Chicago Cultural Alliance

Online Artist Talk: Embodied Dualities
2022-04-10 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Online Event
This is part of NIAM’s series of programs for E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora.
Using very different materials, processes, forms, and strategies, artists Sarika Goulatia, Rit Premnath, and Kaveri Raina each considers and depicts dualities in their works.
Moderator Ambika Trasi will lead the artists in a discussion of their interpretations of the dualities of absence/presence, location/dislocation, growth/decay, hovering/being held through various means and entry points, from architecture, to abstraction, to language/poetry.
Time: 𝟏𝟎:𝟑𝟎𝐚𝐦 – 𝟏𝟏:𝟒𝟓𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐓
𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐳𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭.
For enquiries: info@niam.org
𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚 was born in India and earned a masters in textile design and development there. She has done residencies in rural India, England, Hong Kong and the United States. E/Merge features her installation “sometimes forgotten, sometimes remembered; the tribulations and afflictions never erased.”
𝐒𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡 is a Bangalore-born, Brooklyn-based artist, educator, and editor of Shifter Magazine.​​ His recent installations and videos have focused on how our occupation of space and endurance through time is shaped by systems of power and control.
𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚 is from New Delhi (India), she received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kaveri Raina’s paintings are based on internal dialogues, with words that trigger a feeling or an experience.
𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐢, the panel moderator, is an artist, arts organizer, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her multidisciplinary, research-based practice considers the coloniality of power within images and sites. She is interested in the roles that memory, language, and technology play in identity-making, community-building, and unlearning in the diaspora.
Due to limited availability please register early! Visit niam.org for artist bios, COVID safety protocols and other details.

Online Artist Talk: SAMDI
2022-04-12 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
Join HAMOC and SAMDI for an artist talk and Q&A.

About this event

SAMDI is a contemporary Haïtian artist based in Miami. His work, described by the artist as Sen Soley. Painting from a rhythm. A space where self is looking inwards and possibilities are endless. His work consists of cubist style portraits and a semi abstract approach to figuration.
Self exploration and the understanding of the spirit as a human in this space are at the core of SAMDI’s artistic practice. His work can reflect deep emotional trauma and at the same time express the beauty of love. The artist lets the audience be the author of their experience as they have to search inwards to make sense of what they are viewing or feeling.

Lost Goddess Civilizations of Old Europe
2022-04-14 13:44 | IL
The Ukrainian National Museum invites you to a presentation on ancient civilizations by scholar Marilyn Hrymak. Learn about the mysteries of the Trypillia civilization, who existed from 7500 to 3500 BC, before the Sumerians and Egyptians, with no evidence of military weapons. Hrymak’s presentation will describe the life, art and Goddess religion of these egalitarian people. Their innovations still influence us today.

March 26th, Saturday at 4 pm.
$10 entry fee

Neighborhood Nights feat. Congressman Quigley
2022-04-14 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 view from our 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
April 14, 2022 — FEAT. CONGRESSMAN QUIGLEY

Kulturküche | German Pretzels Cooking Class
2022-04-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-22 18:30 - 20:30 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
The Pretzel Blitz is back!
We are hosting 5 pretzel making classes in April. Why? We LOVE pretzels! These pretzel-making classes will be offered in-person. We will host up to 20 students in our industrial kitchen at the DANK Haus. These 20 students will get hands on training from Reinhard Richter, our resident Pretzel Meister, and take home their homemade pretzels at the end of the class.
We have 5 classes to choose from. The April 29th class will be taught entirely in German (auf Deutsch)! All students will get the recipe and be able to communicate directly with our chef.

Open Haus Stammtisch | Frühlingsfest
2022-04-15 19:30 - 23:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Friday April 15th is a night of fun at our Open Haus! This month’s theme is spring (Frühling in German)! We will have German Bier on tap and food for purchase!
Our Open Haus is a great way to meet new friends, or bring your friends and introduce them to the Haus! This event is located in our popular 6th Floor Skyline Lounge, complete with vintage bar and sweeping panoramic views of the Chicago skyline.

Free parking at 5/3 Bank after 6:00 PM located at Western and Gunnison

Spring Community Powwow
2022-04-16 17:00 - 19:30 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Everyone welcome at the Spring Community Powwow, Saturday, April 16. Dinner served at 5pm, Grand Entry at 6:30pm.

NHM Virtual Book Club: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
2022-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
On Thursday, April 21st at 7pm we will be discussing The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri Virtually via Zoom

About this event

Join the National Hellenic Museum’s Virtual Book Club!
Facilitated by NHM’s Resident Scholar Dr. Katherine Kelaidis & Manager of Programs & Events Cairo Dye, each month the NHM Virtual Book Club chooses a book that is either inspired by the Hellenic legacy or by a Greek American author (and sometimes both!). Then we gather to discuss the book on Zoom.
Book Club is free to join and meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7pm CST
In April we will be discussing The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri.
Support NHM with your purchase of The Beekeeper of Aleppo! When you buy your copy through this link , a portion of the proceeds will go to NHM: https://amzn.to/3IKZlwS
Click here to see all of our upcoming book selections
More about The Beekeeper of Aleppo:
Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo–until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. On the way, Nuri is sustained by the knowledge that waiting for them is Mustafa, his cousin and business partner, who has started an apiary and is teaching fellow refugees in Yorkshire to keep bees.
As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss, but dangers that would overwhelm the bravest of souls. Above all, they must journey to find each other again.
Moving, powerful, compassionate, and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit. It is the kind of book that reminds us of the power of storytelling.

Irish Art in Practice: Women’s Work?
2022-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave., Chicago, IL, 60630, United States
The Irish American Heritage Center, in partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland, Midwest, presents Irish Art in Practice. Join Jennifer Keating, Ph.D. as she brings us through the world of Irish arts and artists, and the living applications and impressions it makes on the world around us. Jennifer Keating is a Senior Lecturer and the Writing in the Disciplines Specialist in the William S. Dietrich II Institute for Writing Excellence. Most recently, she served as Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives in the Dietrich College for Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She brings an educator’s perspective to this fascinating series.

Women’s Work? – Presented in-person, and via Zoom, April 21st, 7:00pm CST
Irish Art in Practice: Ursula Burke, Rita Duffy, Mairéad McClean and Paula McFetridge, the forthcoming book by Jennifer Keating, explores contemporary artistic practice in Ireland. In Women’s Work we will view key examples of each artists’ work as we consider their individual concerns and contributions to contemporary art in Irish and international contexts. In addition, we will mine the influence of embodiment: what features of gender emerge in each artist’s work? What concerns pertaining to women in Ireland come forward in their practice? What features of masculinity or gender fluidity are explored or interrogated?
Register here for the in-person presentation of Women’s Work? in the Library at the Irish American Heritage Center.
Register here for the Women’s Work Zoom presentation: Women’s Work

Swedish Museum Pop-Up Cafe
2022-04-22 11:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-23 11:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-24 11:00 - 15:00 | Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Join us at the Museum for a fika in our spring pop-up café! It will be open from April 22nd – 24th @ 11 A.M. to 3 P.M.
If the weather permits we will open the seating in our Courtyard in addition to the Main Gallery.

Opening Reception: Sichtverrückt.Lost and Found
2022-04-22 18:00 - 21:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
German artist Beate Axmann’s concept “Sicht.Verrückt” translates roughly to gaze, shifted. It is a directive to look not once, not twice, but thrice, even four times. In today’s atmosphere of rising extremism and polemics (in Germany and abroad), it is critical to shift one’s gaze––to look at issues from multiple angles. Sichtverrückt is the overarching theme that Beate Axmann has used for the whole of her artistic work since 2018.

Axmann is from the Black Forest region of Germany and works in acrylic paint on canvas, paper, and wood as well as ink on paper. Her subjects include people (especially women), nature, the Black Forest, and the continuum of human cultures that she greets on her travels. Collaboration and cooperation with others are centrally important to Axmann.
Axmann’s show will run through May 20, and will include public programs such as:

Panel discussion with Joanna Pinsky of Art Encounter
2 live performances in which Axmann will create collaborative paintings with Joanna Pinsky and Sergio Gomez
All-ages art workshops (which Axmann will lead, speaking German!) in which you will create 1 or 2 experimental collages

Continue to check dankhaus.com/art and our Facebook events for event details.

Kaffee, Kuchen, und Kino
2022-04-23 12:00 - 15:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us for 2 Saturday a month for a German language film screening! Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee & cakes) will be served at 12:00 PM and the film will begin at 1:00 PM. Stick around after the credits roll to discuss the film and flex your German language skills.

THIS WEEK’S FILM:
Die lustige Witwe*

RSVP: https://dankhaus.com/event-4591018
2nd Floor, Brauhaus Room
Members: $4 | Non-Members: $6
*Film may be subject to change

MAGIC MOMENTS: Balzekas Museum Women's Guild Luncheon, Magic Show, and Craft Fair
2022-04-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL, 60629, United States
Spring Luncheon & Fundraiser of the Women’s Guild of the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture: Magic show, Craft Fair + Lithuanian Cuisine!

About this event

Please join the Women’s Guild for an afternoon of “Magic Moments” at our annual spring luncheon and fundraiser. Enjoy a spectacular magic show, artisan crafts, delicious Lithuanian cuisine, live music, raffles, and a cash bar. Everyone is welcome to attend.
All proceeds benefit the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture.
Tickets: $40
Date: Sunday, April 24 at 1pm
Location: Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 S. Pulaski Rd., Chicago IL 60629
Information and Reservations by April 15: 708-652-4211
Learn more about the Balzekas Museum: https://balzekasmuseum.org

We Are Here: Music From The Holocaust, A Community-Wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration
2022-04-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Temple Sholom Chicago, 3480 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60657, United States
Conceived by Ira Antelis, hosted by Rabbi Shoshanah Conover, and produced by David Mendelson along with Ira Antelis and Jeremy Perlin, the concert will honor the memory of those who were murdered and highlight the artists and writers who, in the worst of times, continued to create. With a 25-piece choir and performances and readings from some of Chicago’s top artists, cantors, and leaders, this powerful concert will include a candle-lighting ceremony and memorial prayers.
This program is free to the public.
Online or in-person.
Doors open at 6:30 pm. Program begins at 7:00 pm CDT.

One Night Stand: Pauline Simon
2022-04-27 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
One piece. By one artist. For one night.

About this event

Join Intuit for One Night Stand, a free series of art talks that focus on individual works of art from the museum’s collections and exhibitions. This month, art historian and curator Lisa Stone will engage attendees in a conversation about artist Pauline Simon and her piece The Ocean.

Closed captions will be available at the virtual program. Please contact Lindsey Wurz at lindsey@art.org with questions related to accessibility accommodations.
One Night Stand is free to join! To show your support to Intuit, please consider the pay-what-you-can option when you complete your reservation. Your contributions help ensure the sustainability of our public programs and support guest lecturers and teaching artists.
Two hours before the event, Intuit will email the Zoom link to those who RSVP on Eventbrite. Please check your junk folder; unfortunately, these emails are sent there sometimes.

One Night Stand is funded in part by the Alphawood Foundation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Illinois Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trust, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations from Intuit members and supporters.

Meet Lisa Stone
Lisa Stone is a member of the Vivian Society and the 2021 recipient of the Visionary Award. She recently retired as a senior lecturer in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned a Master of Science in Historic Preservation. Her research, teaching, writing and curating concern the preservation and interpretation of artist-built environments and the realms of non-mainstream art. Stone was curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection (1997–2020) and currently consults for the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s Art Preserve in Sheboygan, Wisc. She was co-curator with Kenneth C. Burkhart of Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow, that traveled from Chicago to Paris; Kaufbeuren, Germany; Lausanne, Switzerland; and Amsterdam.

Image: Pauline Simon (American, 1894–1976). The Ocean, n.d. Oil on canvas, 28 x 40 in. Collection of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, gift of Phyllis Kind, 2006.17.2

Author Talk: Making Mexican Chicago
2022-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL, 60610, United States
In Making Mexican Chicago, Mike Amezcua offers a powerful multiracial history of Chicago that sheds new light on the origins and endurance of urban inequality. Amezcua visits the Newberry to discuss how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance.
Though Chicago is often popularly defined by its Polish, Black, and Irish populations, Cook County is home to the third-largest Mexican American population in the United States. The story of Mexican immigration and integration into the city is one of complex political struggles, deeply entwined with issues of housing and neighborhood control.
In the decades after World War II, working-class Chicago neighborhoods like Pilsen and Little Village became sites of upheaval and renewal. Mexican Americans attempted to build new communities in the face of white resistance that cast them as perpetual aliens. Mike Amezcua charts the diverse strategies used by Mexican Chicagoans to fight the forces of segregation, economic predation, and gentrification, focusing on how unlikely combinations of social conservatism and real estate market savvy paved new paths for Latinx assimilation.
For this event, Amezcua will speak with James Akerman, Curator of Maps at the Newberry and the curator of the exhibition Crossings: Mapping American Journeys.
Purchase Making Mexican Chicago online from the Newberry Bookshop.
This event is being held in conjunction with Crossings: Mapping American Journeys . The exhibition runs at the Newberry from February 25 through June 25.

This program is free and open to all; free tickets required.

WBEZ Presents: Legally Stolen Live
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Kennedy-King College, 740 West 63rd Street, Chicago, IL, 60621, United States
Join us for Legally Stolen Live featuring Tiff Beatty and Tonika Lewis Johnson. The event will focus on inequality in real estate.

About this event

Legally Stolen Live is a podcast event hosted by Tiff Beatty of the National Public Housing Museum and Social Justice Artist Tonika Lewis Johnson as part of her project, Inequity for Sale, a virtual and physical exploration of Englewood homes sold on Land Sale Contracts in the 50s and 60s. Featured guests will discuss reparations and redress for legalized theft from Black people and communities impacted by predatory real estate practices and art as a catalyst for change.
What to expect?
A recap of Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Inequity for Sale project, which culminated as 3-part podcast with the National Public Housing Museum. Hosts Tonika and NPHM Programming Director, Tiff Beatty will interview community members that are actively involved in addressing Chicago’s ongoing housing crisis.
This program will include open captions.
Tonika Lewis Johnson is a photographer, social justice artist and life-long resident of Chicago’s South Side neighborhood of Englewood. She is also co-founder of the Englewood Arts Collective and Resident Association of Greater Englewood. Her critically acclaimed Folded Map project visually investigates disparities among Chicago residents and brings them together for conversation. Most recently, Tonika was selected as the National Public Housing Museum’s 2021 Artist as Instigator. In that role, she created her newest project: Inequity for Sale, which highlights the living history of Greater Englewood homes sold on Land Sale Contracts in the 50s and 60s.
Tiff Beatty is a cultural organizer, arts administrator, performance poet, and host. She is the current program director of arts, culture, and public policy at National Public Housing Museum in Chicago. Tiff Beatty was a 2019-2021 Chicago United for Equity Fellow and Senior Fellow and received the additional distinction of the 2019 Field Leader Award from the Field Foundation of Illinois. She was previously the program director at the Chicago Humanities Festival and Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture.
Robin Rue Simmons is the Founder and Executive Director of FirstRepair, a new not-for-profit organization that informs local reparations, nationally. She is the former 5th Ward Alderman for the City of Evanston, IL, where she led, in collaboration with others, the passage of the nation’s first municipal-funded reparations legislation.
Amber Hendley passionate researcher, educator and activist. She is the co-author of The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago Report (2019). which quantified the amount legally, but unjustly, extracted from the African American community in Chicago through predatory residential contract selling during the Second Great Migration.

Neighborhood Nights
2022-04-28 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 view from our 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. Be sure to RSVP to let us know you will be there!

At this Neighborhood Nights, stop by to learn more about our Friends of DANK Haus membership program!

Kulturküche | German Pretzels Cooking Class (auf Deutsch)
2022-04-29 18:30 - 20:30 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
The Pretzel Blitz is back!
We are hosting 5 pretzel making classes in April. Why? We LOVE pretzels! These pretzel-making classes will be offered in-person. We will host up to 20 students in our industrial kitchen at the DANK Haus. These 20 students will get hands on training from Reinhard Richter, our resident Pretzel Meister, and take home their homemade pretzels at the end of the class.
We have 5 classes to choose from. The April 29th class will be taught entirely in German (auf Deutsch)! All students will get the recipe and be able to communicate directly with our chef.
What to expect? Students will receive one free beverage of choice and will take home freshly baked pretzels. Class time estimated 2 hours.

German Citizenship Workshop
2022-04-30 10:00 - 12:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
DANK Haus, 6th Floor Skyline Lounge
This workshop will provide you with an insight on hot topics of German citizenship, from obtaining to retaining it. Hanna Tetz and Fabienne Kloster of the Chicago German Consulate will give you an understanding of the different application procedures, modalities of dual citizenship, relating family matters and share the news on the latest developments in citizenship law. Questions are more than welcome.

Stories from the West Side
2022-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, 4046 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL, 60639, United States
A new production inspired by the memories of Latino Chicago
Stories From the West Side
James Sanders & Conjunto and Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre present a new production inspired by the memories of Latino Chicago and the photography of historian and scholar Carlos Flores.
One of Chicago’s longest-running Latin jazz ensembles, James Sanders & Conjunto creates music that moves audiences figuratively and literally, where moments of hushed contemplation are followed by eruptions of joyous dancing.
With an intense focus on personal narratives, the diverse collective of artists that is Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre engages audiences in magnetic human stories at once new and deeply familiar.
Stories From the West Side is a program of the Dr. Timuel Black Inspiration & Education Project, supported by funding from the Jazz Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Community Hosts & Partners: Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center and San Lucas United Church

Online Talk: Keeping Food History Modern
2022-05-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Event
Keeping food history modern – Contemporary trends and what “the Swedish chef” is doing.
We all know the keywords today in the international food scene, such as the importance of eating green, choosing sustainable, and the importance of having a climate friendly attitude when shopping, and of course in relation to our own preferences and diets.
In this presentation, associate professor Richard Tellström from Uppsala in Sweden gives some perspectives on the contemporary food and restaurant trends in Sweden and how Swedes take care of their food heritage after the pandemic years. What foods and dishes from the past have come into use during the restrictions, and how is the creativity bubbling right now. In this lecture, he will give many examples of dishes, cooking ideals, and how chefs are inspired by the past to create the future food of this decade, and what food trends are discussed in Sweden today.
To receive a zoom code for this event register below or call 773.728.8111
Museum Members: $5, Non-members: $10

"Shanghai Sonatas" Dicussion with Xiang Gao
2022-05-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Please join us for this FREE virtual discussion with Xiang “Sean” Gao, the creator-composer of Shanghai Sonatas, a pioneering new musical that combines musical theatre, live classical music, and visual art. Based on the memoirs of Jewish refugee musicians who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Shanghai in the 1930s and ’40s, this musical shares how music helped them to survive the war and how they taught classical music to the local Chinese. The music composed by Xiang is inspired by Jewish and Chinese traditional music, European classical music, and musical theatre.
This discussion is hosted by the Chinese American Museum of Chicago with the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (CBCAC) and the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
Register here
About Xiang Gao
Named as Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year in 2021, Xiang is one of the world’s most successful presenters, producers, composers, and pedagogues. He has solo-performed violin for many world leaders and with 100 plus orchestras worldwide. As the Trustees Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Delaware, Xiang is the founding director of the Master Players Concert Series & Festival. Shanghai Sonatas – the new musical conceptualized and composed by Xiang is being developed by Tony-winning producers and touring as a concert production. Xiang is represented by the California Artists Management.

Online Program: Getting The Children Out: Forgotten Rescuers of the Kindertransport
2022-05-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Join award-winning researcher, educator, playwright, and journalist Mike Levy for an exploration of the mostly forgotten role of Kindertransport rescuers and the quickly established landscapes of care in host countries.

Levy’s presentation covers the rescue of 10,000 mainly Jewish children from Nazi-controlled territory was carried out, dives deeper into the mechanics of the rescue and its relationship to governmental policies, and details how a large-scale voluntary effort to care for displaced children was created and sustained.

Non-Members: $5.00; Members: Free

Live Performances: Sergio Gomez and Joanna Pinsky with Beate Axmann
2022-05-04 17:00 - 19:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Live Performances will take place in the DANK Treffpunkt (1st floor gallery), where guests are encouraged to watch at any time during the session. Performances begin at 5:00pm and go until the artists are done painting (about 2 hours).

Performance dates:

Wednesday, May 4 – Sergio Gomez with Beate Axmann

5-7 PM

Tuesday, May 17 – Joanna Pinsky with Beate Axmann

5-7 PM

About the performances:
Beate Axmann has invited two Chicago-based artists to collaborate with her on this dynamic exhibition. Each artist will begin with their own large canvas. During this performance, there will be several exchanges of the two canvases – meaning that each artist will add to the other artist’s work! This encounter will make visible the meaning of creative intervention, trust and respect between the artists, and the differences in their artistic expression.

Spectators will have the unique opportunity to experience a very special art encounter – certainly not one that you see every day.

Mother's Day Discussion with Author Esmeralda Santiago
2022-05-04 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
Join us for a special Mother’s Day Celebration as the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture hosts esteemed author and 2020 Ceiba Award Winner Esmeralda Santiago for a virtual discussion of Las Mamis — an anthology in which our most admired Latino authors share memories of their mothers. Esmeralda will read a passage from her story, First Born, and an interactive discussion about motherhood will follow. Learn more about the author at EsmeraldaSantiago.com.DATE: Wednesday, May 4thTIME: 6:30-7:30PM CT // 7:30-8:30PM ET // 4:30-5:30PTCLICK HERE TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION VIA ZOOM

Live Performance: Storytelling With OUTspoken
2022-05-05 18:30 - 19:30 | Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL, 60077, United States
For our final “Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement” exhibition-related program, join us for an evening of captivating stories focused on LBGTQ+ and civil rights. The program will feature a variety of storytellers taking us on their personal journeys, speaking to the power and value of people sharing their life experiences.
Participants will include:
Archy Jamjun, Co-Curator for OUTspoken LGBTQ+ stories at Sidetrack and two-time winner of The Moth Grand Slam in Chicago
Jackie Kaplan-Perkins, Chicago and Midwest Director of Human Rights Watch
Mitch Hagan, Creative Director at OneSpan and adjunct professor of graphic design at Roosevelt University
Todd Michael Kiech, Chicago actor and performer, hand-cut collage artist (Really Gay Collage), and Sidetrack bartender
Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement at Goodman Theater
Hosted by Art Johnston, Co-Founder of Equality Illinois and activist & leader in Chicago’s growing LGBTQ+ community.
ON-SITE | Non-Members: Museum Admission; Members: Free
ONLINE | Non-Members: $5.00; Members: Free
