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Rembetika on the Rooftop
Thursday, July 20, 7:00-11pm
Admission $30 - Cash bar
Come join us for a summer mixer on the rooftop of Pegasus Restaurant in Greektown. Live music, fantastic food and cool drinks. Bring your friends or make some new ones. Pegasus Restaurant, 130 S. Halsted Street
Say Logos, Say Word: A Solo Performance by Angela Kariotis
Saturday, July 22, 7:30 pm
Admission: Members & students $10, Non-members $15
Spoken word artist, Angela Kariotis, performs a Greek comedic-tragedy set in New Jersey about home, familial love, and the longing for a land never seen. There will be a Q & A session with a wine and cheese reception immediately following the performance. Reservations requested: 312.655.1234. Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, 801 W. Adams St., 4th Floor
HALSTED STREET: The Play
Friday, August 25, 7:30 pm
Admission: $25 Members, $30 Non-members
Back by popular demand! HMCC is pleased to recreate this reader’s theatre play adapted and directed by Dr. Maria Boundas Bakalis about the lives of the immigrants of Hull-House and its neighborhood in 1939. Reservations required: 312.655.1234. Merit School of Music, 38 S. Peoria Street
The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955 and the Destruction of the Greek Community in Istanbul
Sunday, September 17, 3:00 pm
Author and scholar Professor Speros Vryonis reads and signs from his powerful novel that chronicles the destruction of the Greek community in Istanbul, 1955. Professor Vryonis is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. Don’t miss this event! Admission: HMCC Members & students w/I.D. $2, Non-members $7. Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, 801 W. Adams St., 4th floor, Chicago. 312.655.1234.
Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Friday
10 am - 4 pm
801 West Adams, 4th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60607
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