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Sep 10, 2024 · Broadway’s Spellbinding Sensation Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has arrived in Chicago on its first-ever North American Tour. Join the next adventure and experience the wizarding world like never before at this record-breaking, Tony Award-winning hit, hailed as “one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade” (Forbes).
Sep 1, 2023 · Harry Potter™: Magic At Play. Quidditch™, the famous wizarding sport, also happens to be popular in Chicago and beyond, with plenty of teams that have assembled in the city.
- Dress Up in Your Hogwarts Best
- Plan A Journey to The World Premiere of Harry Potter™: Magic at Play
- Take Up Quidditch This Fall in Chicago
- Re-Read The Books and Start Binge Watching The Movies
- Venture to The Wizarding World Festival Coming to The U.S. in 2023
It wouldn’t be a day of celebrating back to school….or in this case, Back to Hogwarts 2022 for young witches and wizards without dressing for the exciting day! Grab your robes (preferably in your house colors), white button-down shirts, a tie, knee-high socks, Harry Potter-esque glasses, magic wands, and head out to get your morning coffee. While U...
Potterheads, you’re invited to go on the highly-anticipated magical interactive journey to Hogwarts™ at Harry Potter™: Magic At Play starting November 11! This worldwide experience, created by Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment and Superfly X, is making its worldwide debut in Chicago, taking over 30,000 square feet at Water Tower Place downtown! You...
Quidditch isn’t just a made-up game from the magical Harry Potter movies, it’s become quite popular IRL across the globe at universities and private teams that enjoy playing the sport. Lucky for you, The Chicago United Quadball Club (formerly the Chicago United Quidditch Club) is actually looking for players to take up the sport in the Windy City t...
Another way to celebrate Back to Hogwarts 2022 is to begin to re-read the novels by J.K. Rowling and re-watch the iconic films. For big fans, it’s a chance to see your favorite magical moments and a great way to inspire future generations of Harry Potter superfans.
As if there wasn’t enough excitement for Back to Hogwarts day this year, Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment announced an inaugural three-day Wizarding World Festival that will launch in the U.S. in 2023 that celebrates Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, and the Entire Wizarding World. While limited details are available, the highly anticipated festival...
From the moment the first book was published in 1997, fans were enchanted by the wizarding world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It wasn’t long before the books were adapted into movies, and the success of the film franchise only further solidified the phenomenon that is Harry Potter.
- The series taught adults that, when it comes to literature, age ain’t nothing but a number. Whether you started reading the series at an age-appropriate 12 only to wait in line at 22 for the joy of the final installment or, like my dad, you decided to indulge your overzealous daughter by reading the copy she hid in your carry-on bag on a work trip and fell in love, the Harry Potter series took adults reading books written for kids and teenagers from being something mildly embarrassing to being an everyday occurrence.
- It taught publishers that, as long as the books are GOOD, kids will read them, no matter how long they are, or how many you write. Before “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,’’ a 700-page children’s book was unheard of.
- That led to an EXPLOSION of popularity for children’s and young adult literature, especially series. Did you know that the Harry Potter series is the reason that The New York Times Bestseller List has a separate list for children’s books?
- It made book culture into pop culture. Find someone who was working at one of Harvard Square’s bookstores in July 2007 and ask them about the Harry Potter Party thrown in the square to celebrate the release of the final book in the series.
Jul 7, 2014 · Then there’s the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which opened in 2010 at Universal Orlando. It’s been a wildly popular attraction, and most likely, Diagon Alley will follow suit.
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For that first generation who discovered Harry’s adventures, the story felt “fresh and new,” according to Dr. Frankie Condon, associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where she teaches a class titled Popular Potter.
