| African American Arts Alliance of Chicago |
| Proudly Serving Chicago's African American Arts Community since 1997 |
 |  |  |  |  |  |
SuperSeptemberAfrican American Arts Alliance Community Events |
Black Ensemble Theater
CAAAP
Come join the Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers (CAAAP) for our year-long exhibit The "Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers: A Ten Year Retrospective" The exhibit features the compelling works of CAAAP members as they documented African-American life and culture in and around the Chicago metropolitan area over the last decade. Copies of the coffee table book "The Journey: The Next 100 Years" will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Congo Square Theatre
August Wilson New Play Initiative
Congo Square Theatre Company Submission Guidelines:
Congo Square Theatre Company is an ensemble dedicated to producing definitive and transformative theatre spawned from the African Diaspora, as well as from other world cultures. Congo Square Theatre Company seeks to establish itself as an institution of multicultural theatre. We are interested in full-length plays, translations, adaptations, musicals and performance art. We will consider productions of previously produced plays. We do not accept unsolicited scripts for consideration for our seasons. You may submit your play through a literary agent or accompanied by a letter of recommendation by a theater professional (i.e. an artistic director or literary manager at a professional theater). If neither of these apply to you, you may write a letter of inquiry to Aaron Todd Douglas, Associate Artistic Director, and submit a brief synopsis, cast list, relevant production history and 10-15 pages of sample dialogue. The company may then request a complete script. No email or fax submissions accepted. Please include a SASE if you would like your materials returned. We accept submissions year-round.
DuSable Museum of African American History
Resistance = Yanga !
August 13, 2010 through November 14, 2010
Resistance = Yanga!
When African American children learn about slavery in school, one unasked question frequently occurs to them—-why didn’t we fight back? It is a question that is at the heart of much of the shame and confusion Blacks have harbored about slavery for decades. It is a question that often remains unanswered because curricula does not address the grittier elements of the inhumanity inherent in the wicked business of the slave trade. The truth is that Africans fought vigorously against enslavement, from the beginning to the end. Resistance began on the slave ships themselves and continued in gold and silver mines, on sugar and cotton plantations, and tobacco fields and any other place where Blacks were forced into the horrors of chattel slavery.
AFRICAN JUBILEE FILM FESTIVAL: ‘Pieces of Identity’
Sunday September 26, 2010
2pm - 5pm
Free!
Fifty years ago, 17 African countries won their independence from European colonial rule. Ever since that time, 1960 has been known as the Year of African Independence. With political independence came new struggles, like the struggles for economic justice, gender justice, cultural renewal and peace. African filmmakers and the African film industry have played a key role in representing these struggles, as well as comedy, romance and Afro-futurism.
The African Jubilee Film Festival, curated by Lynette Jackson and Floyd Webb, and co-sponsored by Portoluz, The DuSable Museum of African American History, the African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies departments at UIC and The Public Square, will mark this important milestone with films by African filmmakers, from founding fathers like Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Mambety of Senegal, to rising young women filmmakers like Jihan El Tahri and Wanuri Kahiu of Egypt and Kenya respectively. The African Jubilee Film Festival will hold film screenings and discussions on select Sundays, between June 27 to December 5, 2010.
September 26 – Pieces of Identity
Director Mweze Ngangura
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
eta Creative Arts Foundation
"THE TRIP"
Written by CRYSTAL V. RHODES
September 23 – November 14, 2010
Directed by MIGNON McPHERSON NANCE
The Trip is a comedy about a cross country journey taken by four longtime friends who discover that after half of a lifetime of knowing each other that they really don't know each other at all. Petty annoyances, verbal battles and the revelation of an unexpected secret spell the end of the longtime friendship, but twenty years later a second hilarious trip by the women reveals that the bond between friends can be as precarious as it can be enduring.
Muntu Dance Theater
| Saturday, September 11, 2010 5pm |
eta Creative Arts Foundation 7558 S South Chicago Ave |
| Sunday, September 12, 2010 1pm |
Pilgrim Baptist Church Fundraiser Kennedy King College Theater 740 West 63rd Street |
The Chicago Association of Black Storytellers
Sunday, September 12,2010
ASE Monthly Meeting -- September 2010
ASE members meet every second Sunday at Christ the Mediator Church, 31st and Calumet, Chicago from 2:30 to 5:00 PM. We share stories, plan events, and discuss the business of storytelling. Come out and join us on our storytelling months of April, August and December (stories start at 3:30 PM). The December meeting may be at a different location. Contact Andrea Fain, andreafain@sbcglobal.net.
This calendar was made possible through a grant from the Chicago Community Trust, Department of Cultural Affairs -City Arts 1, |