Evanston S.P.A.C.E.

rdf:langString Evanston S.P.A.C.E.

rdf:langString Evanston S.P.A.C.E.

rdf:langString Evanston S.P.A.C.E.

rdf:langString café, small round tables, candle-lit

rdf:langString small folk concert venue, music and music podcast production facility, visual arts and literary events meeting space, bar+café

rdf:langString Evanston S.P.A.C.E. (or Evanston SPACE) is a small concert hall and venue for music performance and live recording, and a podcast production facility, as well as serves similarly for the visual arts and literary events located at 1245 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, Illinois, adjacent to Chicago, in close proximity to the CTA Purple Line mass transit elevated train station Dempster, just south of Dempster Avenue. It opened in spring 2008, along with Union Pizzeria, an affiliated restaurant in the same building. It is a notable small concert space in the Chicago area, that seats about 250 people at candle-lit small round tables and as standing spectators. The SPACE has over the years played host to the most renowned folk music artists in the Western World; for example, only in 2014-2015 winter timeframe to Suzanne Vega, Leo Kottke, Justin Townes Earle and Robyn Hitchcock, among many tens of events. S.P.A.C.E. is an acronym for the Society for the Preservation of Art and Culture in Evanston. As of 2018, and , through their firm , own, co-own, operate, and/or co-operate several music venues, including The Empty Bottle, , Evanston S.P.A.C.E., Sonotheque (which closed in 2009), and Thalia Hall, all in and near Chicago. Finkeleman and Golde are similarly affiliated with several other restaurants and bars, both at those music venues and free-standing, including , , and Longman & Eagle.

rdf:langString 1245 Chicago Avenue