Bashir Salahuddin on Chicago's Creative Scene
Bashir Salahuddin talks about the uniqueness of Chicago's creative scene and its impact on his own work.
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Your impact checklist
Here are a list of things you can do before and after the event to join the conversation.
- Attend a program at ElasticArts, a creation space committed to fostering creative exploration by providing work spaces and resources to Chicago artists.
- Help the David Lynch Foundation bring Transcendental Meditation to Chicago to heal victims of trauma throughout the city.
- Chicago is all about embracing the unconventional. See a show and support the Neo-Futurists, a collective of performers, writers, and directors committed to creating a unique experience each night.
- Support Young Chicago Authors, an organization that teaches local youth how to narrate their own future through writing, publication, and performance.
- Help to create a new people’s history of Chicago by telling your story to StoryCorps, a nonprofit that records, shares, and preserves the stories of communities in Chicago.
Idea: Creativity is power.
A Talk about the creative connections shaping our world.
Can storytelling reshape the narrative of a city? Is meditation the key to success? Can comedy help us heal? Creativity has the power to bring us closer together and is a reminder that we are a lot more alike than we are different. In this celebratory Saturday-night kickoff, we’ll dive into the revolutionary potential of mythological storytelling with Eve Ewing and Hebru Brantley, of Transcendental Meditation with David Lynch, and of self-creation with Bashir Salahuddin to rethink power and highlight meaningful connections that can reshape the future of Chicago—and the world.
