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 […]
Our January Open Haus will be the best game night in town! Did you know that Germans invented the jigsaw puzzle and board games? Bring your friends and your competitive spirit and celebrate Germany with a night of German food, drink, games, and Gemütlichkeit! We'll have games of all types - board games, card games, […]
This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. Free and open to all. Advance registration required. In-Person Registration Livestream Registration Join us as historian Kaya Şahin, author of Peerless among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman, and art historian Elizabeth Rodini discuss the sixteenth-century ruler, during whose reign the Ottoman […]
This Friday, January 12, 2023, at 7 PM the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Chicago, presents: "The Road to Global Conquest: Stalinist Expansionism and the Baltic Region, 1917-1953" A lecture by Dr. Alexander Gogun from the Free University of Berlin Dr. Gogun is the author of Stalin’s Commandos: Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front […]
Through the years, the land and water around Chicago have been radically altered. In 1900, the river was reversed. Meanwhile, Michigan Avenue by Grant Park used to be lakefront property! […]
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 […]
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, in association with MGM Television, SIPUR, Toluca Pictures, Alice Communications, and Menemsha Films, will host the North American premiere of The Devil’s Confession: The Lost […]
Eleven artists with ties to North and South of the Mason-Dixon Line respond to just how much Black life has always been in transit. The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. It has transformed cities like Chicago, Detroit, New York and Pittsburgh between 1916 and 1970. […]
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 […]
South Asia Institute brings together art and poetry by South Asian women to create a space for alternative narratives of femininity and identity.
Please join us for our second conversation on Chicago craft in the 1970s-80s with some of the city's long-standing artists and activists, including Lourdes Guerrero, artist and educator; Indira Freitas […]
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 […]
Join us for an evening of poetry, song and Scottish fun at Martyrs’. Admission is free!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]