Friday 8/18 – Thursday 8/24
19 SATURDAY “Mestizos. Indios. Negros. Europeos. Indo-Afro-Euro Americanos. Latinos, Hispanics, call them what you will; they are the children of movement and encounter, meeting in love and suffering in slave ships and plantations, in mines and in chapels, in carnivals and in tool shops. How many hands in the Americas first met over a carpenter’s bench or a silversmith’s table, digging the treasures of Potosi or rowing the Magdalena or plowing the fields of Puerto Rico?” asks Mexican-born writer Carlos Fuentes in his introduction to the exhibit Americanos: Latino Life in the United States. The exhibit of 120 photos celebrating the Latino experience opens today and runs through November 12. It’s split between the Field Museum (1400 S. Lake Shore Drive) and the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (1852 W. 19th). Free trolleys will run between the two venues. The Field is open from 9 to 5 and admission is $8 for adults, $4 for children, seniors, and students; the MFACM is open from 10 to 5 Tuesday through Sunday and admission is free. Call 312-922-9410 or 312-738-1503 for more.
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23 WEDNESDAY Growing up in apartheid South Africa, Arun Gandhi harbored a lot of anger because he was harassed from both sides for being neither white nor black. His parents’ solution was to send him to India to live with his grandfather, Mohandas Gandhi. So it’s no surprise Gandhi the younger (whose own father spent over 16 years in prison for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid) has devoted his life to teaching tolerance. The author and founder of India’s Center for Social Unity and the Memphis-based M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence will speak at today’s reopening of the Children’s Museum’s improved exhibit, Face to Face: Dealing With Prejudice and Discrimination. It’s from 5:30 to 7:30 at the museum on Navy Pier at 700 E. Grand (312-464-8246). After the opening, Gandhi will sign copies of his books at the museum bookstore. Admission is free; reservations are recommended for the lecture.
