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EVENTS AND THINGS TO DO NEARBY
DAWES PARK

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Our most popular events near Dawes Park include:
  • The Wilmette Open Water Swim Race 2025
  • AIDONIA LIVE IN CONCERT CHI PARTY WEEKEND 2025
  • Night At The Disco! A String Quartet Concert
  • Girls who Grill - Grilling Class
  • Civitas Ensemble 2024-25 Season Finale
  • No Somms Allowed: Northern Italy
  • Spreading in Nature, Technology, and Society
  • Vaishnavi Patel: "Ten Incarnations of Rebellion"
  • Decatur Class of 2025 8th Grade Graduation
  • The Garden Club of Evanston Event: A Glorious Garden Walk
  • Woven Being: Talk and Campus Landscape Walk
  • HETMA Roadshow - Chicago
  • EAC- Art Documentation Workshop #2 (7/19/25)
  • Ani DiFranco w/ Special Guest Hurray for the Riff Raff
  • Book Club Run of Cold Girls with author Maxine Rae
  • DYE CURIOUS: Primary Color Play BLUE
  • DYE CURIOUS: Color Play PINK + PURPLE
  • Evanston: Eat the Parks Foraging Walk: Dawes Park
  • Evanston Plein Air Festival Finale
  • Living with Traumatic Loss: Personal & Theoretical Perspectives
  • DYE CURIOUS: Food Scrap Faves
  • Soulful Doulas Trivia Night
  • 40 Hour Domestic Violence Training
  • An Evening with Tommy Emmanuel, CGP
  • 5k Beer Run x Double Clutch Brewing | 2025 Illinois Brewery Running Series
  • Techapalooza for Job Seekers | 6.11.2025
  • Plein Air painting workshop
  • Covenants in Scripture (Final Lecture)
  • Latte art for beginners!
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter / Brandy Clark
  • Ivy+ Alumni: Books & Brews
  • 40 Hour Domestic Violence Training
  • EAC- Art Documentation Workshop #3 (8/16/25)
  • Maker's Market in Downtown Evanston
  • Evanston Made Artist Studio Tour
  • EAC- Art Documentation Workshop #4 (9/20/25)
  • S&C’s IntelliRupter PulseCloser Fault Interrupter Hands-On Workshop
  • EAC- Art Documentation Workshop #5 (10/11/25)
  • EAC- Art Documentation Workshop #6 (11/8/25)
  • Picnic Book Club
  • June 7 Saturday Sesshin
  • Eat Their Words: A Bakery in Paris
  • Screening and discussion of episode 1 of “The Chosen”
  • Artist Talk: Virginia O. Roeder, MFA
  • Cyanotype Printing with Beth Herman Adler
  • Kids Cooking Class "Make Your Own Pop Tart"
  • Artist reception with Agnes Voltz.
  • Devotions and Discussion
    • What else should I visit around Dawes Park?