Burns Tribute at Martyrs’
Chicago in January is cold. Warm up with some good cheer, chat, poetry, laughter, tunes and toasts with the amber bead. And there will be haggis. Come join the Scottish fun at Martyrs'
Free
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Nicht Wi’ Burns
Email nichtwiburns@gmail.com to be added to the invite list. Complete details will be included with your emailed invitation.
Burns Supper 2025 at Gorton Center
Back by popular demand Chicago Scots is pleased to partner with Gorton Center and the History Center of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff to host an authentic Burns Supper for everyone who is Scottish by birth, by heritage or simply by inclination. Gather your friends etc. Gather your friends and join us for Burns Night where we’ll honor the life and works of this legendary Scottish poet with supper, haggis, whisky and more!
Scottish American History Forum
Topic: Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820
Speaker: Dr. Leith Davis, PhD, Professor Department of English and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Free
Scottish American History Forum
Topic: The Travails of Local Government in Scotland and Changing Status Since c1832
Presenter: Dr. Michael Pugh, BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD, PGCE, SFHEA, Senior Lecturer, Political History, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland
Free
Tartan Day Celebration
Chicago Scots invite you to have some Scottish Fun at a Tartan Day celebration featuring Scotland's Craig Weir (host of the Hoolie in New York), Jai McDowall (winner of Britain's Got Talent), Chicago's very own House-Rockin' Scottish-American Honky-Tonk Band, John Ballantyne's Crazy Heart and the Thistle & Heather Highland Dancers.
Admission is free! Please donate in support of Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care.
Scottish American History Forum
Topic: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
Presenter: Dr. Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of British History, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and the College, University of Chicago
Free
Luncheon Discussion: How Scotland is Preserving Charles Rennie Mackintosh Best Designs
Chicago Scots is excited to host two of the world’s leading experts – Phil Long OBE FRSE, CEO of National Trust for Scotland and Tony Jones CBE, Former Director of the Glasgow School of Art President-emeritus of the Art Institute of Chicago– for an informative discussion on the National Trust of Scotland’s efforts to preserve the works of Mackintosh, Scotland’s visionary architect, designer & artist who revolutionized the Glasgow Style.
$75
Scottish American History Forum
Topic: Odyssey of the Scots-Irish (Ulster Scots) from the Scottish Borders, to Ulster, and America
Speaker: Donald C. McLeod, FSAScot, FCCP, Historian and former Professor of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Duke University North Carolina, and State University, Buffalo, New York. Resident of Southern Pines, NC
Free
Every year at our Scottish Festival & Highland Games, the Chicago Scots feature a family or an organization as our Honored Clan. This year, to recognize and celebrate its’ strong Scottish roots, our Honored Clan is Rotary International. We are proud to announce that Rotary International’s Scottish President, Gordon McInally has agreed to lead our Parade of Tartans at 12:30 p.m. Gordon will also receive the Salute to the Chieftain from the Massed Pipe Bands at approximately 6.30pm on Saturday, June 15, 2024.