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Film Screening | It’s Nation Time: An Evening of Black Cinema
Experience the power of Black liberation cinema through William Greaves’s Nationtime, Skip Norman’s Cultural Nationalism, and Simone Leigh and Madeleine…
2026 Spotlight Reading Series
Featuring the most ambitious programming to date, this year’s landmark Spotlight Reading Series is organized around the theme “A Century of Black Progress” and…
Kuumba Theatre Archive Unfurling
Discover the radical legacy of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement at this exclusive Harold Washington Library archival unfurling event. Drawing from Special…
August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned
Experience a legendary theatrical collision as acclaimed director and Court Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson steps onstage to portray the master playwright in…
A Womanist Trilogy: Hurston, Richards, and Kennedy
Experience an extraordinary triple feature with A Womanist Trilogy: Hurston, Richards, and Kennedy. This powerful evening unites Zora Neale Hurston’s Color…
are you ready to smash white things?
Join us for a thrilling staged reading of are you ready to smash white things? by multi-talented Chicago artist and playwright Ireon Roach, a celebrated former…
Praise and Protest: Voices of the Chicago Black Renaissance
The exhibition Praise and Protest: Voices of the Chicago Black Renaissance invites visitors to explore a transformative cultural movement told through the rare…
Community Reads: Harsh Readers Circle
For 40 years, the Harsh Readers Circle has met monthly at the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, located inside the Woodson Regional Library. Inspired by the…
Community Reads: Blackstone Book Club
Court Theatre’s Community Reads Series bridges page and stage by inviting audiences to explore foundational literature that mirrors the theatrical season.…
Chicago Critics Circles
Part I: Black Authorship Co-presented in partnership with Arts + Public Life, this roundtable talk frames Black publications as vital sites of cultural…
Tituba
A bonfire of laughter. A shift in perspective that fundamentally alters how we view an American classic. She will make the Reverend pay.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
A missing woman. A forgotten song. Everybody’s looking for something. Everybody’s coming and going.
Mojada
A classic tale of revenge, sacrifice, and the high price of freedom. Euripides’s Medea myth rendered urgently and achingly alive in the city of Chicago.
safronia
A sweeping poetic epic. An incandescent celebration of resilience. A communal song for collective healing. We set ourselves free.