Sports Camp
March 25-29, April 1-5, April 8-12
8 am – 5 pm
LWC, Riškus Hall (14911 127th St., Lemont, IL 60439).

Saturday, March 30, 10 am
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture (6500 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL 60629)
Folk artist Don Astras will teach etching technique. Please bring 6 hard-boiled dyed eggs. Please register by calling 773-582-6500.
Registration fee: Adults $20; Children 12 and under $10
Light refreshments will be served.

Book presentation
Saturday, March 30 at 2 pm
Lithuanian Youth Center (5620 S Claremont Ave, Chicago, IL 60636)

Come meet the author of the “Laimė yra Lapė” (Luck is the Fox) children’s book. This book was selected as the best children’s book for 2018 in Lithuania. The author herself Evelina Daciūtė will be available for questions and autographs. The book signing will be on Saturday, March 30, 2 PM at the Lithuanian Cultural Center of Chicago, 5620 S. Claremont Ave. There will be a creative workshop for children. Fox at home – luck at home. For more information – 708-299-9353. Tickets are $20. for adults and will be available at the door.

Wednesday, April 3, 12:15 pm
Chicago Cultural Center (78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602)

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series presents internationally acclaimed, multiple award winning Lithuanian pianist Rasa Vitkauskaitė. Program includes works by Čiurlionis, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, and others. Admission FREE.
Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center.

The Čiurlionis Art Gallery in the Lithuanian Center of Chicago (14911 127th St., Lemont, 60439, IL) on April 6 at 2 pm will host a book presentation “Šeima – Komandinis žaidimas” (Family – a team game). This book will explore how to achieve peaceful and harmonious relationships in the family unit. The author Aurima Dilienė will be available for questions and autographs.

Monday, April 22, 7 pm
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture (6500 S Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60629)

Certified Nutritionist, Herbalist and Self-Healing Teacher, Daiva Gaulyte is coming from Alaska to Chicago and we invited her to our museum to share her insights. In her talk she will share how from a “6 months to live” sentence from her doctor, she became healthier and happier than before.
She will share her self-healing habits, that anyone could apply.

Monday, April 22 at 7:10 pm
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture (6500 S Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60629)
Lecture “Self-Healing Habits”

Certified Nutritionist, Herbalist and Self-Healing Teacher, Daiva Gaulyte is coming from Alaska to Chicago and we invited her to our museum to share her insights.
In her talk she will share how from a “6 months to live” sentence from her doctor, she became healthier and happier than before.
She will share her self-healing habits, that anyone could apply.

Saturday, April 27 at 7 pm
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture (6500 S Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60629)

Screening of “Kelionės namo”, a documentary film by Ramunė Rakauskaitė. 2019, 60 min., in Lithuanian with English subtitles. Film Director will be present. “Kelionės namo”, is an upbeat memoir, never before presented in cinema, recounting the unexpected first encounters of American-Lithuanians who traveled back to their Soviet-occupied homeland after WWII. During the war, the heroes of the film were forced to leave Lithuania and became displaced persons (DP). Their nostalgia created somewhat naïve images of their homeland. Yet when allowed to travel to Soviet Lithuania in the late ‘60s and 70’s, they were confronted with a different reality! This account of returning to their homeland reveals the hope and spirit of the pre-occupation era, the intersection of two different civilizations, colorful heroes and their unique experiences.

All are invited to the Lithuanian Folk Ensemble, “Grandis” 60th anniversary concert that will take place on Saturday, May 4th at the Carl Sandburg High School Performing Arts Center in Orland Park, IL. The program will begin at 4 pm.