Journey Stories tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell.

Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.

Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.

This exhibition runs from October 24 - December 6, 2009.

Contemporary works in ceramics, wood, papier mâché, and paintings, including many works relating to The Day of the Dead by noted Mexican folk artists as well as vintage pieces from the Tarble Arts Center collection and private collections.

This exibition is on display from October 2, 2009 - December 6, 2009. Tarble Arts Center hours are 10 AM - 5 PM Tuesdays - Fridays; 10 AM - 4 PM Saturdays, and 1 PM - 4 PM on Sundays.

Note: Related film showings on October 29 and November 5, 7 PM

Note: As part of Latino Heritage Month, there will be a ublic guided tour of this exhibition on October 13, 2009 at 3 PM.

Evanston Symphony Orchestra's season opener

The Chicago Licorice Sticks Clarinet Orchestra presents a Halloween concert sure to have you on the edge of your seat with such selections as Dance Macabre, Night on Bald Mountain, Theme from Batman, Fingal's Cave, Licorice Licks, and other surprises. This group takes an entertaining approach to music of all types: jazz, classical, Dixieland, show tunes, and pop.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in g minor. Elizabeth Joy Roe - soloist Symphony No. 2 in B-flat St Paul Overture Symphony No. 5 in d minor Also Music for Life program for children 4 - 10 years.

Music for Life offers families to experience classical music together. Parents bring children between the ages of four and ten to our concerts. They sit together in the audience for the first orchestral work on the program. Then Maestro Heatherington excuses the children to go to a separate room with professional music educators from the Music Institute of Chicago. There they learn more about the music they have heard. Instructors use visual arts, drama, storytelling and movement to stimulate the children's own imagination and creativity. Adult companions enjoy the remainder of the concert, join their children during the intermission for refreshments, and pick them up when the concert is over.