The Power of Oral Histories: Remembering and Recording Everyday Voices
Creator of HAMOC's Oral History Collection, Dr. Courtney Pierre Joseph will discuss the methodology and importance of oral histories.
Free
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Every Child Matters Powwow
The Mitchell Museum is a proud co-sponsor of this event. MORE INFORMATION: Contact Cyndee Fox-Starr at [email protected] or Christine Redcloud at [email protected] at or call American Indian Health Services at (773) 883-9100.
Free
Shanta Nurullah’s Songs and Stories: A Free Family Saturday Event
Bring the whole family and join SAI and Shanta Nurullah's band. Shanta will perform songs and stories that highlight African and African American ways with her bass and sitar.
Free
Harvest Fest
Celebrate fall! Go on a tour of the Farmette, bee apiary, and Food Forest and partake in fall-themed games, a pumpkin patch, a scarecrow-making contest, falls crafts, live music, and more!
Free
Hangawi & Kimchi 2023
The Korean Cultural Center of Chicago will celebrate Korean Thanksgiving by learning to make your own kimchi, with traditional games and performance.
$20
Mobeen Ansari’s ‘Tapestry of a Land’ Book Talk
Mobeen Ansari shares his journey as an acclaimed photographer, talks about his books, his recent works, and how he as an artist covers his subject.
Free – $60
Anna Yurchenko-Knight Concert
Please join us to see Ukrainian pianist Anna Yurchenko-Knight live at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art!
$20
Ricano by Jonathan Suazo
RICANO is an original Afro-Caribbean experience that presents themes of integration, community, and self-acceptance, through live shows, immersive classes and recordings.
$10 – $15
БЪЛГАРСКИ КОРАБ ПОТЪВА В БУРНО МОРЕ
Seven-year-old Petyo is sent on a forced vacation to the village after learning that his father has gone abroad. There, Petio discovers friendship in the person of six-year-old Philip.
$20
МАЙКА
A woman's inability to become pregnant and desire to be a mother takes her to Africa, where she encounters many children without parents and makes sense of their lives and her own.
$20
Folded Map Film Screening & Talk Back
Filmmaker Tonika Johnson investigates Chicago's urban segregation, visually connecting residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago
Free
Dear Sirs Documentary Screening with Filmmaker Q&A
Dear Sirs retraces the journey of WWII American POW Silvio Pedri, the grandfather of filmmaker Mark Pedri.
$10 – $15
History Course: Of Breaking Bonds, The German-American Experience
Over the duration of this 16-week course, we will learn and discuss the German-American experience, from the very first trickle of Germans to North America in Jamestown in 1608 thru the subsequent German waves of immigration to the present day.
$150 – $250
“Gods of War”
In this modern era, the Armed Forces have become revered by millions of Ukrainians as valiant protectors. This exhibition pays homage to this belief.
“Cultural Paths: Michoacan Art” Opening Reception
Filipinos in Chicago Exhibit & Fundraiser
Featuring select materials from the archival collection of Estrella Alamar and the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago.
Free
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Please join Trickster Cultural Center's Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration.
Notes on Collaborative Friendship & All of Living is Risk | Openings!
SSCAC kicks off their Fall/Winter Exhibitions with Through a Lens of Beauty & Wonderment:Notes on Collaborative Friendship and All of Living is Risk.
FreeChicago Public Library – Portage Cragin – LATINX HISTORY
Center of Peruvian Arts will perform a wedding dance from the Cusco city called Capac Moro Sipaschay, the jungle dance Shapish of Chupacas, and the Afro Peruvian dance, Chinchivy.
Free
Film Screening: Big Fight in Little Chinatown
Big Fight in Little Chinatown documents the fight to save North American Chinatowns that are under threat of disappearing – along with their rich history and communities.
Free