Join Free Street staff, artists, community and donors as we kick off our new season. An evening to celebrate the Free Street family with a season announcement, remarks from leadership, and a shared meal.

Free Street's Family Dinner

4625 S Ashland

Our free monthly series of workshops are back! Every first Monday of the month Free Street will be offering free art workshops at the Storefront. To kick off this new season, we will be hosting an Intro to Storytelling class. Did you attend our Southside Stories event and wanted to learn how to start telling your own story? Well, we curated this workshop for you! Join us October 5th, 6-8pm

Art Hours: Intro to Storytelling

An evening of bilingual intergenerational stories by, for, and with Chicago's Southsiders. The public storytelling performance culminates an 8-week storytelling project with Peace and Education that invites Southside residents to document community histories through their own lived experience.

Southside Stories // Historias del sur de Chicago

Free Street Storefront

An evening of bilingual intergenerational stories created by, for, and with Chicago Southsiders, culminating an eight-week storytelling project with Peace and Education. Free admission.

Southside Stories / Historias del Sur de Chicago

An experimental and interactive course on tapping into your artistic imagination to carve out an intentional practice in crafting radical performance art, using DIY practices, liberation theory and play.

Performance Art with Tricia Hersey: Free Street Institute Certification Program

Free Street Theater

A social justice puppet-making workshop with Free Street artists, part of It's On Us, a day of art and action celebrating Chicago freedom struggles, organized by The Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago.

It's On Us x Free Street: Building Puppets for Social Justice

A new show by Free Street's Youth Ensemble that tells the stories of youth activists and activists in their youth, weaving interviews with over 20 adults and the book "Let This Radicalize You" with calls for adults to support youth rather than fear them.

SPARK

At a time when conflict and division seems ever present, Free Street In/House artist Tanuja Jagernauth invites audiences into a one-of-a-kind theatrical exploration of conflict resolution. Over 70 minutes audiences will witness the stories of three different conflicts told through puppetry, movement and text.

Rupture/Repair

Join us for monthly open workshops on health, wellness and creativity in our Back of the Yards Storefront. The 2nd Tuesday of every month starting in February.

Open Hours at The Storyfront

The Storyfront

Whether it's your first improv class or 100th class, we invite you to attend our FREE improv class at the Free Street Storefront. This session will be led by comedian, professor, writer Angelica Davila.

Free Street Theater

Nov 9, 2026

Art Hours: Improv for Everyone

Oct 9, 2026

Free Street's Family Dinner

Oct 5, 2026

Art Hours: Intro to Storytelling

Free Street Theater