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HST WRITERS EXCHANGE and PRODUCTIONS
HST Writers Exchange

HST WRITERS EXCHANGE  

JUNE 18, 2012
WRITERS ON RACE
7-10PM   Chopin Theater
1543 W. Division, Chicago
Cash Bar.  Discussion.
Donation at door.

Featured Writers:
Monroe Anderson  novel  Ben Joravsky/ Rick Stone  novel  Bennie Currie essay  Mary Bonnett  story Rolando Ithier  blog   Mason Johnson  humor  Emily Hooper Lansana  story  KrisDeLaRash  spoken word  Andreah Santos poetry

 

PERFORMANCE  Benefit for Deborah's Place

Thursday, May 31, 2012

6:00-10:00PM
Fulton On The River
312 N. LaSalle Dr.
Chicago
Excerpts performed from Gloss Over
to benefit Deborah's Place
supportive housing for homeless women.
Please join us. Fulton On The River

HST DEPAUL WORKSHOP Friday, May 11, 2012

Performances, film clips, discussion on theater as a tool for social change.

STAFF
MISSION

 through theater and the written word...Her Story Theater
...shines bright lights in dark places where women and children are in need of social justice and community support
...creates a place and space to exchange ideas that support writers and performers
...provides educational workshops and classes
 

this season's light falls on...

homeless women 
trafficking of women
violence against women

 

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    a theater for social change
    thru performance and writing

    • to raise public awareness; as a call to action for social change for women and children in need of community support.
    • as a tool to teach, to bridge gaps, to create understanding, to harness empathy.
    • to develop original work by artists for audiences.

    HST CHICAGO WRITERS EXCHANGE 

    JUNE 18, 2012  WRITERS ON RACE

    • 7-10PM (doors open at 6:30PM)
    • Chopin Theater 1543 W. Division, Chicago, IL
    • Cash Bar.  
    • Donations at Door.                         

         CLICK HERE FOR BIOGRAPHIES AND PICTURES OF WRITERS 

    Join us for a cross-generational discussion on 'to embrace the value of difference." 

     

    HST PERFORMS FOR DEBORAH'S PLACE BENEFIT MAY 31, 2012

     Thanks to Deborah's Place for their invitiation to perform excerpts from GLOSS OVER for their benefit dinner on Thursday, May 31st at Fulton on the River.  We are honored to support such a wonderful cause and organizaiton.  GLOSS OVER  is an original play developed by Her Story Theater based the true stories of former homeless women from Deborah's Place.  If you wish to attend this very special event, and support Deborah's Place, outstanding supportive services for homeless women, please go to http://www.deborahsplace.org/  and sign up.  

    PHOTO: Jill Erickson and Laura Elleseg in GLOSS OVER 

    WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012  

    Alabastard of The Mound Reading 6:30PM

    710 N. Clark  Underground Wonderbar

    Event: 5- 8PM  Part of Come Alive at 5 Series

    Wonderful evening.  Thanks to everyone who came out to support the event.  Very special thanks to Gary Houston and Si Osborne, beautiful work breathing life into the characters from THE ALABASTARD OF THE MOUND, a novel by MARY BONNETT 

    GARY HOUSTON as Jub, the alabastard of Mounds, Mississippi, and SI OSBORNE as Everett Macomb, the Chicago newspaper reporter in need of redemption, plow through a 1930s Mississippi swamp to reach the albino's world of mystery and haunted memories.  Narration by Mary Bonnett.     Other reader : novelist - Ben Tanzar, A thanks to the great Lonie Walker, owner and Victoria Gonia, Columbia College for putting it together.


    MAY 11 DEPAUL UNIVERSITY  HER STORY THEATER WORKSHOP 

    HER STORY THEATER presented a one hour workshop at DePaul University Sterns Center Conference.  Live performances, film clip from documentary and discussion on the power of theater to create social awareness and change. It was a wonderful event.  Full house and many questions.  Thanks to Sterns Center for a well attended and beneficial conference.  Thanks to Alma Washington, Heather Beeman, Laura Elleseg, Veronica Idiote for the great job and support.         

    HST DOCUMENTARY COMING TO COMPLETION

    At CHOPIN THEATER filming of GLOSS OVER actors and former homeless women they portrayed, meet and discuss the performances, real life and the impact they had on one another, in this documentary filmed by Her Story Theater in partnership with Deborah's Place.    Her Story Theater has raised over $6,000.00 for Deborah's Place, supportive housing for homeless women, through their performances of GLOSS OVER.  The documentary will be used to further promote the need for support and housing for our Chicago homeless women. Special thanks to Columbia College for their assistance, the hard working camera crew and Chopin Theater's Lela and Zygmund for their beautiful space, salon brunch and wonderful Chopin concerto.  Photo by Sheila Thomsen   In photo: actors, creative staff from Her Story Theater's production of GLOSS OVER and the women from Deborah's Place at Chopin Theater, Chicago, IL.

    SHADOW TOWN                                                                                                          trafficking of Chicago girls into the sex slave trade

    HER STORY THEATER moves forward on developing their production of SHADOW TOWN based on the interviewed lives of girls trafficked into the sex slave trade. SHADOW TOWN is a powerful and attitude changing production on this horrific issue currently happening in our Chicago backyard, the nation and beyond.  HER STORY THEATER's goal is to raise social awareness through original works for the stage and immerse the audience in a world that needs to be changed; to call upon them to do something about these tragic circumstances impacting our young girls.  To end this slavery now!  Abolishionists apply within!