Last Monday night I rode my bike to El Collegio Charter School. It was time to show the world a little bit of Breaking Ice’s show about… what exactly? Gentrification? Changing neighborhoods? Revitalization? Development? Words get tricky in this context, so I leave you to choose your own. The night was a beautiful one, warm […]
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Breaking Ice: An Arts on Chicago Project
Pillsbury House Theatre’s award-winning Breaking Ice company takes on race, class, and economics in this entertaining and thought-provoking live performance. How are our neighborhoods responding to development and change? How do we respond to culture clash and conflict? How can neighborhoods evolve in economically stable and sustainable ways? We invite you to join us for […]
The arts and neighborhood transformation
This blog post was generated by Bree Sieplinga, Associate Director Upstream Arts. Upstream Arts is a primary partner organization helping drive the Arts on Chicago initiative. We feel strongly that her very personal account of recent events in our neighborhood speaks powerfully to the important role the arts and artists serve in promoting a neighborhood […]
Why Arts on Chicago matters
On November 13, at an event at the Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center with other Artplace grant recipients and Mayor RT Rybak, our co-Artistic Director Noel Raymond made the following remarks. We want you to read them. Hi I am Noel Raymond Co-Artistic Director of Pillsbury House + Theatre. I have been working at PH+T […]
Arts on Chicago Reception: Nov. 13
Join us for a public reception with Mayor RT Rybak and City Councilmembers Elizabeth Glidden and Gary Schiff to discuss the launch of twenty creative placemaking projects in our Arts on Chicago campaign and to learn about the other two Artplace-funded creative placemaking grants in the Twin Cities. We will serve non-alcoholic refreshments and snacks, […]