Enjoy beautiful music in the park, and a masterclass with local young musicians! This event, "From Slavery to Justice: the Ongoing Journey" has been re-scheduled because of COVID to Saturday, Oct. 8 at 1pm. To celebrate Juneteenth, a historic date that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people, Crossing Borders Music has commissioned new music of ... Read more

The National Cambodian Heritage Museum's mahori ensemble will perform Cambodian classics at the Global Garden Refugee Training Farm. At their invitation, our Crossing Borders Music violinist Rasa Mahmoudian will play in the ensemble. Pictured: the Cambodian Museum mahori ensemble performs with Crossing Borders Music string players at the 2021 Morton Arboretum Destination Asia festival The ... Read more

Rain can't keep us away! Join the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) and Crossing Borders Music for the re-scheduled one-day outdoor exhibition "We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community." "We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community" is a program created in 2020 by the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) who invited Crossing Borders ... Read more

This educational livestream is for grades 6-12 students and teachers and open to all Chicago Public Schools teachers and students plus other Streamable Learning subscribers. Registration is required. What makes your favorite music "special"? Is it the music itself? The memory of when you first heard it? The way it relates to your life? How ... Read more

The Haitian American Museum of Chicago will bring its outdoor, community, traveling exhibition to North Lawndale for the second year in the row. We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community, was originally organized in 2020, in the Uptown neighborhood, in direct response to the Black Lives Matter protests and the disproportionate effect of the Covid-19 ... Read more

New Music Chicago presents "From Slavery to Justice: the Ongoing Journey." The program uses music to tell stories of African-American liberation. To celebrate Juneteenth, a historic date that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people, Crossing Borders Music commissioned new music of The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker, Jordyn Davis, and Jessica T. Carter. Be one of ... Read more

This educational livestream is for grades 6-12 students and teachers and open to all Chicago Public Schools teachers and students plus other Streamable Learning subscribers. Registration is required. What makes your favorite music "special"? Is it the music itself? The memory of when you first heard it? The way it relates to your life? How ... Read more

Highlighting persecution under Iran's regime and heroic resilience in its face, Crossing Borders Music marks ten years of sharing the music and stories of Bahá’í composers from Iran with this unique program. As part of Iran’s systematic persecution of members of the Bahá’í religion, Bahá’ís are banned from attending college or university. In response, Iranian ... Read more

Highlighting persecution under Iran’s regime and heroic resilience in its face, Crossing Borders Music marks ten years of sharing the music and stories of Bahá’í composers from Iran with this unique livestream program, "Ten Years of 'Celebrating Resilience: Music by Iranian Bahá'ís.'" Joining the livestream will be composer and Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education alumna ... Read more

This educational livestream is for grades K-8 students and teachers and open to all Chicago Public Schools teachers and students plus other Streamable Learning subscribers. Registration is required. This Black history month, Crossing Borders Music celebrates African-American trailblazers in and through music! Using music, we'll learn about the lives of Chicago's first non-native resident Jean-Baptiste ... Read more