by coya | Aug 9, 2018 | News
Thanks to The Joyce Foundation, Free Street’s Storyfront in Back of the Yards will be expanding its programming beyond Meet Juan-ito Doe. In the coming months, look for a new weekly comedy show, a reinas/drag queen story hour, and a range of community-proposed...
by coya | Aug 9, 2018 | Reviews
It’s rare that we say this, but we love everything about this recent review of REST, our collaboration between the Free Street Youth Ensemble and performance artist/Nap Bishop Tricia Hersey. Dan Jakes of the Reader shouts out everything from the “natural,...
by coya | Aug 9, 2018 | Case Studies
When the Jane Addams Hull House Museum wanted to join an International Coalition of Sites of Conscience project around the school-to-prison pipeline, they sought a community partner who had a history of youth work, activism and leading difficult conversations. For the...
by coya | Aug 9, 2018 | Case Studies
At a time when journalists are combating concerns about “fake news” and media bias, ProPublica Illinois wanted to find new ways of building relationships with the people impacted by their reporting. “We knew that we’d need to think creatively how to bridge divides and...
