Cactus Club

Riot Fest 2026 Single-Day Lineups are here!⁠
September 18-20, 2026. Douglass Park. Chicago, IL.⁠
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1-Day, 2-Day, & 3-Day tickets are on sale tomorrow at 10am CDT. Ticket prices start at $99.98 + fees. Get early ticket access one hour before public on sale by texting “hey” to 312-878-6767 or sign up at riotfest.org.

Q***r Cinema for Palestine (QCP) No Pride in Genocide 2026

📽️ A global film event, co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Our second year being part of this event and QCP’s 4th year hosting it. This year we paired the screening with our Solidarity Supper trans centered community meal. Trans* folks (and the parents of trans* youth, are invited to join us for a free community meal at Cactus Club at 5pm, before the screening 🍝

Community partners: Blue House Film, Healthcare Workers for Palestine MKE, Milwaukee4Palestine, Milwaukee Illuminate Film Festival, SEEN Moving Image, Water Is Life Autonomous Campaign

🎞️ Join one of 300 global screenings. 🇵🇸

Q***r Cinema for Palestine began as an alternative ethical space for filmmakers who pulled or refused to show their work in the Israeli government-sponsored TLVFest LGBTQ Film Festival. Over the past six years, hundreds of filmmakers have shown their solidarity in response to the boycott call from q***r and trans Palestinians. As Israel continues its genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank, and across historic Palestine and throughout the region, we condemn this violence and the might-makes-right order, and stand in solidarity with Palestinians.

🎟️ Don't forget to grab your tickets 🎟️
ASCO: Without Permission
🌛 June 3rd 8pm 🌜


This documentary about the revolutionary Chicano arts group ASCO, moves across decades and genres putting together original footage, interviews, and works of current artists inspired by the groups works like their No Movies.

Performance Art, Social Justice, and Cinematic Expansion are just some of the key components to ASCO's work and legacy. Their work was often site specific to East LA, but this project shows cases and expands their reach

🌵 Cactus+ is honored to be facilitating the only regional screening of this transformative film.

🌵 Cactus+ Moving Image‘s vision is to create an environment conducive to critical engagement by showing work that takes risks, challenges norms, and opens conversations by showcasing a wide range of artist-driven independent media.

🌵 To keep a flow of new perspectives, the monthly programs are curated by Cactus+ as well as visionary guest programmers. We have hosted installations, video jockeys, workshops in stop motion, teen film-making, hosting screenings, and cinema studies. Additionally we have worked with local filmmakers, organizations, and spaces within our community networks.

Friday, May 29th ˚ ⟡˖ ࣪Force (Album Release) • Poison Hand • Mindharvester
▪️▫️ $15 • 6:30pm • All Ages

Milwaukee heavy metal rockers Force celebrate the release of their first full-length album "We Carry Heavy Blood." The group is joined by Poison Hand, a punk and hardcore group that meld elements of street punk with lyrical emotional depth. Mindharvester opens with pure crust punk.

Transport v. 18 • whorl • Honeyboy • Language Models
▪️▫️ $10 • 10pm • 18+
Spinning out from a moving center, turning into whatever’s out there: air and relationships and happenstance and happy dance in a techno trance.

10-11 Honeyboy [live PA & visuals] drifts at the corners of dance floors between shadows cast by speakers stacks, patiently absorbing hectic vibrations – taming them and entertaining them – only to redirect them back at the freak bodies who need them so bad.

11-1230 whorl [vinyl] is traipsing through Milwaukee for a night of trippy pads and percussive synths. whorl brings a tinkering artist’s mentality to the decks and, subsequently, to your soul.

1230-2 Language Models [vinyl] stomps home through the warm darkness to wrap you in a hug effervescent with healing spells. Open up! You can trust this Language Model.

𝔘𝔭𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔖𝔥𝔬𝔴𝔰

Death Valley Girls: CC Presents at Anodyne • Saturday, July 18 • 7:00pm
▪️▫️ $17 ADV // $20 DOS • All Ages
Mystic rockers from the West Coast bring their scrappy enchantments to the Anodyne stage. With more than a decade of releases, these magical spirits are adept at conjuring elemental powers with savvy composition, catchy riffs, and careful songwriting: music for the alchemy of the self. Transform us into spiritualized gold!

Brotherkenzie • Tuesday, July 28 • 7:00pm
▪️▫️ $16 ADV // $20 DOS • All Ages
Lead guitarist and singer of band Hippo Campus further elaborates his indie rock inclinations with poppy experimentations and folk distillations. Adventurous, 'verby leads and vocal harmonies will sparkle on the Cactus PA.

Buffalo Nichols • Friday, August 14 • 6:30pm
▪️▫️ $20 ADV // $25 DOS • All Ages
Fuzz and distortion contribute a signature texture to Carl Nichols’ contemporary take on the blues. From The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to NPR’s Tiny Desk series, Nichols has been adamant in spreading the word with personal, political lyrics and sonic missions into the void. Wherever he leads, curious minds will follow.

🌵 Tickets live now on the Cactus Club website 🌵