Host Organization: Swedish American Museum
Join Mary Allsopp and Paul Tyler online on the first and third Sunday of every month.
Enjoy an afternoon of traditional roots music.
Schiller Woods
W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL, United States
Host Organization: American Indian Center
A 3-day cultural event that articulates living Native cultures and inter-generational art practices via intertribal powwow songs and dances augmented with contemporary music performances. This event is the largest form of American Indian artistic and cultural exchange in the State of Illinois, providing a platform for self-representation through traditional Native art forms (visual and performing) which has become an indispensable and defining cultural endeavor in Native Chicago.
Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago IL 60616, Chicago, IL, United States
Host Organization: Chinese American Museum of Chicago
WUHAN WUHAN is an observational documentary unfolding during February and March of 2020 at the height of the pandemic in Wuhan city, where the coronavirus began. With unprecedented access at the peak of the pandemic lockdown, WUHAN WUHAN goes beyond the statistics and salacious headlines and puts a human experience into the early days of the mysterious virus as Chinese citizens and frontline healthcare workers grappled with an invisible, deadly killer.
West Loop Dot Gallery
1015 West Fulton Market, Chicago, IL, United States
Host Organizations: Muslim American Leadership Alliance & ATAYAL
Join us for a unique gallery experience highlighting how water can serve as a conduit bringing diverse people together through a cultural lens and open dialogue about the importance of environmental conservation locally in Chicago and globally. The program is a collaboration with ATAYAL, Muslim American Leadership Alliance, & several artists including Cesar Conde and Shawn Michael Warren.
Trickster Cultural Center
190 S Roselle Rd, Schaumburg, IL, United States
Host Organization: Trickster Cultural Center
Co-host: Mobile Museum of Tolerance
Join us for a special Indigenous Peoples' Day honoring the Native Community and celebrating the opening of the Mobile Museum of Tolerance. The MMOT is a project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum, and it utilizes innovative technology and interactive lessons to bring its message of tolerance directly to Illinois schools and communities.
Host Organization: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Indigenous Peoples' Day is a worldwide movement that recognizes the history and contributions of Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas. This year, we will honor those who never returned home from Indian Boarding Schools.
Trickster Cultural Center
190 S Roselle Rd, Schaumburg, IL, United States
Host Organizations: Chicago Japanese American Historical Society and Trickster Cultural Center
Join the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society and the Trickster Cultural Center in a collaborative presentation, food sampling and community dialogue as we explore two popular rice dishes--a Native American wild rice casserole and Japanese American Spam musubi. Come and taste!
Korean Cultural Center of Chicago
9930 Capitol Dr., Wheeling, IL, United States
Host Organization: Korean Cultural Center of Chicago
Partner Organization: Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago
Experience a rare opportunity to listen to the sound of a Daegeum, a traditional Korean bamboo flute, played by an artist-in-residence at the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago, along with other woodwind accompaniments. Participants will listen to both traditional 16th century Korean music and Western-influenced pieces composed for Daegeum.
Casa Michoacán
1638 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Host Organization: FEDECMI/CASA Michoacán
Come to our workshop and learn about the making of traditional sugar skulls from Mexico and a brief history of Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), while decorating your own sugar skull! Participants will get a chance to decorate sugar skulls with icing, glitter, feathers, rhinestones and more, all while learning a brief history of the celebration of Dia de Los Muertos.
The National Indo-American Museum
815 S, Main Street, Lombard, IL, United States
Host Organization: National Indo American Museum
Program #1: Unraveling the Skeins to View the Obscured
A visual artist’s journey from concept to realization
Join Sarika Goulatia for a fascinating conversation about the creative process that transforms her Indian-American experience into art where the viewer often becomes part of the work. Sometimes forgotten, sometimes remembered: the tribulations and afflictions never erased...
Douglas Boulevard and Central Park Avenue
W Douglas Blvd & Central Park Av, Chicago, IL, United States
Host Organization: Haitian American Museum of Chicago
Partner Organizations: Crossing Borders Music, Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Stroll through a a mini cultural fair that features the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC), Crossing Borders Music and the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot. This event features selected works from HAMOC’s traveling exhibit “We Walk”, that celebrates Black history and culture, music commissioned by Crossing Borders Music of Haitian and Black composers and a workshop with a local Lawndale artist led by the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot.
Host Organizations: Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago and CIRCA Pintig
Celebrate Filipino American History Month, the 35 year anniversary of the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago, the 30 year anniversary of CIRCA/Pintig and 25 year anniversary of the Philippine American Cultural Foundation at our exhibit event with a luncheon, and performance. Featuring Journey for Justice!