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Pivot Arts produces and presents contemporary and multidisciplinary performance in Chicago.

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Local work, urgently. Meet the resident artists for the 2026 Pivot Arts Festival:Kayla Reefer · Traces — photography that digs into lineage, memory, and Afro-Latine belonging.Mikee Parangalan · The Money Tree — a tender push back against scarcity, imagining abundance with no catch.Sarah Bock · What I Wish I Could Say — an abstract play about the space between what young women say and what they mean.Jessica Leyva — street dance and live music, where the dancers become the score.Swipe to meet them. For more information, visit the link in the bio. #PivotArts #PivotArtsFestival #ChicagoArts #NewWorks***1. Announcement tile — Black-and-white photo of an older woman seated in a plastic chair outdoors, looking off to the side. Header reads "Pivot Arts Festival 2026."2. Kayla Reefer — Black-and-white portrait of Kayla Reefer looking to the side. Title: "Kayla Reefer · Traces."3. Mikee Parangalan — Black-and-white portrait of Mikee Parangalan smiling softly. Title: "Mikee Parangalan · The Money Tree."4. Sarah Bock — Black-and-white portrait of Sarah Bock smiling at the beach. Title: "Sarah Bock · What I Wish I Could Say."5. Jessica Leyva — Black-and-white portrait of Jessica Leyva smiling. Title: "Jessica Leyva." by @pivotarts

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CHATTING OVER THE FENCE: A MICROFILM SHOWCASE is an open-call screening of short films made by anyone and everyone — yes, that means you. Sponsored by Pivot Arts, this festival celebrates the stories, perspectives, and creative sparks found right outside your door. Submit your microfilm for a chance to have it screened live for an audience at the Wirtz Center.Submissions open! Deadline Extended to june 26th ->virtual showing and awards on june 29th -> link in bio Here's what you need to know:🎥 Anyone can submit — no experience, prerequisites, or entry fee required.🌿 All films must be 5 minutes or less.🏡 Your film should embody the spirit of Chatting Over the Fence — intimate, human, community-rooted storytelling, and autobiographical in nature.🎞 Narrative, documentary, animation, experimental, and genre-defying formats are all welcome.🪟 Already made something that fits? We'll take it.🌻 The screening is free and open to the public. While there is no financial compensation, all filmmakers will be credited in our digital program and your work will be screened for a live audience.Chicago Arts#ChicagoFilm #ChicagoArts #ChicagoFilmmaker #ChicagoFilmFestival #ChicagoArtsCommunity by @pivotarts

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Some performances stay with you. DISPOSABLE is one of them.Now go deeper. Join award-winning Colombian-American theater maker and arts activist Jasmin Cardenas — playwright of DISPOSABLE and a practitioner of Theater of the Oppressed who studied directly with its founder, Augusto Boal — for an immersive, hands-on introduction to the methodology behind the work. Through embodied play and storytelling, we'll explore how theater can open dialogue, bridge divides, and move communities toward action, together.May 9 | 3 PM | Wirtz Center — Clara, Lu, 'N Em Theater📍 710 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago🔗 Free — RSVP link in bio#DisposablePlay #TheaterOfTheOppressed #JasminCardenas #PivotArts #WirtzCenter #ChicagoTheater #AugustoBoal #CivicTheater #NEABigRead #America250***A promotional flyer for DISPOSABLE by Jasmin Cardenas and a Theater of the Oppressed workshop, co-presented by Pivot Arts and Wirtz Center Chicago, taking place May 9, 2026 at 3 PM in the Clara, Lu, 'N Em Theater at Wirtz Center; featuring a portrait of facilitator Jasmin Cardenas and a performance photo. by @pivotarts

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The Neo-Futurists are coming to Wirtz Center to lead a writing workshop on autobiographical performance. Facilitated by Andres Coronado, this is your space to dig into your own life and make it into something bold and alive on the page.Free to attend. Free book included. One night only.April 30 | 6 PM | Struble Theater, Evanston🔗 RSVP link in bio#NeoFuturists #WritingWorkshop #ChicagoTheater #PivotArts #WirtzCenter #AutobiographicalPerformance #NEABigRead #ChicagoArts #FreeEvents***A promotional flyer for an Autobiographical Performance workshop with The Neo-Futurist Theater, co-presented by Pivot Arts and Wirtz Center Chicago, taking place April 30, 2026 at 6 PM in the Struble Theater in Evanston; featuring a live performance photo and a portrait of facilitator Andres Coronado. by @pivotarts

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What does it mean to be disposable?Pivot Arts and Wirtz Center Chicago invite you to find out. Jasmin Cardenas's one-person documentary play draws from real voices — temp workers, professionals, people navigating the edges of the American economy — and puts them on stage where they belong.FREE to attend. One night only. 🗓️ May 1 | 7 PM | Wirtz Center, 710 N Lake Shore Dr🔗 RSVP link in bio#DisposablePlay #PivotArts #WirtzCenterChicago #ChicagoTheater #JasminCardenas #LatinaPlaywright #DocumentaryTheater #NEABigRead #ChicagoArts #FreeTheater***A promotional flyer for DISPOSABLE, a staged reading by Jasmin Cardenas, presented by Pivot Arts and Wirtz Center Chicago on May 1, 2026 at 7 PM; featuring a black-and-white portrait of the playwright alongside production details and logos for the NEA Big Read and America 250. by @pivotarts

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PARADISE ALIENSA solo exhibition by Alonso GalueCurated by Jorge SilvaWirtz Center Chicago – Abbott HallParadise Aliens is a series of monumental paintings about climate change and exile. Drawing from the ancient cosmologies of Abya Yala the work proposes new continental languages shaped by rupture, migration, and ecological transformation.These paintings are populated by deities of a distorted and hallucinatory reality: hybrid witnesses emerging from collapse, memory, and reinvention. Paradise here is unstable simultaneously sacred, threatened, and reimagined in exile.FREE Gallery Hours:Saturday 2/21 | 12–5 PMSunday 2/22 | 12–5 PMWednesday 2/25 | 5–9 PMThursday 2/26 | 5–9 PMFriday 2/27 | 5–9 PMAbbott Hall710 N. Lake Shore DriveChicago, ILThis work is made with the support of the @illinoisartscouncil @neaarts and @pivotarts And will be open during events related at the wirtz center @wirtzcenter #monumetalpaintings #ParadiseAliens #ClimateAndExile #abyayala by @pivotarts

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Poetry from Paradise / Poesía desde el ParaísoBilingual Open Mic / Micrófono Abierto BilingüeFriday, February 20, 2026 | Viernes 20 de febrero de 20265:00 – 9:00 PMAbbot Hall710 N. Lake Shore DriveChicago, ILJoin us this Friday at Abbot Hall in downtown Chicago for a bilingual open mic evening, presented as part of the programming for my Paradise Aliens exhibition — a mural series exploring exile, climate change, and Andean and Amazonian mythologies.Acompáñanos este viernes en Abbot Hall, en el centro de Chicago, para una noche de micrófono abierto bilingüe, como parte de la programación de mi exposición Paradise Aliens — una serie de murales que explora el exilio, el cambio climático y las mitologías andinas y amazónicas.Bring a poem you’ve written, or one that resonates deeply with you.Trae un poema que hayas escrito o uno que resuene profundamente contigo.Poetry is the possibility of creation without boundaries.La poesía es la posibilidad de crear sin fronteras.Schedule / Programa5:00 PM — Doors open & reader sign-up5:00 PM — Apertura de puertas e inscripción7:00 PM — Readings begin7:00 PM — Inicio de lecturas8:00 PM — Intermission8:00 PM — Intermedio9:00 PM — Closing9:00 PM — CierreSee you there. / Nos vemos allí.#ChicagoPoetry #openmic #MicrófonoAbierto #ChicagoArt #ArteContemporáneo by @pivotarts

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Join Pivot Arts and the Wirtz Center Chicago as we welcome Marcella Arguello to our stage for a conversation about Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street. The event features @latinotheater Executive Director Jorge Valdivia in discussion with Arguello. And—bonus!—the first 30 registrants will receive a free copy of the book. Get your tickets now!Registration info linked in our bio! ***Image Description:Promotional poster for an event titled “charlar mango with Marcella Arguello,” scheduled for December 6 at 5 PM at the Wirtz Center Chicago. The poster features a photo of Marcella Arguello performing with a microphone, alongside text describing her comedy and acting credits and the event’s focus on The House on Mango Street. A QR code for ticket purchase appears in the lower section, along with logos for Pivot Arts, NEA Big Read, America 250, and Northwestern University. A text bubble highlights her appearances on HBO, Poker Face, Abbott Elementary, and After Midnight. by @pivotarts

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Join Pivot Arts, @2ndstorychicago, and @wirtzcenter on November 1st at 11:00 AM for a free storytelling workshop! Led by 2nd Story's Liz Rice! All registrants will also receive a free copy of Sandra Cisneros's THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET through the NEA's Big Reads program. Link in Bio! Promotional poster for an event titled “In Your Voice with 2nd Story.” The text reads: “Nov 1 / 11AM / Wirtz Center Chicago.” The poster invites participants to a storytelling workshop led by Liz Rice, Manager of Curriculum and Education at 2nd Story, co-sponsored by the Wirtz Center Chicago and Pivot Arts. Attendees will receive a free copy of The House on Mango Street as part of the NEA Big Read. A QR code for RSVP is shown. The lower section includes logos for Pivot Arts, NEA Big Read, America 250, and Northwestern University. A smiling woman is pictured on the right. by @pivotarts

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Paradise AliensAlonso GalueCurated by @pivotarts Creative Director Jorge SilvaTexts by Professor PhD. Elizabeth MarinOCT 11 / 5PM / WIRTZ CENTER CHICAGOJoin the Wirtz Center Chicago in partnership with Pivot Arts for an evening of art, community and celebration as we showcase Alonso Galue’s Paradise Aliens.Paradise Aliens is a mural project that blends folklore and migration stories touching on displacement and belonging. Galue is a Venezuelan-born Chicago Based Artist whose work blends sculpture, painting, puppetry and immersive performance. He explores Migration, displacement, and cultural memory through powerful public rituals and imagery.The evening features a reception and a discussion with the artist. No purchase necessary, but registration is required.⸻RSVP HERE5:00 PM | OCTOBER 11TH, 2025WIRTZ CHICAGO | 710 N LAKE SHORE DR by @pivotarts

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In "Paradise Aliens", Venezuelan artist Alonso Galue presents a series of large-scale murals exploring exile, memory, and myth through vivid, surreal imagery. Drawing from Andean cosmology, political violence, and personal displacement, the works depict gas-masked figures, ancestral animals, and dreamlike battlefields rendered in bold, expressive strokes. Galue frames the project as an act of rebuilding inner geographies—visual rituals that transform trauma into resistance, symbolism, and space for reflection.Stay tuned for open exhibition dates. Follow on social media or check the Pivot Arts website for more details. @a.galue @illinoisartscouncil @wirtzcenter ****Color portrait of artist Alonso Galue smiling with arms crossed in front of a vivid, abstract painting, overlaid with bold graphics promoting "Paradise Aliens" at the Pivot Arts Festival 2025. by @pivotarts

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Sunset 60” dopo Grazzano Visconti il laboratorio si sposta a Chicago pet continuare la ricerca sul tema della sopravvivenza futura, su ciò che abbiamo imparato e lasceremo ai posteri. Grazie @pivotarts @teatrotrieste34 @ostellodelteatro @wirtzcenter @denisesirects @globalhivelabs @twinkle_twinkle__pequeno @rivercoello @sarah.d.g.meek by @pivotarts

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