Upcoming Events

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Activating Local Black History: A Symposium

 Saturday April 26, 2025, 9:30am-5:30pm, at Harris Hall on the Northwestern University campus.
 
Join us for a daylong event! Faculty, students and staff from Northwestern and Evanston Township High School, as well as other community members, will share works-in-progress that activate Shorefront Legacy Center’s archival collections and expand our knowledge of Black history in Evanston and across the North Shore. The event will also include a screening of the documentary, Stolen School.
 
The symposium, co-hosted by Northwestern University and Shorefront Legacy Center, represents the culmination of a year-long, grant-funded project between Northwestern’s History Department, Shorefront Legacy Center, and the Center for Civic Engagement. The event is funded by the University’s ANCHOR grant program.
 

 

Woman’s Club of Evanston’s Spring Benefit 2025

Saturday, May 3, 2025, from 6:00-9:30 PM
at the WCE Clubhouse, 1702 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL

Music by Chris Greene Quartet

Shorefront Legacy Center is honored to be the beneficiary of the Woman Club of Evanston’s Spring Benefit.

Launched in 2024, Shorefront’s Intergenerational Interview Project is an eight-week program that brings together local high school students and community elders. Guided by historians and journalists, students learn the skills to conduct oral history interviews and immerse themselves in the elders’ personal stories that have not been comprehensively documented. This project provides a platform for their voices, illuminating the lived experiences behind the headlines. It hopes to ensure that future generations will need not repeat the far too frequent refrain: “I did not know…”

We are grateful to the Woman’s Club of Evanston for its support!

To reserve tickets, view sponsorship opportunities, 
make a donation, and for more information, please visit:

https://e.givesmart.com/events/HVU/