Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for the book launch and reception for Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater with author Mark Larson. Hear sound bites from Larson’s interviews with Chicago theater luminaries at this special event! Enjoy music by DJ Sadie Woods and refreshments in the Hull-House courtyard after the presentation.

This summer, Hull-House will host three free workshops and performances with PREACH! Using a combination of spoken word and long-form improvisation, participants can workshop both poetry and improv techniques among this diverse ensemble of teachers, caregivers and activists. Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

Mojdeh Stoakley will lead a dynamic poetry workshop and performance at Hull-House! Mojdeh is the Education Director of Poets With Class at the Chicago Poetry Center, where she designs unique and innovative programs for young children and adults alike. Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

Find Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the Maxwell Street Market for the THE BIG DEAL, a celebration of Chicago’s longest running outdoor Market. Stop by the Hull-House tent to enjoy signboards and other items from the Museum's historic Maxwell Street Collection. Share your memories and reactions to the artifacts, and draw your own signs and protest banners.

For five consecutive summers, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum has been home to {shecrew} - a program providing safe-space and expressive platforms for girls and gender-nonconforming youth. After a summer of expressive writing, collaborative creations and communal cooking {shecrew}’s Summer Intensive culminates in Imperfect Truths: A live action self-love guide book. The performance explores coming to terms with oneself, our locations in the world and how we can support each other.

Join us for an storytelling workshop and performance by Lily Be! Lily Be started sharing stories in Chicago and led workshops for The Second City. Now she produces the shows The Stoop and Story Collider throughout Chicago. You don't want to miss out on this opportunity to practice new and innovative storytelling techniques with the one-and-only Lily Be! Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

Come to Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a theater-themed Participatory Arts Hull-House Family Day! Storyteller Lily Be and girl powered camp {shecrew} will host workshops and performances in the afternoon. Contribute your voice, join the theater games and share your story! Celebrate the legacy of arts at Hull-House and see the current exhibition, Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change on its last day!

For five consecutive summers, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum has been home to {shecrew} - a program providing safe-space and expressive platforms for girls and gender-nonconforming youth. After a summer of expressive writing, collaborative creations and communal cooking {shecrew}’s Summer Intensive culminates in Imperfect Truths: A live action self-love guide book. The performance explores coming to terms with oneself, our locations in the world and how we can support each other.

Ratas de Dos Patas is a collective of four boss women who, in just one year, have taken the Chicago improv scene by storm! Practice improv and play techniques that incorporate dreams, magic, gossip and feminism in every performance with Ratas de Dos Patas at Hull-House! Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

Join us for an open workshop and performance by eccentric writer, actress and Chicago comedian, Adrienne Brandyburg. Adrienne Brandyburg is one third of B.A.P.S. Comedy, a collaborative of three beautiful, melanated, all curl patterns representing Women who believe in creating platforms and opportunities for ALL Women of Color. Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

Join us for an open workshop and performance by eccentric writer, actress and Chicago comedian, Adrienne Brandyburg. Adrienne Brandyburg is one third of B.A.P.S. Comedy, a collaborative of three beautiful, melanated, all curl patterns representing Women who believe in creating platforms and opportunities for ALL Women of Color. Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

This summer, Hull-House will host three free workshops and performances with PREACH! Using a combination of spoken word and long-form improvisation, participants can workshop both poetry and improv techniques among this diverse ensemble of teachers, caregivers and activists. Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

Join us for an storytelling workshop and performance by Lily Be! Lily Be started sharing stories in Chicago and led workshops for The Second City. Now she produces the shows The Stoop and Story Collider throughout Chicago. You don't want to miss out on this opportunity to practice new and innovative storytelling techniques with the one-and-only Lily Be! Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

This summer, Hull-House will host three free workshops and performances with PREACH! Using a combination of spoken word and long-form improvisation, participants can workshop both poetry and improv techniques among this diverse ensemble of teachers, caregivers and activists. Hull-House's Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place Sundays in the Hull-House courtyard. It will feature local Chicago-based improv and theater practitioners, learners and innovators. All workshops and performances are FREE and open to the public!

Join Angela Oliver of Matt Damon Improv for an interactive improv workshop. Matt Damon Improv is an all women of color satirical improv ensemble. Hull-House Summer of Theater is a new series (June 20 - August 12, 2019) that will take place in the Hull-House courtyard.

 Aretha Sills, daughter of The Second City founder Paul Sills, will lead an three-hour introductory workshop exploring the groundbreaking exercises and concepts of her grandmother Viola Spolin’s books, Improvisation for the Theater. Everyone who wishes to play is invited to attend! Museum and theater educators are strongly encouraged to join us.  

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum welcomes Aretha Sills for a presentation and Q&A regarding the work of Neva Boyd, Viola Spolin, Paul Sills and the Origins of Improvisational Theater in America. 

Aretha Sills, daughter of The Second City founder Paul Sills, will lead an three-hour introductory workshop exploring the groundbreaking exercises and concepts of her grandmother Viola Spolin’s books, Improvisation for the Theater. Everyone who wishes to play is invited to attend! Museum and theater educators are strongly encouraged to join us.  

Join Hull-House with your chosen family for a day of bookbinding with Regin Igloria of North Branch Projects; visit a Read/Write Library Pop-Up of books and zines by youth; and learn about the history of activism and zines in a workshop where you can make your own zines!

Is desegregation the solution for inequity in schools? Join Hull-House Museum for a book talk and public discussion exploring education and the fight for self-determination and equitable public schools on the West Side of Chicago. Speakers include Elizabeth Todd-Breland, author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s, and Prexy Nesbitt, a native West Sider, activist and educator.

Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a book talk and panel discussion with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, author of Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at new York's Seward Park Urban renewal Area; Teresa Córdova, director of UIC's Great Cities Institute; Nicole Marroquin featured Hull-House artist and Professor at SAIC; and Jose E. Lopez, executive director of The Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

Join the UIC Heritage Garden at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for the Fifth annual Spring Seed Swap! We invite gardeners, organizations, and community members interested in learning more about gardening, environmental sustainability and social justice. Anyone can come share knowledge, stories and resources with others and make new friends from around the city.

Celebrate Women's History Month with your family and chosen family! In conjunction with Hull-House's current exhibition, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum will host an afternoon of participatory theater games, free tours and dance workshops designed to move you in new ways, led by artist and educator, Benji Hart.

Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and The American Association of University Women (AAUW) for Women’s History Month in conversation with Nadiah Mohajir, the founder and executive director of HEART, an organization that educates and promotes culturally-sensitive sexual health in Muslim communities to end the silence that perpetuates gender violence and inequality.

In celebration of Women's History Month, join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for an evening celebrating women of color filmmakers! Curated by Michelle Materre, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Film at The New School, Through Her Eyes: Contemporary Shorts by Women of Color Filmmakers includes five contemporary short films addressing a range of compelling social issues.

Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, art therapist Leah Gipson, and A Long Walk Home, LLC. for International Women’s Day! We will explore resistance and resilience of women and girls of color through archives and photography that document community-centered art practices around well-being and activism. 

Hull-House and UIC’s Great Cities Institute launch the book, The World is Watching with a discussion, book signing and reception featuring award-winning poet, professor, architect of the Black Arts Movement, and Third World Press Foundation founder and publisher Haki Madhubuti. The World Is Watching is a compelling collection of historical and autobiographical essays that reflect on a wide range of world activist struggles, travels, international encounters and critical conversations on foreign affairs.

Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and National Hellenic Museum as we dive into neighborhood history and story-telling techniques that can be used in the classroom. By exploring the two cultural institutions - Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and The National Hellenic Museum - this day will introduce these sites’ rich neighborhood histories. CPDU’s credits will be provided for attending.

If you missed last Fall’s bookbinding workshop, you have another chance this month! Join Hull-House for a workshop led by featured Participatory Arts Hull-House artist Regin Igloria, founder of North Branch Projects - an organization that approaches community building through bookbinding practices, collective story writing and community archiving.

How can we form solidarity around indebtedness and make our voices heard? Hull-House co-presents with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, "On What We Owe," the latest installation of "Parts of Speech" - a series of lectures addressing the influence of speech on opinion, authority, intimacy and action. Join us at Hull-House in a conversation with activist, Astra Taylor, co-founder of The Debt Collective, about how debt affects millions of Americans today, and what we can do about it together.