The Greek Diner and the Making of American Cuisine
2023-01-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Online, IL, United States
In this hour-long class, we will explore the history of the Greek diner and its profound influence on American food culture. On the eve of World War I, Greek immigrants began buying up the diners abandoned by German Americans facing anti-German persecution brought on by the war. In these kitchens, the new Greek owners would adapt traditional German travelers’ fare with a touch of the Mediterranean and a pinch of entrepreneurial spirit. The result: A truly American way of cooking and eating.

Robert Burns: A Tribute to Scotland’s National Bard
2023-01-25 19:30 - 22:00 | 3855 N Lincoln Ave Chicago, IL 60613 United States, 3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60613, United States
Join us for an evening of poetry, song and Scottish fun at Martyrs’.
Admission is free!

LaSalle Street at a Crossroads
2023-01-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Online, IL, United States
Join us for a roundtable conversation exploring ideas for a renewed LaSalle Street corridor, which currently finds itself at a crossroads. How does an austere financial district transform into a vibrant 24-hour neighborhood, and who will call this neighborhood home?
In many ways, the fate of the LaSalle Street corridor and the broader downtown are intertwined. If the most viable future for downtown is flexible adaptation to a mix of uses, there is no better place to test this hypothesis than along this iconic office corridor. Recognizing this, the City of Chicago recently launched a planning initiative for a reimagined LaSalle Street, freeing up all-important tax increment financing (TIF) and inviting development proposals.
However, there are questions about the challenges LaSalle Street must overcome: namely, what is the prescription for its aging building stock? Will tax incentives be sufficient to spark investment in complex residential conversions and protection of the corridor’s landmark architecture? And how central is a redesign and greening of the public realm to LaSalle’s long-term success or failure? Our roundtable of leading local experts in planning, design and real estate sets out to find answers.
SPEAKER: PAUL DE SANTIS
Paul De Santis is a partner and co-design director at Goettsch Partners, where he leads the design on many of the firm’s office, hotel and mixed-use projects in the U.S. and Asia. Paul’s recent work includes the LEED Platinum-certified Zurich North America Headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, and the Viceroy hotel in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. His work in Asia focuses on tall and supertall buildings, with key projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Wuhan. Paul received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech. He has membership with the AIA, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and the Urban Land Institute, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
SPEAKER: CINDY CHAN ROUBIK
Cindy Chan Roubik is a Deputy Commissioner with Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) leading the Central, North and Northwest Planning Regions. Recently, she has managed the LaSalle Street Reimagined initiative, the Central City Recovery Roadmap, the Bronzeville Lakefront project and updates to the Fulton Market Innovation District Plan and Chicago River Design Guidelines. Cindy is a 2022 Fellow of University of Chicago’s Civic Leadership Academy program and is a LEED accredited professional. Prior to civil service, she worked as a licensed architect for a local architecture firm on several high-rises and historic rehabilitation projects. Upon graduation from McGill University’s Architecture School, Cindy was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal for the top student in her graduating class, and the RAIC Gold Medal Award for most outstanding thesis. Cindy was also awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal Award for leadership and service.
SPEAKER: LEON WALKER
As the Managing Principal of DL3 for the last 20 years, Leon works closely with municipalities, anchor institutions, and Fortune 500 companies to implement projects that are sensitive to a neighborhood’s character while creating economic opportunities for local residents. His cutting-edge community development projects have generated thousands of jobs and brought grocery stores and medical services into the food and healthcare deserts on Chicago’s South Side. Over the next 10 years, his vision is to help create 10,000 jobs and 10 million square feet of new commercial space in Chicago’s neighborhoods.
Prior to taking on the leadership of DL3 Realty, Leon worked in corporate real estate services at Jones Lang LaSalle, and in real estate capital markets at Citicorp Securities. A graduate of the University of Chicago’s Law School, Leon also holds a Master of Business Administration from Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. He serves as a Board member of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate at Roosevelt University, and several other organizations.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Two Remain: Out of Darkness” (Act One)
2023-01-26 18:30 | Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL, 60077, United States
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, gather with us on-site at the Museum for a live opera performance of the first act of Two Remain: Out of Darkness, in partnership with Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University.
Her Jewish identity hidden, Krystyna Zywulska was a political prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In secret, she composed lyrics to inspire fellow prisoners, even as she carried out her harrowing job in the Effektenkammer (storage room) cataloging the personal effects of thousands of prisoners before they were murdered in the gas chambers next door. Many years after the war, a journalist asks Krystyana to share her stories, hoping to record them on a tape player. Haunted and helped by the ghosts of her past— Zosia, Edka, Mariola and her younger self, Krysia — she struggles to find the words.
Join us for this unique and compelling commemorative performance that will exhibit the power of art to uplift the heart and cradle of the soul, and the strength found in the fight for survival.
Cast: Aaron Hunt, Stage Director; Andreá Jones, Soprano; Alexis Neal, Mezzo-Soprano; Dana Brown, Conductor; Pianist; Raphael Chou, Danlei Zhao, Mezzo-Soprano; Kaleigh Watkins, Soprano; and Tanya Landau, Soprano.
There will be a post-performance Q&A with Roosevelt University featuring Dana Brown, conductor and Associate Professor of Opera, Roosevelt University; Aaron Hunt, Stage Director and Actor; Tanya Landau, M.M. Voice Performance Candidate; David Kjar, Moderator and Associate Professor of Music History, Roosevelt University.
American Sign Language interpretation will be provided.
This opera is a commission from Music of Remembrance.

Film Screening: Two Girls
2023-01-27 19:30 - 21:30 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us for a screening of Chicago director James Fotopoulos’s film “Two Girls.”
This is the story of young sisters in the American Midwest left alone with their increasingly unstable mother while their father is fighting in the Civil War. The film traces the girls’ naturally fraught sibling dynamic and the ways that their father’s absence ignites their imagination. When they meet a stranger in the forest they become enchanted by a world of creative work and nature, a welcome distraction from their volatile mother. Play and the dreamlike space they inhabit provides an expansive and ultimately grounding setting for the girls’ response to war.
Filmed in Chicago, this work is an experimentation on a children’s fairy tale. Two Girls features German actress Isolda Dychauk.
This event is available for free.
View the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfREVF44G-w
“Fotopoulos is a notably talented, prolific, and obsessive filmmaker.” – Amy Taubin, Artforum
“Perhaps no other moviemaker so categorically denies compartmentalization, falsifying dichotomies of underground and art film, narrative and abstraction, and black box and white cube, while unabashedly appropriating, celebrating, and upturning the conventions of the horror, sci-fi, hardboiled, and melodramatic genres.” – Fantasma: A James Fotopoulos Retrospective – Spectacle
“Fotopoulos is certainly an auteur who makes up in artistic integrity what he forgoes in mainstream appeal …his films are imbued with unparalleled aplomb.” – Mapping the Obscure: James Fotopoulos Retrospective – Cine-File
“Fotopoulos, a filmmaker whose visions are as audacious as they are uncompromising.” – RogerEbert.com
“There is no shot in a Fotopoulos film or video that does not mine the psychological affect of the frame, the camera placement, the lighting, the lens. ” – Screen Slate
100 min
English and German (with subtitles)
Free parking at 5/3 Bank after 6:00 PM located at Western and Gunnison

Resist!: A Visual History of Protest Curatorial Conversation with Margot McMahon
2023-01-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622, United States
Please join us Saturday, January 28th at 1 pm for a curatorial conversation with Margot McMahon (Resist! curator and daughter of Franklin McMahon) and UIMA Curator Adrienne Kochman regarding the exhibit of acclaimed Chicago artist, Franklin McMahon’s fifty years of protest in vibrant drawings and paintings.

Paint Night
2023-01-28 19:00 - 22:00 | Magura Cultural Center, 415 W Golf Rd #7, Arlington Heights, IL, United States
“Има картини, които те карат да се замислиш, да се разходиш из миналото или да се размечтаеш за бъдещето.
Има такива, които ти говорят, разказват истории за хора, места и събития, шепнат за неизживяни любови, крещят за исторически несправедливости…или просто разказват приказки…
А има и такива, които сякаш те прегръщат и те поглъщат, просто потъваш в тях.
Аз просто открехвам вратата на една от тези къщи, завита под снежната пелена и виждам старец да седи до печката, доволен, че е нахранил животните и, че “Сечко”го е дарил с още едно агънце.
Надничам през прозореца с ледени дантели на втората и виждам, как баба реди мокрите плетени ръкавички на немирните със зачервени бузки внучета, които едва е прибрала от пързалката.
Минавам покрай третата и чувам млада майка да пее приспивна песен на рожбата си.
Това е разказ за моята разходка “в” картината на Майстора…
Заповядайте да творим заедно и да ми разкажете за вашата!” СА

The Negro Motorist Green Book
2023-01-29 - 2023-04-23 | Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL, 60077, United States
“The Negro Motorist Green Book” guided Black Americans to thousands of businesses for over thirty years. When the first “Green Book” was published, the American road was a metaphor for freedom: freedom to change your present situation, determine your destiny, and travel. Yet, in 20th-century America, this same road was a dangerous place for Black travelers. The land was divided by segregation — through policy and through custom. For Black people, the prejudice was severe: a systematic effort to deny their basic human rights. In an era of Jim Crow laws and “sundown towns,” communities that explicitly prohibited Black travelers from staying overnight, the “Green Book” offered critical, life-saving information and sanctuary.
Now, through The Negro Motorist Green Book, visitors will explore film, photographs, interactives, and oral histories from travelers and “Green Book” business owners; compare “Green Book” sites then and now; and appreciate historical objects from the Smithsonian and from a variety of “Green Book” sites. The exhibition includes artifacts from business signs and postcards to historic footage, images, and firsthand accounts that illustrate not just the apprehension felt by Black travelers, but also the resilience, innovation, and elegance of people choosing to live a full American existence.
Developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with award-winning author, photographer, and cultural documentarian, Candacy Taylor, Green Book offers an immersive look at the historic reality of travel for Black Americans and how the guide served as an indispensable resource for the rise of the Black leisure class in the United States. The exhibition highlights destinations created by Black Americans and strategies that affirmed their humanity, their worth, their light, and their lives – and how it was done with ingenuity, community, and with help from Victor Green and his travel guide: “The Negro Motorist Green Book.”

Exhibit Opening: Arctic Highways
2023-01-29 11:00 - 13:00 | Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
After some delays we are excited to finally open “Arctic Highways.”
Admission to see the exhibit is free between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
This exhibit discusses the exploitation of Indigenous land and how imposed borders of nation-states have erased the natural land borders used by Indigenous peoples. Nine Sami artists and three Indigenous artists from Canada and the United States want to use this exhibit to start a dialogue, raise questions, and establish waypoints between their culture and ours. This exhibit takes us on a journey through an Arctic highway of culture and life, stretching from the past into the future.

Reel Film Club: Colombia
2023-01-31 18:00 - 21:00 | Instituto Cervantes, 31 West Ohio Street, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
For the price of one ticket join us for a night of Film and Food from Colombia. A reception with food and a glass of wine starts at 1800 and “Crazy About You” by Director Felipe Martinez will begin at 1900.
Lucas and Simón, friends who work in a creative agency in Bogotá, throw a party as a favor for their boss, Johana. There, Lucas meets Lina, Johana’s paisa cousin who travels to Bogotá to get a visa and study fashion design in the United States.
Madly in love, Lucas travels to Medellín to try to conquer Lina, where he will realize that before conquering her, he will have to conquer her paisa family.
Lucas y Simón, amigos que trabajan en una agencia creativa en Bogotá, hacen una fiesta como un favor a su jefa, Johana. Allí, Lucas conoce a Lina, la prima paisa de Johana que viaja a Bogotá para sacar la visa e irse a estudiar diseño de modas en Estados Unidos.
Locamente enamorado, Lucas viaja a Medellín para tratar de conquistar a Lina, donde se dará cuenta que antes que conquistarla a ella, tendrá que conquistar a su familia paisa.

Online Program: From Generation to Generation: Exploring a Holocaust Survivor’s Special Relationship with his Granddaughter
2023-01-31 18:30 | Online Event
Join 3G Chicago, a newly formed group made up of grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, for its inaugural virtual event. As antisemitism is on the rise, sharing stories about the Holocaust and its Survivors is more important than ever. Join us for an intimate conversation with one of the Holocaust’s youngest concentration camp Survivors, Sam Harris, and his granddaughter, Jessica Kreamer, as they share a story of survival and family heritage. Moderated by Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s SVP of Education & Exhibitions, Kelley Szany, this event will emphasize the importance of sharing our stories and the legacy of hope, resilience, and strength.
Reservations required

Architecture & Design Film Festival
2023-02-01 - 2023-02-05 | Chicago Architecture Center, 111 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL, 60601, United States
This winter the CAC will be transforming our galleries into a temporary cineplex and welcoming the New York City-based Architecture & Design Film Festival. The line-up includes 15 feature films and more than a dozen free film shorts from all across the world, each sharing a unique story of innovation and sustainability in architecture, design and fashion. Come join us for this festive celebration for the design-minded. From creative explorations of fascinating architects like Winy Maas and Geoffrey Bawa, to celebrations in artmaking from Marimekko to street art, to the behind-the-scenes drama in everything from contemporary design competitions to community preservation movements, there is something on view for most everyone.
15 stories of innovation and sustainability in architecture, design and fashion. Hosted by the Architecture and Design Film Fest in partnership with the CAC, all showings will be at the Chicago Architecture Center, 111 E Wacker Drive.
Tickets are $20/film or $15 for CAC Members. Your ticket includes a single film showing, access to view all ADFF Short Films before or after your movie time, and headphone rental as needed. Please arrive 20-30 minutes ahead of your scheduled showtime to allow for check-in.
View schedule information, film trailers and more at filmfest.architecture.org.

Black Family Portraits with Seed Lynn
2023-02-01 - 2023-02-28 | South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60653, United States
For this Black History Month, we’re thrilled to partner with photographer Seen Lynn to offer free family portrait to our community!

The Black family portrait, throughout history to the present, has always been an accessible, but vivid practice of self-representation that offers a more genuine and realistic portrayal of Black identity and dignity. Whether being made candidly within the family, or posing for a staged portrait, Black family portraits continue to reveal the inherent beauty, resilience, diversity, and style of our people and culture.
Learn more about our guest photographer below:

Bold Byzantine Women: Empress Theodora, Anna Komnene, and St. Kassia
2023-02-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Online, IL, United States
Join NHM Discussions as we explore the lives and legacies of three of the Byzantine Empire’s most influential figures: Empress Theodora, Anna Komnene, and St. Kassia. Theirs are stories of palace intrigue, spiritual seeking, and intellectual vibrancy. In the man’s world of the Byzantine Empire, these three women left a legacy for us today.

Dinner and a Movie
2023-02-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Thursday, Feb. 2, 5 p.m. dinner and 5:30 p.m. movie
We have the great opportunity to be able to show “Historjà – Stitches for Sápmi” at the Museum. The movie has won numerous awards in Sweden. Britta Marakatt-Labba is part in “Arctic Highways” on display in the main gallery. It is in Swedish and Sami with English subtitles.
About Historja:
Before being the title of Thomas Jackson’s documentary, Historjá is the name that Swedish artist Britta Marakatt-Labba gave to her 24-meter-long tapestry in which she describes the fights of the Sámi culture, to which she belongs, for the acknowledgment of their identity and history. Leitmotifs, images, reminiscences and values of a native people who was settled in the northern part of Fennoscandia – along the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia – are at the core of one of the world’s leading Swedish artists, who works almost exclusively with needle and thread, as well as of the film dedicated to her. The director follows her work and thought regarding major contemporary issues, in the first place climate change and the fight for the right of ethnic minorities. And, while Britta Marakatt-Labba prepares an important exhibition in Germany (Documenta 14, Kassel) and invites the audience to get closer to the material and ideal universe of her productions, in the faraway land of the Sámi (which its inhabitants call Sapmí) her son carries on the century-old tradition of pastoral farming immersed in a universe suspended between past and present, utopia and reality.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15518656/
Cost for dinner and movie is $25 for members and $20 for non-members. Movie only is $10 for all. Prepaid reservations are required for the dinner with no refunds available for cancellations within 5 days of event. Last day to reserve dinner tickets is Wednesday, Feb. 1.

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
2023-02-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL, 60610, United States
This program will be held in person at the Newberry and also livestreamed on Zoom. Free and open to all. Advance registration required.
In-Person Registration
Livestream Registration
Join us for a conversation with historians Tara Zahra and Kevin Boyle about Dr. Zahra’s new book, Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars. They will discuss how nationalism, rather than internationalism, came to ensnare world politics in the early twentieth century.
Before World War I, enthusiasm for a borderless world seemed to be gaining traction. And yet a backlash against globalization was growing. As the war progressed, air escaped from the globalist balloon in the United States and across Europe, where war and disease led to mass societal upheaval.
Against the World will be available for purchase in the Newberry Bookshop, as will Dr. Boyle’s recent book, The Shattering: America in the 1960s. Both authors will sign books after the program.

Setsubun Day Camp
2023-02-03 10:00 - 13:00 | Japanese American Service Committee, 4427 N Clark St, Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Let’s welcome spring together!
JASC hosts a day camp for children to experience traditions for the Japanese holiday of Setsubun (節分).
February 3 is Setsubun (節分); the last day of winter in the 24 solar terms that divide a lunar calendar year.
Campers will learn about traditions for bringing good luck. They will do a craft project creating a demon mask followed by making and eating sushi rolls.
NOTE: Your child MUST BE in between 1st grade and 6th grade as of the date of the registration.
Fee:
JASC members $40
Non-JASC members $50

La Candelaria
2023-02-03 16:00 - 18:00 | OPEN Center for the Arts, 2214 S. Sacramento Ave., Chicago, IL, 60623, United States
Come celebrate La Candelaria Day with us!!!
Food and Art Workshops!
We are waiting for you this February 3 from 4 to 6 p.m.

In 2017, parent leaders from 4 local schools, (Kanoon Elementary Magnet, Saucedo Scholastic Academy, Spry Elementary Community and Hammond Elementary), came to us for support on recreating the Traditional Mexican Winter Celebrations in our community. The idea was to provide the families in the community a space where these annual celebrations can be experienced and passed on to their children. These celebrations are focused on gathering families to sing, walk, dance, perform, make and break pinatas, provide art activities and create a space for parents to share their stories from their childhood with their children, family, and friends.
These celebrations begin with the “Posada” in December, followed by “La Rosca de Reyes” in January, and close off on “El Dia de La Candelaria” in February. The first posada was such a great success, with over 300 residents attending each event, we knew we had to continue these celebrations.
We are proud and excited to announce in collaboration with parent leaders from Kanoon Elementary Magnet School, Saucedo Scholastic Academy, Spry Elementary Community School, and Hammond Elementary School we will be hosting our 5th annual series of traditional Mexican events:
-La POSADA NAVIDEÑA will be: Thursday, December 22nd 2022 from 4p – 7p at OPEN Center for the Arts
-LA ROSCA DE REYES will be: Friday, January 6th 2022 from 4p-6p at OPEN Center for the Arts
-EL DIA DE LA CANDELARIA will be on Friday, February 3rd 2022 from 4p-6p at OPEN Center for the Arts
There will be La Posada, Los Peregrinos, Los Villancicos, Los Aguinaldos, Las Piñatas, Los Tamales, Los Buñuelos, La Rosca, Los Monito, El Chocolate, El Pozole, El Champurrado, El Ponche, La Fruta, La Musica, Los Talleres de Arte y Los Premios. These events will be open for all to Enjoy and Remember.

Korean Games & Crafts
2023-02-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Indian Trails Public Library, 355 Schoenbeck Rd, Wheeling, IL, 60090, United States
The Korean Cultural Center of Chicago presents a variety of traditional Korean games and crafts. Learn to play Ddakji Making, Jegi-chagi or Tuho or make a mask or kite. Drop in to participate anytime between 2-4 pm. Registration not required. All ages.

Burns Night Supper
2023-02-04 18:00 - 21:00 | 400 E. Illinois Road, 400 E. Illinois Road, Lake Forest, IL, 60045, United States
The Chicago Scots are partnering with the Gorton Center and the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff to host the celebration of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns!
Click Here To Purchase Tickets

Kaval Park
2023-02-04 19:00 | Magura Cultural Center, 415 W Golf Rd #7, Arlington Heights, IL, United States
Среща с Богдан Дарев/ Bogdan Darev – продуцент, сценарист и режисьор на филма.
“Кавал парк” преплита в себе си документалното кино с художествено произведение. Прожекцията в Чикаго е част от световното турне на филма.
Документален, САЩ, България, 100 мин., цветен, HD, английско и българско аудио, български и английски субтитри.
КОГА: 4-ти февруари @ 19 ч.
КЪДЕ: Magura Cultural Center
БИЛЕТИ: https://magurabcs.com/cinema/bnrxnggolse9dsi5alcg2wj8ogf34y
“Александър Еплер не е супергерой и затова го обичам. Може пък да е супергерой и неговата суперсила да е музиката. Александър не спасява света по холивудски. Но неговата необратима любов към музиката, към българската култура и българския народ събуди у мен чувство на дълбоко преклонение. КАВАЛ ПАРК е толково документален филм, колкото е и художествено произведение. Целта ми беше да заснема и монтирам филма като повест, като писмо, като симфония от образи и чувства, ноти от миналото, настоящето и бъдещето, уловени моменти от богатия и своеобразен живот на маестро Еплер. Заповядайте в КАВАЛ ПАРК, където киното и живота се преплитат в клоните на дряновите дървета и всички сме взаимосвързани.” – БД
КАКВО КАЗВА ПУБЛИКАТА:
„След този филм мълчание, поклон, тишина.” Атанас
„Жегва. Трудно ми е да го опиша това докосване. Иска ми се повече хора да го видят.” Юли
„Пожелавам всеки, който има възможност да гледа филма. Ще се обогати. Просто ще се обогати духовно!” Любка
Повече от филм, “Кавал парк” е явление!
ОЧАКВАМЕ ВИ!

The 3 B's: "A Concert of Music by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms"
2023-02-04 19:30 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Come enjoy a live performance in our 5th Floor ballroom showcasing the works of three of Germany’s most beloved composers, “The Three Bs: A Concert of Music by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.” This special concert will feature the singing of bass-baritone Andrew Schultze and Svetlana Belsky on the piano in a performance of songs, arias and keyboard.
Andrew Schultze is an active performer, conductor, stage director and teacher. He is well known as an interpreter of the standard opera/oratorio repertoire, as a concert singer, and as a specialist in the performance of early music. He has performed around the world including Austria, France, Italy and more. His rich voice and lively conversation is welcome by guests and audience members.
Andrew will be accompanied by Svetlana Belsky, an in-demand recitalist and chamber pianist, noted for her remarkable rapport with audiences and stylistic versatility. She has appeared in the Ukraine, Russia, Poland, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and throughout the United States. Her performance credits include Carnegie Recital Hall, Kiev Philharmonic Hall, Dame Myra Hess Series, Music in the Loft, countless university concert series, live recitals on Chicago’s WFMT and New York’s WQXR, and guest appearances with the University of Chicago Symphony, Southern Illinois Symphony, Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Tutti Orchestra.
Cost: $5 Suggested Donation
Please Note: Free parking is located at 5/3 Bank located at Western and Gunnison Avenue.

KLUB MASARÝČEK
2023-02-05 | T.G. Masaryk Czech School, 5701 W 22nd Pl, Cicero, IL, 60804, United States
KLUB MASARÝČEK pro předškoláky ve věku 3–5 let vstupuje do druhého pololetí! K zaregistrování jsou vítáni jak stávající žáčci, tak nové tváře! Pro rodiče máme dobrou zprávu, program byl o hodinu prodloužen. Od 7. února se výuka češtiny skrz hry, aktivity na školní zahradě, písničky a pohádky bude konat od 10 do 12:30.
O přihlášky pište na info@czechschoolchicago.org nebo volejte 773-543-9255. Zápisné činí $200 na pololetí (15 setkání). Registrace končí v neděli 5. února. Komunikační dovednost dětí v češtině je podmínkou, stejně tak fungování bez plínek.
Těšíme se na nové žáčky!

UNITY, Maggie Wong
2023-02-05 - 2023-03-12 | Chinese American Museum of Chicago, 238 W. 23rd St, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
The Spotlight Series at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago is pleased to present UNITY, Maggie Wong’s first solo exhibition in Chicago.
Through various manipulations of newsprint via sculptural and print interventions pulled from the artist’s collection of Unity Newspaper, the show depicts a version of childcare that supported revolutionary action, particularly the publishing of Unity by the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a radical communist group that emerged in 1978 upon the merger between the August 29th Movement, a Chicano revolutionary organization, and I Wor Kuen, an Asian American revolutionary organization, both influenced by Mao and followed Marxist-Leninist thought.
This system is what raised the artist and countless other now-grown adults that now serves as a point of departure to feel through a movement as a mothering environment.
About the Artist:
Maggie Wong (b.1988, Oakland, CA) is a visual artist attuned to materiality and sculpture’s disciplinary capacity to shape social space. She creates multidisciplinary works that focus on care labor, sentimentality, and collectivity. As a teacher. Maggie is interested in the interplay between informal and experiential education amidst formal art ecologies. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is currently the Educator-in-Residence at the Luminary, and lecturer at SAIC. Her work has been shown at Mana Contemporary Chicago, Comfort Station, Annas Projects, take care (LA), Temple Contemporary, YBCA, and 99cent Plus, and has been written about in ArtForum and Sixty Inches from Center. Her writing has been published by Yale University Press, Viral Ecologies, and the Journal of Art Practice.

UNITY, Maggie Wong Opening Reception
2023-02-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Chinese American Museum of Chicago, 238 W. 23rd St, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
About the Exhibit:
The Spotlight Series at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago is pleased to present UNITY, Maggie Wong’s first solo exhibition in Chicago.
Through various manipulations of newsprint via sculptural and print interventions pulled from the artist’s collection of Unity Newspaper, the show depicts a version of childcare that supported revolutionary action, particularly the publishing of Unity by the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a radical communist group that emerged in 1978 upon the merger between the August 29th Movement, a Chicano revolutionary organization, and I Wor Kuen, an Asian American revolutionary organization, both influenced by Mao and followed Marxist-Leninist thought.
This system is what raised the artist and countless other now-grown adults that now serves as a point of departure to feel through a movement as a mothering environment.
About the Artist:
Maggie Wong (b.1988, Oakland, CA) is a visual artist attuned to materiality and sculpture’s disciplinary capacity to shape social space. She creates multidisciplinary works that focus on care labor, sentimentality, and collectivity. As a teacher. Maggie is interested in the interplay between informal and experiential education amidst formal art ecologies. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is currently the Educator-in-Residence at the Luminary, and lecturer at SAIC. Her work has been shown at Mana Contemporary Chicago, Comfort Station, Annas Projects, take care (LA), Temple Contemporary, YBCA, and 99cent Plus, and has been written about in ArtForum and Sixty Inches from Center. Her writing has been published by Yale University Press, Viral Ecologies, and the Journal of Art Practice.

Charity Vernissage
2023-02-05 15:00 - 19:00 | Polish Museum of America, 984 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60642, United States
The seventh charity vernissage of Dr. Blazej Lojewski for the benefit of the School and Educational Center for Blind Children in Laski.
During the vernissage – psychism, an innovative concept of art where the viewer becomes the creator, will be presented. Created in 2016, the concept permits the viewer to see what he wants to see; the viewer is always right.
The event will feature performances by well-known jazz musicians: Sławomir Bielawiec (piano) and Rob Denty (saxophone).
“Entry, as always, is free, but remember that there are those who have less and need more and if you can – please visit the Center’s website: laski.edu.pl and, if possible, support them within your means” – Dr. Blazej Lojewski.
Everyone is invited. Bring your families, friends and acquaintances with you, use social media; as always, it will be interesting and as always a little different.
“You do not see what you see and I want you to see what you want to see.”
laski.edu.pl
At the PMA, visually impaired and blind people can go through the recently created “Path of Touch.”

Canta, Violino!
2023-02-06 08:00 - 17:00 | Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60607, United States
For twenty years violinist/fiddler and composer Andrew Finn Magill has been pursuing parallel careers in traditional Irish music, Brazilian choro, jazz and American fiddle, the result of many years living abroad and a childhood growing up at The Swannanoa Gathering in Asheville, North Carolina. He now takes his folk background and his exploration of Brazilian music to create “uncharted territory for both the violin and Brazilian music.”(Bandsintown)
Andrew has performed with top-notch musicians from grammy-nominees Trio Brasileiro to Rising Appalachia. He has been featured on NPR, MTV, Avianca in-flight entertainment, is a Fulbright Fellow, 2019 North Carolina Arts Council Grant recipient for jazz composition and has over a million Spotify streams.
He has been an ambassador of Brazilian violin ever since and has founded many Brazilian music groups including O Finno, Violino no Choro, Brazilian Strings Trio (with fellow American violinist Ted Falcon and Brazilian guitarist Nando Duarte) and Canta, Violino! the album of which was released on Ropeadope Records in 2018.

Artist Registration for 2023 Members Art Exhibition
2023-02-06 14:41 | Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave., Chicago, IL, 60630, United States
Over 36 years ago members of the Irish American Community had a vision to create a place that would hold the spirit of the past, the energy of the present and to keep their culture alive for the future. This non-for-profit organization brings the best in artistic avenues, and arts are an important part of the Irish dialog. We continue to keep that vision alive with the visual arts, music, dance, literature, and drama.
Membership must be up-to-date. Call the office at 773-282-7035, xt 10 to become a member or check status.
Drop off date for artwork is Saturday, February 11th between 10:00am and 12:00pm in the Gallery at the IAHC.
Mailed artwork must be received the week of February 6th through 11th.
Opening reception will be Friday, February 24th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Closing reception will be Sunday, April 30th from 2:00pm to 4:30pm.
The Gallery will be open the following Fridays from 6:00pm to 9:00pm during Lent: February 24th, March 3rd, March 10th, March 24th, and March 11th as part of as part of the St. Patrick’s Fest Celebration at the IAHC.
Kathleen Kelly: k.kelly5805@att.net/773-736-1713

DON'T FEAR THE REAPER by Stephen Graham Jones
2023-02-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Chicago Waldorf School, 5200 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Women & Children First, in partnship with the American Indian Center, is excited to welcome New York Times bestselling author, Stephen Graham Jones for a reading, conversation, and book-signing in honor of Don’t Fear the Reaper, the riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw. For this event, Jones will be in conversation with Gus Moreno. There will also be an introduction by Richard Thomas. This ticketed event will be held off-site at Chicago Waldorf School.
Please note: if you select the bundled ticket option that includes a copy of Don’t Fear The Reaper, you will pick up your book at the event.
Masks are required for all attendees, but can be removed briefly for photos during the book-signing.
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and been recipient of several awards including: the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Gus Moreno is the author of This Thing Between Us. His stories have appeared in Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, Southwest Review, Aurealis, PsuedoPod, and the Burnt Tongues anthology. His work has been featured in the LA Times, Lit-Hub, NPR, and the New York Times. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and two dogs, but never think that he’s not from Chicago.
Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of three novels, four short story collections, 170 stories in print, and the editor of four anthologies. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Thriller, and Audie awards. Visit www.whatdoesnotkillme.com for more information.
American Indian Center (AIC) continues to highlight contemporary Native American (NA) art that promotes cultural pedagogy for discourse and understanding, while providing a necessary inclusive platform for cultural exchange. As visitors to the AIC learn about Native history, contemporary culture, identity and cultural celebrations, they become aware of the NA historical and present-day contribution to the cultural fabric of the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois. You can support AIC’s work by donating HERE.
For accessibility requests, scholarship tickets, or other inquiries please email wcfbooks@gmail.com

Winter Storytelling with the Morton Arboretum
2023-02-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual, Chicago, IL, United States
Enjoy traditional Native American stories about nature & learn about the role of storytelling in Indigenous culture virtually with the Morton Arboretum & Trickster Cultural Center. $10 Morton Arboretum member / $17 guest. Age: 16 and older.
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