Bulletin Board
EYSO Bulletin Board
2026 Chicago Violin Competition
The Young Artist Division of the Chicago International Violin Competition is dedicated to nurturing and celebrating the musical talent of young violinists. Participants can showcase their skills through video performances submitted online. Additionally, CVC provides a supportive and encouraging environment where young musicians can gain valuable performance experience, receive constructive feedback from renowned judges, and be inspired by their peers on the world’s stage.
Info
Ages – 7-17yrs
Entry Fee – $200
Competition Date – Nov 22, 2026 (competition material deadline)
Registration Deadline – Oct 31, 2026 (entry form & fee)
Awards
1st Prize – $1500
2nd Prize – $1000
3rd Prize – $500
Learn More and Apply
Encore Chamber Music Festival & Competition
The Luna Lab Fellowship
Luna Lab Fellowship(YEP) offers one-on-one mentorship with an acclaimed female, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming composer, and attendance at a weeklong festival in NYC filled with masterclasses, networking events, and concerts. Adventures in Sound is an online group composition course designed for musicians of all ages to discover their original musical voice. Both programs offer the opportunity for students to have their original work workshopped, performed, and recorded by professional musicians.
Our programs are open to young composers between the ages of 13-18 who identify as female, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming.
Learn More and Apply
More information can be found on the attached flyer and on our website. lunacompostionlab.org.
October 31 - La Llorna Ballet
A legend, reimagined with empathy.
This Halloween, Ballet 5:8 brings La Llorona to The Hemmens Cultural Center for a hauntingly beautiful afternoon of dance, storytelling, and family festivities.
Inspired by one of Latin America’s most enduring legends, this original ballet looks beyond the familiar ghost story to find Maria—the woman inside the myth. Overwhelmed by exhaustion, isolation, and postpartum depression, Maria begins to disappear inside her illness. As fear and grief distort her reality, family, faith, and community become lifelines pulling her toward hope.
Through powerful choreography, theatrical storytelling, and a cinematic score infused with Mexican folk colors and live trumpet improvisation, La Llorona transforms a story rooted in fear into a deeply human portrait of maternal mental health, compassion, and restoration.
This is not a horror story. Although the production explores serious emotional themes, it does so with tenderness, beauty, and hope rather than graphic imagery. Families and intergenerational audiences are welcome.
Come in costume and enjoy family trick-or-treating as part of this special Halloween performance.