Chicago Cultural Alliance

Ukrainian Pysanky (Easter Egg) Workshop - SOLD OUT
2022-04-09 05:00 - 08:30, 2022-04-02 05:00 - 08:30 (America/Chicago) | Ukrainian National Museum, 2249 W. Superior St., Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
Pysanka Workshops at the Ukrainian National Museum
We are excited to once again announce the Pysanky (Easter Egg) Workshops at the Ukrainian National Museum.
This year we offer in-person classes.

You will discover the art of writing pysanky by our expert Pysanka Instructor Anna Chychula. In each session, you will learn the process of how to use the tools (kistka, wax, dyes) and to write your own pysanka. Information about the history, meanings of the colors and symbols in this Ukrainian art will be shared during the workshop.

Hurry and select a date that best suits you.
MARCH 12TH, MARCH 26TH, APRIL 2ND and APRIL 9TH

Class schedule from 10:00 am to 1:30 p.m.

COST: $40.00 per person, including a complete kit (with dyes, wax, kistka), detailed instructions, preparation timeline, and brochure.

REGISTER HERE FOR PYSANKA WORKSHOP

For any questions please email: admin@ukrainiannationalmuseum.org or call 312 421-8020
No previous experience is required to participate in the workshop.
Recommended for ages 16+.
The maximum number of participants per workshop 15.

Get Egg-cited: Polish Pisanki Workshop
2022-04-09 05:00 - 07:00 | Polish Roman Catholic Union of America Social Hall, 984 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60642, United States
Easter is on its way.
Get in the spirit by learning the intricate art of making Pisanki – Polish egg decorating,
with instructor Christine Frankowicz-Burd,
on Saturday, April 9, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The workshop will be held in the PRCUA Social Hall on the first floor.
This year’s event is co-sponsored by the Edward T. & Ellen K. Dryer Charitable Foundation.
The workshop registration fee is $25 per person and includes the cost of stylus and wax. Each participant is asked to bring 3-4 hard-boiled eggs. Children must be at least 10 years old and accompanied by a parent or guardian for the entire workshop.
Museum admission is complimentary for each paid participant on the day of the workshop.
Space is limited to 40 participants. Guarantee a place today by calling 773-384-3352, ext. 2111, or register online
Checks should be made payable to: Polish Museum of America. Credit card payment is also accepted. Free parking.
Dyes, wax, and kistka/ stylus can be ordered from the PMA Gift Shop online.

Author Talk: Dr. Don Grossnickle - My Maja: A Grandson's Tribute
2022-04-09 05:00 - 06:00 | Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
My Maja, A Swedish-American Proud Grandson’s Tribute by Chicago’s Dr. Don Grossnickle
Maja, a young roaring twenties Swedish adventurer set sail on a luxury steamship to New York and on to Chicago in 1922 for a visit to relatives. Maja fell in love and spent the rest of her life pursuing the American Dream. Adversity challenges were extreme for a widowed single mother of three balancing long hours as a night nurse and running a boarding house. Ups and downs while being alone in a hostile struggling America during the Great Depression almost killed her. Maja claimed her Swedish upbringing, character and faith carried the day. History has not taken note of the great guts, gumption, perseverance, determination of Swedish women immigrants. The book, My Maja,-is meant to awaken history and to keep Maja’s, “framåtanda” fully alive forever.
Come and chat with Don Grossnickle about the Swedish-American Spirit living in each of us today. To register for this event you an email museum@samac.org or call 773.728.8111. Fika (coffee and treats) will be available for purchase.

Opening Reception: Wanting it Both Ways
2022-04-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622, United States
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is delighted to announce a new group exhibition titled Wanting it Both Ways, featuring mixed media works by Bill Conger, Tanya Hastings Gill, Mie Kongo, and Jennifer Mannebach.
Before it became synonymous with a defect or shortcoming, the etymology of the word “flaw” related to a fragment, splinter, or piece of something, and was closely associated with the idea of a stray ember. A fragment or “flaw” as a spark, a glowing ember, is an incendiary condition quite different from the more typical notion of a fragment as a leftover or remnant.
These insistent fragments may preserve a fleeting moment or memory; something that is not embalmed in time but is a flickering touchstone to revisit and find more–more permutations, more iterations, and more potentialities. These artists contend with the desire to capture a sense of the fugitive, often manifesting in fragmented forms that speak to the interdependence of things. They are acutely aware of how small altercations can shift things substantially, looking at the interplay of material identities, as well as the relationship between the maker and the materials.
This practice of working with forms and ideas can result in work that can feel like a temporary capture— revealing the desire to have it both ways, to hold still for a moment in time, just long enough to see what gathers at the edges before releasing it into another recombinant state.

Exhibition runs through June 4

Frühling Feierabend | Celebrate The Weekend!
2022-04-08 14:00 - 17:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Frühling Feierabend
6. Stock in unserer Skyline Lounge
Freitag, 8. April um 19 Uhr
Genießen Sie den zweiten Feierabend des 2022 am 8. April um 19 Uhr mit uns.
Es gibt Snacks umsonst so lange der Vorrat reicht! Getränke können vor Ort gekauft werden.
Dieses Event findet auf dem 6. Stock in unserer Skyline Lounge statt, von der man eine richtig schöne Aussicht auf die Chicago Skyline hat.
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Spring Feierabend
6th Floor, Skyline Lounge
Friday, April 8 @ 7:00 PM
Join us for our second Feierabend of 2022 on Friday, April 8th at 7pm. Feierabend is the German concept of being done with work for the day – basically, time to relax with friends!
We will have free snacks available while supplies last. Drinks will be sold on location.
The event will take place in our 6th floor Skyline Lounge, where there is a lovely view of the Chicago skyline!
Free parking at 5/3 Bank after 6:00 PM located at Western and Gunnison

Exhibition Opening: The Life and Legacy of Christine Staruch
2022-04-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Ukrainian National Museum, 2249 W. Superior St., Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
The Ukrainian National Museum invites you to a new art exhibition opening Friday, April 8, at 7pm, celebrating the life and legacy of Christine Staruch. Christine was a staunch supporter of Ukrainian culture and arts, who immigrated to Chicago after World War II. Later in life she became the owner of the Rose Gallery, where she organized exhibitions for artists, and developed an impressive collection of art. The show will feature works from her own collection, and Christine’s family has decided to donate the proceeds from the sale of the inheritance to charitable foundations benefitting Ukraine.⁠

Please support this important event. Opening Night: Friday, April 8 at 7 PM with
Classical Music: GRAND AWARD WINNER –
Dando Piano Trio: Lily Sullivan, violin, Mia Wimbiscus, cello,
Myroslav Mykhailenko piano. Sponsored by Staruch Family and David L. Cwik, Attorney

Kulturküche | German Pretzels Cooking Class
2022-04-08 13:00 - 15:00 | 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.

Homer-athon: A Reading of Homer's Odyssey In Its Entirety
2022-04-08 07:00 - 14:00 | National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL, 60661, United States
Please join us as we read the ancient tale of Odysseus’ journey home from war. Like him, each of us is also adjusting to new circumstances in our lives as we emerge from the pandemic. What better way to begin our journey home together?
Each reader will be assigned a specific passage that is approximately 3 minutes long. Sign up for one passage or many. If being a reader isn’t for you, consider participating as an audience member. Bring your friends and stay for as long as you like at this engaging, live event!

FOUNDATION Exhibition
2022-04-08 04:00 - 12:00, 2022-04-07 04:00 - 12:00, 2022-04-06 04:00 - 12:00, 2022-04-05 04:00 - 12:00, 2022-04-04 04:00 - 12:00, 2022-04-02 05:00 - 10:00, 2022-04-01 04:00 - 12:00, 2022-03-31 04:00 - 12:00 and 2 more dates | Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, 9925 Capitol Dr, Wheeling, IL, United States
The Korean Cultural Center of Chicago is pleased to present FOUNDATION, a group exhibition curated by Dabin Ahn, bringing together a group of emerging artists, FOUNDATION hopes to offer experience of identifying how each artist structures their practice by employing [Culture] [Longing] [Color] [Identity] [Process] [Memory] [Site-Specificity] as its foundation.
Opening Reception Friday, March 12, 2pm

Artecito Virtual: Arboles, hojas y semillas
2022-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
Comienza con una semilla, crece hasta convertirse en árboles y brotan hojas. ¡Estos organismos que dan vida vienen en muchas variedades diferentes, y algunas de las cuales son exclusivas de nuestras áreas circundantes!
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre arboles, hojas y semillas con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Conéctate aquí: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoArboles
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It starts with a seed, grows into trees and sprouts leaves. These life giving organisms come in many different varieties, and some of which are exclusive to our surrounding areas!
Join us as we explore more about trees, leaves and seeds with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Connect here: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoArboles

Artecito is a Spanish language virtual workshop in partnership with Lincoln Park Zoo.

Kaffeeklatsch
2022-04-07 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-03-31 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.

Online Curator Talk: Tova Brandt
2022-04-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Event
New Nordic Cuisine is currently on display at the Swedish American Museum. In this virtual talk we get to meet with Tova Brandt who is the Executive Director of the Museum of Danish America in Iowa. The Museum of Danish American curated the exhibit.
About the exhibit:
The cooking traditions and innovations of the Nordic region have captured the attention of the world and inspired chefs and home cooks alike. In 2004 the Nordic Food Manifesto articulated a set of values for approaching food through the lenses of local production, seasonality, tradition, and innovation, among others. The manifesto and reactions to it have sparked a robust dialog about food culture, both in the Nordic countries and around the world.

Scandinavian Jam Online
2022-04-03 08:30 - 10:30 | Online Event
Scandinavian Jam, where we practice what we teach. Join Mary Allsopp and Paul Tyler online on the first and third Sunday of every month. Enjoy an afternoon of traditional roots music. We teach by ear, review and share tunes. We are happy to take suggestions and love meeting new people. It’s a friendly group and we have folks joining in from across the country.
Contact Scandi.Fiddler@yahoo.com or PTyler@ameritech.net with any questions and to get a zoom code. This is a free event.

Lithuanian Easter Egg Etching Workshop
2022-04-02 09:00 - 11:00 | Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL, 60629, United States
Join us at Lithuanian Easter Egg Workshop with folk-artist Don Astras who will instruct you in the etching/scratch technique!

About this event

Join us on Saturday, April 2 at 2 pm at the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture for our popular Easter Egg Decorating workshop using the traditional Lithuanian surface etching technique. Each participant is asked to bring 6 hardboiled and dyed eggs to the workshop. Preregistered participants will receive information on how to dye eggs using natural onion skin with their registration confirmation email. Etching tools will be provided.
Additional patterns and designs by the late Ursula Astras, the folk-artist who taught the workshops at the Museum for many years and whose son, Don, and wife, Kathy, now carry on the folk-art traditions. Information about Mrs. Astras’s life and work can be found on LadyofWheat.com.
Participants will be invited to tour the Museum’s collection of Easter eggs by Mrs. Astras as well as by the late Ramute Plioplys, a folk artist who pioneered innovative egg engraving methods for hollow eggs.
Refreshments will be provided.
For more information about the workshop, please call 773-582-6500 or visit our website: https://balzekasmuseum.org

(Egg photo credit: LadyofWheat.com)

April Call to Peace with Peter Magai Bul
2022-04-02 07:30 - 08:30 | Online Event
Join us to send peace and love to all countries and meet our inspirational special guest Peter Magai Bul. https://theimmigrantstory.org/lost-boy/
We met Peter when he started representing South Sudan in the World Peace Flag Ceremony in 2014 at Peace Day. (Buildthepeace.org) and he has been huge supporter every year since then. Peter embarked on harrowing journey as one of the “Lost Boys and Lost Girls of Sudan” at the age of 8 when his ethnic Dinka population was attacked by the Sudanese government sending thousands of boys and girls separated from their families to survive over a decade struggling for their lives in exile. Hear about how he relied on his strong cultural upbringing to make it through years of unimaginable conditions and then went on to draw on his experiences to become a human rights activist and a community organizer, inspiring youth to leverage their own experiences to make a change in the world. Also learn about his upcoming exhibit at Navy Pier:
http://www.southsudanmagaibul.org/events
Join us here live or on zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81369934785 ID 813 6993 4785
Read Peter’s complete bio below:
Peter Magai Bul was born in Wangulei, South Sudan. In 1988, when Bul was only seven, war in Sudan forced him to leave his family and embark upon the longest exodus of his life that first sent him to exile in Ethiopia. He is one of 26,000 “Lost Boys and Lost Girls of Sudan,” driven from their villages when the Sudanese government attacked his ethnic Dinka population of Southern Sudan in 1988. After escaping the Ethiopian war of 1991 to the border of Sudan and Kenya, further attacks by the Sudanese government’s soldiers forced a final exile to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya where he and about survived 14,000 Lost Boys and Lost Girls resisted life-threatening conditions for a total of nine long years. Bul and about 3,800 Sudanese refugees were finally resettled in the US in 2001.
During his long walk, he relied on his strong cultural upbringing that allowed him to survive. Later, in the U.S., he drew on his experiences to become a human rights activist and a community organizer, inspiring youth to leverage their own skills to make change in the world. As a survivor and a member of generation betrayed by the Sudanese leaders who murdered and displaced millions of his people throughout many decades of endless civil wars, Bul is committed to championing the unity of his scattered people as well as peace in South Sudan and from the around the world. Throughout his thirteen years of struggles from various refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, Bul served as a leader, caring for hundreds of motherless and fatherless children and he continue serving others throughout his over twenty years of living in the United States of America.

Bul shared his story with thousands of people at the invitations of faith-based institutions, community organizations, universities, high schools, elementary schools, and other public venues. He made television appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Avy Meyers North Town News Magazine, as well as in news segments on WGN, Voice of America, and CAN TV, among others. Stories from various aspects of his life have been published in news sources such as The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and Naperville’s Daily Herald. Bul is a passionate advocate for his homeland and the U.S Sudanese Community. He served as a Board Member for the Chicago Association for the Lost Boys of Sudan (CALBOS) and Sudanese Community Association of Illinois (SCAI), among others. He cofounded and served as a President of nonprofit organization, the Philadelphia-based Ayual Community Development Association (ACDA). Bul is also a member of the US-based advocate, humanitarian, and charitable groups known as the Ambassador Group (AG) and Coalition of Advocates for South Sudan (CASS).

Scottish American History Forum
2022-04-02 05:00 - 06:00 | Online Event
Topic: The Council, the Union and the ‘Patriot’: The Scottish Privy Council, Anglo-Scottish, Union and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
Presenter: Alastair J. Mann, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Stirling, Scotland

This event is complimentary. To attend, please RSVP below or email jacksanders@chicagoscots.org.

Chicago Legends for Ukraine
2022-04-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Chopin Theatre, 1543 West Division Street, Chicago, IL, 60642, United States
A fundraising event honoring the brave people of Ukraine from Chicago’s legendary musicians.

About this event

Performances by:
Orbert Davis, trumpet
Lynne Jordan, vocals
Leandro Lopez Varady, piano
Olha Tsvyntarna, vocals
Marlene Rosenberg, base
Raymond Glower, piano
Ivan Shmilo, bandura
Mike Jackson, saxophone
Stephen Eisen, trumpet
Josh Ross, percussion
Trioda, vocals & more!

Additional donations encouraged. 100% of the proceeds will be donated for humanitarian relief. UIMA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your donation is tax deductible as allowed by law.

Irish Art in Practice: Demands of Hope
2022-03-31 14:00 - 16:00 | Online Event
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.
Demands of Hope, March 31st, 7:00pm CST
In spring 2020, in the throes of the Covid-19 lockdown, Rita Duffy completed a residency at Trinity College confined like much of the world. She began sketching flowers akin to those she saw emerging in Dublin, as well as highly detailed anatomic drawings of human organs, exploring the strength and fragility of our systems in the face of a threatening pathogen. In Demands of Hope we will screen Duffy’s original animation, Anatomy of Hope. We will also view key works by Ursula Burke like The Politicians, as we explore the duality of hope: its yearning for something bright, the preservation of what we treasure or the introduction of something new and our deep fears that such optimism may not manifest.

Elternabend: Parent's Night Out
2022-03-31 13:00 - 15:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Need a night out, but don’t know what to do with the kids? DANK has you covered!
Join us on Thursday, March 31 from 6-8 pm for a parent’s night out. We will provide childcare and fun, enriching activities at the Haus for your kids, while you get to enjoy drinks, dinner, and the view of the city from our 6th Floor Skyline Lounge.
Registration includes dinner, two drinks, and childcare per adult! Children will also receive a meal and juice or water.
Cost
We are pleased to offer a discounted rate for Friends of the DANK Haus (What’s this?)
Adults (Friends of DANK Haus): $30
Children (Friends of DANK Haus): $15
Adults (General): $35
Children (General): $20
Note: Childcare is available for children ages 3 and up.
Anyone is welcome! DANK members, neighbors, friends – come out and join us for our very first Elternabend (parent evening)!
Save the date for our next Elternabend: May 19th, 2022
