Special Exhibit - ICON
2023-12-28 - 2024-01-28 | Heritage Museum of Asian Art, 3500 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL, 60609, United States
ICON explores the multi-cultural figure, the Buddha, and its representation as a global icon through a unique and global perspective.

History Course: Of Breaking Bonds, The German-American Experience
2023-12-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
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.

Neighborhood Nights
2023-12-28 19:00 - 23:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Enjoy a beverage with a spectacular EXPERIENCE in our haus. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.

Sip, Shop & Workshop
2023-12-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Haitian American Museum of Chicago, 4410 N Clark St, Chicago, 60640, United States
HAMOC is hosting a celebration for the December birthdays of staff, volunteers, and friends of the museum. Plus, we will learn more about Tarot Cards, and the meanings behind their readings in a workshop led by Sandra Calixte.

FREE Guided Tours at the National Hellenic Museum
2023-12-30 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-06 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-13 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-20 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-27 11:00 - 15:00 | National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL, 60661, United States
Join us for our FREE, limited-time offer guided tours every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. These one-hour tours offer a comprehensive journey through the museum’s rich exhibitions and artifacts.

German Intercultural Classes
2024-01-01 - 2024-12-31 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Are you looking for an intercultural program for your employees which will prepare them for their stay in a German-speaking country?
Then contact us at languageschool@dankhaus.com for more information.

Neighborhood Nights
2024-01-11 19:00 - 23:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Date:
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
Time:
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Location
DANK Haus, 6th Floor Skyline Lounge

enjoy a beverage with a spectacular EXPERIENCE in our haus
A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum
WHEN
Each 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month from 7-11 PM.
Location
Winter months – Brauhaus Room (2nd floor)
Summer/Fall months – Skyline Lounge/Terrace (6th floor)
Subject to change. Be sure to check elevator signs when arriving!

Pongal at Kalapriya!
2024-01-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Kalapriya Studio, 2101 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, United States
Pongal is a harvest festival dedicated to the Sun God Surya celebrated in Tamil Nadu, India, and corresponds with Makar Sankranti or simply Sankranti – marking the transition of the Sun from the zodiac of Sagittarius (Dhanu) to Capricorn (Makara). Pongal and Makar Sankranti are celebrated either on the 14th or 15th of January.
The celebrations for both festivals are grand, bright, and colourful! The word Pongal means to “overflow” in Tamil, and refers to the dish of boiled milk, jaggery, and rice offered to the Sun God Surya. Please join us on January 14, 2024 to celebrate this auspicious festival with us at Kalapriya!
Itinerary:
Food, partaking in ceremonial Pongal: 2-3 PM
Free Bollywood Class at 3PM with Sejal Lal! This class is for ALL levels
4PM: Wrap Up

Native Voices Cover-to-Cover Project: Ensuring Indigenous Representation in Children?s Literature
2024-01-15 10:00 - 17:00 | IL
Date: 2024-01-15
Location:
3001 Central Street
Evanston,
IL
60201
United States

The Mitchell Museum, in partnership with the Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, kicks off a new project to ensure Indigenous representation in children’s literature at our first Native Book Fair on Monday, January 15th, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
To make sure authentic Native literature is accessible to everyone, we will offer a curated selection of six Native-authored books at no cost to families and children (ages 5-11) of all backgrounds.
The selection of six books and their themes undo harmful stereotypes and inaccurate information presented to Native and non-Native children in classrooms and libraries while amplifying the work of Indigenous authors who positively and authentically reflect the diversity and strengths of Native people and communities.
Books are free to take home for families. Books are limited and will be given on a first-come, first-serve basis.
To participate and reserve your books, please register in advance here:

The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness
2024-01-19 11:00 - 2024-04-27 18:00 | South Asia Institute, 1925 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
South Asia Institute is pleased to announce its new exhibition, “The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness,” in collaboration with the Paglees.
The Paglees is a feminist collective of artists of South Asian origin living across the United States. Paglee or pagli means crazy woman in a number of South Asian languages. The Paglees are: Fawzia Khan, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Monica Jahan Bose, Nirmal Raja, Pallavi Sharma, Renluka Maharaj, and Shelly Bahl.
In their debut exhibition, The Paglees investigate – with fierceness, beauty, and wit – the impact on women of generations of patriarchy, religion, white supremacy, colonialism, violence, capitalism, and environmental plunder.
The title of the exhibition derives from Rosa Parks’ words: “There is just so much hurt, disappointment and oppression one can take. The bubble of life grows larger. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.” (Rosa Parks: Writings, Notes and Statements,1956-58).
Featuring mixed-media works on paper, fabric, and canvas, sculpture, performance, photography, installation, and moving image, The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness, questions and reframes the labeling of non-conforming women as crazy and the marginalization of immigrant women of color. This collective exhibition presents new decolonial narratives that center the reason and wisdom of brown women of the Global South and diaspora, and provide pathways to a creative feminist future. The Paglees believe in working in collaboration with other marginalized communities to build bridges and demand social, environmental, and legal justice for all.
THE PAGLEES
Fawzia Khan | Indrani Nayar-Gall | Monica Jahan Bose | Nirmal Raja | Pallavi Sharma | Renluka Maharaj | Shelly Bahl

3rd Fridays Free Admission Museum Night
2024-01-19 17:00 - 20:00 | Heritage Museum of Asian Art, 3500 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL, 60609, United States
Free Admission Museum Nights take place every third Friday of each month from 5 pm to 8 pm! The tour will start at 6 PM on time. All tours depart from the reception desk, and please be sure to arrive on time. The event offers wine and appetizers.
This Friday at 7-7:40 PM, our Resident Artist 2024 – Irene Hsiao will perform at the Heritage Museum of Asian Art as part of the project If The Sky Could Dream.
About the Tour –
Learn about Asian Art in the Heritage Museum of Asian Art with a guided hour-long tour around the gallery. Museum-trained interns and volunteers will give a talk on selected artworks. Each word is packed with fascinating insights, information, and stories. During this participatory experience, you’ll connect with works from across the collection and get a close look at highlighting artworks. Visitors of all ages are welcome.
Please note tours may be canceled or postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.
About the project –
IF THE SKY COULD DREAM focuses on the Chinese dragon as a powerful being that fosters harmony. This creature is emblematic of China as well as a mythological being for many Asian and Western cultures and thus evokes a sense of mysticism, and intrigue in many communities. Representing the Chinese Dragon as a water deity, the installation series will feature images and projections of the weather and local bodies of water in Chicago.
If The Sky Could Dream is supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
About Irene Hsiao
Irene Hsiao creates performances in conversation with visual art in museums, galleries, and public spaces, a practice that includes site-specific interaction with visual artworks and experimental engagement with artists, institutions, and the public. Find out more through our website.
Accessibility
The Heritage Museum of Asian Art’s Entrance is on West 35th Street. Take the elevator to the third floor and turn right to the Museum Reception Desk. Accessible and standard toilets are located on the same floor. Free parking space is available next to the museum via West 35th Street.
If you have any programming questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with info@heritageasianart.org or 312-842-8884.

LEGO® & LIBATIONS
2024-01-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Right Bee Cider, 1830 N Kostner Ave, Chicago, Chicago, 60639
LEGO aren’t just for kids. Join CAC staff at Right Bee Cider to learn about the Design Process and construct your very own LEGO build with a design challenge.

Spieleabend | Game Night Stammtisch Open Haus
2024-01-19 19:30 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Our January Open Haus will be the best game night in town! Bring your friends and your competitive spirit and celebrate Germany with a night of German food, drink, games, and Gemütlichkeit!

Immense Journeys
2024-01-20 - 2024-03-03 | Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622, United States
Immense Journeys: Art, Nature, Science and Beyond
Featuring Melissa Jay Craig, Lisa A. Frank, Anne Hughes
On display until March 3rd, 2024
Melissa Jay Craig, Lisa A. Frank, and Anne Hughes lead lives rich in creative experiences informed by nature. Day by day, art practice and the natural world awaken shoots of imaginative reflections and actions. This exhibition brings together varied, visual art forms to stand on their own and resonate off the others through surprising interconnections (just like nature itself). A purposeful confluence provides many pathways into appreciation of process and range. It allows for thoughtful exploration of the infinite ways in which nature affects our lives and we affect nature. Presented here are works by three artists who, over decades, have embraced the wonders of nature and witnessed results of human actions and inactions. Deepfelt desires, to share their personal artworks and stir the passions of others to engage, reside at the heart of this exhibition. There is no one-way in. Creativity and nature inspire, confound, amaze, and amuse.

3831 HOLIDAY POP-UP!
2024-01-22 00:00 | IL
3831 Holiday Pop-Up is a mini pop-up market hosted in SSCAC’s historic Burroughs gallery, that features vendors working across a variety of businesses from jewelry to candles, books, and more!

Fundraiser: The Negotiator: Billy Caldwell Documentary
2024-01-22 12:18 | IL
Date: 2024-06-20
Location:
9603 Woods Drive
Skokie,
IL
60077
United States

A Fundraiser for Mitchell Museum of the American Indian: The Negotiator: Billy Caldwell Documentary
Thursday, June 20 | 7 PM film showtime

As one of the treaty signers in 1829 and 1833, Billy Caldwell and others negotiated the sale of 5,000,000 acres of land in northwest Illinois, resulting in the removal of all Native American tribes in the state of Illinois. Billy Caldwell, son of a Mohawk woman, Rising Sun and British Army Captain, William Caldwell was a leader in early Chicago. Although he was not a blood relative of the Great Lakes tribes in the area in 1833, Caldwell worked to negotiate the safe passage of the United Nations of Chippawa, Ottawa and Potawatomi out of the state of Illinois and west to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Today, Caldwell’s Band of Prairie People now live in Mayetta, Kansas as the federally-recognized tribe of Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. This documentary explores these actions through research and interviews with local subject experts.

Get Your Architectural Kitsch on Route 66
2024-01-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Online, IL, United States
Called the Mother Road, U.S. Highway 66 has been a fixture in American history since its inception in 1926. Join us for a trip along the highway – known simply as Route 66 – as we look at the best examples of what has been called Roadside Architecture: the visual reflections of the American regions the road crisscrossed.
Route 66 was an exploration trail to America’s west, became a migration trail from the Dust Bowl to California, a military transport road during World War II, and later reverted to a tourism trek. Typically, the vernacular architecture along the way was suited for its purpose as gas stations, eateries or souvenir shops, all new building types in the 1930s. Over the years, the architectural styles illustrated what many would call “kitsch,” defined as cheaply made, disposable, accidental or even tacky. Have some fun, get your kicks – and kitsch – on Route 66.
Presenter: Ellen Shubart
A lifelong Chicagoan, CAC docent Ellen Shubart spent more than two decades as a journalist, taught at the college level and ended her career as an advocate for sustainable city planning. A historian by training, with advanced degrees in U.S. History and Historic Preservation, she has written four books all with an emphasis on the history of the City of Chicago: What’s With Chicago?, Images of America: Glencoe, Illinois, Taylor Street, Chicago’s Little Italy and most recently, Chicago: An Illustrated Timeline.

Forever Free: Frederick Douglass Tours
2024-01-25 15:00 - 2024-02-29 00:00 | American Writers Museum, 180 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60601, United States
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” —Frederick Douglass
Discover the incredible legacy and enduring impact of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, as well as other Black writers who came before and after him. This 15-minute tour introduces you to all areas of the American Writers Museum, with a special focus on our special exhibit Dark Testament: A Century of Black Writers on Justice. Following the tour, you can explore all of our exhibits more in depth and at your own pace.
Forever Free: Frederick Douglass tours are offered daily at 3:00pm when the AWM is open. We are open Thursdays to Mondays, from 10 am to 5 pm. We are closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The tour is included with museum admission and no advanced registration is required. Tours begin at the Museum front desk.

Join the Chicago Scots at Martyrs’ Live for a very special Burns Supper!
2024-01-25 19:00 - 21:00 | IL
Date: January 25 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:
3855 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago,
IL
60613
United States

Join the Chicago Scots at Martyrs’ Live for a very special Burns Supper!

Neighborhood Nights
2024-01-25 19:00 - 23:00 | IL

Splinter: A Romantic Comedy
2024-01-26 19:00 - 20:30 | The Edge Theater, 5451 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640
A play for those held captive by theater itself. On the border of illusion and reality, the only constant is human feeling.
After a glorious Chicagoland premiere of Splinter: A Romantic Comedy in Wheeling and Evanston, IL, the play will be performed again at The Edge Theater at 5451 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640 on Friday January 26th at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday January 27th at 6:00 p.m.
Splinter is a kind, light romantic comedy, based on French drama masterpieces. You will laugh and be a little sad. You will get a huge boost of optimism. The play is about love of the theater, about friendship and fidelity, and about the ability to dream. It is a sensitive and touching story about the theatrical world, where it is difficult at times to distinguish what is an illusion and what is reality. The only constant is human feeling.
Learn more about Splinter Theatre – www.splintertheatre.com
Follow us on Facebook – https://fb.me/e/3673fzYtE
About Splinter
The aging actress dreams of returning to the theater, making new friends and losing old ones. Elizabeth is unrestrainedly devoted to her only passion – the stage. In it, she finds the strength to live, feel, love and hope. Theater is in her blood. It is like a splinter that does not let you forget about yourself…The action of this poetic and poignant performance takes place in a small run-down hotel. Next to the former (or maybe just failed) actress are two men. One is a lover to whom a girlfriend is already a burden. The other is an uncouth bellboy. With the help of the main character, he can approach the alluring and hitherto inaccessible world of theater. In the fictional world of Elizabeth, touching, naive and magnificent dreams are born and die, and the soul of a delightful dreamer and woman blossoms.

Scottish Genealogy Group
2024-01-27 10:00 - 11:30 | IL
Date: January 27 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Location:
2800 Des Plaines Avenue
North Riverside,
IL
60546
United States

Kino, Kaffee und Kuchen
2024-01-27 10:30 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
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Saturday, January 06, 2024
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DANK Haus Room 206, 2nd Floor

KINO, KAFFEE UND KUCHEN
Saturdays at the DANK Haus in Room 206
10:30 – 11:00 AM | Kaffee und Kuchen
11:00 – 12:00 PM | Vorfilm
12:00 PM | Feature Film Begins

Join us each Saturday at the DANK Haus in Fall, Winter, and Spring for Kaffee, Kuchen, und Kino. Each week guests will choose the film they want to watch
DANK Members: $5 | Non-Members: $7
