Our staff picks the best things to do this week — with a look ahead.
SATURDAY
‘The Face of Love: Symposium on the Common History of German and African Americans’
When 2-5 p.m. Saturday • Where German Cultural Society, Jefferson Hall, 3652 Jefferson Avenue • How much Free, but online registration required • More info 314-721-6556; gitana-inc.org
Historians, community leaders and artists will discuss Germans who immigrated to Missouri in the 1800s, seeking freedom from oppression in Prussia, and fought slavery. Missouri slaveholders often threatened the immigrants, who started newspapers to spread their ideas. The event is presented by Gitana Productions and the Missouri German Consortium. By Valerie Schremp Hahn