The Creative Movement Awards celebrate the people, projects, and organizations creating a climate for social change in the United States. The awards ceremony begins at 6 PM on Friday, December 9, followed by a meet and greet reception at 8 PM.
This year, Insight Arts, a contemporary arts organization dedicated to increasing access to cultural work that supports progressive social change, has partnered with Rumble Arts Center, an accessible cultural space that facilitates the empowerment and education of individuals and communities, to present the Creative Movement awards.
Individuals that will be honored at his year's Creative Movement awards and dinner are political advocate Van Jones, award-winning filmmaker Yvonne Welbon and Chicago poet Kevin Coval. Insight Arts will also present awards to efficacious local projects like The Miracle Center's youth theatre production of "Chicago's Puerto Rican Story," and the Unemployed Action Center of Chicago Jobs with Justice. Organizational awards will be presented to Gender Just, The Silk Road Rising and Warehouse Workers for Justice.
The event will begin at 6 PM with the award ceremony at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Auditorium (280 South Columbus Drive). A dinner reception will follow at 8 PM at the Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel's Crystal Ballroom (636 South Michigan Avenue).
Tickets for the awards ceremony and reception are available for $125. Students and senior citizens may purchase reduced-rate tickets for $100. Tickets may also be purchased for the awards ceremony alone for $30, $25 for students and senior citizens. Purchase tickets online at www.insightartsliberation.org .
All proceeds benefit Insight Arts and Rumble Arts Center. Both of these nonprofit agencies are community-based arts organizations based in the working class neighborhoods of Rogers Park, Uptown, and Humboldt Park.
Don't miss this extraordinary event and the opportunity to support local arts organizations and those doing influential work for the people of Chicago and the United States!
