Chicago Cultural Alliance

Film in the Park / Cine en el Parque
2022-07-27 20:30 - 21:45, 2022-07-20 20:30 - 21:45, 2022-07-13 20:30 - 21:45 (America/Chicago) | Multiple Venues, Chicago, IL, United States
Enjoy summertime Chi with our annual Film in the Park/Cine en el Parque! In partnership with the Chicago Park District, the series runs family-friendly films projected on large screens in various citywide parks for FREE. The goal is to bring Latino films to various communities in Chicago to showcase diverse storytelling and talent. All films are shown in their original language with English subtitles.
Screenings take place every Wednesday from July 6th – August 3rd, and begin at dusk approximately 8:30PM. Arrive early for a good spot!
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
To view our full line-up, visit our website:
latinoculturalcenter.org/programs/film-in-the-park
SAVE THE DATE
July 6th – Harrison Park
July 13th – Piotrowski Park
July 20th – Kelvyn Park
July 27th – Loyola Park
August 30th – Kilbourn Park

The Reel Film Club
2022-07-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Instituto Cervantes, 31 West Ohio Street, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
As part of the International Latino Cultural Center’s year-round programming, The Reel Film Club features the most popular films from past Chicago Latino Film Festival editions.
The event opens with a networking reception followed by the film presentation and concludes with a discussion. Each presentation highlights a specific country and takes place at Instituto Cervantes.
Join us for our 13th season!

Family Day at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
2022-07-23 11:00 - 15:00 | Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 central street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in partnership with the Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois and St. Kateri Center of Chicago
Join us for an afternoon of summer fun featuring crafts, food, native artists, and so much more!
Free with Regular Museum Admission; Mitchell Museum Members Free. Full Schedule of Events coming soon. Check back for the details.
For more information about this program, please contact: info@mitchellmuseum.org
(847) 475-1030 | www.mitchellmuseum.org/events/

LAWNDALE Peace Party
2022-07-23 11:00 - 14:00 | 2950 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60623, United States, 2950 W 19th St, Chicago, IL, 60623, United States
The LAWNDALE Peace Party hosted by the MSRN Peace Committee is an event to bring people from North Lawndale and South Lawndale together to promote Peace, Love and Unity in our community.
We invite you to join us on July 23rd from 11am to 2pm at Douglass Park (2950 W 19th St, Chicago) for an afternoon of Music, Food and Art with Family and Friends.
LAWNDALE Peace Party is part of a series of events connected to the One LAWNDALE Project presented by the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council (NLCCC) and the Marshall Square Resource Network (MSRN).

Learn more about the Lawndale Project: https://bit.ly/LawndaleProject
Opportunities for tabling are available, for more information: https://bit.ly/LawndaleTabling

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La Fiesta de la Paz de LAWNDALE organizada por el Comité de Paz de MSRN es un evento para reunirgente de North Lawndale y South Lawndale para promover la Paz, el Amor y la Unidad en nuestra comunidad.
Lo invitamos venir el 23 de julio de 11 am a 2 pm en Douglass Park (2950 W 19th St, Chicago) para una tarde de música, comida y arte con familiares y amigos.
LAWNDALE Peace Party es parte de una serie de eventos relacionados con el Proyecto One LAWNDALE presentado por el Consejo de Coordinación Comunitaria de North Lawndale (NLCCC) y Marshall Square Resource Network (MSRN).

Oportunidades disponibles para ser parte del evento, más información: https://bit.ly/LawndaleTabling

Livewire- NIAM's Open Mic
2022-07-21 17:30 - 19:00 | National Indo-American Museum, 815 S Main St, Lombard, IL, 60148, United States
Livewire is your Open Mic platform to jam, tell us a story, act your heart out, enthrall with a verse, drop the mic… You bring the talent we’ll bring the cheers!
You’ll have 3 minutes for any kind of spoken word performance- poetry, storytelling, comedy, acting, essay reading, singing, and even music! Not ready to take the mic? Come join the audience and enjoy the show! Your $5 ticket includes light refreshments. Buy tickets here: https://www.eventcombo.com/e/livewire–open-mic–niam-56329
If you would like to sign up for the Open Mic, email us at info@niam.org. We recommend advance sign-up and will schedule based on first come first served!
This month’s spotlight performer: Nestor Gomez
Nestor “the Boss” Gomez was born in Guatemala and traveled undocumented to Chicago in the mid 1980’s. As a way to overcome his childhood stutter, few years ago he took the stageat his first Moth StorySLAM. Since then, he has won over 60 slams in different parts of the world. He is also the creator, curator, host and producer of “80 Minutes around the World Immigration Stories”, a podcast about national identity, culture, family, and borders

“Viva Colombia” - Colombian Independence Day Concert
2022-07-20 19:00 | Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL, United States
In collaboration with El Gran Festival Colombiano, we are excited to present “Viva Colombia” – Colombian Independence Day Concert as part of the Chicago Latino Music Series.
Headlined by Ceferina Banquez, one of the most celebrated and recognized voices of Afro-Colombian music, the evening features the beautiful music of the plains of Colombia and Venezuela with local superstars Arpa Cafe. This five-piece band led by Colombian harpist Daniel Rojas features traditional acoustic instrumentation with a special surprise guest.
Doors open at 7:00pm; show starts at 7:30pm.
Tickets:
$25 General Admission
$20 ILCC Members

Virtual Fireside Chat – Women in Philanthropy and Social Enterprise
2022-07-20 17:00 | Online Event
Join MALA for a fireside discussion centered on the leadership of women in the philanthropic and entrepreneurial space. Our special guest, Khitam Masoud, will sit down with MALA Co-Founder Zainab Khan to discuss her journey in philanthropy and social enterprise and share advice for other women navigating these fields.
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About Khit:
Khit is a first-generation Palestinian female immigrant born and raised in Northern California. At the age of 16, she was emancipated by the Sacramento Courts as she avoided an arranged marriage to her first cousin. Khit has been on her own ever since with no relationship with her family or relatives since 1998.

Working multiple jobs at a time to provide for herself, she has been trying to complete her first Bachelor’s degree since she graduated high school in 1999. Life lessons including; fighting cancer on her own, managing mental health and disorders such as PTSD, anxiety, ADHD, and depression, and surviving through abusive relationships and sex crimes, has made it very difficult in maintaining a 2.0 or higher G.P.A to complete a college education as a non-traditional adult student.

After surviving cancer in 2007, Khit moved to Chicago where she then learned more about how to get involved with not-for-profit organizations. For the past 6 years, she has been volunteering and working at Chicago-based organizations including Imerman Angels, a 1-on-1 cancer support organization, as a Mentor. Angel. Khit has gained an overwhelming amount of experience and skills thanks to non-profit professionals in her life that have become some of her most trusted mentors today. Her passion for philanthropy and making an impact on women like her, became the impetus for starting her own charity, Blessons for Women (Blessons, NFP). With more than 200 speaking engagements under her belt, she has learned how to cultivate relationships within the Chicago community and beyond

The Sweetest Season: Indigenous Spoken Word and Song
2022-07-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Goodman Theatre, 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL, 60601, United States
Since time immemorial, Chicago has been a meeting place for Native peoples. With words of wisdom, stories, and histories old and new, we expand traditions of performance with an evening of music, dance, and spoken word, featuring local artists in a program curated by Vincent Romero (Laguna Pueblo).

Online Program - Breaking the Silence: Native American Boarding Schools
2022-07-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
Between 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were forcibly abducted from their homes and families and placed in more than 350 government-funded, and often church-run, Indian Boarding schools. These children were subjected to horrendous conditions, suffering physical, sexual, cultural, and spiritual abuse and torture.
They were banned from speaking their Native languages, from traditional and cultural practices, and stripped of traditional clothing, hair, and personal belongings. The express intent was to implement cultural genocide through removal and “reprogramming” Native children to carry out systematic destruction of Native cultures and communities. Many of these children never returned home, and their fates have yet to be accounted for by the U.S. government.
Join us for a poignant conversation with Dr. Samuel Torres, Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS), as he highlights and addresses the history and ongoing trauma created by the U.S. Indian Boarding School Policy.
Torres is expected to be accompanied by a boarding school survivor. There will be opportunities for questions after the discussion.
Reservations required.

Preview Showing of "Te Hokinga Mai, Return of the Ancestors"
2022-07-17 | Cantigny Park, Wheaton, IL, United States
Save the date for our upcoming exhibit “Te Hokinga Mai, Return of the Ancestors” an exhibit honoring the 2007 repatriation of 14 Māori remains back to New Zealand. We will have a special preview showing at our 8th National Gathering Sunday, July 17th (registration here: https://bit.ly/Tng2022). The exhibition will be open to the public July 21st.

Tinta Jazz
2022-07-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, 4046 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL, 60639, United States
Reading of poems by Afro-Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres in dialogue with the Alejandro Salazar Quartet.
This multimedia event will feature video projections by Jose Arturo Ballester Panelli. The Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center invites you to share with our resident artists and learn about the work of one of the most critically-acclaimed and influential Afro-Puerto Rican voices of her generation.
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Lectura de poemas de la escritora afroboricua Mayra Santos Febres en diálogo con el cuarteto del jazzista Alejandro Salazar.
El evento multimedia contará con proyecciones en video de Jose Arturo Ballester Panelli. El Centro Cultural Segundo Ruiz Belvis te invita a compartir con nuestros artistas residentes y a conocer la obra de una de las voces afropuertorriqueñas más influyentes y renombradas de su generación.

Reading Poetry to Read Ourselves: A celebration of Ghalib’s Poetry with Dr. Azra Raza
2022-07-16 16:00 - 18:00 | South Asia Institute, 1925 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
Renowned physician, scientist, and author, Dr. Azra Raza, recites a selection of Mirza Ghalib’s powerful poetry. She translates and interprets the powerful lyrics in her very distinctive style that has endeared to her audiences all over the US and overseas.

Opening Reception of “Priscilla Kar Yee Lo: Aiming to Please”
2022-07-16 15:00 - 18:00 | Chinese American Museum of Chicago, 238 W. 23rd St, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to announce the third exhibition of the Spotlight Series, featuring glass artist Priscilla Kar Yee Lo. Please join us on Saturday, July 16, from 3:00-6:00pm CT for the opening reception. This exhibition will run from July 16 through August 28.
RSVP here.
The Spotlight Series is a new initiative to showcase recent and past work by emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent locally. Curated by Larry Lee (Molar Productions), the project aims to introduce, promote and celebrate the divergent artistic visions and experiences of being Chinese in America looking at and reflecting upon our relationship to contemporary visual culture to a wider audience within our community and Chicago.
About the artist:
As a child of a Chinese immigrant family in North America, Priscilla was perpetually reminded to be practical about her future. But after over a decade as a health care professional, she began to feel dissatisfied with the direction of her life. Priscilla turned to creative outlets to find a voice and to explore her identity as a woman of color. She was drawn to glass because it is inherently paradoxical, constantly in a state of fragility and permanency. She returned to school in 2015 to pursue a Bachelor’s in Craft and Design from Sheridan College and completed her Master of Fine Arts at Illinois State University in 2022.
Priscilla uses glass and other media to create work as an act of remembrance of the collective intersectional adversity minority women continue to face. Her work highlights the astute way in which our inherent patriarchal society has affected the Asian female position within its structure and how it maintains control through cultural and social expectations and normalized gender roles. Priscilla employs visual language containing artifacts of patriarchy from her childhood that have since become pop culture icons. The symbolism of these images is far removed from their original medium and their patriarchal foundation, making them easy to manipulate and go undetected while subtly reinforcing social norms and binary systems. Ultimately, Priscilla views her work as a nostalgic and whimsical, yet mischievous way of documenting where women, particularly immigrant women, are placed within a societally prescribed racial framework. She hopes to initiate discourse about this reality to validate our collective experiences and raise awareness to the continual existence of these issues.

Kombilesa Mi: Baila Como en Palenque
2022-07-16 13:00 - 14:30 | Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, 4046 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL, 60639, United States
Dance Styles of Palenque
Traditional Dance
Dance in San Basilio de Palenque is an artistic and cultural activity where the people of Palenque express feelings emotions and basic sentiments of everyday life.
Themes and styles covered:
A brief explanation of the traditional dance
Styles of dance:

El Mapale
Cumbia
Culebra
Catalina
El pavo

The traditional dance can be seen in two ways:
1. Dance as celebration
2. Dance as pain/mourning
Dance as celebration are those dances that constitute different styles and movements filled with limitless energy. Individual expression (pases) or as couples.
These include mapale, cumbia, culebra, catalina and pavo.
Dance as pain carry movements and melancholic “tones”. These are dances that demonstrate the crucial importance of women and of grandmothers. The dances are ritual-based, specifically rituals of collective mourning. These dances also exhibit the most authentic expression of religion, oral tradition and of the “kuagros” or familial groups of Palenque.
About Kombilesa Mi
Kombilesa Mi from San Basilio de Palenque was born in 2011 as a musical concept that fuses Hip Hop with traditional rhythms such as the sexteto, pavo, bullerengue and chalusonga, among others) safeguarding the “palenquero” language and using typical instruments from the region, contributing new sounds to the rich history of Afro-Colombian music.

Open Haus Stammtisch | Back to the '80s!
2022-07-15 19:30 - 23:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
https://www.dankhaus.com/event-4865226
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Put on your acid washed jeans, neon t-shirts and dark sun glasses and join us for a blast from the past!

Our monthly Open Haus Stammtisch will take you back in time to the 80s! Neue Deutsche Welle 80’s Music Night will rock you to the Casbah and back with German and American Pop Songs… Grab a drink at our vintage bar and then head out to our terrace to see one of the most amazing views in Chicago. Come and dance the night away at the DANK Haus!

There will be food, cold German beer on draft, and, of course, the terrace will be open to enjoy the view and spend another fun-filled summer night at the DANK Haus.

Our Open Haus is a great way to meet new friends, or bring your friends and introduce them to the Haus! This event is held 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

Opening Reception: Vibrancy on the Brink
2022-07-15 18:00 - 21:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Growing up in Germany, Anke Fachmann was influenced by remarkable artist movements such as The Bridge (Die Brücke) and The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter). A passion for art, culture, and design led her to initially study graphic design. She received a Bachelors in Graphic Design at the Freie Hochschule für Grafik-Design & Bildende Kunst in Freiburg, Southern Germany. She then came to the US to pursue a graphic design career. Soon, Fachmann’s focus changed and she rediscovered her passion for fine art.
Color and structure are her tools to tell stories, ​to leave room for the imagination. She paints with her fingers as well as with recycled materials such as paper and coffee sleeves to give her artwork an unique expression.
Anke Fachmann on her technique and subject matter:
“One day I worked on a big canvas using brushes. This felt tiring, so I started to dip my hands and fingers into the paint. Over time, I explored painting with recycled materials such as straws, sponges, and the paper sleeves from to-go coffee cups. Friends started saving the coffee sleeves for me and I think that is not a bad idea when it comes to recycling and our beloved planet!”
“After experimenting with mixed media and abstract work, I started to paint animals, learning more and more about endangered species through this media. I decided to focus on them, with the hope to prompt curiosity and to showcase their beauty and uniqueness.”
Fachmann uses her art to create awareness and to work together with environmental organizations and activists whenever she can. She lives in San Francisco.
This exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, July 15, from 6:00 to 9:00pm. The exhibition runs through Friday, August 19. Check back in at dankhaus.com/art or our Facebook page for more information about hours and events.
Questions? Email rosa@dankhaus.com

Opening Reception: …of the land: acts of refusal and ratification
2022-07-15 17:00 - 20:00 | South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60653, United States
A three-person exhibition featuring new and recent works from Chicago-based artists Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and R. Treshawn Williamson exploring homeplace through sculpture, self-imaging, & materialism.

…of the land: acts of refusal and ratification features new and recent works from Chicago-based artists Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and R. Treshawn Williamson exploring sculpture, self-imaging and history through postcolonial lenses, collective & individual recollection and peculiar materialism. Their use of storytelling holds significance for spatiality and locality to become common ground through the fielding of land, labor and industry.
Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar expands the sculptural form welding metal, Trinidadian carnival culture and identity politics alongside the African diaspora. Lola Ayisha Ogbara merges West African and African American interior design aesthetics with bodily sculptural ceramic forms, with performative photography – that rest and refuse a Western gaze.
R. Treshawn Williamson creates historical context for his own familial roots in the mining of charcoal material for large scale screen-printed tapestries in a careful consideration of laborious processes as praxis. Millar, Ogbara and Williamson engage in practices that consider topographic timelines and performance as an essential tool making for an interesting dialogue about homeplace.

Exhibition: …of the land: acts of refusal and ratification
2022-07-15 - 2022-09-24 | South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60653, United States
A three-person exhibition featuring new and recent works from Chicago-based artists Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and R. Treshawn Williamson exploring homeplace through sculpture, self-imaging, & materialism.

…of the land: acts of refusal and ratification features new and recent works from Chicago-based artists Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and R. Treshawn Williamson exploring sculpture, self-imaging and history through postcolonial lenses, collective & individual recollection and peculiar materialism. Their use of storytelling holds significance for spatiality and locality to become common ground through the fielding of land, labor and industry.
Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar expands the sculptural form welding metal, Trinidadian carnival culture and identity politics alongside the African diaspora. Lola Ayisha Ogbara merges West African and African American interior design aesthetics with bodily sculptural ceramic forms, with performative photography – that rest and refuse a Western gaze.
R. Treshawn Williamson creates historical context for his own familial roots in the mining of charcoal material for large scale screen-printed tapestries in a careful consideration of laborious processes as praxis. Millar, Ogbara and Williamson engage in practices that consider topographic timelines and performance as an essential tool making for an interesting dialogue about homeplace.
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Ajmal ‘MAS MAN’ Millar is a self-taught contemporary visual artist and mas man (carnival costume designer). His work includes mixed–media sculpture that combine collage, painting, repurposed materials, scrap metal, performance, and photography interrogating notions of cultural heritage, sexual and gender identity, and ritual practices as a first-generation African American black queer man born to Trinidadian immigrants. Ajmal earned an undergraduate degree from Morehouse College in 2008 and earned an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021.
“I am working on a collection of works engaging the Yoruba cosmological concept of Chi and its existence in everything, alive or inorganic. I create amalgamations of found objects and scraps of steel combined with encaustic. Inspired from my carnival technique of ‘wire bending’, Afrofuturism, and Afro Surrealism, I have an opportunity to express my emotions and thoughts as experienced in the various environments I collect from and exist in. My welding is drawing in space to depict the transcendent properties in masquerade. My goal is to contextualize a queer blackness rarely experienced through imagination, invention, and the investigation of dreams, magic, and ritual.”
He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Lola Ayisha Ogbara (cultural worker & artist) born and raised in Chicago, Illinois holds many talents under her belt, i.e. sculpture, sound, design, photography and installation art.
“My practice explores the multifaceted implications and ramifications of being in regards to the Black experience. I work with clay as a material in order to emphasize a necessary fragility which symbolizes an essential contradiction implicit in empowerments.”
Ogbara holds a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Entertainment & Media Management from Columbia College Chicago in 2013 and a MFA in Visual Arts from Washington University Sam Fox School of Art & Design.
In 2017, Ogbara co-founded Artists in the Room, a collective of artists and scholars who host artists, emerging and established, in hopes of serving as a catalyst for artist development and networking. Ogbara has also received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Multicultural Fellowship sponsored by the NCECA 52nd Annual Conference, the Arts + Public Life and Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture Residency at the University of Chicago, and the Coney Family Fund Award hosted by the Chicago Artists Coalition. Ogbara has exhibited in art spaces across the country and is currently based in Chicago, IL.

R. Treshawn Williamson is a Chicago based essayist and multidisciplinary artist of Black American descent, from Prince George’s County, MD, by way of Livingston, Alabama, and Augusta, Georgia.
Williamson’s work is a meditation on the obstruction and surveillance of the lived histories of African-Americans. He investigates the application of cultural re-imagination in the African Diaspora through the engagement of oral histories, post-colonial theory, folklore, and ethnomusicology. In 2020 Williamson earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

8th Annual Gathering of Veterans
2022-07-15 - 2022-07-17 | Cantigny Park, Wheaton, IL, United States
Thank you for joining us for the 8th Annual Gathering of Veterans, which honors all veterans and military personnel of all cultures, eras and branches in a Native Way that is open to all. This event is a 3-day event that will be held from Friday, July 15th to Sunday, July 17th at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL (1S151 Winfield Road). This event is free and open to the public.
Attendee Registration & Volunteer Registration
This year’s National Gathering of Native American Veterans will focus on healing. Traditional Native American healing not only involves physical healing but also mental, emotional and spiritual healing. The National Gathering Planning Commitee is working on the lineup of speakers, discussions, workshops and cultural sharing and will be listed soon.
Register by July 1st to enter your name in our registration raffle. Winner will be chosen on July 17th. Must be present on Sunday, July 17th to claim your prize.

Our host hotel for this year’s National Gathering of American Indian Veterans is the DoubleTree by Hilton Lisle Naperville. Special room rate is $103 per night.

Host Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton Lisle Naperville
Address: 3003 Corporate West Drive
Lisle, Illinois, 60532
Group Name: National Gathering of American Indian Veterans
Group Code: CIV
Booking: Book Hotel Room

HAMOC's Collection Unveiling
2022-07-14 18:30, 2022-07-12 18:30 | Online Event
Through a generous grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) was able to hire a Collection Specialist, Eve Mangurten, to catalog the museum’s Haitian-specific Collection of art and artifacts.
Join HAMOC and Eve in two events:
July 12: Presentation – Learn about Eve’s process of cataloging the museum
July 14: Workshop – Learn how to access the collection
The full collection will become available to the general public to utilize, research and learn about following the July 14th Workshop.
You don’t want to miss this!

Artecito Virtual - Camaleón
2022-07-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
¿Sabías? Los camaleones cambian el color de su piel por una variedad de razones, ¡pero no para mezclarse con su entorno!
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre los camaleones con nuestros amigos de Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contáctese aquí:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoCamaleo
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Did you know? Chameleons change their skin color for a variety of reasons- but not to blend in with their surroundings!
Join us as we explore more about Chameleons with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contect Here:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoCamale

Online Program | Muslims, the Holocaust, and Antisemitism
2022-07-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
At a challenging time for religious dialogue and healing, join us online with Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College and author of “Shoah Through Muslim Eyes,” as she explores the rejection of myths about the Holocaust and Jews, and offers new ways of creating an understanding between two communities through the acceptance and enormity of the Shoah. Dr. Afridi will also discuss Islam and principles of justice, as well as the role of Muslims in North Africa during the Holocaust, rescue stories, and how we can acknowledge narratives of suffering at different times in history.

Members: Free; Non-Members: $5.00

Members must sign in to take advantage of their member discount
Register: https://ihm.ec/muslimsandtheholocaust

Artist Discussion with Madeline Sayet
2022-07-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 central street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
Artist Discussion and Q&A with Mohegan Director, Playwright, and Actor, Madeline Sayet
Join us on Sunday, July 10 at 6:00 p.m. as we welcome award-winning Mohegan director, writer, actor, and educator Madeline Sayet to the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. We invite you to this in-person conversation and Q&A to celebrate Sayet’s work and the production of her solo play, Where We Belong, now showing at the Goodman Theatre as part of a national tour presented by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Where We Belong, at the Goodman Theatre through July 24, 2022, is a personal story of an Indigenous theatre-maker’s journey across geographic borders, personal history, and cultural legacies; in search of a place to belong. Sayet’s autobiographical account in Where We Belong shares her experience pursuing a Ph.D. in Shakespeare in England. There she finds a country that refuses to acknowledge its role in colonialism while echoing a journey to England braved by Native ancestors in the 1700s following treatise betrayals, forcing us to consider what it means to belong in an increasingly globalized world.
This intimate conversation with Sayet is free for Mitchell Museum Members and $10 for non-members. Admission for Native citizens is always free. Tickets can be purchased in advance or onsite.

For more information about this program, please contact: info@mitchellmuseum.org | (847) 475-1030 | www.mitchellmuseum.org/events/

Barrio Arts Festival
2022-07-10 11:00 - 17:00 | The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, 3015 W Division Street, Chicago, IL, 60622, United States
The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is organizing the 22nd edition of its signature festival called BARRIO ARTS FEST! This yearly summer event brings together a selection of local artists, merchants, craft makers, food vendors, dancers, and music performers and family workshop activities for the community to enjoy.

During the weekend of July 9th and 10th, the museum will turn into a family gathering space that extends through the museum premises, including the museum facility keeping the galleries open as well.

Join us in celebrating the journey of our Museum, our beautiful Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and our vibrant community here in Humboldt Park, Chicago.
Festival Hours: Saturday, July 09, 2022 10 am-6 pm and Sunday, July 10, 2022 11 am-5 pm.
Every year Barrio Arts Fest, in addition to the artists/vendors, offers workshops for the entire family. This year Barrio Arts Fest is a celebration of the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Maria! In addition to traditional ​dance and ​musical performances​, there are many other extraordinary experiences that the whole family can enjoy.

Ukrainian National Museum's Folk Art Market
2022-07-10 11:00 - 16:00 | Ukrainian National Museum, 2249 W. Superior St., Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
Summer with Ukraine in your Heart!
Visit the National Ukrainian Museum’s Folk Art Market! Browse art works, clothing, jewelry, books, and more!

Haitian Flag Community Art Project
2022-07-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Join us for a family-friendly art project in creating a community Haitian flag! Come learn about the history and significance of Haiti’s flags, with a presentation by Historian William Leslie Balan-Gaubert and create a piece of a soon-to-be flag with Haitian, Chicago Artist Cindy Lys!
Special thanks to the Hyde Park Art Center for hosting this event!
All materials provided – Family Friendly
HAMOC acknowledges support from the Illinois Art Council Agency for this event.

Barrio Arts Fest Fritura Cook-Off
2022-07-09 12:00 | The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, 3015 W Division Street, Chicago, IL, 60622, United States
We will have 10 Cooks compete in our First Annual Fritura Cook-Off. Our Special Guest Judges will be Boricua Influencers Ivelissa, Omi and Rebeca. We will have a meet and greet with them prior to the Cook-Off.
(Just in case you did not know, Frituras are Puerto Rican fried foods that you could easily eat on the go, on the beach or as an appetizer).
Connected to the 22nd Edition of Barrio Arts Fest, July 9th from 10am – 6pm & 10th from 11am – 5pm, 2022.
