Events:

Arts/Entertainment

Arts/Entertainment

Speaking Truths Series: Here and There in Diaspora

Speaking Truths Series community event will return to the museum in October. Our next show is scheduled for Wednesday October 23 at 7:30pm.
Arts/Entertainment

Cambodian Music of Life and Healing

The program is a part of Inherit Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance’s citywide, intercultural festival of art, ideas, and performance.
Arts/Entertainment

Play: Kasturba / Gandhi

A play on Kasturba Gandhi, wife of the Mahatma on her 150th birth anniversary who was his pillar of support and did not compromise her own beliefs in order to please the populace.
Arts/Entertainment

Parasite Free Screening

PARASITE has received widespread critical acclaim and became the first South Korean project to ever win the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Arts/Entertainment

The Kingmaker

The Kingmaker is a harrowing, up-close and personal portrait of political dynasties and the stubborn persistence of authoritarian rule.
Arts/Entertainment

The Great Leap by Lauren Yee

The Great Leap tells the story of Manford Lum, a local star of the sidewalk basketball courts of San Francisco’s Chinatown who strongarms his way onto an American college team travelling to Beijing for a “friendship” game.
Arts/Entertainment

Korean Film Screening: "A Tale of Two Sisters" by Kim Jee-won

In preparation for Halloween, Korean Cinema Chicago comes back with a horror movie for October! Adapted from an old Korean folktale Janghwa Hongryeon jeon, "A Tale of Two Sisters" is a psychological horror film with beautiful camera work and sound that will satisfy both horror film fans and cinephiles. When Su-mi and her younger sister, Su-yeon come home to their father after a long leave in the city, something is strange. Their stepmother Eun-joo greets them with forced enthusiasm, while their dad is reticent and distressed. Disturbing events start to happen to the family as the conflict between Su-mi and the stepmother increases. "A Tale of Two Sisters" is the highest-grossing Korean horror film and was the first to be screened in US theatres.
Arts/Entertainment

Subtitle: Southeast Asian Short Film Festival

A diverse program of short films by established and emerging Southeast Asian filmmakers, ranging from documentary and fiction to experimental films.