An All Ages Event
Tuesday, December 25
11 am – 2 pm
No advance reservations needed. Just come and have fun!
On a day when most everything is closed, Spertus is wide open with activities for all ages!
Admission is free, but visitors are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items for distribution to needy families by the EZRA Multi-Service Center food pantry.
This year our annual Something Else! festival is headlined by Rav Shmuel—a rockin' rabbi who hangs out in Greenwich Village and plays original compositions on his guitar.
Enjoy exhibition tours, create awesome craft projects, have fun with inflatables, participate in a mini-chess tournament, and much more.
Plus, for the first time ever, one lucky winner will receive an iPod!
Rav Shmuel's latest CD, Protocols, was praised as "likably shaggy folk-pop" by Billboard.
Enthusiastic participants at last year’s Something Else! festival.
Schedule of Events
Ongoing 11 am - 2 pm
Welcome Center, 1st floor
Balloon Artist by All About Fun Entertainment
Spertus Café, 2nd floor
Visit our new kosher café to purchase yummy soups, sandwiches, and treats.
Children's Center, 4th floor
Enjoy awesome arts and crafts to take home.
Asher Library, 8th floor
Play chess and enjoy board games through out the day.
Crown Family Great Hall, 9th floor
Crawl around and slide down an inflatable creature in the Caterpillar Craze, get your face painted by All About Fun Entertainment, or grab a snack (while supplies last).
Spertus Museum, 9th floor
View objects from Spertus Museum's world-class collection in its unique viewable storage depot and view the site-specific commission Consider, a powerful open-ended reflection of the Holocaust by artist Ranbir Kaleka.
Spertus Museum, 10th floor
Explore contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States in the exhibition The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation.
11:10 am–12 noon
Feinberg Theater, 2nd floor
Rockin’ Rabbi Rav Shmuel performs original compositions on his guitar.
12 noon-1pm
Children's Center, 4th Floor
Story time for ages 2 – 102!
12 noon-1 pm
Feinberg Theater, 2nd floor
Video-Shalom Sesame
A fun and fact filled journey to secret places in Israel with your favorite TV friends!
1:10-2 pm
Feinberg Theater
Rockin' Rabbi Rav Shmuel performs original compositions on his guitar.
Don't forget to register on the 1st floor and be entered to win special giveaways through out the day. Winners will be listed outside the Spertus Shop every half-hour beginning at 11:30 am.
Volunteers! We need you.
Please call 312.322.1729 or email museum@spertus.edu
Something Else! is generously sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Marc Karlan.
Funding for Puppet Show in memory of Helen Bleicher from her nieces Adrienne Drell, Jill Drell, Pam Drell and Terri Schwartz.
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