Community Agreement

Welcome to American Blues Theater!

We value inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. We’re committed to a welcoming and encouraging environment for all who join us and will maintain these standards for everyone. We thank you for joining our community in enacting these values.

If you witness or experience behavior inconsistent with these values, please speak to management, email Info@AmericanBluesTheater.com or call (773) 654-3103.

Learn more about IDEA & Pay Equity at American Blues Theater.

Land Acknowledgment
American Blues Theater sits on the original homelands of the Council of Three Fires (Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa). We gratefully acknowledge the Native Peoples on whose ancestral homelands we gather, as well as the diverse and vibrant Native communities who make their home here today. We specifically acknowledge the contribution of Kitihawa of the Potawatomi in fostering the community that has become Chicago and her husband, the son of an enslaved African woman who was regarded as the first non-Indigenous settler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Today, Chicago is home to one of the largest urban American Indian communities in the United States and the country’s oldest urban-based Native membership community center, the American Indian Center Chicago (AIC).

Digital Space Acknowledgment
To create art in a new digital format, we use equipment and high-speed internet not available in many Native communities. This technology, which has now become central to our daily lives, leaves a significant footprint and contributes to changing climates that disproportionately affect Native People. As we make use of this digital format, it is imperative that we recognize the land, regardless of our geographical location. It is land once occupied and inhabited by hundreds of Native People.

To learn more about land acknowledgments, visit nativegov.org.
The digital space acknowledgment is inspired by the work of producer & artist Adrianne Wong. Learn more here.

American Blues Theater offers American Indian Center Chicago complimentary tickets, free training for theater, and invitations to use our space. For more information, please call (773) 654-3103.