A stylized illustration of a kitchen with red accents is presented in the foreground, while the background features text announcing a "Kurdish Dinner" on August 31st at Marz Brewery.

Public Media Institute

Enjoy the full program with access to all main activities.

Ticket A for 5:30pm-7:30pm

LXCL:Enjoy the full program with access to all main activities.

Ticket B for 5:30-7:30pm

Ticket C for 5:30-7:30pm

Hosted by sisters <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.beizararadini.com/" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Beizar Aradini</a> and Beimal Yazdanparast, this dinner centers on what it means to cook as part of the Kurdish diaspora. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, home to one of the largest Kurdish communities in the United States, their family arrived as refugees after fleeing the Anfal genocide, Saddam Hussein&#39;s genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people in the late 1980s. This displaced hundreds of thousands of Kurds and forever reshaped the lives of Kurdish families across the world. This same campaign was carried out with chemical weapons and enabled in part through U.S. support for the Iraqi regime during that period.The Kurdish people are the world&#39;s largest stateless nation, with more than 40 million people living across present-day Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and throughout the global diaspora. Today, Chicago is also home to many Kurdish residents who continue to sustain their language, traditions, and culture, far from their ancestral homeland.Growing up between two languages usually means constantly translating&hellip;not only words, but customs and ways of being. There is both loss and possibility in that space. Some recipes survive almost unchanged; others are reinvented through what is available in new landscapes and what is passed onto the next changing generations. For Beizar and Beimal, cooking is a way of holding onto tradition while allowing it to evolve and transform. Please join us.

Hosted by sisters <a href="https://www.beizararadini.com/" target="_blank">Beizar Aradini</a> and Beimal Yazdanparast, this dinner centers on what it means to cook as part of the Kurdish diaspora. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, home to one of the largest Kurdish communities in the United States, their family arrived as refugees after fleeing the Anfal genocide, Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people in the late 1980s. This displaced hundreds of thousands of Kurds and forever reshaped the lives of Kurdish families across the world. This same campaign was carried out with chemical weapons and enabled in part through U.S. support for the Iraqi regime during that period.The Kurdish people are the world's largest stateless nation, with more than 40 million people living across present-day Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and throughout the global diaspora. Today, Chicago is also home to many Kurdish residents who continue to sustain their language, traditions, and culture, far from their ancestral homeland.Growing up between two languages usually means constantly translating…not only words, but customs and ways of being. There is both loss and possibility in that space. Some recipes survive almost unchanged; others are reinvented through what is available in new landscapes and what is passed onto the next changing generations. For Beizar and Beimal, cooking is a way of holding onto tradition while allowing it to evolve and transform. Please join us.

Public Media Institute

Kurdish community dinner

3630 S Iron St

Ticket A for 5:30pm-7:30pm

$25

Ticket B for 5:30-7:30pm

$50

Ticket C for 5:30-7:30pm

$100