All Day

Semillas: Artwork by Raul Ortiz Bonilla

The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture 3015 W Division Street, Chicago
Organizers: The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture

Through his signature puntos and semillas, Puerto Rican artist Raul Ortiz Bonilla presents a story of migration and diaspora.

Free

Soy Boricua

The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture 3015 W Division Street, Chicago
Organizers: The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture

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

Letters from Home

Swedish American Museum 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago
Organizers: Swedish American Museum

Artists from Sweden and Chicago collaborate to create original works interpreting early 20th century letters to Chicago immigrant Emil Olsson from his family in Sweden.

Free – $6

ReFramed: The Future of Cities in Wood

Chicago Architecture Center 111 E Wacker Dr, Chicago
Organizers: Chicago Architecture Center

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

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
Organizers: Illinois Holocaust Museum

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

Raupp Museum 901 Dunham Ln, Buffalo Grove
Organizers: Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, National Indo-American Museum

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 […]

ECAC Summer Camp

Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago 5800 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago
Organizers: Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago
$150

Resistencia y Libertá por Bombazo Wear

The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture 3015 W Division Street, Chicago
Organizers: The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture

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.

Shelly Jyoti – Indigo: The Blue Gold

South Asia Institute 1925 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Organizers: South Asia Institute

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

Illinois Holocaust Museum 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
Organizers: Illinois Holocaust Museum

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.

SWEDISH SOMMARLÄGER

Swedish American Museum 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago
Organizers: Swedish American Museum

A hands-on camp with a different theme every day! Kids ages 6-12 will play Viking games, do traditional arts and crafts, dance, tell stories, become inventors, and explore the outdoors!

$325