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SparkPlug is a party highlighting emerging artists of color in celebration of Victory Gardens Theater's new play festival - IGNITION: Emerging Playwrights of Color.
The party will be on Friday, August 8:
7:30pm - A reading of Michael Lew's play A Better Babylon
9:30pm - Party starts
The party will feature food, music and live performances by:
*Sugarplum Catering
*2nd Story, Chicago's premiere storytelling ensemble
*Havana Gallery, with live painting by Pablo Perea
*Instant Theater, a project of Chicago Dramatists
*The magic of Benjamin Barnes
*T-shirt printing - make your own wearable art with Alex Lee and Alex Sobolev of Modati (shirts provided)
Tickets are only $5 and are available by calling (773) 871-3000 or at VictoryGardens.org
A Better Babylon
by Michael Lew (New York)
Friday August 8th, 7:30p
In 1960s UC Berkeley, a wave of student radicalism engulfs a young Chinese couple, a black protester, and a Chicana biologist. Personal dreams collide with political conscience, testing the limits of mentorship, friendship, and love.
IGNITION
has a dual goal: to introduce exceptional new writers under the age of
40 to Victory Gardens and to jump start future productions of the
winning plays around the country. The six plays were selected out of 120 submissions from throughout the U.S. and internationally.
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