Community Outreach: Culture in a Suitcase
Culture in a Suitcase is an educational outreach program for Chicago-area schools, where IWA members from around the world bring their knowledge and materials—artifacts, special clothing, everyday objects, works of art—to share with students and teachers.
In the last year, IWA members made visits to Swift, Talcott, Ogden, Clinton, St. Matthias, and Pulaski elementary schools, where they presented programs on Turkey, Japan, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, and Jamaica.
Many additional options are possible since IWA includes members from the following countries:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Belize
- Brazil
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Haiti
- Hungary
- India
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Korea
- Lebanon
- Mexico
- Netherlands, The
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria (Armenian)
- Taiwan (Republic of China)
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- U.S.A.
- Vietnam
If you know a teacher or school principal interested in having this free enrichment program at their school, please contact the IWA office : 312-263-1421 or iwa@iwachicago.org.
Online Reservations for IWA Events and Membership Renewals
To register for many of our upcoming, exciting events, click HERE to go to the main IWA Event Registration Page.
Click here to renew your 2010 Resident Membership to IWA.
Click here to renew your 2010 Non-Resident or Consular Corp Membership to IWA.
SAVE THE DATE: RISING VOICE OF WOMAN AWARD ON OCTOBER 14, 2010
IWA is pleased to announce that Ambassador Prudence Bushnell has been selected to receive its 2010 Rising Voice of Woman Award. As the former U.S. Ambassador to
Ambassador Bushnell will receive the award and make her address on October 14, 2010 at the Chase Bank Auditorium in