2025 Blue Ink Award Winner Announced

2025 Blue Ink Award Winner Announced

Congratulations to Alyssa Haddad-Chin, winner of the 2025 Blue Ink Award for You Should Be So Lucky. As part of the award, Haddad-Chin receives a $3,000 cash prize, a staged reading directed by Helen Young at American Blues Theater on August 9, and the opportunity to...
Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl

Join us for our next book in the Rubber Banned Book Club! HOW DOES THE CLUB WORK? Admission is free. Registration required. There are 2 sessions per book. Professional artists read sections of the book and members discuss. Apr 22, 2025 (6:30-8:00pm) – in person @ 5627...
Inclusion & Allyship

Inclusion & Allyship

Are you doing the work of anti-racism? Would you like to gain more skills and build on what you’ve started? Join us for a workshop on Inclusion and Allyship, taught by Artistic Affiliate and Belonging Specialist Tania Richard (award-winning author, actor, and...
Playwright Charles Smith’s Note

Playwright Charles Smith’s Note

It has been said that Chicago is a city of neighborhoods. Many of those neighborhoods are the result of self-selection; pockets where like-minded people who share the same cultural backgrounds and/or values and beliefs choose to live, work, and raise families. I grew...
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