The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park

Celebrate Boxing Day with the Hemingways!

Join The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park in celebrating the Hemingway Family’s tradition of generosity on December 26th!

On the day after Christmas, nobles presented gifts to their servants and people outside their manors.Their gifts, intended to welcome outsiders as family, were presented in boxes, hence the name of the day.

Traditional English music and food will be provided at the Museum and the Birthplace Home. Games for children include pictures with the Hemingway family and coloring your own Hemingway six-toed cat. Young artists will earn chocolate mice just like those Hemingway children received in their stockings at Christmas!

The Foundation will be collecting donations of food for the Oak Park and River Forest Food Pantry. Bring a non-perishable food item and receive $2 off your admission!

Admission: Family of Four: $45 / General Public: $25 / Senior/Youth $20

All events take place Monday, December 26th from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Avenue, and the Birthplace Home, 339 N. Oak Park Avenue. Advance reservations are not required. Tickets may be purchased at the door. For more information call (708) 848-2222.

 

Hemingway's HOT Havana: A Benefit for the EHFOP

On January 14, join the Hemingway Foundation in celebrating Hemingway and Cuba with Hemingway's HOT Havana!

Hemingway’s HOT Havana is a superb one-actor show that will make you believe that Ernest Hemingway is standing right there in front of you.

These are the stories of Hemingway’s HOT Havana:

Life and crime in Havana
The “Maestro” and the art of writing
Jane Mason – kiss and tell
Baseball and Ava Gardner
The great, blue river (the gulf stream)
La Floridita
Pirates of Havana Harbour
Shark Attack
Lions, bears and banderillas
Drinking with Hemingway
Attacking Nazi U-boats
Black Dog Fights the army
Shock treatment

Actor Brian Gordon Sinclair brings the legendary writer to life, as he has done to praise across the country and internationally.

”Brian portrays Hemingway On Stage with such brilliant form as to rival Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain," says Lorian Hemingway.

The play begins at 7 p.m. at the Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL. The performance in the upstairs auditorium will be followed by Cuban music, food and drink in the lobby and self-guided tours of the Museum. Enjoy the warmth of the island amid the cold Chicago winter.

 

Prices

Member $25.00 USD Non-Member $35.00 USD 2 Member $50.00 USD 2 Non-Member $70.00 USD