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 Through experiential art installations “Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories” investigates the Partition of India in 1947. This year marks 75 years since the Partition of India in 1947, which created Pakistan, and eventually, Bangladesh in 1971. Pritika Chowdhry’s experiential art installations are temporary 'anti-memorials' to the Partition. Often described as the Holocaust of South Asia, the […]
Organizers: South Asia Institute
$5 – $10  For centuries, handwriting served as a powerful tool for communicating information, preserving knowledge, shaping identity, and building empires. In our digital world, however, fewer and fewer people can read handwritten words. Handwriting has survived disruptive technologies before. The invention of printing did not diminish the need for handwriting. Instead, it created new markets for ambitious […]
Organizers: Newberry Library
Free  Join us for the grand reopening of the National Hellenic Museum this fall with the world premiere of a major photography exhibition Resilience By HRH Prince Nikolaos September 16 – December 30, 2022 Prince Nikolaos is an accomplished photographer whose work has been exhibited in major global cities including Athens, London, Copenhagen, Doha and Melbourne—and […]
Organizers: National Hellenic Museum
$10  In this new exhibition, the Chicago-based Greek American photographer presents 80 historic works showcasing Chicago’s Greek American celebrations alongside other ethnic and cultural festivals and parades, primarily from the 1970s and 1980s. Depicted events include the Greek Independence Day Parade, Bud Billiken Day Parade, Chinese New Year Parade, Mexican Civic Society Parade, Jewish Festival and […]
Organizers: National Hellenic Museum
$10 |
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 A reception will take place prior to screening with appetizers and wine provided, and a conversation regarding the film will proceed the screening. 6:00 PM - Dominican Rep. Appetizers and Wine 7:00 PM - Film screening (Spanish with English subtitles) Parking at 33 W Ontario ($10 with validation) Sun in the Water / Sol en […]
Organizers: International Latino Cultural Center |
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 Join CJE SeniorLife Holocaust Community Services and Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (IHMEC) for an evening with Dr. Martin Dean, renowned Holocaust historian, author, former war crimes investigator, and researcher with the Babiy Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. Dr. Dean will examine the complex history of the Babiy Yar ravine, where more than 33,000 Jewish men, […]
Organizers: Illinois Holocaust Museum
FREE
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 Enjoy an evening learning to dance Salsa at the National Puerto Rican Museum. About this event The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is excited to provide a FREE Salsa Dance Lesson. A professional dance instructor will teach you the basic steps and have you dancing before the night is over. Bring a friend to partner […]
Organizers: The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
FREE
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 Do you want to tell stories to connect with people emotionally and to create intimate communities with others? Do you want to tell stories that reflect upon urgent social concerns of our time? There are two parts to this workshop/circle. During the first part of the session, we will discuss central tenets of this art […]
Organizers: Chinese American Museum of Chicago
FREE |
8 events,
 Friday, September 30 - Saturday, October 1, 2022 Ragamala: A Celebration of Indian Classical Music - Celebrating 10 Years! Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall 78 E. Washington St., 3rd Flr, Chicago, IL 60602 6pm-8am All Ages, Free! Presented by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in collaboration with South Asia Institute, South […]
Organizers: South Asia Institute
FREE  BOMBA is the oldest musical tradition of Puerto Rico and one of the greatest expressions of the Island’s African ancestry. Since its establishment in Chicago in the late 1980's and early 1990's, enthusiasts, practitioners and teachers of Bomba had come through SRBCC to develop, share and cultivate their craft and honor this ancestral art form […]
Organizers: Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
FREE
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 Come experience Sisterhood: a solo exhibition created by Alma Domínguez, co-founder & core artist of OPEN Center for the Arts. This moving exhibition is Domínguez's homage to women who have changed the world. Premiering a series of 7 powerful portraits, showcasing Sisterhood, and recognizing the strength of migrant women and their contribution to our society. […]
Organizers: OPEN Center for the Arts
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 Artistic residence of Colectivo Moriviví at SRBCC for the design and execution of a mural in honor of Julia de Burgos in Chicago. About this event English Meet the artists and discover the creative process and proposed design of the mural dedicated to Julia de Burgos by Colectivo Moriviví, coming directly from Puerto Rico to […]
Organizers: Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
FREE |
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 HOMECOMING will be SSCAC's first large-scale outdoor program, intended to be a city-wide call and response to Black artists! About this event HOMECOMING will be SSCAC's first large-scale outdoor program, intended to be a city-wide call and response to Black artists to further celebrate our legacy as the first Black arts center in the nation, reconnect with […]
Organizers: South Side Community Art Center | ||
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6 events,
 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 […]
Organizers: Swedish American Museum
Free
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 Oct 2, Sunday at 2pm to 4pm – 2022 FAHM Celebration Kickoff. The Filipino American History Month celebration kickoff event will be held at the Bolingbrook Fountaindale Library at 300 W Briarcliff Rd, Bolingbrook, IL 60440. There will be a film screening of “Everything Stays” followed by Q&A with film director Cole Bacani in-person. Contact […]
Organizers: Filipino-American Historical Society of Chicago |
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 Author Discussion and Q&A with Photographer and Author Sharon Hoogstraten (Citizen Band Potawatomi Nation) Join us on Thursday, October 6th, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. as we welcome photographer and author Sharon Hoogstraten to the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. We invite you to this in-person conversation and Q&A to celebrate Hoogstraten’s work and the release of her new book, Dancing for Our Tribe: […]
Organizers: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Free – $10
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 Snakes sometimes get labelled ‘cold-blooded’ but this is incorrect as their blood isn’t actually cold. Reptiles just need to use sources of heat, like the sun, to warm up! Join us as we explore more about Snakes with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo! Contect Here: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoSerpientes ____________________________________ Las serpientes a veces son etiquetadas como […]
Organizers: OPEN Center for the Arts, Lincoln Park Zoo
Free  Baila Conmigo, supporting local music artists while bringing artistic excellence and enjoyment to our community! This outdoor event is held at the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance Terraza and FREE to the public. Audience is encouraged to bring a lawn chair. Due to limited space you should arrive early and no pets. Doors open 6pm Schedule: […]
Organizers: Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
FREE |
9 events,
 Join us as we celebrate the American Indian Center's 69th Annual Chicago Powwow! This event is open to the public!
Organizers: American Indian Center
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 The Korean Cultural Center of Chicago and the Chicago Korean Education Center will co-host an opening ceremony for the ‘Malmoe, Protect the Hangul’ education box at the museum on Friday, October 7th at 1pm. This display box was developed and supported by the Independence Hall of Korea to educate the history of the compilation of […]
Organizers: Korean Cultural Center of Chicago
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 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features works by the collective, Dandelion Black Women Artists. Nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes, art-making became a transgressive act through activism, documentation and vision. Utilizing book-making, craft-making and works on paper, 9 Artists/9 […]
Organizers: South Side Community Art Center |
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Join us as we celebrate the American Indian Center's 69th Annual Chicago Powwow! This event is open to the public!
Organizers: American Indian Center
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 Since the 2015 premiere of “Hypocrisy of Justice,” collaborating artists Dana Hall, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, and Kerry James Marshall have expressed interest in further developing and remounting the project. There has also been an interest expressed by the artists, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, the Logan Center for the Arts, the University of Chicago Presents, […]
Organizers: National Public Housing Museum, Hyde Park Jazz Festival
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 Owen McHugh and Abstraction in the Permanent Collection Saturday, October 8 - Sunday, December 4, 2022 Opening Reception: October 8 12:00-4:00 pm The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is delighted to announce Owen McHugh and Abstraction in the Permanent Collection. This exhibition highlights abstract, non-representational works in UIMA’s Permanent Collection alongside Owen McHugh’s most recent […]
Organizers: Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art | |||
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7 events,
Join us as we celebrate the American Indian Center's 69th Annual Chicago Powwow! This event is open to the public!
Organizers: American Indian Center
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 This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. For this event, take a journey through Filipino and Polish culture through two of their most iconic dishes; lumpia and pierogi! Enjoy a mini-Dumpling Fest with samples of the dumplings from each of these cultures, along with fun […]
Organizers: Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago, Polish Museum of America
$5  Two days of dance, music, and other performances to celebrate the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Sky People Entertainment and the Old Town School of Folk Music bring Chicago the FIRST Indigenous Peoples Day festival to celebrate Indigeneity all weekend long! This two-night event will bring full musical performances by Indigenous artists. Night one […]
Organizers: International Latino Cultural Center, American Indian Center |
7 events,
 Nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes, art-making became a transgressive act through activism, documentation and vision. Utilizing book-making, craft-making and works on paper, 9 Artists/9 Months/ 9 Perspectives presents a birth of vision under hardship felt worldwide, collectively […]
Organizers: South Side Community Art Center
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 Join us to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors the culture and history of Native people past, present, and future. Join us at the Mitchell Museum along with our friends from St. Kateri Center to celebrate the diversity and vibrancy of Indigenous cultures with FREE admission to the museum all day. Bring your friends and your family to enrich […]
Organizers: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Free Two days of dance, music, and other performances to celebrate the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Sky People Entertainment and the Old Town School of Folk Music bring Chicago the FIRST Indigenous Peoples Day festival to celebrate Indigeneity all weekend long! This two-night event will bring full musical performances by Indigenous artists. Night one […]
Organizers: American Indian Center, International Latino Cultural Center |
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 A Conversation on 1919, Black Chicago and Resilience. About this event A hot summer day set Chicago ablaze in 1919. Seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams crossed an invisible line in Lake Michigan that divided the segregated shores, and he was killed by a group of white beachgoers. His death sparked a deadly 13-day riot. The fighting spread […]
Organizers: WBEZ
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 This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. Every object has a story. And if it’s a cherished object that invokes our cultural identity, the story is even more salient. It jogs our memory, reminds us of close relationships, takes us back in time and place. […]
Organizers: Abrahamic Center for Cultural Education, DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, National Indo-American Museum
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7 events,
 COME ENJOY A BEVERAGE WITH A SPECTACULAR EXPERIENCE IN OUR ICONIC 6TH FLOOR SKYLINE LOUNGE & TERRACE A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! Each 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month from 7-11 PM. Proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum
Organizers: DANK Haus German American Cultural Center  Please join us for a lecture by VLADIMÍR DZURO – Chief of Headquarters Office at the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, retired Czech Police Commissioner, war crimes investigator, and author of The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War – on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 at 7pm. Mr. Dzuro will discuss his personal account of war […]
Organizers: T. G. Masaryk Czech School
Free |
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BOMBA is the oldest musical tradition of Puerto Rico and one of the greatest expressions of the Island’s African ancestry. Since its establishment in Chicago in the late 1980's and early 1990's, enthusiasts, practitioners and teachers of Bomba had come through SRBCC to develop, share and cultivate their craft and honor this ancestral art form […]
Organizers: Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
FREE
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 Guided tours with Roman Villarreal of one of his studios in South Chicago and of the exhibition at Intuit in West Town. About this event Immerse yourself in the art of Roman Villarreal on this cross-Chicago tour. First gathering at Intuit, attendees will take a bus trip to South Chicago for an intimate, behind-the-scenes tour […]
Organizers: Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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 This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. The program will be a panel discussion between a Sami person (Scandinavian Indigenous person) and a North American Indigenous person. The discussion will explore similarities and differences between the two panelists' cultures, and reflect on their individual experiences. […]
Organizers: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Swedish American Museum
FREE |
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 Open House Chicago- A City wide CELEBRATION FOR ALL . Come to enjoy exhibitions, food, music, presentations each day at 1:30PM and FOOD. About this event BRONZEVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OPEN HOUSE CHICAGO - host SATURDAY, OCT. 15 - 16, 2022 11am - 2pm at 4455 S. King Drive Suite 103, Chicago FREE STREET PARKING - […]
Organizers: Bronzeville Historical Society  This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a traditional Mexican celebration honoring those no longer with us. Stop by and have fun creating your own Calavera while sharing stories, expressing your creativity, and celebrating life! As […]
Organizers: OPEN Center for the Arts, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
FREE
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 This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. A collaboration between the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society and Trickster Cultural Center to highlight the traditions of drumming as it relates to cultural identity. A performing group from each culture will demonstrate and share their art. Japanese […]
Organizers: Chicago Japanese American Historical Society, Trickster Cultural Center
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 The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to host the last of two free public programs inspired by the Spotlight Series exhibition Yuge Zhou: Moon Drawings. The program is a sound performance by Kikù Hibino and Chien-An Yuan on Saturday, October 15, from 1pm-2:30pm CT, a day before the closing of the exhibition. Register here About the artists: Japanese-born […]
Organizers: Chinese American Museum of Chicago
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This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a traditional Mexican celebration honoring those no longer with us. Stop by and have fun creating your own Calavera while sharing stories, expressing your creativity, and celebrating life! As […]
Organizers: OPEN Center for the Arts, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
FREE
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 This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. The Haitian American Museum of Chicago will bring its outdoor, community, traveling exhibition to North Lawndale for the second year in the row. We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community, was originally organized in 2020, in the Uptown […]
Organizers: Haitian American Museum of Chicago, Crossing Borders Music
FREE 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 […]
Organizers: Swedish American Museum
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 Livewire is your Open Mic platform to jam, tell us a story, act your heart out, enthrall with a verse, drop the mic... You bring the talent we’ll bring the cheers! Get your $5 tickets: https://www.eventcombo.com/e/Livewire–Open-Mic–NIAM–56669 (includes light refreshments) You’ll have 3 minutes for any kind of spoken word performance- poetry, storytelling, comedy, acting, essay reading, singing, […]
Organizers: National Indo-American Museum
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 Xoloitzuintle's are the oldest dogs in the Americas, Xolos have been around for millennia! Join us as we explore more about Xoloitzuintle's with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo! Contect Here: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoXolo ____________________________________ Los Xoloitzuintle son los perros más antiguos de América, ¡los Xolos existen desde hace milenios! ¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre […]
Organizers: OPEN Center for the Arts
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 D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture with Philip Deloria Oct 20, 2022 6:00pm-7:30pm Hybrid - Ruggles Hall and Zoom This program will be held in-person at the Newberry, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, and livestreamed on Zoom. In the early morning of November 13, 1833, meteors from the annual Leonid showers fell in such abundance, frequency, and […]
Organizers: Newberry Library
Free |
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 Cap off your Oktoberfest season at the best fest in town! Our indoor Oktoberfest features live music from Paloma Band of Chicago, authentic German food and drinks, and more! Attendees will enjoy plenty of yodeling, dancing, and pretzel eating starting at 7:30 PM. Our historic Marunde Ballroom, located on the 5th floor, will be decorated […]
Organizers: DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
$5 |
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 Please join us at CAMOC for the first gathering of Truths As We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic on Oct 22! This open mic storytelling gathering, hosted by Ada Cheng, is co-sponsored by the Bronzeville Historical Society, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, and People Matter. The open mic will rotate between Bronzeville and Chinatown neighborhoods. The […]
Organizers: Bronzeville Historical Society, Chinese American Museum of Chicago
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 I am very happy to present Truths As We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic in Bronzeville/Chinatown. This open mic storytelling gathering, hosted by Ada Cheng, is co-sponsored by Bronzeville Historical Society, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, and People Matter. Our first event will take place in-person on Saturday October 22 from 1:30-3:00pm CT. Please mask […]
Organizers: Chinese American Museum of Chicago
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 This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. South Asia and Korea share a common history of being divided by an arbitrary line that gave rise to new nations, India and Pakistan and North and South Korea. This year is the 75th. anniversary of the Partition […]
Organizers: Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, South Asia Institute
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 Join us for the Unveiling of the Nichols Tower Vertical Gallery, a project brought forth by a collaboration between The Foundation for Homan Square, Elevated Chicago, SAIC, and OPEN Center for the Arts. TRANSFORMATION is a project created by The Foundation for Homan Square to transform the interior stairwell of the Homan Square Tower, a […]
Organizers: OPEN Center for the Arts |
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 Terror awaits you at the Mitchell Museum’s first ever scary stories told by witnesses of horror within Chicagoland’s Native storyteller community! Immerse yourself and your family in our evening of fear and bone chilling stories moderated by Negwes White from our friends at St. Kateri Center. The event is free for Mitchell Museum Members and $10 […]
Organizers: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Free – $10 |
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 About this event What’s your favorite scary story? And what makes it scary? Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons will explore all things fearsome at the historic (and plausibly haunted) Jane Addams Hull-House Museum on Wednesday, October 26. Join us for this spooky live broadcast to learn about the cultural significance of creepy tales told throughout Chicago. Perhaps better known as […]
Organizers: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, WBEZ
FREE |
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 ABOUT THIS EVENT: Join the co-editors of Witnesses to War: The Children of Syria, Karam Foundation, ART WORKS Projects, and event sponsor, Howard Conant, Jr., for a discussion and exhibition of acclaimed photojournalist Bassam Khabieh’s nearly decade long project, Witnesses to War: The Children of Syria. Khabieh (joining via live feed) and Lina Sergie Attar, […]
Organizers: Art Works Projects
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 This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. A panel discussion focusing on the varied relationships different Diaspora communities have with the mythological & folklore stories of their culture of origin. We are specifically interested in interrogating the ways in which different communities invest in or […]
Organizers: Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Japanese American Service Committee, National Hellenic Museum
Free – $8 COME ENJOY A BEVERAGE WITH A SPECTACULAR EXPERIENCE IN OUR ICONIC 6TH FLOOR SKYLINE LOUNGE & TERRACE A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! Each 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month from 7-11 PM. Proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum
Organizers: DANK Haus German American Cultural Center |
8 events,
 Please join us to celebrate the art of Akina Curley. A very impressive show by a talented young Native artist. Seeking Sonder showcases work by Akina Curley (Ojibwe/ Diné) to explore other capacities/disciplines of expression that missions to challenge audiences about Native art today through a contemporary aesthetic. These new works by Akina will perform, […]
Organizers: American Indian Center BOMBA is the oldest musical tradition of Puerto Rico and one of the greatest expressions of the Island’s African ancestry. Since its establishment in Chicago in the late 1980's and early 1990's, enthusiasts, practitioners and teachers of Bomba had come through SRBCC to develop, share and cultivate their craft and honor this ancestral art form […]
Organizers: Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
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 We are so excited to continue our Art After Hours series! Featuring performances by: Stafford milkweed b2b loma Alejandro Marenco Sound by Signal Clearance Lighting and environmental design by Nix Doors open at 7:30 pm $15/ $20 at the door 21+ Halloween costumes are encouraged! Price of the ticket includes admission + beer and seltzer […]
Organizers: Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
$15 – $20 |
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 Get ready! Our annual “Not So Scary, Scary Halloween ”celebration is BACK! Bring your kids for a great time. Saturday October 29 from 1pm to 3pm! We can’t wait to see you then.
Organizers: Bronzeville Children’s Museum |
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 Join us for a double feature screening of two classic prewar films: Mother's Heart and Thavary Meas Bong. Screening for the first time in Chicago, these films are a celebration of early Cambodian filmmakers' ingenuity, craftsmanship, and talents. These early filmmakers' aim was to make films that Cambodian audiences would be proud to watch but […]
Organizers: National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial  Please join us for a 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 Johnson, artist, educator and community activist; Arlene Raconcay, former director of the Chicago Artists Coalition; Fern Shaffer, artist and former director of Artemisia Gallery. Starts at […]
Organizers: Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
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Don't miss 16-year-old guitar prodigy Juan Ausiàs Parejo from Valencia on Thursday, November 17. $10 SUGGESTED DONATION AT DOOR PARKING VALIDATION AT 33 W ONTARTIO ST ($10) ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in 2006 into a family of musicians, Juan Ausiàs Parejo began playing the guitar at the age of 4 at the hands of his father, […] |
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 An Intimate Night At The Museum | Paint & Sip! Painting and art made easy for everybody! Learn how to paint on a canvas with Featured Artist Lorimar Matos. This art session Includes a Sangria Flight of 4 Flavors Guava, Pomegranate, Pear & Berry. Welcome / Check In 6pm-6:30pm Taste our New Fall! Blood Orange […]
Organizers: The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
$25  The Balzekas Museum presents an in-person 3-Thursday Lithuanian Straw Ornament Making Master Class with artist/educator Laura Lapinskas About this event In order to preserve and perpetuate Lithuanian traditions, the Balzekas Museum is launching a series of traditional Lithuanian Folk Arts Master Classes. The first Master Class - on making traditional Lithuanian straw Christmas ornaments-- will […]
Organizers: Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
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 Join us at the Balzekas Museum for a special three-evening Master Class on making traditional Lithuanian straw ornaments. Classes will be conducted by artist/educator Laura Lapinskas. Traditionally, ornaments were made from natural straw, but resourceful city-dwellers began to use more easily available paper and plastic straws for this purpose. Participants will also have an apportunity […]
Organizers: Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
$20 |
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 Juan Carmona was only ten years old when his father gave him his first guitar. His passion for the instrument grew and his virtuosity was quickly remarked by professional musicians. Juan’s journey as a professional guitarist took him back to his roots: Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia. For 9 years, he absorbed as much […]
Organizers: International Latino Cultural Center
Free |
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 November 5 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am Free Topic: Scottish Settlement of Prince Edward Island and Its Implications for Island Society and Culture Presenter: Professor Edward MacDonald, PhD, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada This event is complimentary. To attend, please register below.
Organizers: Chicago Scots
FREE  Native American Heritage Month The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce, Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois, and North Shore Chapter NSDAR Saturday, November 5 and Sunday, November 6, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This program honors Indigenous entrepreneurs and brings together innovative Native artists, business […]
Organizers: Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
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 About the event: Bronzeville Historical Society welcomes Attorney James Montgomery to reveal his own story in a personal interview with a live audience. The event is supported in part by the University of Illinois Black Alumni Network and the University of Illinois Student Success Inclusion and Belonging. Autographed books will be available for purchase at […]
Organizers: Bronzeville Historical Society
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