Crossing Borders Music

10/06/2026

Join us for the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial annual fundraiser this Saturday.📣

📆Date: Saturday, October 10th
🕖Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
📍Location: Northeastern Illinois University, Recital Hall
Parking: Please park in Parking Lot F

Culture is like a tree with its roots deeply connected to the past while its branches continue to grow toward the future. Experience melodies that echo from ancient temples, royal palaces, and the Cambodian countryside. Music is living history. Dance is an inherited language. Stories preserve memory, and art brings our heritage to life. Together, they reflect the rich diversity and enduring unity of our community.

Your attendance and generosity help preserve these living traditions, care for our collections, expand educational programs, and inspire future generations to value and carry forward their cultural heritage.

🎟Get your tickets HERE - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/echoes-of-the-past-future-promises-tickets-1998670974688?aff=oddtdtcreator

09/29/2026

Stories and Music of Resilience at the Chicago Children's Museum last Friday...

Thank you to everyone joined us for World Children's Day!

09/25/2026

Today's the day!📣

World Children's Day is UNICEF’s global day of action for children. Around the world, children are standing up and talking about their lives, their hopes, and their rights.

Today, we invite you to join us at the Chicago Children's Museum for a performance of Stories and Music of Resilience, an educational program suitable for all ages, where we celebrate musical stories of resilience in a performance of string quartet music by composers from around the world!

📆Date: Friday, September 25, 2026
🕖Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
📍Venue: Chicago Children’s Museum, 700 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
✨The performance is free with general museum admission and suitable for all ages!

“The stories about the pieces of music written in countries involved in conflict, such as the story of the Uganda Martyrs, resonates with students at a school like ours, as many of our students have experienced conflict in their native country before coming to America. This helps validate and relate to their lived experiences, in ways that they don’t even necessarily realize is such an empowering experience.”
– Principal Christopher Graves, Jordan Community Elementary School

09/23/2026

This Friday, join us at the Chicago Children's Museum for World Children's Day.👩‍👧‍👦🌍👩‍👧‍👧

The CBM string quartet will be performing Stories and Music of Resilience where we celebrate musical stories of resilience in a performance of string quartet music by composers from around the world!

This unique 50-minute string quartet program features music by composers from Uganda, Argentina, the Soviet Union, the Chickasaw Nation, Taiwan, and the US. Each piece shares a unique story of resilience, whether in the face of personal loss, political oppression, or other people’s incorrect assumptions!

📆Date: Friday, September 25, 2026
🕖Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
📍Venue: Chicago Children’s Museum, 700 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
✨The performances are free with general museum admission and suitable for all ages!

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09/18/2026

Important Update!📣

See post for more details⬇️

**In the event of inclement weather, this performance will be moved INDOORS.

Proud and Loud: Disability Art and Music Showcase is a new, multi-arts experience for EVERYONE that affirms that the opposite of “oppression” is “expression”! Come to help make a community mural and enjoy performances by dancers Ladonna Freidheim, Hana Javed, Robby Lee Williams, Alexis Smith, musician Victoria Boateng, performance artists Rachel Singer and Cherlnell Lane.

The mural-making is led and the program curated by Chicago artist and Disability activist Genevieve Ramos.

ALL are welcome; come and join the fun! ASL provided.

📅Saturday September 19th | 11 am -1 pm
📍Garfield Park Dome, Room 104, 100 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624

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09/16/2026

**In the event of inclement weather, this performance will be moved INDOORS.

Proud and Loud: Disability Art and Music Showcase is a new, multi-arts experience for EVERYONE that affirms that the opposite of “oppression” is “expression”! Come to help make a community mural and enjoy performances by dancers Ladonna Freidheim, Hana Javed, Robby Lee Williams, Alexis Smith, musician Victoria Boateng, performance artists Rachel Singer and Cherlnell Lane.

The mural-making is led and the program curated by Chicago artist and Disability activist Genevieve Ramos.

ALL are welcome; come and join the fun! ASL provided.

📅Saturday September 19th | 11 am -1 pm
📍Garfield Park Dome, Room 104, 100 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624

🌐Visit our website to add these events to your calendar so you don't miss out! www.crossingbordersmusic.org

🤳Spread the news - like and share with a friend you'd like to attend with

Help us reach our goal of 1k followers on Instagram by following us there or sharing with someone who should!📣

09/16/2026

Have you bought your tickets?🎶

Crossing Borders Music presents an exciting and diverse program of string quartet music for this years World Dumpling Fest !🥟✨

Featuring newly composed works by young composers from the Chicagoland area alongside arrangements of treasured music from across the globe, chosen from Crossing Borders Music’s vast library of music of underrepresented people groups, the program will include music from areas such as Haiti, the Arab World, and Peru.

📆Date: Saturday, September 19th
🕖Time: 5 PM
📍Venue: Wrightwood Park, 2555 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
🎟Get your tickets! - https://bucketlisters.com/exp.../world-dumpling-fest-chicago

09/15/2026

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09/11/2026

If you're looking for fun, family friendly things to do on World Children's Day, join us at the Chicago Children's Museum for a performance of Stories and Music of Resilience, where we celebrate musical stories of resilience in a performance of string quartet music by composers from around the world!

📆Date: Friday, September 25, 2026
🕖Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
📍Venue: Chicago Children’s Museum, 700 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
✨The performances are free with general museum admission and suitable for all ages!

This unique 50-minute string quartet program features music by composers from Uganda, Argentina, the Soviet Union, the Chickasaw Nation, Taiwan, and the US. Each piece shares a unique story of resilience, whether in the face of personal loss, political oppression, or other people’s incorrect assumptions!

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09/10/2026

Two CBM performances...on the same day?🤔

That's right! Next weekend you can enjoy twice as much music with us at Night Out In The Parks and World Dumpling Fest!

First up is Proud and Loud: Disability Art and Music Showcase, presented by Genevieve Ramos & CBM
📅Saturday September 19th | 11 am -1 pm
📍Garfield Park Field House, 100 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624

Followed by a performance of new arrangements for Chicago Cultural Alliance World Dumpling Fest
📅Saturday, September 19th | 5 pm
📍Wrightwood Park, 2555 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
🎟Get your tickets! - https://bucketlisters.com/experience/world-dumpling-fest-chicago

We are proud to be participating in two of Chicago’s most exciting cultural events this year, celebrating the city’s artistic diversity and cultures! 🌳🥟🎶