Friday 3/30 – Thursday 4/5
31 SATURDAY On Easter Sunday in Lithuania, the Easter Granny traditionally arrives at homes before sunrise in a cart led by a wax horse and leaves eggs for children in a little nest or basket in the yard. After hightailing it home from church, families then sit down to the Easter meal, the first course of which is always eggs, and then might engage in a game of egg rolling. Decorating all those eggs is also an important holiday custom, and today the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture offers its 35th annual Easter egg decorating workshop, led by folk artist Ursula Astras. The workshops are at 11 and 1 at the museum at 6500 S. Pulaski. The $9.50 fee ($8.50 for members) includes materials and admission to the museum, but you must bring your own dyed hard-boiled eggs. Call 773-582-6500 to register.
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2 MONDAY “For too long musicians have had too little voice in the manufacture, distribution, and promotion of their music on a national and international level and too little means to extract fair support and compensation for their work.” So reads the manifesto of the Coalition for the Future of Music, a group of independent musicians looking to level the playing field. CFM executive director Jenny Toomey (of the bands Tsunami, Licorice, and Grenadine and the now defunct Simple Machines label) will join the Recording Industry Association of America’s Stanley Pierre-Louis, Artists Against Piracy director Noah Stone, and U. of C. law school professor Douglas Lichtman to discuss life after Napster at a free panel called After the Flood? Copyright in the Information Age. It’s today from 4 to 6 in the courtroom at the University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th. Call 773-490-9561 for more info.
