City: Chicago

Free Spirit Media’s ArtsHERE grant will fund a "Reimagining Evaluation" project to create new evaluation tools rooted in storytelling, reflection, social justice, and equity. Free Spirit Media partners with young storytellers to transform media and society, with programming that focuses on community-building, skill-sharing, and career and education pathways that support young people to envision and build their futures within the media industry and beyond.

Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) is seeking $4,000.00 to produce and screen an audio reel and an artist and curator panel in Chicago at the conclusion of our 2024-25 Third Coast Competition.

San Francisco based, Indian classical musician Alam Khan will perform a solo concert at South Asia Institute. Alam will also lead an "Open Orchestra" performance featuring all Chicago based musicians who will attend several Indian classical music workshops and open rehearsals with Alam Khan. The community based "Open Orchestra" performance will be open to all and free to the public.

We are organizing a community concert series that brings together world-renowned artists to celebrate Jazz, Blues, Hip Hop, and Soul, featuring educational workshops and performances accessible to all, including underserved communities.

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble’s Body Passages residency program will unite 10 dance, visual, theatre, and poetry activist artists and give space for creating new individual and collaborative works. Artists will have professional development opportunities to learn from each other, lead master classes, and present their works in a final performance and visual art gallery.

In celebration of what would have been the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival will collaborate with the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) and Chicago poet laureate avery r young to create a jazz and spoken word performance in connection with the HPAC's exhibition of Chicago artist Robert Earl Paige. The performance will be part of the 2024 Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Sept. 28th.

In a time when “good enough” seems to be the norm, Global Girls trumpets the belief that originality blended with creative discipline is our superpower. Community members in Chicago’s southside and Kalamazoo’s northside will explore and participate in the creative process in workshops and performances led by and featuring internationally renown pianist and composer Miguel De La Cerna.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of The Chicago International Film Festival, the Black chamber music collective D-Composed will join forces with the Festival to celebrate the works of Black film composers with a live performance and post-show panel discussion around the role of music in storytelling.

Chicago Tap Theatre will create opportunities for various populations in Chicago to learn from Black Canadian and former Chicagoan Lisa LaTouche, including: viewing her film Trax, a Q&A on the findings of her research (in conjunction with Chicago-based historians), 2 classes and a Q&A with students at a majority Black school and a culminating event that ties the themes of the project together.

From Sept 30th to Nov 17th 2024, the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) will produce its marquee program the 7th annual Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, presenting over 15 local, national, and international Spanish and English culturally diverse live productions, student matinees, post-show talk-backs, panels, workshops and networking events throughout Chicago.