HOPE Wanted
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People from all walks of life have found themselves homeless, for various reasons, not just for lack of funds or the loss of a job, but also because of personal, family, and social crisis as well. It’s hard—or even impossible—to go to school, work, to vote, or keep a family together if you do not have food to eat, health care for your body and mind, or a home to live in. A homeless person is a human being and does have the right to be treated with humanity not just sometimes, but every time.
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We are The (Beat) Theatre Collective , a group of artists who have worked together for almost an entire decade in different ways and times all across the country. We need your help raising funds for our first collaborative endeavour, Project: Hope. This will be a two week workshop that culminates in four performances of a new work: Hope Wanted , a theatre piece which lays its focus on the homeless epidemic in a city near you.
By utilizing music, movement pieces, and simple human interactions, Hope Wanted digs its way through the trenches of humankind’s most beautiful and ugly moments. It explores how terrifyingly easy it can be to lose everything and fade into the background, eventually becoming invisible to the world. Throughout the devising process, we have been engaging our community by handing out food and hand warmers to the homeless while giving them a chance to tell us their stories and give us a better perspective on life out on streets. We're all in this together after all.
Through this endeavour we aim to humanize the homeless by presenting a performance dealing with the invisibility of people living on the street and how numb the everyday passerby becomes to the cries for help from those truly in need.
By connecting with Meghan O'Neil, a talented actress and recent Roosevelt University Theatre graduate, Project: HOPE was one of the first recipients of Roosevelt University's new Social Justice Grant. With their help we have put a deposit down on The Vault Theatre at Collaboraction Studios in the heart of Wicker Park. Located in the historic Flat Iron Arts Building we have a great performance space that is accessible to patrons from all over the city allowing our impact to be accessible for everyone.
Now that we have a space to devise and perform in, we need your help to make this experience successful. Your donation will go to providing:
- Hope Found Packages: These are care packages intended for individual homeless persons; containing an assortment of hand warmers, toiletries (deodorant, feminine products, tooth brush/paste, hand sanitizer), emergen-C, socks, rain ponchos, and winter hats. We will have these available, free of charge, at our performances as a way to facilitate and encourage our audience members to make a connection when they would usually walk right by a person on the streets.
- Help to pay our professional actors, designers, and stage management
- Paint and basic building materials
-Props
- Costumes
We are so thankful for any help you can provide. For every $10 donated to our project we will be donating $1 to the Franciscan Outreach, a homeless shelter located in the same neighborhood as our performance space. For more information on this shelter please visit: https://www.franoutreach.org/
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The (Beat) Theatre Collective aims to spark change by creating art that provokes, unites, and enriches our audiences and artists alike. By exploring new works and blowing the dust off of the classics, we promise to remain constantly malleable in the way we produce and vow to always question both ourselves, and our role in the community.
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We are The (Beat) Theatre Collective , a group of artists who have worked together for almost an entire decade in different ways and times all across the country. We need your help raising funds for our first collaborative endeavour, Project: Hope. This will be a two week workshop that culminates in four performances of a new work: Hope Wanted , a theatre piece which lays its focus on the homeless epidemic in a city near you.
By utilizing music, movement pieces, and simple human interactions, Hope Wanted digs its way through the trenches of humankind’s most beautiful and ugly moments. It explores how terrifyingly easy it can be to lose everything and fade into the background, eventually becoming invisible to the world. Throughout the devising process, we have been engaging our community by handing out food and hand warmers to the homeless while giving them a chance to tell us their stories and give us a better perspective on life out on streets. We're all in this together after all.
Through this endeavour we aim to humanize the homeless by presenting a performance dealing with the invisibility of people living on the street and how numb the everyday passerby becomes to the cries for help from those truly in need.
By connecting with Meghan O'Neil, a talented actress and recent Roosevelt University Theatre graduate, Project: HOPE was one of the first recipients of Roosevelt University's new Social Justice Grant. With their help we have put a deposit down on The Vault Theatre at Collaboraction Studios in the heart of Wicker Park. Located in the historic Flat Iron Arts Building we have a great performance space that is accessible to patrons from all over the city allowing our impact to be accessible for everyone.
Now that we have a space to devise and perform in, we need your help to make this experience successful. Your donation will go to providing:
- Hope Found Packages: These are care packages intended for individual homeless persons; containing an assortment of hand warmers, toiletries (deodorant, feminine products, tooth brush/paste, hand sanitizer), emergen-C, socks, rain ponchos, and winter hats. We will have these available, free of charge, at our performances as a way to facilitate and encourage our audience members to make a connection when they would usually walk right by a person on the streets.
- Help to pay our professional actors, designers, and stage management
- Paint and basic building materials
-Props
- Costumes
We are so thankful for any help you can provide. For every $10 donated to our project we will be donating $1 to the Franciscan Outreach, a homeless shelter located in the same neighborhood as our performance space. For more information on this shelter please visit: https://www.franoutreach.org/
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The (Beat) Theatre Collective aims to spark change by creating art that provokes, unites, and enriches our audiences and artists alike. By exploring new works and blowing the dust off of the classics, we promise to remain constantly malleable in the way we produce and vow to always question both ourselves, and our role in the community.
Organizer
Natividad Uehara
Organizer
Chicago, IL
