Executive Committee Meeting
Chicago Cultural Alliance Office
4626 N. Knox Ave. Chicago, IL 60630

Board of Directors Meeting
Jennifer Amdur Spitz
100 N Lasalle St. Ste 300 Chicago IL, 60625

Pioneer Camp 2010
Sweedish American Museum
5211 N. Clark Street

Fundraising Committee Meeting
Illinois Humanities Council

Irish American Heritage Festival
Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N Knox Avenue

Chinatown 5K run
Chinatown
Wentworth and Archer Avenues

Race Course
Starting near Wentworth and Archer Avenues, the race features a fast course with just one turn at 35th St. Runners will run through the heart of Chinatown and finish back again underneath the Chinatown archway at Cermak Road and Wentworth Avenue.

Youth Run
Kids ages 6 - 11 will also have the opportunity to participate in an organized run after the 5K race. The kids' quarter mile (age 6-8) and one mile (age 9-11) race will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. The race will be held along Archer Ave., near Chinatown Square. Parents, family and friends are encouraged to attend to cheer on the runners.

Registration

Registration Fee
On or before June 27, registration fee for the Chicago Chinatown 5K Race is $30 and Youth Run is $12. After June 27, the fees are $35 for 5K Run and $15 for Youth Run. Race day registration fee (cash only) - $35 for 5K Run and $15 for Youth Run.

$5. from each entry will be donated to the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago but it has to be designated as such. Also any other money raised will go to CAMOC.  

Chinese American Museum hosts Grace Young, cookbook author
Pui Tak
2216 South Wentworth Avenue

Grace Young, cookbook author, will be speaking at Pui Tak, July 24 at 2 p.m.

More information to come. RSVPs requested.
Free event but donations are encouraged

Craft and Calligraphy in Millenium Park
Target Family Tent
Millenium Park

Target Family Tent in Millennium Park, July 5 - 11, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.  A different craft each day as well as names of child in calligraphy and other scheduled events with different play areas.  We are responsible for the craft and calligraphy portion.

Membership Committee meeting
Alliance office at the Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N Knox

Movies in the Park
Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture front lawn
3015 W. Division Street

“Rediscovering Ukrainian Album Cover Art” Exhibit from the permanent collection
Ukrainian National Museum
2249 W. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60612

Members Only Preview of the new exhibit "Dazzling Colors: The Evolution of Plains Reservation Art"
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
3001 Central Street Evanston, IL

Members Only Preview!

Visit the museum for a preview and tour of the new exhibit "Dazzling Colors:  The Evolution of Plains Reservation Art

"Dazzling Colors: The Evolution of Plains Reservation Art" Exhibit
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
3001 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201

Dazzling Colors: The Evolution of Plains Reservation Art highlights dozens of artifacts from the Mitchell Museum's permanent collection, including beaded clothing, quillwork, dolls, beaded purses, and more, using these pieces to tell the story of continuity and change at a time of rapidly changing lifeways for Plains tribal groups.

In 1881, army officer John Gregory Bourke witnessed a Lakota Sun Dance, a ceremony later banned by the United States government. "Nothing could be added in the way of dazzling colors," Bourke observed. "Calico shirts in all the bright hues of the rainbow, leggings of cloth, canvas, and buckskin, moccasins of buckskin, crusted with fine beadwork were worn by all."

Dazzling colors created by Plains Native artists using paints, beads, dyes, fabrics, and many more materials, have been a creative tradition throughout the history of the region's art. From early history through the tumultuous removal period and up to the present, Native peoples of the Plains have adapted and evolved in materials, styles, and techniques of art making, allowing artists a creative outlet, a recorded history, a profitable venture, and a way to honor past traditions.

Beginning with explanations of the politics and legislation that led to the creation of reservations, the early history in the exhibit will also feature reproductions of maps illustrating the shrinking size of Native land. Policies such as the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which began the enforced emigration of American Indians into the Western United States, the Indian Appropriations Act that began the reservation system, and the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1891, which created a system of individual land ownership that drastically reduced the amount of Native-owned land, will be explained as they relate to the changing lives of the Plains Indians.

Before legislative decisions forced Plains tribal groups onto reservations, art making flourished using a variety of materials. Perhaps most important to the art making process was the buffalo. Hides were made into many utilitarian and beautiful pieces such as clothing, robes, tipis, and dolls. Horns became hide scrapers used by groups of women in hide preparation. Tails became paint brushes. Teeth and bones became jewelry. The great herds of buffalo that roamed the Plains were essential not only to art making, but also to life.

Fifteen years after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, the buffalo were nearly eradicated and Plains tribal groups had to adapt to using new materials. The enforced leisure of the reservation system combined with the introduction of new materials and techniques though increased contact and boarding school education led to many changes and innovations in artistic creation. For example, with the depletion of the bison, hide painting became ledger art, as resourceful men used military ledgers to keep the style alive while patterns present on hide paintings were fused with women's new machine sewing techniques to create the famous Lakota star quilts.

These artistic traditions persist to the present day. As pictorial beadwork became a wildly popular style among collectors and tourists, Plains beadwork flourished. Traditions from before, during, and after the reservation period are carried on by contemporary Plains Native artists who continue doll making, quilting, painting, leather working, and beading.

Fishtank Ensemble
Serbian Cultural Center Saint Sava
448 W. BARRY AVE

“Fishtank Ensemble” @ the Cave

http://www.fishtankensemble.com/

The LA Weekly calls them “cross pollinated gypsy music….one of the most thrilling young acts on the planet.” Formed in 2005 and playing everywhere from the hippest LA clubs to festivals, cultural centers, museums, parades, and even on the street, the band includes two explosive violins, the world’s best slap bass player, musical saw, flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar, trombone, opera, jazz and gypsy vocals, accordion and one little banjolele. Tackling everything from French hot jazz to wild Serbian and Transylvanian gypsy anthems, Flamenco, and oddball originals, the band is a not to be missed event for world music lovers…and everyone will love this intoxicating mix of music!!

Great Lakes Fright & Write!
Navy Pier
600 E Grand Avenue, Chicago

Deadline: Graham School Scholarship Application
Alliance Office

Talking About... Who We Are
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605

Talking About... Who We Are
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605

Cross-Cultural Dialogue at The Field Museum
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605

Talking About... Migration & Relocation
American Indian Center of Chicago
1630 W. Wilson Avenue, Chicago, IL 60640

The American Indian Center of Chicago will be hosting a dialogue on migration and relocation with fellow community members. Using poems and photos culled from their collection, these items will be a starting point for a lively discussion on the relocation of generations of American Indians.

Deadline: Brookfield Zoo Pass Request
Alliance Office
4626 N Knox Ave

Evening at the Polish Museum of America
The Polish Museum of America
984 North Milwaukee Avenue

Living Arts of Cambodia
Cambodian American Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial
2831 W. Lawrence Ave.

The exhibit will host work by Dan Schwarzlose, whose photographs highlight Cambodian Living Arts, a program specializing in teaching Cambodian youth the traditional Cambodian performing arts, such as dance and music, along with inspiring them to further explore their creativity.

Our main event will also include a performance by the well-renowned Ouch Savy, a protegee of Master Kong Nai, who will be singing as well as playing chapei. We will also be hosting special gues, jazz trumpeter David Young, and his Khmerican Band. Other performances include our very own Khmer Cultural Dance Troupe with accompanying musicians.  Additionally, there will also be Khmer delicacies and refreshments.

Graphic Arts - New Exhibit Opening
The Polish Museum of America
984 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago