Taiwan-born, Yvonne Liu Wolf is a native Chinese speaker educated in the US and Europe with a Masters in English Literature and Education. She is a licensed English and Chinese teacher and currently teaches Chinese at a Chicago suburban high school. Before moving from L.A. to Chicago, she was a human resources trainer for 10 years. She was an international exchange student in Denmark, worked as a a global language trainer in Japan, and has experience living abroad as an expat. She has extensive traveling experience having visited over 20 countries and visited more than 25 states of the US. She speaks English, Mandarin, and Danish and has studied Japanese, Spanish, and Greek. Yvonne serves as an Intercultural Consultant making Chinese culture understandable through intercultural communication. Yvonne is helping the Museum to further develop programs for high school and college students studying the Chinese language. She is excited to present a program on symbolism found in the Chinese carvings at the Museum on November 3rd at 2 p.m.

Poets & Patrons is a group of poets who encourage others to write and appreciate poetry. Founded in 1954, Poets & Patrons is dedicated to supporting poetry development in the Chicago area. It does this through sponsoring and hosting congenial, professional workshops at the Harold Washington Library; running an annual Chicagoland Poetry Contest with modest cash awards for multiple categories; holding an annual Awards Ceremony and facilitating Write! Chicago, featuring free writing and workshops at area museums and outdoor venues. Poets & Patrons is an excellent vehicle for defining your work, meeting with other fine poets for unique critiques, and exploring with others the power of well-crafted verse. Poets & Patrons will emcee and host the December 1st open-house performance program from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and invites teenage to adult poets to share their love of rocks and minerals through words.