Join Free Street for one (or two) 4 hour institute sessions, focused on devising. Free Street’s training process is designed to meet you where you are. Whether you have a lot of experience as an artist or you are still wondering if you can do it (you can!), we believe theater, storytelling, and community building […]
Opening May 1st, Free Street's Youth Ensemble brings a new show, SPARK. SPARK tells the stories of youth activists and activists in their youth. The process engages interviews with over 20 adults about their youth, the book “Let This Radicalize You,” and looks at archive projects as both an aesthetic and important practice in an […]
Join us at the Free Street Storefront (4625 S Ashland Ave) from 1-3p for a social justice puppet-making workshop with Free Street artists! We are so excited to be part of this Day of Artistic Activations answering the theme: What Happens when ICE Melts? Organized by The Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois, […]
Join Tricia Hersey for an interactive course on tapping into your artistic imagination to carve out a practice for performance art. Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry, for an experimental and interactive course on tapping into your artistic imagination to carve out an intentional practice in crafting radical performance art. We will engage in […]
Touch Grass is an interactive puppet play that invites the audience to explore the parks as spaces for connection to nature, self, and community. Co-directed by Coya Paz and Sivan Spector, Touch Grass features large scale puppets and "move at your own pace" installations. Touch Grass is presented in English and Español, and is appropriate […]
An evening of Bilingual intergenerational stories by, for, with Chicago’s Southsiders An evening of bilingual intergenerational stories by, for with Chicago Southsiders. For the third year in a row, Free Street is continuing our crosscultural, intergenerational bilingual storytelling series. Free Street is collaborated with Peace and Education for an 8 week storytelling project that invites […]
Join us for an evening of bilingual intergenerational stories by, for with Chicago Southsiders. For the third year in a row, Free Street is continuing our cross-cultural, intergenerational bilingual storytelling series. Free Street is collaborated with Peace and Education for an 8 week storytelling project that invites Southside residents to document community histories via their […]
Join us for monthly open workshops on health, wellness and creativity in our Back of the Yards Storefront. The 2nd Tuesday of every month starting in February.
Our free monthly series of workshops are back! Every first Monday of the month Free Street will be offering free art workshops at the Storefront (4625 S Ashland ave). To kick off this new season, we will be hosting an Intro to Storytelling class. Did you attend our Southside Stories event and wanted to learn […]
Join Free Street staff, artists, community + donors as we kick off our new season. Family Dinner: For many years, FST's artists have called themselves "Free Street Family." Whether someone has worked box office, been an actor, designer, or donor, we want to commune our family to celebrate the all work we've done, and cheers […]
