Chicago Cultural Alliance

Native American Summer Festival
2022-08-27 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Glen Ellyn Public Library, 400 Duane St, Glen Ellyn, IL, 60137, United States
Join us at the Glen Ellyn Public Library Saturday, August 27th, from 2 PM – 4 PM!
Experience Native American culture through storytelling, music, and dance provided by Trickster Cultural Center.

Baila Conmigo!
2022-08-27 18:30, 2022-09-17 18:30, 2022-10-06 18:30 | Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, 3000 N Elbridge Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618, United States
Baila Conmigo, supporting local music artists while bringing artistic excellence and enjoyment to our community!
This outdoor event is held at the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance Terraza and FREE to the public. Audience is encouraged to bring a lawn chair. Due to limited space you should arrive early and no pets. Doors open 6pm
Schedule:
Angel Melendez, Saturday, August 27, 2022 @ 6:30pm Doors open 6pm
Alberto Álvarez, Sunday, September 17, 2022 @ 6:30pm Doors Open 6pm
Cecilio Negrón, Thursday, October 6, 2022 @6:30pm Doors Open 6pm

Elternabend | Parent's Night Out
2022-09-01 18:00 - 20:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
6th Floor Skyline Lounge & Terrace
Need a night out, but don’t know what to do with the kids? DANK has you covered!
Join us on Thursday, September 1st from 6-8 pm for a parent’s night out. We will provide childcare and fun, enriching activities at the Haus for your kids, while you get to enjoy drinks, dinner, and the view of the city from our 6th Floor Skyline Lounge.
Registration includes dinner, two drinks, and childcare per adult! Children will also receive a meal and juice or water.
This time, we’ll work with the Kinder toon back to school crafts and activities!

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COST
We are pleased to offer a discounted rate for Friends of the DANK Haus (What’s this?)
Adults (Friends of DANK Haus): $30
Children (Friends of DANK Haus): $15
Adults (General): $35
Children (General): $20
Note: Childcare is available for children ages 3 and up.
Anyone is welcome! DANK members, neighbors, friends – come out and join us for our very first Elternabend (parent evening)!

Bilingual Skyline Yoga on the Terrace
2022-09-02 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-09-09 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
All levels – BEGINNERS WELCOME!
DANK Haus 6th Floor, Terrace
General Public: $5 | Friends of DANK: Free
Enjoy gentle Yoga classes on the 6th floor skyline terrace at DANK-Haus.
In this class we will be flowing from pose to pose and linking movement with breath. We will combine elements of Hatha and Yin-Yoga as well as Meditation.
Hatha Yoga focuses on postures that practice to align, strengthen, and promote flexibility in the body.
Yin poses are passive stretches held for minutes at a time, preparing the body for stillness by releasing deep-rooted tension.
Breathing techniques and meditation are also integrated.
All Yoga postures will be introduced through step-by-step verbal description and demonstration.
WHAT TO BRING? Yoga mat, 1-2 beach towels

About Your Instructor:
My name is Janina, I’m originally from Kiel, Germany. I’ve been a passionate Yogi for about 7 years now and am so happy to bring the essence of Yoga – finding stillness in our body and mind – into other people’s lives.
Some of you may know me as the Saturday School German instructor or have seen me working in our Pre-School. Aside from my teaching profession I’m also a certified personal trainer for medical fitness and CrossFit athlete.
I’m so excited for this wonderful opportunity to meet you in this very special Yoga course setting.
#chicago #yoga #chicagoyoga #movement #wellness #terrace #sunsetyoga #fitness #workout #german #germany

ILCC Latino Music Series: Sidi Wacho
2022-09-02 20:30 | Martyrs’, 3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
For the first time in Chicago, Sidi Wacho will put on a performance you can’t miss! The group hails from Chile, France, and Algeria, but claim to be from all over the world. Sidi Wacho has produced four acclaimed albums and have toured the world with their Cumbia, Hip-Hop, Balkan fusion in the vein of Manu Chao, Chico Trujillo, and Sargent Garcia.

Get your tickets at: https://bit.ly/sidiwacho
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¡Por primera vez en Chicago, Sidi Wacho realizará una actuación que no te puedes perder! El grupo proviene de Chile, Francia y Argelia, pero afirma ser de todo el mundo. Sidi Wacho ha producido cuatro aclamados discos y ha recorrido el mundo con su cumbia, hip-hop, fusión balcánica en la línea de Manu Chao, Chico Trujillo y Sargent García.

Compra tus boletos aqui: https://bit.ly/sidiwacho

Neighborhood Nights
2022-09-08 19:00 - 23:00, 2022-09-22 19:00 - 23:00, 2022-10-13 19:00 - 23:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
COME ENJOY A BEVERAGE WITH A SPECTACULAR EXPERIENCE IN OUR ICONIC 6TH FLOOR SKYLINE LOUNGE & TERRACE
A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize!
Each 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month from 7-11 PM. Proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum

Learn to make Japanese Sweets - Autumn Nerikiri
2022-09-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Online Event
Learn how to make Autumn-themed Nerikiri with Wagashi Master, Toshiko Sugii Steffes.
Attendees will make colorful Chrysanthemum designs of Nerikiri sweets.
This design is called “Kisewata(着せ綿)” and is a special design for “Chō yō no sekku（重陽の節句)” which means chrysanthemums celebrations or longevity celebration on September 9th. Chrysanthemums are believed to have the power to purge evil spirits and bring longevity in Japan.
Nerikiri was originally made to be served in the Japanese tea ceremony. Nerikiri is made by mixing and kneading the ingredients white butter bean paste and mochi rice cake.
Date: Friday, September 9, 2022
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm CS
Fee: $65 for JASC Members, $75 for Non-members
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Materials will be available for pick up at the JASC office weekdays 9:00 am – 5:00 pm at 4427 N. Clark Street, Chicago or mailed directly to your home (Continental U.S. only, please). Please indicate on the registration form your preference.
Attendees will need to prepare the following:
food color (any brand)
towel for wiping your hands
plastic wrap
plate
tea strainer

Presented by Toshiko Sugii Steffes, a Japanese sweets (WAGASHI) designer.
“I am fascinated by the beauty of WAGASHI, which is expressive of the four seasons and nature. My creations are boundless as there is so much variety and sophistication in WAGASHI techniques. I have been trained in traditional WAGASHI with a renowned teacher, and contemporary WAGASHI with a rising star teacher. I am a certified master in making WAGASHI. I make custom order sweets, offer demonstrations, exhibit, and also teach WAGASHI making in the USA and Japan.
Website: https://kohakuto.com/
Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/jp/shop/BlossomSweets

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Register for Autumn Nerikiri Online Workshop Here
For additional information please contact Jenn Trautvetter at jtrautvetter@jasc-chicago.org or 773.275.0097 x228

HAMOC Grand Opening of the New Museum
2022-09-10 15:00 - 19:00 | Haitian American Museum of Chicago, 4410 N Clark St, Chicago, 60640, United States
Join HAMOC at its Grand Opening of the New Museum!

About this event

COME CELEBRATE WITH US!
The time is finally here. Join HAMOC and the Chicagoland community for the Opening of the BRAND NEW Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC). This highly anticipated night will give guests a first look at the new space and insight to new and upcoming programming.
Lite bites and drinks provided. Business casual dress.
VIP access available with $50 donation to the museum. This includes a special preview to the museum before it opens (August 26th) and early entry to the museum on the Grand Opening date (September 10). Guest list entry ONLY.
IF YOU ARE AN EXISTING VIP, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL SENT BY INFO@HAMOC.ORG FOR YOUR VIP CODE, USE THIS AT CHECK OUT TO RSVP.
If you are experiencing any difficulties RSVPing, please contact HAMOC to secure your spot.
Phone: 773-213-1869 | Email: info@hamoc.org

Mid-Autumn Festival
2022-09-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Set in Stone Gathering Space, 3155 S. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
Please join CAMOC from 5pm-7pm CT on Saturday, September 10, for the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn, or Moon Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month and is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese, like Christmas and Thanksgiving in the West. This event will include community planting, storytelling, Chinese cultural performances, lantern and rabbit-mask making, acoustic music, tea and moon cake sampling, and lantern parade.

Date: Saturday, September 10, 2022
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Venue: Set in Stone Gathering Space
Location: 31st Street Parking Lot, West of Lake Shore Drive

National Hellenic Museum Gala
2022-09-10 18:00 - 23:30 | Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60605, United States
Join Us
for an evening of fine dining, music, dancing and a spectacular auction to benefit the National Hellenic Museum
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Ave | Chicago, IL 60605
6:00 pm cocktails
7:00 pm dinner, auction, music, dancing
Special Performance by Thanos Petrelis
Black Tie Optional
We look forward to seeing you at our most important fundraising event of the year, as we celebrate the lasting and enriching Hellenic legacy.
RSVP for Tickets & Sponsorships at:
NationalHellenicMuseum.org/Gala2022
For question email development@hellenicmuseum.org

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We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community
2022-09-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Dawes Park, 1700 N Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL, United States
Join the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) and Crossing Borders Music for the one-day outdoor exhibition We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community.
This community exhibition highlights the excellence and contributions of Black America in the local community and beyond. Featuring exhibits on Black artists, history, food, and more!
Plus, a LIVE Crossing Borders Music concert of music by Black composers at 2PM with guest artist Kailie Holliday, featuring music commissioned for this program by The Honourable Elizabeth A Baker, Jessica T Carter, and Jordyn Davis in honor of Juneteenth and the ongoing African-American journey from slavery to justice.
Free and open to the public! Stroll through the exhibition with us!
Taking place at Dawes Park east of Sheridan Rd between Lake Street and Greenwood St (around 1413 Sheridan Rd), Evanston, IL
“We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community” is a program created in 2020 by the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) who invited Crossing Borders Music’s participation in this ongoing, uplifting project.
This project is partially supported by a grant from the Evanston Arts Council, an agency supported by the City of Evanston, Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts. This project is partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and the Paul M Angell Family Foundation. Crossing Borders Music acknowledges the support of the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Pictured: At 2021’s “We Walk” in Dawes Park, Dr. Cranston Knight speaks with passers-by at an exhibit on Black internationalism. Photo credit Carlos Bossard

NHM Virtual Book Club – Cloud Cuckoo Land
2022-09-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Online, IL, United States
Join the National Hellenic Museum’s Virtual Book Club!
In September, we will be discussing Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.
Book Club is free to join and meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7 PM CDT via Zoom
More about Cloud Cuckoo Land:
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a “wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences” (The New York Times Book Review).
Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book.
In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna’s will cross.
In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege.
And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father.
Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.
On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more

RESILIENCE – Photography Exhibit
2022-09-16 - 2022-12-30 | National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL, 60661, United States
Join us for the grand reopening of the National Hellenic Museum this fall
with the world premiere of a major photography exhibition
Resilience
By HRH Prince Nikolaos
September 16 – December 30, 2022
Prince Nikolaos is an accomplished photographer whose work has been exhibited in major global cities including Athens, London, Copenhagen, Doha and Melbourne—and now Chicago audiences and visitors from across the country will have the opportunity to experience his striking and impactful images. The National Hellenic Museum is honored to host Prince Nikolaos’ North American exhibition debut and excited to welcome our community back to the museum this fall.
More information on Resilience is available on the NHM website here and in this article from The National Herald.
The museum will resume regular public hours beginning September 16, on Friday-Sunday from 10 AM -5 PM
Resilience by HRH Prince Nikolaos will be exhibited at the National Hellenic Museum (333 S. Halsted Street, Chicago) from September 16 through December 30, 2022.
Museum hours are Friday-Sunday from 10 AM -5 PM
Tickets to the museum are $10 and include admission to all exhibits. Discounts are available for seniors, students and children.
For more information, visit nationalhellenicmuseum.org or call 312-655-1234

Opening Weekend: RESILIENCE – Photography Exhibit
2022-09-16 10:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-17 10:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-18 10:00 - 17:00 | National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL, 60661, United States
Join us for the grand reopening of the National Hellenic Museum this fall
with the world premiere of a major photography exhibition
Resilience
By HRH Prince Nikolaos
September 16 – December 30, 2022
Prince Nikolaos is an accomplished photographer whose work has been exhibited in major global cities including Athens, London, Copenhagen, Doha and Melbourne—and now Chicago audiences and visitors from across the country will have the opportunity to experience his striking and impactful images. The National Hellenic Museum is honored to host Prince Nikolaos’ North American exhibition debut and excited to welcome our community back to the museum this fall.
More information on Resilience is available on the NHM website here and in this article from The National Herald.
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Resilience by HRH Prince Nikolaos will be exhibited at the National Hellenic Museum (333 S. Halsted Street, Chicago) from September 16 through December 30, 2022.
Museum hours are Friday-Sunday from 10 AM -5 PM
Tickets to the museum are $10 and include admission to all exhibits. Discounts are available for seniors, students and children.
For more information, visit nationalhellenicmuseum.org or call 312-655-1234

Kalnas Ensemble Concert
2022-09-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL, 60629, United States
Balzekas Museum welcomes the Kalnas Ensemble string quartet featuring original compositions inspired by ancient Lithuanian folk music

On Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture welcomes the Kalnas Ensemble to Chicago for what promises to be a memorable concert and exploration of the origins of Lithuanian music. “Kalnas” means “hill” in Lithuania and points to the group’s ethnographic and geographic origins. For the past 150 years, the hills of Pennsylvania have been home to many Lithuanian immigrants and their descendants, who settled the region, worked in the region’s coal mines, and passed down their deep love of traditional Lithuanian music. Founded by Composer, Educator, and Violinist Dr. Stanley Chepaitis, the string quartet’s repertoire will include Chepaitis’s original compositions inspired by ancient Lithuanian traditional plyphonic folk songs called “sutartinės.” Everyone is welcome to attend.
Time: Reception at 6PM – Concert at 7PM
Location: Amber Ball Room, Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 S. Pulaski Rd., Chicago IL 60629
For more information, please contact Sigita Balzekas 773-582-6500.
ABOUT THE KALNAS PRESENTATION
A performance by the Kalnas Ensemble is more than just a concert of passionately played music. It is an exploration of the roots of that music, bringing together aspects of folklore, psychology, history, and the physics of sound. For this program, the Kalnas Ensemble will initiate the audience into the unique ethos of Lithuanian traditional music through discussions and demonstrations of its stories, melodies, and rhythms as envisioned in Dr. Stanley Chepaitis’ original works.Chepaitis dives deeply into his own Lithuanian heritage, and into the heart of the songs, stories, and dances which form the basis and inspiration for the music he creates. From the ancient Sutartinės, which come out of northeastern Lithuania, to more recent folk songs from around the country, this music paints a picture of ancient and medieval Lithuanian life in its focus on nature and the cycles of life. The string quartet’s voices represent a search for the timeless Lithuanian soul and an attempt to bring that soul to modern ears. This performance by the Kalnas Ensemble is designed to offer an appreciation of the deep roots of Lithuanian culture and its impact on the culture of America and of all humanity in the 21st century.

BABIY YAR COMMEMORATION: 81ST ANNIVERSARY
2022-09-29 17:30 | Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL, 60077, United States
Join CJE SeniorLife Holocaust Community Services and Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (IHMEC) for an evening with Dr. Martin Dean, renowned Holocaust historian, author, former war crimes investigator, and researcher with the Babiy Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. Dr. Dean will examine the complex history of the Babiy Yar ravine, where more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in just two days. Incorporating new research, witness testimony, and images from a 3-D model curated by the Babiy Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Dean will reconstruct the landscape as it existed on September 29-30, 1941, and describe the route taken by the Jews into the ravine.
This gathering will include music by internationally renowned cellist, composer and vocalist Ian Maksin, remarks by Holocaust Community Services and IHMEC; the launch of Volume II of Never Heard Never Forget– a new collection of narratives in memoriam and honor of Chicago Russian-speaking Survivors; and a candle-lighting ceremony with local Survivors. The program will be conducted in English with simultaneous Russian translation. A virtual viewing option will be available.
Complimentary docent-led tours of IHMEC’s gallery focused on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union will run from 4:00 – 5:15 pm. The program will start at 5:30 pm. A link will be sent to all registrants for the virtual program 24 hours before the commemoration.
Reserve Tickets here

Co-sponsored by CJE SeniorLife Holocaust Community Services, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, and the Peter Polsky Freedom Fund. Program funders include the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, private foundations, and individual donors.

Malmoe Opening Ceremony
2022-10-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, 9925 Capitol Dr, Wheeling, IL, United States
The Korean Cultural Center of Chicago and the Chicago Korean Education Center will co-host an opening ceremony for the ‘Malmoe, Protect the Hangul’ education box at the museum on Friday, October 7th at 1pm. This display box was developed and supported by the Independence Hall of Korea to educate the history of the compilation of the first Korean dictionary ‘Malmoe’. During the event which coincides with the Hangul Day, we anticipate exploring the value of the independence movement and the excellence of Hangul.

Symposium: “Hypocrisy of Justice”
2022-10-08 11:00 - 17:45 | Logan Center Performance Penthouse, 915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
Since the 2015 premiere of “Hypocrisy of Justice,” collaborating artists Dana Hall, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, and Kerry James Marshall have expressed interest in further developing and remounting the project. There has also been an interest expressed by the artists, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, the Logan Center for the Arts, the University of Chicago Presents, various South Side organizations, and several departments at the University of Chicago in building a convening in connection with the performances to engage in cross-sectoral conversations centering the many structural issues the novel brings forth, particularly intersecting inequities within systems and institutions, along with the lived experience of confinement, redemption, hope, and the idea of home. On Saturday, October 8th, 2022, the Chicago community is invited to participate in four 75–minute moderated discussions and other activations with activist/organizers, scholars, journalists, practitioners, and artists. The convening is free to attend. We encourage you to RSVP. All symposium activities are hosted by the Logan Center.
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THE SYMPOSIUM IS HAPPENING ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8TH FROM 11:00AM – 5:45PM.
TO RSVP PLEASE USE THE FORM (AVAILABLE BEGINNING AUGUST 9TH)
The symposium is curated and organized by Kate Dumbleton, Co-Executive/Artistic Director of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in partnership with Dana Hall, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, the Logan Center, and University of Chicago Presents, with additional support from the Jazz Institute of Chicago Dr. Timuel Black Grant Program, Illinois Humanities Envisioning Justice, and the National Public Housing Museum. Additional thanks to SAIC graduate students in Arts Administration and Policy.

Volver
2022-10-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL, United States
By Tango Lovers for tango lovers, you can’t miss an unforgettable night on Friday, October 14th at Nichols Hall!

VOLVER (return/to come back) signifies the return to the stage and to the large-scale productions that we enjoyed before the pandemic and also tells the story of tango artists returning to their home country after working as Tango artists while living abroad.
The show features five dance couples that include tango World Champions from Argentina and Uruguay and the seven-piece musical group of renowned musicians and singers. It references immigration and the feelings of nostalgia and longing for one’s homeland as well as the excitement and awakening to a new world and a new life.

The Year the Stars Fell: Toward a Continental History of a Very Few Hours
2022-10-20 18:00 - 19:30 | IL, United States
D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture with Philip Deloria
Oct 20, 2022
6:00pm-7:30pm
Hybrid – Ruggles Hall and Zoom
This program will be held in-person at the Newberry, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, and livestreamed on Zoom.
In the early morning of November 13, 1833, meteors from the annual Leonid showers fell in such abundance, frequency, and size that people across North America ran from their homes to contemplate the celestial light show. In the winter count calendars of the Great Plains, the “Year the Stars Fell” has been used to link up disparate local histories. But the event appears in memory and in writing all across the continent, from enslaved African Americans in the South to Latter Day Saints and Second Great Awakening revivalists in small towns, to the scientists of Philadelphia, Cambridge, and New Haven, among others.
In this year’s D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture, historian Philip Deloria will discuss how the falling stars called into question assumptions about faith, reason, and nature. Making connections across time and place, Deloria will also explore how these stars can help us understand an unknowably broad geography in the narrowest of historical moments.
Speakers
Phil Deloria is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural, and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of Indigenous peoples in a global context. Dr. Deloria is the author of many books and articles, including Playing Indian and Indians in Unexpected Places, both of which are widely recognized as essential texts in the fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies, and American Studies. Deloria is also a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and serves at the liaison for Harvard University within the Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies.
Fred Hoxie is an esteemed historian of Indigenous peoples in North America and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Dr. Hoxie was on staff at the Newberry for fifteen years, where he served first as the Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center and later as Vice President for Research and Education. Hoxie is the author of many books and articles related to Indigenous history and has also served as a consultant and expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, the National Congress of American Indians, and the National Park Service.
Dorene Wiese is a citizen of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation and CEO of the American Indian Association of Illinois. Dr. Wiese’s relationship with the Newberry spans nearly fifty years and includes serving as the co-chair of the Newberry American Indian Oral History Project (1982-1985) and the Seeing Indian in Chicago Photography Exhibition (1985). Wiese also serves on the Advisory Group for the library’s current Indigenous Chicago project, which will debut in 2024.
This program is free and open to all.
Register to attend IN PERSON.
Register to attend virtually ON ZOOM.

NHM Virtual Book Club - The Island of Missing Trees
2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Online, IL, United States
Join the National Hellenic Museum’s Virtual Book Club!
In October, we will be discussing The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Book Club is free to join and meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7 PM CDT via Zoom.

More about The Island of Missing Trees:
“A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times.” ―David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue
A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he’s searching for lost love.
Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited— her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.
A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak’s best work yet.
On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more.

Dominican American Midwest Association: Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony 2022
2022-10-22 19:00 | Biagio Banquet Hall, 4242 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Join the Dominican American Midwest Association (DAMA) for their Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony 2022. Featuring a presentation of the DAMA & Ramón García Educational Awards.
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Saturday October 22, 2022
7pm
Biagio Banquet Hall | 4242 N Central Ave
COVID Protocols are observed
