SUMMER NIGHTS
fACILITATED BY GLOBAL HIVE LABORATORIES
iN ASSOCIATION WITH TEATRO VISTA PRODUCTIONS
JUNE-AUGUST 2025
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Summer Nights is facilitated by
Global Hive Laboratories,
in association with Teatro Vista Productions.
Join us for Summer Nights, a glimpse into the innovative and collaborative practices of Teatro Vista collective member, Denise Yvette Serna. Experience classes, open rehearsals, public presentations, and site specific performances that further her performance art research in experimental forms, Active Translation, and embodied dramaturgy. With international explorations and select public sharings throughout summer 2025, you can engage as a spectator, collaborator, and supporter of this vibrant artist and her original works in progress.
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8:46 Breathing Room
October 18-Nov 1, 2021
An 8 minute and 46 second new play festival in association with The Breath Project
Rivendell re-emerges with 8:46 (BREATHING ROOM) a new festival featuring four exciting new commissions, each 8 minutes and 46 seconds long. Through world premiere performances and community events — Rivendell’s Associate Artistic Director, Denise Yvette Serna, transforms Rivendell’s annual new play festival to reflect the moment we collectively find ourselves in now. The festival invites community members to invest in artists of the global majority, offering them space to consider, share, and take a breath. On November 1st, the festival concludes with streaming event in remembrance of the lives lost to brutality, negligence, and ecological apartheid of the last two years.
My heartfelt gratitude goes out to the artists for sharing their work. It is my sincere hope that we are able to collaborate again in the future, and that we continue to hold our space together, listening to one another, and committing to growth.
CONNECT. EXPERIENCE. ENJOY. GIVE BACK.
Join us on social media for #MuralMondays as we tour Rogers Park murals!
Ensemble theater company The Syndicate presents First Read, a new play readings series centering trans and non-binary playwrights, at The Martin. The week-long festival programming is co-produced by Hal Cosentino and Denise Yvette Serna of Pop Magic Productions, and will also feature events that center the greater Chicago queer community.
Monday 6/10 7pm-9pm
Visioning Our Futures:
A Space for TGNC Theater
Makers
Trans/NB artists only!Sun 6/16 1pm-3pm
Trans Inclusion-Resources for Theater MakersAll performances are pay-what-you-wish- dates, times, and reservations for each reading are available at https://tinyurl.com/firstread19
For more information about The Syndicate, please visit www.wearethesyndicate.com.
To learn about The Martin, please visit https://www.themartinchicago.com/.
HOMESET, a quarterly salon series bringing artists together to share ideas. 3 artists showcase their works in progress, lesser practiced skills, and interests in a casual atmosphere.
Artists flourish in conversation with one another, experiencing and examining one another's work -- especially in times of social and political unrest. It propels our aesthetic and understanding farther forward, and stokes the fire of active engagement. In an effort to cultivate these nurturing spaces for artists, and in response to the need for more cross-exposure in the Chicago arts scene, HOME SET was put into action.
Video: Homeset x Scapi Studio 05.12.18 Rahim Salaam
