WELCOME COYA PAZ!
We are over the moon that Coya Paz is joining Free Street as the Resident Ensemble’s director. Coya will bring her immense electricity and intellect to our 42nd season. Coya Paz is a poet, director, and lip gloss connoisseur who was raised in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before moving permanently to the United States [...]
YOUTHS IN ACTION: PHOTOS FROM SUMMER PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
Despite record temperatures, the ensemble had unparallelled energy performing YOU AIN’T SEEN THIS in nine locations throughout Chicago. More photos on our Facebook Page.
SEE THE ENSEMBLE’S PUBLIC PERFORMANCES!
Wednesday, July 27 10:00AM: Douglas Park 1:00PM: Little Black Pearl Workshop Thursday, July 28 10:00AM: KLEO Comm. Ctr 1:00PM: Piotrowsky Park Monday, August 1 10:00AM: Pritzker Park 12:00PM Millennium Park Tuesday, August 2 10:00AM: North Avenue Beach 1:00PM: Center on Halsted Tuesday, August 9 6:00PM: Collaboraction Wednesday, August 10 6:00PM: Collaboraction
ACT/WRITE STUDENT READING!
June.9.2011 Students from Crown Community Academy (Little Village) and Sabin Magnet Dual Language School (Wicker Park) gave a reading at Columbia College of the writing they’ve created in the Act/Write program. Act/Write combines Free Street Theater’s training techniques with the Columbia College Fiction Writing Department’s Story Workshop approach to the teaching of writing . Connections [...]
BREAKING BORDERS COMPLETES 6TH YEAR
Free Street’s Breaking Borders holds workshops at Stockton Elementary in collaboration with students from the Arlington Heights school district. In partnership with Metropolis Theater Company, Breaking Borders focuses on the commonalities between urban and suburban school experiences, while pointing out the obvious differences as a departure point for deeper discussions of socio-economic disparities. Now in [...]
