ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time. To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations and why you love them to: Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org
Get Crafty!
Renegade Virtual Craft Fair For two hours every Friday and Saturday in May at the Renegade Craft Virtual Fair, dive into artists’ portals and connect with creatives from all over the world. Look forward to behind-the-scenes demos, studio and home tours, Q+A’s, fireside chats, tutorials, meditations, performances, how-to’s, DJ sets, and much more! Fridays from 5 - 7 p.m.; Saurdays from noon - 2 p.m. through the rest of May at renegadecraft.com/fair/virtual
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Listen to Angelic Voices!
The Chicago Children's Choir's 'Paint the Town Red!' concert The Chicago Children's Choir's Paint the Town Red! concert will be offered online this year, 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 21 at ccchoir.org/paint-town-red-2020/ Paint the Town Red is an annual, free concert featuring all 5,200 young Chicago Children's Choir singers along with special guest artists TBA. Past guest artists have included cast members from the HAMILTON Chicago Company, the Q Brothers Collective, CCC alumna and singer/songwriter Jamila Woods, interdisciplinary instrumental ensemble Mucca Pazza, CCC alumna and Broadway star Allison Semmes, and more. Tune in to see who’s joining them virtually this year! The non-profit CCC inspires and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to become global citizens through music. Founded in Hyde Park in direct response to the Civil Rights Movement in 1956, CCC has grown from one choir into a vast network of inschool and after-school programs driven by the mission to change lives through music.
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The Role of Judges, Attorneys, and Bar Associations During the Holocaust How did the legal profession operate under – and cooperate with – the Nazi regime? In this program, legal scholar Cathy Lesser Mansfield will explore the conduct of key legal players under Nazi dictatorship and whether the American legal system could ever be at risk of supporting such a regime. Lesser Mansfield participated in the 2007 Silberman seminar at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and is executive director of the Master's of Financial Integrity Program at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Thursday, May 21, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. Cost is $15 adults, $10 seniors, $8 students and $6 children age 5-11 at bit.ly/2wlyxCG
