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 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, […]
Organizers: Illinois Holocaust Museum
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 Author Discussion and Q&A with Photographer and Author Sharon Hoogstraten (Citizen Band Potawatomi Nation) Join us on Thursday, October 6th, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. as we welcome photographer and author Sharon Hoogstraten to the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. We invite you to this in-person conversation and Q&A to celebrate Hoogstraten’s work and the release of her new book, Dancing for Our Tribe: […]
Organizers: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
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 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, […]
Organizers: National Public Housing Museum, Hyde Park Jazz Festival
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 Our upcoming exhibition 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features work from the Dandelion Black Women Artists collective. These nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes, art-making became a transgressive act through activism, documentation and vision. All based in the DMV region, otherwise […]
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 A Conversation on 1919, Black Chicago and Resilience. About this event A hot summer day set Chicago ablaze in 1919. Seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams crossed an invisible line in Lake Michigan that divided the segregated shores, and he was killed by a group of white beachgoers. His death sparked a deadly 13-day riot. The fighting spread […]
Organizers: WBEZ
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 This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. Every object has a story. And if it’s a cherished object that invokes our cultural identity, the story is even more salient. It jogs our memory, reminds us of close relationships, takes us back in time and place. […]
Organizers: Abrahamic Center for Cultural Education, DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, National Indo-American Museum
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 Please join us for a lecture by VLADIMÍR DZURO – Chief of Headquarters Office at the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, retired Czech Police Commissioner, war crimes investigator, and author of The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War – on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 at 7pm. Mr. Dzuro will discuss his personal account of war […]
Organizers: T. G. Masaryk Czech School
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This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. The program will be a panel discussion between a Sami person (Scandinavian Indigenous person) and a North American Indigenous person. The discussion will explore similarities and differences between the two panelists' cultures, and reflect on their individual experiences. […]
Organizers: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Swedish American Museum
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This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. A collaboration between the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society and Trickster Cultural Center to highlight the traditions of drumming as it relates to cultural identity. A performing group from each culture will demonstrate and share their art. Japanese […]
Organizers: Chicago Japanese American Historical Society, Trickster Cultural Center
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 Dipika Mukherjee: Dialect of Distant Harbors Book Launch About this event South Asia Institute Presents Dipika Mukherjee: Dialect of Distant Harbors Book Launch Saturday, October 15, 2022 Dipika Mukherjee Dipika Mukherjee moved to Chicago from Shanghai in 2012 and spends a lot of time at the neighborhood Harold Washington Public Library. She is the author […]
Organizers: South Asia Institute
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 Winner of the Maine Literary Award, “We Share The Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration,” is a riveting and awe-inspiring debut novel by author and inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation, Rachael Cerrotti. Cerrotti had always known her grandmother Hana was a Holocaust survivor, but what she discovered – an entire […]
Organizers: Illinois Holocaust Museum
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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 […]
Organizers: National Hellenic Museum
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 You're Invited! We hope that you and your loved ones have continued to heal and grow from all the difficulties of the pandemic these past two years. In the spirit of recovery, ACCE is BACK for in-person events starting this fall. We are beginning our return to the space with this FREE soft reopening party! Please join […]
Organizers: Abrahamic Center for Cultural Education
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 Cap off your Oktoberfest season at the best fest in town! Our indoor Oktoberfest features live music from Paloma Band of Chicago, authentic German food and drinks, and more! Attendees will enjoy plenty of yodeling, dancing, and pretzel eating starting at 7:30 PM. Our historic Marunde Ballroom, located on the 5th floor, will be decorated […]
Organizers: DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
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Please join us at CAMOC for the first gathering of Truths As We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic on Oct 22! This open mic storytelling gathering, hosted by Ada Cheng, is co-sponsored by the Bronzeville Historical Society, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, and People Matter. The open mic will rotate between Bronzeville and Chinatown neighborhoods. The […]
Organizers: Bronzeville Historical Society, Chinese American Museum of Chicago
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 I am very happy to present Truths As We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic in Bronzeville/Chinatown. This open mic storytelling gathering, hosted by Ada Cheng, is co-sponsored by Bronzeville Historical Society, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, and People Matter. Our first event will take place in-person on Saturday October 22 from 1:30-3:00pm CT. Please mask […]
Organizers: Chinese American Museum of Chicago
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This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. South Asia and Korea share a common history of being divided by an arbitrary line that gave rise to new nations, India and Pakistan and North and South Korea. This year is the 75th. anniversary of the Partition […]
Organizers: Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, South Asia Institute
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 Terror awaits you at the Mitchell Museum’s first ever scary stories told by witnesses of horror within Chicagoland’s Native storyteller community! Immerse yourself and your family in our evening of fear and bone chilling stories moderated by Negwes White from our friends at St. Kateri Center. The event is free for Mitchell Museum Members and $10 […]
Organizers: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
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 ABOUT THIS EVENT: Join the co-editors of Witnesses to War: The Children of Syria, Karam Foundation, ART WORKS Projects, and event sponsor, Howard Conant, Jr., for a discussion and exhibition of acclaimed photojournalist Bassam Khabieh’s nearly decade long project, Witnesses to War: The Children of Syria. Khabieh (joining via live feed) and Lina Sergie Attar, […]
Organizers: Art Works Projects
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This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. A panel discussion focusing on the varied relationships different Diaspora communities have with the mythological & folklore stories of their culture of origin. We are specifically interested in interrogating the ways in which different communities invest in or […]
Organizers: Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Japanese American Service Committee, National Hellenic Museum
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 Please join us for a conversation on Chicago craft in the 1970s-80s with some of the city's long-standing artists and activists, including Lourdes Guerrero, artist and educator; Indira Freitas Johnson, artist, educator and community activist; Arlene Raconcay, former director of the Chicago Artists Coalition; Fern Shaffer, artist and former director of Artemisia Gallery. Starts at […]
Organizers: Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
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 November 5 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am Free Topic: Scottish Settlement of Prince Edward Island and Its Implications for Island Society and Culture Presenter: Professor Edward MacDonald, PhD, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada This event is complimentary. To attend, please register below.
Organizers: Chicago Scots
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 About the event: Bronzeville Historical Society welcomes Attorney James Montgomery to reveal his own story in a personal interview with a live audience. The event is supported in part by the University of Illinois Black Alumni Network and the University of Illinois Student Success Inclusion and Belonging. Autographed books will be available for purchase at […]
Organizers: Bronzeville Historical Society
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