We have been busy this year! 
2016 is looking even bigger and brighter. 
Did you enjoy an Indo-American Heritage Museum program in 2015? Did you visit our website and discover little-known facets of the Indian American experience in our virtual galleries?  Help us continue our work, and most urgently, help us find a home where we can continue to fulfill our mission to preserve and share the history and culture of Indian Americans.

This year we forged links with Silk Road Rising, Field Museum, many merchants on Devon Avenue, and three religious centers in the southwest suburbs, and brought our programs to new communities. With your help, look what we did in 2015:
  • The fifth annual Amazing India at Navy Pier,enjoyed by an estimated 1800 adults andchildren
  • Twelve Ethnic Dialogue sessions conducted by nine volunteers, where 452 visitors, mostly schoolchildren, learned about the Indian American community
  • Two Taste of India Tours and one Sacred
    IAHM Board President Madhoolica Dear helps a young guest at Taste of India try some bridal jewelry at Taj Sari Palace.
    Sites Tour at which 39 participants enjoyed  special introductions to diverse heritage and culture of Indian Americans.
  • Successful Chicago and Naperville showings of Minita Gandhi's solo play, Muthaland, 
    developed at Silk Road Rising.
  • For the first time, IAHM joined Naperville's India Day Parade.
A young artist tries her hand at rangoli
at Amazing India.
    
We are very proud to announce that we received two grants this year.
The Chicago Community Trust awarded IAHM $10,000 to gather 30 oral histories in 2016. Highlights from these stories will be posted on our website,
and full transcriptions will become part of our archive for researchers.When IAHM co-hosts the Smithsonian's traveling exhibition Beyond Bollywood with Field Museum in 2017, selected stories will be used to enhance the traveling exhibition with our local immigration story. We are currently assembling names of interview subjects, so if you know an elder who came to Chicago before 1965 and who is willing to share his or her story, please let us know.
 
The second grant of $2,000 was awarded for general operating support
from the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. 

Young performers
at Amazing India 2015.
 
2016 is looking even bigger and brighter. Save these dates already on the schedule:
  • Sunday, February 7, IAHM and Swedish American Museum will co-host a celebration of  "Migrating Visions," an exhibition by Indian American/Swedish American artist couple Indira Freitas Johnson and Karl Johnson.
  • Sunday April 17, Amazing India returns to Navy Pier for the sixth year! The Crystal Ballroom will resound with Indian music and dance, diverse vendors, engaging activities for children and tasty Indian food.
We at Indo-American Heritage Museum are grateful for all your support in 2015.  Indian Americans have done well and are proud contributors in American society. But do you know there is no physical space yet where we can showcase our immigrant history and preserve and share our heritage in America? IAHM dreams of celebrating the Indian American story in a permanent space, and to make it possible we would love to hear from you! The time is right. Volunteer your time and help us fulfill our mission; open your heart and wallet and help us find a home.
 
Will you support the Indo-American dream?  We are a 501(c)3 charity and your tax deductible contribution will help preserve the Indo-American story for future generations.  Your check can be        written to Indo-American Heritage                Museum and mailed to our treasurer: 
   
Gyan Agarwal
   947 Lathrop Avenue
   River Forest, IL 60305
   
Or donate through paypal here

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Many thanks for your support through the years and as we enter an exciting 2016

Sincerely,

Madhoolica Dear, Board President
Indo-American Heritage Museum

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