Join The Village Chicago and Storycatchers friends and staff for a special screening of Girls on the Wall at Center on Halsted! This documentary follows the journey of incarcerated girls at the Illinois Youth Center in Warrenville as they create an original musical with Storycatchers Theatre.
What choice do you make when the girl you love tries to point you in the right direction, but you’re getting pressure from the streets? Do you take revenge when someone steals something from you? What happens when your mom says you have to go to school, but you and your siblings have other plans?
To overcome his tragic childhood, James uses anger management techniques to keep The Angry Monster Inside at bay. Now he must convince his friends to use them too. Will Isaiah accept his basketball suspension over the lure of drugs and easy licks? Will Rayvon persevere in the classroom rather than join a gang? Will James be able to convince himself to stay the course after yet another family tragedy?
This story is in remembrance and tribute to Sarge, an ensemble member recently lost to violence whose personal story inspired much of this production.
To overcome his tragic childhood, James uses anger management techniques to keep The Angry Monster Inside at bay. Now he must convince his friends to use them too. Will Isaiah accept his basketball suspension over the lure of drugs and easy licks? Will Rayvon persevere in the classroom rather than join a gang? Will James be able to convince himself to stay the course after yet another family tragedy?
This story is in remembrance and tribute to Sarge, an ensemble member recently lost to violence whose personal story inspired much of this production.
To overcome his tragic childhood, James uses anger management techniques to keep The Angry Monster Inside at bay. Now he must convince his friends to use them too. Will Isaiah accept his basketball suspension over the lure of drugs and easy licks? Will Rayvon persevere in the classroom rather than join a gang? Will James be able to convince himself to stay the course after yet another family tragedy?
This story is in remembrance and tribute to Sarge, an ensemble member recently lost to violence whose personal story inspired much of this production.
Storycatchers will be featured in Collaboraction Theatre Company's ENCOUNTER Series in Wicker Park. Collaboraction's ENCOUNTER Series is a two-week winter festival of theater, dance and spoken word around the themes of equity and inclusion. The festival consists of 6 programs: 3 new full length works, 2 programs of mid-length pieces, and one short works collection. Storycatchers will be featured in the short works collection.
Based on the Changing Voices Ensemble's true stories, Light in My Darkness offers rarely heard narratives of young people’s experiences growing up in Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods, overcoming their pasts, and reimagining their futures.
Join Storycatchers and Victory Gardens Theater for a post-show conversation after Victory Gardens' Pipeline. The panel will engage Storycatchers speakers and the audience in a discussion about what happens after young people have been affected by the school-to-prison pipeline, and how they can learn to heal and grow from their experiences.
Works in progress performed and written by the Word Warriors ensemble. Be the first to hear the gripping--and true--stories of the youth at Warrenville.
To overcome his tragic childhood, James uses anger management techniques to keep The Angry Monster Inside at bay. Now he must convince his friends to use them too. Will Isaiah accept his basketball suspension over the lure of drugs and easy licks? Will Rayvon persevere in the classroom rather than join a gang? Will James be able to convince himself to stay the course after yet another family tragedy?
Join us for our Annual Brunch Benefit. A musical celebration. A gathering of friends. A delicious brunch. The true stories of Storycatchers’ youth and their right to thrive. A shout-out to guest of honor, Storycatching awardee Ira Glass of This American Life.
The 2nd staged reading in the ongoing musical cycle of the Word Warriors ensemble at Warrenville. See how the writing process is coming along and hear the new, moving, exciting and funny stories the ensemble has to share with you.
I'M CHANGING MY LIFE. I'M CHANGING MY VOICE. I'M DOING WHAT'S RIGHT. I'M MAKING A CHOICE. These are the lyrics for the Changing Voices anthem - a powerful rallying cry the ensemble uses to support and encourage each other before performances. If you've never been to a Changing Voices production, they bring down the house […]
After several months in an IYC facility, three friends are going home. Mack can’t wait to play his Xbox. Lori wants to spend time with her little brother. Leeann looks forward to taking a bubble bath. However, their dreams quickly meet reality when starting over is not as easy as they hoped. In the aftermath […]