The Evanston Arts Council will fund 20 local artists, art organizations and community art groups, awarding $70,000 in grants. The Cultural Fund Grant recipients range from Claudia Renteria, who works with local organization Evanston Latinos to promote Latine artists, to Chicago chamber music group Crossing Borders Music. The grant, which was open for applications from.
While some of Chicago’s museums have free admission days throughout the summer, many zoos, parks and museums across the city offer free admission for kids,.
The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian is hosting a film screening of “Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World” and a virtual panel discussion with its filmmakers, Costa Boutsikaris and Michael Kotutwa Johnson on Sunday. The film follows five Native American tribes as they restore ancient relationships with the Earth through traditional land management.
Student activist Emmet Ebels-Duggan said they wanted students to leave Evanston Township High School’s inaugural Climate Justice Conference feeling energized, educated and hopeful. “Information is just so key to everything political, to every movement,” Ebels-Duggan said. “We want to talk about climate justice specifically, and how climate crisis intersects with other forms of injustice.” Ebels-Duggan,.