Friday 7/13 – Thursday 7/19
14 SATURDAY “Leashed and behaved” pets and their owners are invited to attend today’s DOGooders breakfast panel at WomanMade Gallery, where the topic will be helper dogs that find missing people and provide animal-assisted therapy for children and people with disabilities. The discussion will include a dog-training demonstration and will be followed by a tour of the gallery’s “Cats & Dogs” exhibit, which has sold more work than any of its other shows. The free panel will include representatives from Chenney Troupe, Chicago Regional Search & Rescue, Rainbow Animal Assisted Therapy, Dog Advisory Work Group, and Call of the Wild School for Dogs; it runs from 10:30 to noon and the exhibit is open until 4 at WomanMade Gallery, 1900 S. Prairie (312-328-0038).
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19 THURSDAY Team Chicago won the Great Lakes Regional Lifeguard Championship last year, and they’ll be back to defend their title against teams from Wilmette, Milwaukee, and elsewhere at this year’s competition, where 500 lifeguards will compete in 14 events, such as surf rescue and open swim. It starts tonight at 5 PM and also runs Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM at Montrose Beach. It’s free to watch; call 312-742-4920. i In 1994, Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes, one of the world’s leading authorities on DNA and human evolution, set out to find a living descendant of the 5,000-year-old “Ice Man” discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991. When he did locate one, she turned out to be living in Dorset. Through further studies he determined that most Europeans are descended from one of seven women who lived 150,000 years ago. How he figured this out–along with mostly fictional descriptions of how those women may have lived–is the focus of his book The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry. He’ll discuss his work tonight at 7 at Transitions Bookplace, 1000 W. North. It’s free; call 312-951-7323. i
