The Theater and Poetry workshops are optional parts of the Urban Studies Program. They can be taken for enrichment and as an opportunity to reflect on your experiences in Chicago and in the program. Theater Workshop Stories feed us, nurture us, change us.
Stories can maintain the status quo and stories can challenge it.
Students will gather stories from their own experience of life in Chicago as it unfolds around them. Working as a group, we will weave those threads into one cohesive performance piece. Students will come away from the process with a stronger sense of their own voice, as well as a heightened awareness of the lives and stories happening around them. No previous theater experience is needed. This workshop will focus on finding the rhythm of words that is unique to every body.