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Our Next Workshop: Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Norris & Pam MacKinnon

11/18/2014

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Monday, November 24th
(6:00-7:00, 7:15-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60647

all ages, free & open to the public
You are invited to come to our next arts workshop, during which we focus on Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Norris and Pam MacKinnon -- 
  • We learn about those three artists, their work, and their connections with Chicago; 
  • We read and talk about passages from A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris; and
  • Participants create mixed media artworks (with text and image) that are inspired by Hansberry, Norris and MacKinnon. 
Picture
Above: Hansberry at Home by Lauren Kaelin, inspired by a photography by David Mose Attie. Vitaminw.co commissioned this painting. 

Patricia Marx interviews Lorraine Hansberry
(WNYC, 1960). Click on the link below
to listen to the interview. 


Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.  

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers. 

Registering for Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series at the Chicago Park District website. 

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about the Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series. 
Links:
  • "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash" Forum at Town Hall (American RadioWorks)
  • "Bruce Norris: squirm, you hypocrites!" by Lyn Gardner (The Guardian, 3/5/2013)
  • "The Burden of A Black Prometheus: Lessons from A Raisin in the Sun" (LDS Baltimore)
  • "Clybourne Park (September 8 - November 13, 2011)" by Bruce Norris (Steppenwolf Theater)"
  • "Collaborating With the Cast and Playwright" by Rob Weinert-Kendt (The New York Times, 5/10/2012)
  • "A Delicate Balance Interview with Director Pam MacKinnon" by Gerard Raymond (Slant Magazine, 11/12/2014)
  • Issa Rae to Play Nina Simone in New Lorraine Hansberry Biopic" by Hillary Crosley (The Root, 6/2/2013)
  • "Lorraine Hansberry: The Battle for Fair Housing" by Richard Guzman (10/25/2012)
  • Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust
  • "Harlem" by Langston Hughes (The Poetry Foundation)
  • "Los Angeles Theater Reviews: Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun (Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theater)" by Harvey Perr (Stage and Cinema, 2/1/2012)
  • Nina Simone: "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" (Live, 1970)
  • "Of dreams deferred and dreams denied" by Toula Foscolos (The Telegram, 11/18/2010) 
  • 'Once,' 'Clybourne Park' are big winners at Tony Awards" by Reed Johnson (Los Angeles Times, 6/11/2012)
  • Patricia Marx Interviews Lorraine Hansberry (WNYC, 8/4/1961)
  • Professor Strain on inspiration, filmmaking, and Lorraine Hansberry" (Northestern University, 6/2/2014) 
  • "A Raisin in the Sun: An Introduction" (Westport Playhouse) 
  • "A Raisin in the Sun review – Denzel Washington shines in a bracing revival" by Ethel Barrymore (The Guardian, 4/4/2014)
  • A Raisin in the Sun Revisited: Lorraine Hansberry
  • "Slashing the Tires on the Welcome Wagon" ‘Clybourne Park,’ by Bruce Norris, at Walter Kerr Theater" by Ben Brantley (The New York Times, 4/19/2012)
  • "South Side resident Timuel Black on how Lorraine Hansberry differed from her siblings" (dir. Tracy Heather Strain) 
  • Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry's Letters to "The Ladder" (Brooklyn Museum)
  • "Why Writers Trust Pam MacKinnon" by Christopher Kompanek (Theater Communications Group)



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