 United States
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