Chicago Cultural Alliance

Strategies for Local Advocacy in the Arts
2021-04-09 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | IL, United States
Moderator: Jonathan VanderBrug, Arts Alliance Illinois
Panelist: Ben Lau, Ahmed Flex Omar, Gabriela Juarez
Advocacy is critical to organizational sustainability. It is imperative that non-profit leaders, especially those working in the cultural sector, foster strong working relationships with their local representatives, including alder-people, officials in chambers of commerce, and visitors’ bureaus. Learn some of the effective strategies others in the non-profit sector have developed for advocacy and build strong working relationships with your local representatives in order to be a more effective champion for your community.

New Frontiers in Digitization: Amplifying Stories
2021-04-08 18:00 - 19:00 | IL, United States
Moderator: Laurence Anthonie Taumpag, Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago
Panelists: Kate Flynn, Jorge Felix, Halyna Sarancha
Over the past two decades museum and archives professionals have been inundated with rallying cries to digitize, digitize, digitize. But digitized collections do not constitute an end, in and of themselves. Participants in this session will learn how to activate their digital collections through the Chicago Collections Consortium’s EXPLORE Portal. Panelists will share their experience with digitizing collections, generating metadata, and sharing digital collections with the public utilizing EXPLORE. Discover novel methods of leveraging digital collections in your effort to amplify your stories in public and educational forums through this session. Thanks to Illinois Humanities for their generous support of the Stories of Im/Migration: Chicago collaboration with the Chicago Collections Consortium.

Contested Narratives: Chicago’s Monuments
2021-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 | IL, United States
Moderator: Tiffany Tolbert, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Panelists: Jaime Rivera , Sherry Williams, Joi Boose, Elsie Hector Hernandez
Monuments and memorials frame our built environment in Chicago, both reflecting and impacting our civic life. Concern over which figures are memorialized is not new. However, over the past year the global pandemic and racial justice movements shed further light on deeply entrenched racism and discrimination which have been normalized in the fabric of our society. The Chicago Monuments Committee arose as a response, and opportunities now exist for the public to weigh in. Discover the complex legacies certain monuments embody, and foster a deeper understanding of why some communities are deeply impacted by their presence while others remain oblivious. Panelists will also discuss alternative strategies of enlivening our public spaces.

Transforming Fundraisers
2021-04-08 10:00 - 11:00 | IL, United States
Moderator: Suzy Kahn Weinberg & Adam Yoffe (Big Shoulders Stories)
Panelists: Josey Nieto, Nitha Nagubadi
Aspirations to reopen our cultural centers are on everyone’s minds. Yet, many of the creative virtual tools developed and harnessed over the past year to amplify our stories and make our collections accessible to wider audiences have become key to our work and are likely here to stay. The ability to develop creative techniques for revenue generation including online fundraising, virtual galas, attracting corporate rentals, and apps that attract new audiences will be key to financial sustainability in this new age of in-person and virtual engagement.

Fostering Inclusive and Anti-Racist Work Spaces
2021-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 | IL, United States
Presenter: Chelsey M. Thomas, Chicago Cultural Alliance
The curation of inclusivity and anti-racist workplaces is an ongoing practice of unlearning and rebuilding. Chelsey M. Thomas, writer and educator on transformative justice, anti-racism and accountability, will be defining diversity, inclusion, equality and equity, educating on the ways in which these concepts manifest themselves in our work spaces, and providing practical ways in which we can curate inclusive and safe work environments for all people.

"Ask A Professional": Q&A Panel for Emerging Professionals
2021-04-07 15:00 - 16:30 | IL, United States
Panelists: Janet Hong, Heidi Marshall, Alaka Wali, Jeremy Bucher, Kate Weinstein
This panel brings together professionals from the museums, exhibitions, and library and information science fields to discuss their work, offering students and emerging professionals the opportunity to ask questions about working in these fields and learn about the career paths of several professionals. Following a more general discussion, attendees may choose to join a breakout room with an individual panelist to discuss working in a specific field.

Plenary Session
2021-04-06 18:00 - 19:30 | IL, United States
The Chicago Cultural Alliance welcomes you to
Activating Heritage 2021!

In our first session, we will be receiving a welcome from our Board President, Vanessa Vergara, hearing from the Alliance Executive Director, Peter Vega and our Director of Cultural Programs and Museum Practice, Andrew Leith.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE BY
SANTIAGO X ADA CHENG

This first session will feature our Keynote speaker, storyteller and activist Ada Cheng, as she performs her work “Visions of Peace: A Letter to My Younger Self” as well as a creative native land acknowledgement from Indigenous Futurist Artist Santiago X.

The event will also feature words from the 35th president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Toni Preckwinkle.

Virtual Pysanka Workshops (Ukrainian Easter Egg)
2021-04-03 05:00 - 08:00 | IL, United States
We are excited to once again announce the
Pysanky (Easter Egg) Workshops
at the Ukrainian National Museum.
This year we offer them online via Zoom!
Class schedule from10:00 am to 1:00 p.m.
Hurry and select a date which best suits you. Take note of the deadline.
· Saturday, April 3 – Registration deadline March 22, 2021
· Saturday, April 10 – Registration deadline March 29, 2021
· Saturday, April 17– Registration deadline April 3, 2021
Open for US residents only due to required workshop kit mailing

COST: $35 per person, includes a complete kit (with dyes, wax, kistka), detailed instructions, preparation timeline and brochure. All items will be mailed directly to you once you have registered and paid for the workshop. You must register by the deadline to allow time for mailing the kit.
Registrant requirements: computer with audio and camera capabilities, reliable internet connection, web browser a valid email address and an egg. go to https://ukrainiannationalmuseum.z2systems.com/np/clients/ukrainiannationalmuseum/eventRegistration.jsp?event=8& to register o for any questions call 312.421.8020 or email admin@ukrainiannationalmuseum.org.

Virtual Yoga Livestreamed from Garfield Park Conservatory
2021-04-03 04:00 - 05:00, 2021-03-27 04:00 - 05:00, 2021-03-20 04:00 - 05:00, 2021-03-13 03:00 - 04:00, 2021-03-06 03:00 - 04:00, 2021-02-27 03:00 - 04:00, 2021-02-20 03:00 - 04:00, 2021-02-13 03:00 - 04:00 and 2 more dates | Garfield Park Conservatory
Join us for this one-hour virtual yoga session from the comforts of your own home with the Conservatory as the background. Pre-registration is required so we can send you a link to join, and space is limited. Registration closes at 10:00am when the session begins. Automated live captioning is available. This class is free but we welcome donations to help offset programming costs.

Printmaking: A Virtual Senior Series - Register by January 29
2021-03-29 05:00 - 07:00, 2021-03-22 05:00 - 07:00, 2021-03-15 05:00 - 07:00, 2021-03-08 04:00 - 06:00, 2021-03-01 04:00 - 06:00, 2021-02-22 04:00 - 06:00, 2021-02-15 04:00 - 06:00, 2021-02-08 04:00 - 06:00 | Virtual, Chicago, IL, United States
The Garfield Park Conservatory has teamed up with Teaching Artist and Printmaker Sarita Garcia to offer an 8-week online printmaking course with older adults, age 55+, that takes place in the comfort of your own homes!
In this class, we will be experimenting with different methods of printmaking, such as block printing, patternmaking, silk screen and natural dye printing. Create one of a kind prints using leaves from your garden, sew printed textiles for your own garden tool bag, and make printing inks using foods from your kitchen. This course will also focus on the celebration of natural dye printmaking styles.
This course takes place on Monday’s from 10:00 am-12:00 pm on the following dates:
February 8, 15, 22
March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Culminating Event: TBD by Students
Class price:
General – $240
Volunteers/Members – $192
Materials: Thanks to the support of Aroha Philanthropies, all supplies are covered for students in this class! Materials will be available for pick up by appointment at Garfield Park Conservatory.
Scholarships are available! Please fill out this Scholarship Application or contact Mattie Wilson at mwilson@garfieldpark.org for more information.
Sarita Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Chicago, IL and born and raised in South Texas. Garcia received her Bachelors of Fine Arts with a major in Fiber & Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Her work is informed by architectural spaces of her vernacular culture using an image archive of markets to talk about consumerism, identity and cultural hubs. These “Fantasyscapes” showcase a vocabulary of iconography as a means to empower and remix the reality of these spaces. Garcia has exhibited her work in multiple cultural institutions in Chicago such as the National Museum of Mexican Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Art Department, ACRE and Sullivan Galleries. Nationally Garcia has shown in Laband Art Gallery Los Angeles,CA, City Gallery San Diego, CA, and Blue Star Contemporary San Antonio, Texas. Garcia’s pedagogy is also practiced through facilitating and maintaining an open printmaking studio for young people in the heart of Pilsen named Yollo Lab.
Registration Closes January 29th 2021

Virtual Beginning Beekeeping Class
2021-02-20 04:30 - 07:00, 2021-02-13 04:30 - 07:00 | Garfield Park Conservatory
Spend 2 days with our Head Beekeeper, Marcin Matelski, learning the basics of beekeeping: equipment, hive design and construction, bee biology and behavior, bee management, and bee products. This lecture based class has been adapted for a virtual experience and is limited in capacity to encourage questions and group interaction. Pre-registration is required. Automated live captioning is available.

*This class takes place virtually over the course of 2 days
Class 1- Saturday, February 13th 10:30am – 1:00pm
Class 2 – Saturday February 20th 10:30am – 1:00pm

General Registration – $50
Volunteer/Member Registration – $40
Scholarships are available! Please complete the SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION to be considered.

Cancellation Policy: If you find this class date no longer works for you, we will gladly refund your money if it is more than two weeks prior to the class date. If it is within two weeks, we can either move your registration to a different class date or you can use the money as a credit towards another class offering before the end of our fiscal year (June 30). In the event that we have a waitlist, with 24 or more notice, we may be able to refund your spot.
Registration closes Saturday, February 13th 2021 at 10:00am

Chinese New Year Preparation with Jewel Osco
2021-02-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-02-04 11:00 - 12:00 | IL, United States
The Chinese American Museum of Chicago is partnering with Jewel Osco to get ready to ring in the Year of The Ox! Join us via Zoom, where we’ll show you how to prepare delicious cuisine and drink recipe for the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday, teach you about the history, and more excitement!
This event includes:

Cooking demonstrations from Ying Stoller, President & Founder of Ying’s Kitchen, who’ll be showing you how to prepare General Tso’s Chicken and KA-ME Noodles, and Chicken Broccoli
Cocktail making lesson from Christophe Pienkowski, Martell Brand Ambassador, who’ll be teaching you how to make a Martell Sidecar
Cultural activities from the Chinese American Museum
Roxanne Janiczek local food blogger and recipe developer will join us as host
Giveaways and more!

We’ll also be featuring more products from these brands: Ying’s Kitchen, Martell, KA-ME, Cuties Mandarins, Wonderful Pistachios, Tropicana, Scott, and Viva.
