Semillas: Artwork by Raul Ortiz Bonilla
The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture 3015 W Division Street, Chicago
Free
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The Girl in The Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódz Ghetto
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
Free – $18
The Spirit of Place: Earth is Home – Lithography by Kurt Seaberg
Swedish American Museum 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago
Free – $6
M.K Čiurlionis Virtual Reality Film “Trail of Angels”
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture 6500 South Pulaski Road, Chicago
$35
Resistencia y Libertá por Bombazo Wear
The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture 3015 W Division Street, Chicago
Made in Taiwan | 台灣製造 CATHY HSIAO & NESTOR SIRÉ
Chinese American Museum of Chicago 238 W. 23rd St, Chicago
Free
Shelly Jyoti – Indigo: The Blue Gold
South Asia Institute 1925 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
$5 – $10
Virtual Reality Film Experience: Walk to Westerbork
Illinois Holocaust Museum 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
Kéyah: Paintings and Photographs of Home Opening Reception
American Indian Center 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago
Oral History Workshop with Dr Guneeta Singh Bhalla and Professor Erin Riggs
South Asia Institute 1925 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
$20
Week of Events
Semillas: Artwork by Raul Ortiz Bonilla
Through his signature puntos and semillas, Puerto Rican artist Raul Ortiz Bonilla presents a story of migration and diaspora.
Free
Soy Boricua
From digital collage to painting to glasswork to photography, twelve non-male Diasporican artists explore their expansive identities and how they intersect in their own ways.
Free
ReFramed: The Future of Cities in Wood
This exhibition tells the story of building with mass timber and features architectural models of mass timber projects, from public spaces to office buildings.
$14
The Girl in The Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódz Ghetto
In 1945, a 14-year-old's diary was discovered in Auschwitz. The exhibition explores Rywka's life in the Łódz Ghetto and what might have happened after her deportation to Auschwitz and beyond.
Free – $18
Summer Weddings
Weddings bring us together. They are a chance to celebrate love and the beginning of a couple’s new life together. Weddings also celebrate our history and culture. Join the Museum for this fun exhibit, featuring wedding dresses from the past, as well as from the many cultures that make up Buffalo Grove today, including Korean, […]
The Spirit of Place: Earth is Home – Lithography by Kurt Seaberg
Seaberg uses his lithographs of the beautiful natural landscape of Minnesota and Sweden to connect with his Sami heritage and to remind us of beauty, community, and sense of place.
Free – $6
M.K Čiurlionis Virtual Reality Film “Trail of Angels”
Take a VR journey through the works of the paintings and music of M.K. Čiurlionis.
$35
Resistencia y Libertá por Bombazo Wear
Bomba music and dance provide resistance, self-expression, and community building for Afro-Puerto Ricans. This exhibit displays the evolution of bomba attire since the 17th century.
Made in Taiwan | 台灣製造 CATHY HSIAO & NESTOR SIRÉ
Artists Cathy Hsiao and Nestor Siré comment on our digital connectivity. Taking porcelain and recycled plastic, they reveal how economies thrive under political and economic erasure.
Free
Shelly Jyoti – Indigo: The Blue Gold
Acclaimed Indian visual and textile artist Shelly Jyoti depicts the indigo's colonial history and impact — the cultivation, exploitation, and servitude that happened because of one plant.
$5 – $10
Virtual Reality Film Experience: Walk to Westerbork
With cinematography, animation, and archival photos, Rodi Glass revisits the sites of her survival as a young girl from Amsterdam, Westerbork transit camp, and Vittel internment camp.
Tattoo: Identity Through Ink
This exhibit explores personal and collective identity through tattoo traditions, past and present. For more than 5000 years, people have used tattoos to beautify, heal, or empower.
Kéyah: Paintings and Photographs of Home Opening Reception
The American Indian Center is excited to host Diné artist Fleurette Estes and her exhibit, "Kéyah: Paintings and Photographs of Home," in their Gallery!
“Gravity” by Tom Torluemke
Tom Torluemke' landscape and portrait paintings ask the question: as social and civic unrest become more contentious, how can people help each other and the environment?
Threads
Threads is a group show where artists from many countries respond to one another. Poetry is intertwined and brought to life through fibers and textiles.
August 27, 2023
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Oral History Workshop with Dr Guneeta Singh Bhalla and Professor Erin Riggs
Oral History Workshop with Dr Guneeta Singh Bhalla and Professor Erin Riggs
In this workshop, the participations will be taught the art of taking interviews, how to transcribe, and the ways to mobilize the oral collections of history.
$20
August 31, 2023
Kalapriya Fall Fundraiser
Kalapriya Fall Fundraiser
Kalapriya proudly presents a celebration of South Asian culture, music, dance, and food. Join them in raising funds to further their mission to promote South Asian performing arts.
$50 – $1500
August 31, 2023
On-Site Book & Author: “Not a Real Enemy“
On-Site Book & Author: “Not a Real Enemy“
Not a Real Enemy tells the true story of Ervin Wolf and his family as fascism took hold of Hungary, from an upper-class life, through the death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau.
$18
August 31, 2023
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Native Movie Night
Native Movie Night
Join the American Indian Center for Native Movie Night! Street parking only. Pop and popcorn will be sold.
September 1, 2023
Karsh Kale: A Special South Asia Institute Fundraiser Event
Karsh Kale: A Special South Asia Institute Fundraiser Event
Be part of the First Annual SAI Fundraiser event and help shape the future of South Asian Arts. Musician, DJ and composer Karsh Kale will host a film screening and live performance.
$30 – $100
September 2, 2023
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Funkadesi: Free Family Saturdays
Funkadesi: Free Family Saturdays
Celebrated musical supergroup Funkadesi will be sharing their music, hands-on demonstrations of instruments for kids, and the stories of their music and instruments.
Free