First Person Live
First Person Live brings live storytelling to the suburbs! Hosted by 3-time Moth StorySLAM winner Diane Kastiel, First Person Live features regular people telling true stories from their lives. Each show has a different theme and a new group of tellers. If you've never experienced this unique form of entertainment, self expression and community building, join us for a show!
Mortified
Event Details:
WBEZ proudly presents Mortified Live: Love Hurts – Valentine’s Day Edition. Join us for a night of humorous storytelling from everyday people in Chicago. We’ve all experienced some embarrassment in our lifetime. Come out and commiserate over some cold beverages at the historic Athenaeum Center.
This February, we’ll celebrate the pinnacle of humiliating holidays, Valentine’s Day. Witness “personal redemption through public humiliation†in a refreshing show that finds people reading aloud their most embarrassing, pathetic, and private teenage diary entries, poems, love letters, lyrics, and locker notes in front of total strangers. A show that’s equal parts comedic, cathartic and voyeuristic, Mortified is the largest and longest running project of its kind, featuring a cast of Chicago’s bravest souls and the Mortified Band performing some of your favorite guilty pleasures! Share the shame!
The Stoop - URLife Storytelling Gameshow/Workshop
The Stoop PRESENTS: URLife - A Storytelling Game show
THE storytelling game that is proving that:
1. UR LIFE is fascinating.
2. Ur Real Life is a lot more interesting than you ever imagined.
3. U R LIFE!!
Come watch a live version of the game and reserve ur copy.
Wild and Sublime - Are You Experienced
Lily BE is the erotic storyteller for the evening.
The Stoop- Will You Be My CHUCKABOO?
COME CELEBRATE SEVEN YEARS WITH US AT THE STOOP!!!
Las Locas Three Year Anniversary
Lily Be is sharing a story at Las Locas Comedy show three-year anniversary!
URLife Storytelling Workshops- PT 2
Join renowned local storyteller Lily Be for a two-part workshop that combines games and stories.
URLife Storytelling Workshop - PT 1
Join renowned local storyteller Lily Be for a two-part workshop that combines games and stories.
We Got Game Cabin Fever
Break your cabin fever this January with Game Night at the Arts Incubator! The We Got Game Series invites guests on an exploration of game design and game culture through experiences curated by Chicago-based artists and game-makers, paired with thorny, heavy, and humorous conversations. Cabin Fever Edition, presented in partnership with Weston Game Lab, is an evening of free game play and challenging conversations in a space set up for fun and creativity. Game players are encouraged to engage on topics that are taboo through healthy, enlightened and entertaining discussions.
The Stoop - URLife Storytelling Gameshow at Fillet of Solo
The Stoop PRESENTS: URLife - A Storytelling Game show
THE storytelling game that is proving that:
1. UR LIFE is fascinating.
2. Ur Real Life is a lot more interesting than you ever imagined.
3. U R LIFE!!
Come watch a live version of the game and reserve ur copy.
Hear Me, See Me - Fillet of Solo
Lily Be will on a panel of women sharing their stories about surviving the healthcare system.
WRITE CLUB - TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Lily Be will be performing in Write Clubs 10 year anniversary spectacular.
The Stoop - URLife Storytelling Gameshow at Fillet of Solo
The Stoop PRESENTS: URLife - A Storytelling Game show
THE storytelling game that is proving that:
1. UR LIFE is fascinating.
2. Ur Real Life is a lot more interesting than you ever imagined.
3. U R LIFE!!
Come watch a live version of the game and reserve ur copy.
Hear Me, See Me - Fillet of Solo
Lily Be will on a panel of women sharing their stories about surviving the healthcare system.
Pilsen Story Workshops
Lily Be hosts a free storytelling workshop in Pilsen every third Thursday of the month.
Participants learn basic storytelling mining, framing, and performing tips and tricks.
Movie Club Presents Christmas Didn't Kill Itself
You guys like art? You gals like movies? Well, then this ain't the show for you... Sorry.
In the next exciting episode of Movie Club, DANETTE CHAVEZ will answer the one question that has kept you up at night: Are dogs better than Keanu Reeves? ... or maybe Danette won't answer that question. Who knows!
Featured performers:
Lily Be
Alba Machado
Mason, once again, hosts. Sorry.
WHAT IS MOVIE CLUB BLOCK OF TEXT
At Movie Club, we smash a couple cult classics, then reassemble them into something hideous yet captivating. You do not need to have seen the movies beforehand. Movies are dumb and our one-hour show will undoubtedly upstage them anyway.
Story Collider Unfolding Tomorrow
If you look close enough, you can see the footprints of yesterday, all over today. Follows the stories of 5 tellers traveling through time. Join the Story Collider in Chicago for an evening of five personal stories with tellers diving into the rabbit hole of time and travel back to the future to discover pieces of themselves they thought they left behind.
Hosted by Lily Be and Reyhaneh Maktoufi. Doors at 7:30.
URLife Storytelling Game Show Debut
Lily Be’s Workshops are now an audience interactive game show.
Pilsen Story Workshops
Lily Be hosts a free storytelling workshop in Pilsen every third Thursday of the month.
Participants learn basic storytelling mining, framing, and performing tips and tricks.
Living in the New Millennium
Come hear poems, short stories and commentaries written by women of color for all people living in this world of the internet, #metoo and trying to have it all. Readers include Tara Betts, Tina Jenkins Bell, Lily B, Janice Tuck Lively, Keli Stewart,and Bettina Walker. Free admission.
The Stoop - WOMP WOMP
Join us for an evening of stories at Rosa's Lounge.
We been around for six-years. We ain't going anywhere.
A lot of our guest are not performers or writers but we are all characters in the story of our lives. This month however, I have invited some of my favorite writers and performers to welcome me back from a month long trip to Paris. I asked and they said yes.
That's why I love this show so much. We just BE. Nothing more, nothing less. Come through!
Featuring
Eric Garneau
John Capaul
Luke Warner
will be joined by me and my wonderful cohost/producer Jenny DeLessio-Parson.
The rest of the lineup just comes together organically because that is how the Stoop works. You show up, be present, and then listen to some music and go home.
Every other show is a show while the Stoop is more of an experience. Often imitated never duplicated. Whether it's 1 or 100 in the audience, we gon' kick it. We ain't got time to be stressed about filling seats and selling tickets. That's what show runners do. We only care that we have a space in the community to hear back from the community about the things that are going on with them.
We didn't invite people over, they just showed up and we gave them space.
Also, this doubles as a fundraiser for some great Stoopnanigans we have planned for 2020! COME THROUGH!!!!
Outlines:A Literary Salon with Britt Julious
This new art, music, and literary salon features creators from a variety of mediums exploring the outer edges of Outlines is titled “BODY” and will feature writers, musicians, poets, and comedians traversing ideas of what it means to be in and outside of the body, in literal and metaphorical terms.
