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SUMMARY:Master Class: Creative Producing with Lucas Joaquin
DESCRIPTION:Chicago Industry Exchange / Workshop \nJoin Lucas Joaquin\, a producer on the recent A24 release Death Of a Unicorn\, for an illuminating conversation about producing independent films.\nEvent will take place in the Claudia Cassidy Theater. \nAbout Lucas Joaquin\nheadshot: Lucas JoaquinLucas Joaquin is a creative producer in New York City and a founding member\, with producer Drew Houpt and writer/director/producer Alex Scharfman\, of the production company Secret Engine. \nRecent films include Death Of a Unicorn written and directed by Scharfman\, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega\, with A24\, Ley Line\, and Square Peg (SXSW 2025); Hold Your Breath directed by Karrie Crouse and Will Joines\, starring Sarah Paulson released by Searchlight (TIFF 2024); House of Spoils directed by Bridget Savage-Cole & Danielle Krudy\, starring Oscar winner Ariana DeBose\, released by Amazon MGM Studios; and Andrew Semans’ Resurrection (Sundance 2022) starring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth released by IFC Films and Shudder. \nHe was Executive Producer of Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day\, starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall (Sundance\, 2025); Blow the Man Down\, directed by Bridget Savage-Cole & Danielle Krudy (TIFF\, 2019)\, released by Amazon Studios; and Ira Sachs’s Frankie\, starring Isabelle Huppert and Marisa Tomei\, (Cannes 2019) released by Sony Pictures Classics. \nBefore co-founding Secret Engine\, Joaquin produced several acclaimed features\, including Ira Sachs’s Keep the Lights On\, Love Is Strange\, and Little Men. He was a Sundance Creative Producing Lab Fellow\, a member of AMPAS\, has taught at Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and worked for several years with the prolific production company Parts & Labor (The Witch\, Beginners).
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/master-class-creative-producing-with-lucas-joaquin/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
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SUMMARY:Summer Screenings 2026 - Rye Lane
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Raine Allen-Miller \nCountries United Kingdom Year 2023 \nSynopsis\nIn this visually vibrant\, exhilarating modern romance\, a chance meeting between Yas and Dom\, two twenty-somethings both reeling from bad breakups\, sparks an electrifying day of soul searching in South London. The two form an unlikely connection as they help one another nurse their heartbreak\, hoping to restore their faith in love.
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/summer-screenings-2026-rye-lane/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicago International Film Festival":MAILTO:access@chicagofilmfestival.com
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SUMMARY:Writing for Film and Television with Virgil Williams at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning screenwriter and playwright Virgil Williams (The Piano Lesson\, Mudbound) in a Master Class on writing for film and television. Moderated by screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson (The Americans\, Respect). Networking event to follow (with cash bar). \nA veteran television writer and producer\, Williams’ extensive credits include last year’s critically acclaimed adaptation of The Piano Lesson. Other credits include ground-breaking dramas ER and 24\, as well as six seasons of CBS’s long-running procedural drama Criminal Minds. In November of 2017\, Williams celebrated the release of his feature film debut\, Mudbound. He also served as Executive Producer and originally adapted the script from the novel by Hilary Jordan. The critically acclaimed film was named the ‘Best Film of 2017’ by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post and has earned numerous awards and accolades\, including an Academy Award Nomination for Williams and cowriter/director Dee Rees for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also adapted Pulitzer Prize-winner Dana Canedy’s bestselling memoir A Journal for Jordan for director Denzel Washington and starring Michael B. Jordan. Williams was born and raised in Chicago\, and his scripts often draw from his experiences growing up as a bi-racial kid in a city with a long history of racial tension. \nModerator\nheadshot: Tracey Scott WilsonTracey Scott Wilson wrote the teleplay for MGM’s film Respect; served as a co-executive producer and writer on Fosse/Verdon; and was a co-executive producer on FX’s award-winning series The Americans\, where she wrote for five seasons and received two WGAE awards\, two Peabody awards\, and a Golden Globe. Tracey is also a renowned playwright (Buzzer\, The Good Negro\, The Story)\, and has received several distinctions\, including the 2003 AT&T Onstage Award\, the 2007 Weissberger Playwriting Award as well as the 2007 Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship. Currently\, she is the Barbara Berlanti Professor in LGBTQ Writing for the Stage and Screen in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. \nPlease note the film following the talk will not feature captions. \nAccessibility: captions for the discussion only \nhttps://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/event/cixlab-virgilwilliams/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/writing-for-film-and-television-with-virgil-williams-at-chicago-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Cinema/Chicago":MAILTO:access@chicagofilmfestival.com
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SUMMARY:Going Places: Chicago Short Films at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:Summer Screenings is Cinema/Chicago’s annual free film series that casts a spotlight on a different country’s national cinema each week all summer. \nThese shorts\, all featured at past Festivals\, display the brilliance and variety of our city’s incredible filmmakers. They explore a friendship in crisis (A Real One)\, the sisterhood bonds (Video Funeral)\, the inherent comedy of an overprotective mother (Grizzlies)\, a meditative cab ride (Saya)\, the meaning of success (Winning in America) and a supernatural animation (Step Into the River). \nDIRECTED BY McKenzie Chinn\, Linh Tran\, Fawzia Mirza\, Anam Abbas\, Alex Heller\, Weijia Ma\, and Amrita Singh \nAccessibility includes open captions and wheelchair accessibility. \nwww.chicagofilmfestival.com/film/going-places/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/going-places-chicago-short-films/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicago International Film Festival":MAILTO:access@chicagofilmfestival.com
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SUMMARY:Dance Residency Open Studio Series with Jenna Pollack at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:A work-in-progress sharing\, this event will consist of both the movement- and the textual-based research explored over the course of the residency. \nASL is provided for this event. \nhttps://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/dance_residency.html
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/dance-residency-open-studio-series-with-jenna-pollack-at-chicago-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events":MAILTO:dcase@cityofchicago.org
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SUMMARY:Dance Residency Open Studio Series with Amalia Raye Wiatr Lewis at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:Soak is a dance-based performance project that emerges from a study of public bathing. This work considers how both dance and bathing practices carve out space to imagine new ways of relating to our bodies and each other. This piece explores the movements of pleasure and leisure\, collectively created social space\, and the relationship between body\, sound\, and environment. \nAmalia Raye Wiatr Lewis (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working with living beings\, experiences\, and objects. Rooted in ecological wonder and an exploration of the sacred\, she works with dancers\, non-dancers and sound artists to create site-specific performances and public interventions. She holds a BA from Bennington College in Vermont\, where she studied choreography\, visual art and anthropology\, and an MFA from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art in Trondheim\, Norway. She has performed with national and international artists at galleries and museums and has shown her own work in the U.S.\, Mexico\, Norway\, France\, Germany and Pakistan. \nThis performance will include ASL Interpretation. \nhttps://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/dance_residency.html
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/dance-residency-open-studio-series-with-amalia-raye-wiatr-lewis-at-chicago-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events":MAILTO:dcase@cityofchicago.org
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SUMMARY:Dance Residency Open Studio Series with Keisha Janae at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:Soulfully rooted in playful praise\, this Praise House Language workshop will be a creative circle of expression with testimonials\, dance\, art-making and song. Through a guided process that centers care\, participants of all experiences and backgrounds are able to step into the rehearsal process being used to develop “Praise House Ceremony”. The workshop facilitation is informed by Keisha Janae’s spiritual and faith-based experience. \nPreviously a teaching artist and Alumni of Columbia College Chicago\, Keisha taught house dance on the west and southside of Chicago. She is a well-established improvisational movement artist\, accompanied as a soloist for “ Black Monument Jazz Ensemble\,” “Sebau\,” Katherine Davis\, and Ben LaMar Gay. She’s also performed for the Instigation Festival\, Freedom From Freedom Too\, BraveSoul Movement\, and Project Tool. Keisha has been honored as the 2021 3arts Make a Wave awardee\, 2021/22Links Hall resident artist\, BeBe Millers Solo/Duo Dancing Project Mentee\, and Featured in Chicago Takes 10. Passionate about community engagement\, Keisha is a Housing Case Manager helping the homeless and underprivileged populations stabilize their housing and health and also personally develop. A creative care community facilitator\, she encourages her audience to discover themselves and find release through artistic forms of self-expression. Her aspirations are to rebuild the bonds between family and community through the creative arts and the spiritual upliftment of praise. \nhttps://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/dance_residency.html \nSpace in this workshop is limited.\n\nRegister online (recommended)   (link register online to this page:   Praise House Language Workshop Tickets\, Sat\, Apr 27\, 2024 at 3:00 PM | Eventbrite)
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/dance-residency-open-studio-series-with-keisha-janae-at-chicago-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events":MAILTO:dcase@cityofchicago.org
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SUMMARY:Dance Residency Open Studio Series with Drew Lewis / House of DOV at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:Join House of DOV in the Dance Studio for an intimate view of the rehearsal process and participate in the creation of a new work by Drew Lewis with live music by Family Junket. \nDrew Lewis (he/him) is a performer\, choreographer\, composer and educator originally from Oak Park\, IL. He graduated magna cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts in 2016. Drew has performed extensively with Sidra Bell Dance New York\, C-LS\, Project 44\, Attack Theatre\, The Joel Hall Dancers\, The Lyric Opera of Chicago and in projects by Lucy Riner and Erin Kilmurray. In 2020\, Drew formed his own small ensemble\, House of DOV\, whose debut performance was selected as a finalist for the Chicago Reader’s Best of 2021. House of DOV has since performed throughout Chicago\, including the full-length Heavy Objects\, commissioned and presented by Steppenwolf Theatre\, and Drew has created works for many other venues and projects. \nhttps://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/dance_residency.html
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/dance-residency-open-studio-series-with-drew-lewis-house-of-dov-at-chicago-cultural-center-2/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events":MAILTO:dcase@cityofchicago.org
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SUMMARY:Dance Residency Open Studio Series with Drew Lewis / House of DOV at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:Join House of DOV in the Dance Studio for an informal showing of a new work-in-progress by Drew Lewis\, featuring music by Family Junket. \nAccessibility: ASL \nhttps://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/dance_residency.html
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/dance-residency-open-studio-series-with-drew-lewis-house-of-dov-at-chicago-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events":MAILTO:dcase@cityofchicago.org
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SUMMARY:Dance Residency Open Studio Series with Helen Lee / Momentum Sensorium at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:Curiosities of Wellness in Bodies of Grief and Joy \nGlimpse into the rehearsal process of building choreography in the round for 7 dancers. While this work currently has several sections from 2 previous iterations\, this open rehearsal (with possible audience participation) will focus on a new section. Join us as we stumble along together to sounds written by Lee and arranged and performed by Sharon Udoh on the piano. Laughter and tears are encouraged.
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/dance-residency-open-studio-series-with-helen-lee-momentum-sensorium-at-chicago-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events":MAILTO:dcase@cityofchicago.org
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