NHM Virtual Book Club: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
2022-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Kulturküche | German Pretzels Cooking Class
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.

In The Realm Of Senses Presents: Fundraiser for Ukraine
2022-04-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60607, United States
An immersive fund raiser concert featuring music, visual arts, perfumery, and gastronomy to help Ukraine in its time of need.

About this event

In The Realm Of Senses presents its fully immersive duo version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition for two players and seven instruments with works by Ukrainian born composers Skoryk, Yashchenko, Bortkiewicz and Prokofiev, presented by Chinese-American, Russian-American and Belarusian-Americans who support Ukraine’s fight for freedom and peace. This concert will feature visual projections paired to music by many Chicago-based international artists as well as two perfume pairings to music by Christophe Laudamiel, and dessert pairings by local chefs. We will perform various works by Ukrainian-born composers including first movement of Prokofiev’s violin sonata No.1 and end with the “Great Gate of Kiev” movement from Pictures, paired to a unique perfume. Music and art transcends all and will bring people of all backgrounds together to support Ukraine in its great time of need.
Our co-sponsors are Epiphany Center for the Arts and Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, who will be donating the venue for this event and helping us bring the word to the Ukrainian and Chicago communities at large. All proceeds will go towards vetted charities to directly support Ukraine. Thanks for ITROS, Epiphany, and UIMA for the opportunity to create beauty, music, and art to do a greater good for people in need in this trying time of war.
Concert begins at 8pm, doors at Epiphany Art Center will be open from 5-8pm for their fabulous Golden Hour and food, cocktails, and music before the show. More information at: https://epiphanychi.com/golden-hour
Jeff Yang: violin, viola, cello, baroque recorders
Lyudmila Lakisova: piano
Galina Shevchenko: visual projections
Christophe Laudamiel: scent sculptures
Visual artists include: LIviu Pasare, Farnaz Khosh-Sirat, John Gaudette, Maja Bosen, Azadeh Houssaini, Kioto Aoki, and more.
Gastronomy pairings by Katherine Ann Confections and Fancy Plants Kitchen
All proceeds of this concert will go directly to Ukrainian American Medical Association, Ukraine Trust Chain, and United Methodist Committee on Relief

The Bridge to Native Chicago
2022-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
The Bridge to Native Chicago
Members of RedLine, a local Chicago Native American Drum group, and interdisciplinary artist Ronnie Preston (San Carlos Apache), along with jazz musicians from France, collectively known as The Bridge, will be the featured musicians for this unique collaboration.

The Bridge intends to form a network for exchange, production, and diffusion, to build a transatlantic bridge that will be crossed on a regular basis by French and American musicians as part of collaborative projects. And, in addition to the scheduled projects, encourage meetings and relationships between creative musicians and perpetuate them. In other words: to give them the times and spaces to join and rejoin on both sides of the ocean and to deepen their exchanges.

RedLine is a group of intertribal singers who perform songs from the great Oklahoma Nations of the Southern Plains. RedLine formed in 2012 to address a vital need for a community-based Drum. This action was necessary as it created resurgence in arts engagement needed to mobilize and build community and introduce/reintroduce cultural practice among youth and young adults in the Native American community. Through song, RedLine shares a small taste of southern plains culture with Chicago and the Midwest big water area, while providing a circle for intergenerational teaching and learning.

Champion grass dancer and hoop dancer, singer, storyteller, and accomplished artist, Ronnie Preston is dedicated to sharing the cultures of Native American tribes and nations through music and dance. As a performing artist and spokesperson, Mr. Preston has toured from coast to coast, frequently as a guest on college campuses. A descendant of the San Carlos Apache nation in Arizona, he began dancing and attending pow wow celebrations as a young child. Now residing in Chicago, he is a celebrated teacher, performer throughout the Midwest, a guest for events at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and other venues, and performer and emcee for pow wows and many other presentations celebrating Native American culture.

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

Virtual Film Screening and Discussion: Inhabitants
2022-04-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Join is virtually for our Earth Week Activities!

About this event

In celebration of Earth Day and Earth Week, join us for a virtual screening of the film Inhabitants. You can view the film at your leisure anytime between April 22-29th, 2022. Be sure to join us on Sunday, April 24th at 7:00pm for a panel discussion with filmmakers Costa Boutsikaris and Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson. *All links will be emailed before April 22nd.

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World
For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain their traditional land management practices. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. The five stories include sustaining traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; restoring buffalo to the Blackfeet reservation in Montana; maintaining sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; reviving native food forests in Hawaii; and returning prescribed fire to the landscape by the Karuk Tribe of California. As the climate crisis escalates these time-tested practices of North America’s original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.
Website: www.INHABITANTSFILM.com
Instagram: @InhabitantsFilm
FaceBook: www.FaceBook.com/InhabitantsFilm

Filmmakers:
Costa Boutsikaris – Co-Director/Cinematographer/Editor
Costa is a New York-based director and cinematographer. In 2015 he released his first feature documentary entitled INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective. In 2016 it took home the Audience Choice Award at The Environmental Film Festival At Yale and the Princeton Environmental Film Festival and won Best In Theme at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
Directors Statement

We, Anna Palmer and Costa Boutsikaris, have had the immense privilege of getting the opportunity to help Native project leaders share their stories and visions of the future. In 2017 Anna Palmer was working for the USDA helping develop climate adaptation plans for Tribes in the Southwest. While attending academic conferences on Climate Change Adaptation she continued to hear a constant request for higher quality media of Native land management projects. Through conversations with Tribal project leaders and our supporting foundations we developed a plan for creating a film to help document these projects. This film was made collaboratively with our Tribal Advisory Board, which includes representatives from each of the Tribes highlighted in the film and the Kalliopeia Foundation. These partnerships allowed the film subjects to ensure that the film is accurate, culturally appropriate and meets the needs of their communities.

For more information about this program, contact info@mitchellmuseum.org

Swedish Cooking Class Online
2022-04-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Join us for another cooking class series either online or in person. In April we will be making crepes. For the online class you will receive the recipe in advance. You can then either cook alongside or watch and try later. It is an interactive Zoom so you will be able to ask questions. The in person class takes four participants and is a hands on class. Cost for the in person class is $25 for Museum members and $35 for non members. The online class is $10 for members and $15 for non members.

Swedish Cooking Class In-person
2022-04-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Join us for another cooking class series either online or in person. In April we will be making Swedish crepes. For the online class you will receive the recipe in advance. You can then either cook alongside or watch and try later. It is an interactive Zoom so you will be able to ask questions. The in person class takes four participants and is a hands on class. Cost for the in person class is $25 for Museum members and $35 for non members. The online class is $10 for members and $15 for non members.

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

Kaffeeklatsch
2022-04-28 17:30 - 18:30 | Online Event
DANK Haus hosts a gemütliche chat online every Thursday at 5:30pm, with German speakers at every level welcome.
We will be talking about “Gott und die Welt”, and this Klatsch will be moderated by a friendly and enthusiastic German speaker.

Please RSVP to receive the online link. This link can be used every week. https://dankhaus.com/event-4475997
Please contact us at languageschool@dankhaus.com should you have any questions.

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!

What to Send Up When It Goes Down
2022-04-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Stony Island Arts Bank, 6760 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60649, United States
Congo Square Theatre presents WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN!

About this event

SSCAC is thrilled to share a limited amount of complimentary tickets for What to Send Up When It Goes Down, showing April 21 – May 1 at Stony Island Arts Bank.
What to Send Up When It Goes Down responds to the gratuitous loss of Black lives and interrupts discourses that enable the ubiquity of racialized violence in our society and is a participatory, shapeshifting experience intent on creating space for collective catharsis, cleansing and healing.
This intimate, interactive 90-minute work will be co-directed by Congo Square Artistic Director Ericka Ratcliff and Ensemble member Daniel Bryant and feature Ensemble members Ronald L. Conner and Anthony Irons along with Jos N Banks, McKenzie Chinn, Victor Missoni, Alexandria Moorman, and Penelope Walker. Other creative team members include Sarah Grace Goldman (Dramaturg), Estrellita Edwell (Production/Tour Manager & Technical Director), Charlique C. Rolle (Movement Coordinator), Sydney Lynne Thomas (Set & Props Designer), Alexis Chaney (Costume/Wig/Makeup Designer), and Levi Wilkins (Lighting Designer)
We hope you’ll join us !!

Resonance of Color and Line, 'Gyeol' by Hyelim Kim
2022-04-29 09:00 - 2022-05-05 17:00 | Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, 9925 Capitol Dr, Wheeling, IL, United States
Fashion Artist, Hyelim Kim exhibition of traditional and modernity garment constructed using the techniques of the Korean traditional hanbok sewing known as, Kkaekki, using the Western textile of wool silk, cotton silk, and Korean textile of Korean silk, silk organza and dupioni silk. Opening Reception is April 30 at 2pm.

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.

Desde Mi Barrio Concert: Cuerdas Clásicas
2022-04-30 13:30 - 15:30 | Latin Music Project Center, 2958 north Milwaukee ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Desde Mi Barrio (From my Neighborhood) is a concert series presented by Puerto Rican Arts Alliance’s the Latin Music Project. This series features local and national musicians while celebrating the rich music of Puerto Rico and other Latinx cultures.
Join us on April 30 for the next concert in our series, Cuerdas Clásicas. This Latin American performing arts group is also a not-for-profit cultural organization marked by the qualities of troubadours and bohemians who at times perform in formal dress and tuxedos, interpreting melodies of a clasical and semi-classical nature, and at times perform as members of an Estudiantina, wearing vestments in accordance with the customs of sixteenth century Spain.
This concert will take place in the Juan and Gladys Mendez Music Hall (located inside the Latin Music Project Center). Donations for this event go directly to supporting our youth arts programs and community artists.

“Ye-Xian: The Chinese Cinderella” (“C2”)
2022-04-30 13:30 - 16:00 | Chinese American Museum of Chicago, 238 W. 23rd St, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
Fiery Seahorse Productions presents a reading of “Ye-Xian: The Chinese Cinderella” for the young and the young-at-heart..!

About this event

Please join Fiery Seahorse Productions for an afternoon of theatre at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago (4th Floor Gallery)… https://ccamuseum.org/
ADA Info: Side Entrance with Ramp
Info: ENERI Communications
info@enericom.net
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Attendance Policies
(In-person performance status is subject to State, federal and local including the City of Chicago, health and safety protocols in position at that date/time. Visitors are required to wear a mask at all times while in the Chinese American Museum of Chicago.
There is an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 at any public gathering. Those visiting this event voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19.
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The Show!
Quite possibly the oldest version of Cinderella in the world, this adaptation of the story of Ye-Xian (which predates the French version by about a thousand years) is about strength and kindness and fun and friendship — and magic!

Meet Ye-Xian, daughter of Chief Wu who is made to be a maid-of-all-work for her Stepmother and whose only friend is Jin-Yu, a talking fish. Now a talking fish is magical enough — but when Jin-Yu goes missing, Ye-Xian learns from a kindly Old Sage what to do and to provide for herself — especially when she’s prevented from going to the Festival by Stepmother.
See what happens when Ye-Xian is recognized at the Festival. Learn what becomes of a lost golden slipper. And see that when Ye-Xian meets the King of Tuo Han for the first, second and third time that she is loved for Who she is at the end.

KCCoC Classic Concert Series Spring 2022
2022-04-30 15:00 - 16:30 | Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, 9925 Capitol Dr, Wheeling, IL, United States
The Korean Culture Center of Chicago is holding a Classic Concert Series Spring 2022.

About this event

KCCoC Classic Concert Series Spring 2022
Jennie Oh Brown, Flute
Brian Lee, Piano
Kurt Fowler, Cello

Please come and enjoy coffee & refreshment!

Date: Saturday, April 30th 2022, 3pm
Location: Korean Cultural Center of Chicago
KCCoC Event Hall #1
9930 Capitol Dr., Wheeling, IL. 60090

Tickets: $20
Pre-registration required
Inquiries: (847) 947-4460 event@kccoc.org

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

Art After Hours: Benefit for Ukraine
2022-04-30 19:30 - 23:00 | Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622, United States
Join us for Art After Hours: Fundraiser for Ukraine! Featuring performances by: Outsidenightair, Otra Dek (live), Gi Gi, and Farplane

About this event

Join the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art for Art After Hours: Fundraiser for Ukraine!
Featuring performances by: Outsidenightair, Otra Dek (live), Gi Gi, and Farplane.
Proceeds from this event will be donated to UMANA Illinois for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
$15/$20 at the door
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Price of ticket includes admission and drinks donated by Solemn Oath Brewery.

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.
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