Friday 1/28 – Thursday 2/3
Pre-Columbian music from Raiz Viva, traditional Mayan theater and music from the Konojel Junam ensemble, and Latin tunes spun by DJ Estrada highlight Casa Guatemala’s tenth annual Human Rights Awards Dinner. This year the immigrant- and refugee-rights group is honoring Betsy Brill of the Girl’s Best Friend Foundation and David Lindstrom and Vicky White from the Foundation for Human Rights in Guatemala, among others. It’s from 7 to 1 at Michelle’s Ballroom, 2800 W. Belmont. Tickets are $30 at the door ($15 for children). Call 773-334-9101 for details.
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29 SATURDAY The A-Zone’s Anarchy in Seattle event promises video footage of the WTO protests and a discussion led by “anarchists who were there.” It starts at 7 at 2012 W. Chicago. A $5 donation is suggested; call 773-252-6019 for more information.
The Sun-Times has gathered all those retrospective articles they ran about the 20th century and bound them into a book, 20th Century Chicago: 100 Years, 100 Voices. Today Sun-Times staffers Brenda Warner Rotzoll (who tackled 1913), Laura Emerick (1916), and Rosalind Rossi (1988) will be joined by writer and playwright Vicki Quade (1953) to read their contributions, which deal with Mexican immigration, anti-Semitism, polio, the Playboy Club, and Laurie Dann’s suburban rampage. They’ll start at 5 at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark (773-769-9299). It’s free.
Poet, writer, and activist Sandra Howe Royster, who died last month, helped promote DanceAfrica Chicago and brought more diverse offerings to the Chicago Cultural Center, where she directed programming. Tonight’s free Chicago arts tribute to Sandra Howe Royster will include performances by vocalists John Vorassi and Jamie O’Reilly, pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow, and storyteller Shanta as well as a procession by DanceAfrica’s Council of Elders, readings by writers Royster worked with, and much more. It starts at 6 at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington (312-744-6630).
