Share Your Story With Celebration Of Cultures

NORTHBROOK, IL — How did your journey, or your family's journey, to the United States begin? If you have an amazing story you'd like to share with the world as part of the annual Celebration of Cultures event, the North Suburban YMCA and the Northbrook Voices project want to hear it.

To participate, the YMCA asks you send a high resolution photograph (300 dpi but no larger than 7 inches) along with a 50-word caption about your or your family's journey to their website.

Stories collected will be displayed at the North Suburban YMCA Community Gallery and incorporated into a multimedia exhibit at the gallery as part of the Celebration, which is organized by the Northbrook Community Relations Commission for the second year running.

The Celebration of Cultures faire takes place Sunday, April 23 at the North Suburban YMCA at 2705 Techny Road in Northbrook from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.. The event is free and open to all ages. There will be dancing, singing, art and traditional food from diverse cultural backgrounds.

The second annual free event aims to offer Northbrook residents and their friends a chance to experience and appreciate the variety of cultural backgrounds of people living and working in the North Shore.

As part of the celebration, the Northbrook Public Library is hosting a Celebration of Cultures Film Series featuring a free Foreign Film Festival, which will screen every Wednesday at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., from April 5 through April 26 in the Northbrook Library Auditorium.