St. Paddy’s Day 5K Run/Walk & Kids’ Leprechaun Leap at Diversey Harbor -Proceeds benefit Friends of Alcott School
Nearly 1,000 adults and children will "be green and be seen" on Chicago’s lakefront a few days before the calendar's official St. Patrick’s Day at the 4th annual St. Paddy’s Day 5K Run/ Walk & Leprechaun Leap.
The event will be held on Sunday, March 13, at Diversey Harbor. The Run & Walk starts at 10 a.m. with a Leprechaun Leap (a free kids’ dash) starting at 11:15 a.m.
Proceeds will benefit Friends of Alcott School, a non-profit organization consisting of community members who support the school, located at 2625 N. Orchard St., through various fundraising events.
Registration for the St. Paddy’s Day 5K Run/Walk (which includes a t-shirt) is $20 in advance, $25 on-site. The Leprechaun Leap is free for kids 10 years of age and younger with t-shirts available for $8. Pre-registrations can be made online at chicagoevents.com. For more information, call (773) 868-3010.
Following the event a post-race party with raffles and race awards will be held at a to-be-announced location.
Four Shillings Short
Enjoy Celtic, folk and world music on Saturday, March 26, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., at the Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 North Knox Ave. For more information, call (773) 282-7035.
St. Patrick’s Day Social with 1415 Senior Club
Join United Methodist Homes and Services for the 1415 Senior Club’s St. Patrick Day Social on Wednesday, March 16, 2-4 p.m. The afternoon will include food, refreshments and "A Reader’s Musical Theatre" performed by Ed Young and Roger Jacobson. The event will take place at The Methodist Home, 1415 W. Foster Ave. Cost for the program and buffet is $5 per person. Seats are limited, so please RSVP to (773) 769-5500.
St. Pat’s Parade
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be Saturday, March 12, starting at noon. The route travels Columbus Dr. from Balbo Ave. to Monroe St. For more information, visit chicagostpatsparade.com.
Spring Equinox Art Spree features
St. Pat's items
Find gifts perfect for spring festivities, Easter and St. Patrick's Day at the Illinois Artisans Shop Spring Equinox Art Spree in the atrium of the James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph St., Wednesday and Thursday, March 16 and 17, 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Selected members of the Illinois Artisans Program will exhibit and sell fine craft items that celebrate the coming of spring.
Nine Illinois artisans will display work including figurative paintings, beaded jewelry, ceramic vases, tiles, bowls, and plates, hand-carved petroglyphs, hand-woven wearables, sterling silver jewelry, porcelain jewelry, St. Patrick's Day cards and handmade cloth dolls. In honor of Easter, traditional hand-painted Pysanka eggs by Vera Samycia will be available for purchase. As a special spring feature, Pamela Penney will show her stylish wearables. Penney hand-knits and hand-sews original art-to-wear, often hand-dyeing her fabrics. She will display colorful hand-knit children's sweaters, and hand-sewn scarves, purses and capelets. Her fashionable wearables make the perfect gift for those dressing for spring weather.
Artisans Exhibiting:
o Zsofia Otvos, Chicago, Figurative Painting
o Selena Derry Awoleye, Chicago, Hand-made Cloth Dolls, Beaded Jewelry
o Susan Forner, Chicago, Porcelain Jewelry and Vases, Ceramic Tiles
o Alan Barbick, Warrenville, Petroglyphs
o Stephanie Marder, Chicago, Ceramics
o Pamela Penney, Oak Park, Wearables (Capelets, Scarves, Children's Sweaters)
o Susan Shaffer, Geneva, Hand-knit Jewelry, Sterling Silver Jewelry
o Jane E. Shaffer, Mt. Prospect, Sterling Silver Jewelry
o Vera Samycia, Chicago, Pysanka
The Illinois Artisans Shop, a not-for-profit endeavor, is a showcase for art work created by the state's finest artisans. It provides an ongoing opportunity to view and purchase traditional, contemporary, ethnic and folk art made in Illinois. The Illinois Artisans Shop at 100 W. Randolph St. occupies Suite 2-200; call (312) 814-5321 for more information. The Shop is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Four Leaf Clover Party
St. Jude Auxiliary Board will host its first benefit of the year, the Four Leaf Clover Party, at FOUR, the newly opened club in Wicker Park. With places to both dance and lounge, there’s something for everyone at FOUR. This is a great opportunity to mix and mingle with Chicago’s philanthropic young professionals and to kick off the St. Patrick’s Day weekend!
The event takes place 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, March 11, at FOUR, 1551 W. Division St. The cost of $30 includes drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
The Auxiliary Board of Chicago, established in the year 2000, is a diverse group of men and women under the age of 40 from all professions, overseen by the Executive Board, established to give Chicago residents a chance to help children all over to battle all kinds of illnesses. Its primary mission is to create awareness of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and to establish funds for children dealing with catastrophic illnesses so they can have a chance to live a long and fulfilling life.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Founded by late entertainer Danny Thomas and based in Memphis, TN, St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world.
No family ever pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization.
For more information, visit stjudeauxiliaryboard.org.
IAHC St. Pat's Celebration to feature David Monagan,author of ‘Jaywalking with the Irish’
"Jaywalking with the Irish," by David Monagan, has received high praise from Frank McCourt, the author of "Angela's Ashes." "You won't find a better or truer depiction of Ireland than this one," said McCourt. Those who love great books can meet David Monagan at the Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave., during their St. Patrick's Celebration Saturday, March 12. He will be reading from 2 to 2:30 p.m., then signing books from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The large-scale festival, expected to draw 3,000 people, features bands, Irish dancing, food and children's activities, and runs from 1 p.m. to midnight. The cost is $15 for adults, free for children 12 and under with a paying adult.
David Monagan is a witty, incisive and observant American writer, who relocated with his family to Cork, Republic of Ireland, in 2000. Born in Connecticut to a staunch Irish-American family, his life-long interest in Ireland was perhaps inescapable.
David studied literature at Dublin's Trinity College 1973-74, where he became captivated by the country, and was inspired to return many times in the intervening years, each of these trips burnishing an ever deeper familiarity with Ireland. In his writings about such subjects as the quest to overcome gravity, international tattoo conventions and the backyard collecting of fire flies for later processing into shark repellents, Monagan has developed a keen eye for things baffling and marvelous in his wide travels, such as he recently found everywhere around him in modern-day Ireland.
"'Jaywalking with the Irish' is an all-encompassing portrait of present-day Ireland," said Monagan. Affectionate and comic, startling and sometimes alarming, the book captures Ireland as it is today, cleared of its donkey carts and thatch as it grapples with the modern world in its own inimitable way.
It is also the story of a uniquely personal journey, the capstone of the author's 30 years of experience with the country, led ever forward by his relationship with one particular family, and a man now deceased who proved to be a guiding star. The book works on several levels, as both the completion of a personal circle and a closer examination of the transformed new Ireland.
"Jaywalking with the Irish" differs from almost all other portraits of Ireland in that it portrays the fabled nation transformed—warts and BMWs and hilarity and all—into the modern age. It is the most topical and currently penetrating work of travel literature available about Irish culture, and should open eyes as no book in this genre has done for years. It tells the story of a family, with young kids in tow, struggling to make lasting inroads in a new land.
"Jaywalking with the Irish" is full of the humor and surprise that classically enthrall readers about Ireland—a mad publican cutting off his customers' ties, a "Magic Road' where cars in neutral slide up-hill, British wayfarers treated to a round-up of midgets impersonating fairies, neighbors watching one's every move.
For more information, call the Irish American Heritage Center at (773) 282-7035. |
