Speak-Easy: A One Billion Rising Event
Date: Saturday, 02/18/2023
Time: 7-9:30pm
Art Gallery and Raffle start at 7pm
Performances start at 8pm (40 minutes)
Location: The Auditorium of Ebenezer Lutheran Church
1650 W. Foster, Chicago, IL 60640
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble asked storytellers of all varieties to share what freedom means to them. As part of the 2023 One Billion Rising Campaign, CDE is kicking off the new year with a come-as-you-are variety show based on the theme of freedom. This one-night-only performance aims to give performing artist (writers, dancers, musicians, etc) a platform to ask “what if we were truly free?” Each performer has 5-7 minutes to perform their piece. The event will also feature pre and post show live music and a curated silent raffle. This commUNITY fundraiser will divide the proceeds between Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights and The Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund.
This is a pay-what-you-can event. Our suggested donation amount is $10 - $50.
We will have a special exhibition: Donated artworks from educators, teaching artists, and students working with our arts programs.
The Raffle begins at 7:00 p.m. with a Dj set curated by Del Pueblo Records.
The performances then begin at 8:00p.m.
Performing Artists:
Scarlett Sullivan: Clowning
Tessa Marie Hoffman: Singer/Storytelling
Theo Wampuszyc: Poetry
Rae Zimmereli: Dance (Genesis)
Emma Meznarich: Dance (Genesis)
Zoe Garnett: Dance (Genesis)
Visual Artists:
Jon Hearon - @woonsak
Naomi Flores - @mimimasmimi
Sammi Ohlson - @sammis_paintings
Paula Cofresi - @cofresiarts
Student work from “This is not a Pipe”
Student work from throughout the year
More artwork to come.
About the organizations we will be donating to:
Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund
We provide an educational opportunity for prisoners to engage with world events and key political, cultural, and philosophical questions from a unique perspective, including discussions of morality, religion, science, and the arts. By providing this literature, PRLF provides an educational opportunity for prisoners to engage with world events and key political, cultural, and philosophical questions of the day from a unique revolutionary perspective, including discussions of morality, religion, science, and the arts. Every week, prisoners are encouraged to delve into urgent and lively news and debate about unfolding political and social struggles, and to critically think about and dissect the current state of society, as well as search for an alternative. PRLF also strives to combat increasing censorship that seeks to deny prisoners.
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights is a nationwide non-violent political resistance movement organizing for legal abortion on demand & without apology, for everyone. Legal abortion in some states is not enough, not while millions of women and girls are denied that right and, along with it, their full humanity and potentially their very lives. A powerful Christian fascist movement is determined to ban abortion nationwide, along with the rights of LGBTQ people and many other rights as well, hitting Black, Brown and impoverished people especially hard.
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights recognizes that, to restore these rights nationwide, we need to be in the streets demanding them. We draw inspiration from the Green Wave in Latin America that has succeeded in winning abortion rights in several deeply Catholic countries through courageous mobilization, relentlessly demanding “¡Aborto legal ya!”