A screening of In Search of Weeping Jim, a historic documentary about the late Chicago Alderman James Ambrose Kearns, who introduced the legislation in the Chicago City Council in 1914 that Chicago should have its own flag. James Ambrose Kearns was born to James and Catherine Quinn Kearns on January 13, 1871, on the tiny inner island of Inishcuttle Kilmeena, County Mayo, Ireland.

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Sharing a cultural experience through song & dance @ AIC 69th Annual Chicago Powwow. This will be a special collaborative performance of Indigenous song and dance between Intertribal Native American powwow culture and Puerto Rican Indigenous Bomba culture, featuring performers from the American Indian Center of Chicago and Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center.

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For this hands-on, art-making workshop, children will learn about the artistic symbolism on our nations' flags (primary examples will include the Assyrian and Ukrainian flags, as well as the American and Chicago flags). Everyone will then have the chance to make their own flag designs to represent their identity and culture.

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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 and engaging musical and cultural performances.

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Every object has a story. And if it’s a cherished object that invokes our cultural identity, the story is even more salient.

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Join the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Swedish American Museum, Nordic House Chicago, and the Chicago Cultural Alliance for a panel discussion between Kurt Seaberg, representing the Sami or Scandinavian indigenous perspective, and Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) to share the perspective from North American Indigenous culture. Moderated by the Mitchell Museum’s Josee Starr (Arikara, Omaha, Odawa), the discussion will explore similarities and differences between the two panelists' cultures, and reflect on their individual experiences followed by a Q&A with the audience.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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 neighborhood, in direct response to the Black Lives Matter protests and the disproportionate effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Black community.

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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.

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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 distance themselves from their ancient/classical mythology and folklore in the American Diaspora, and how those relationships have shifted over time.

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