Cleage Fest Week 3

WEEK 3 FUN FACTS

Did you know that Pearl Cleage’s novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, was an Oprah Book Club selection and was on the New York Times bestseller list? Later, on a commission from Oprah Winfrey, Pearl Cleage co-wrote the 2007 NAACP Image Award nominated poem, We Speak Your Name with her husband, writer Zaron Burnett, Jr.

As the Pearl Cleage Fest continues, read on to find out more about this week’s events – past and upcoming!

 

WEEK THREE EVENTS

We hope you enjoyed this week’s exciting events so far ’cause guess what? There’s more coming up!

EVENTS – WEEK 3:

Poetry and Music: Mad at Miles

Presented by Black Ensemble Theater
By Pearl Cleage
Directed by Daryl D. Brooks

SOLD OUT! 
On Monday, October 2 audiences enjoyed the were treated to a lobby performance by Chicago West Community Music Center before the main event—a special reading/performance of Mad at Miles by Black Ensemble Theater Founder and Artistic Director Jackie Taylor. The evening also featured performances by poet Barbara L. McBee, writer, actress Toccara Castleman, musician, artist, Jamaal Crowder, writer, director, actor McKenzie Chinn

Writing Workshop: Letters, Potions, and Promises

Presented by Goodman Theatre and Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
Led by Dr. Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Lachrisa Grandberry, and Gabrielle Randle-Bent

On Tuesday October 3, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company in collaboration with Goodman Theatre provided an affinity space for early-career and emerging femme BIPOC writers. 

Play Reading: Chain and Art Exhibit

Presented by eta Creative Arts Foundation
By Pearl Cleage
Directed by Ted Williams III
October 6 at 7pm | eta Creative Arts Foundation (7558 S. South Chicago)

Play Reading: Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous

Presented by Congo Square Theatre
By Pearl Cleage
Directed by Ericka Ratcliff
October 8 at 2pm | Goodman Theatre
(170 N. Dearborn)