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Links Hall encourages artistic innovation and public engagement by maintaining a facility and providing flexible programming for the research, development and presentation of new work in the performing arts.

Dear Links Hall Community, As of this week, this account will be dormant. The organization’s last day of public programm...
07/28/2025

Dear Links Hall Community,

As of this week, this account will be dormant. The organization’s last day of public programming was June 30, 2025. By the end of July 2025, the organization will have wound down operations and there will be no remaining staff.
The Board of Directors will continue to stay active through fall 2025 as they finish closing down the organization. If you need to get in contact with someone on the Links Hall Board of Directors, you can email: [email protected].

We have archiving plans in the mix. If you’d like to stay updated on those, please join the ’s newsletter via their website.

Much love. 🔗

07/28/2025

Dear Links Hall Community,
As of this week, this account will be dormant. The organization's last day of public programming was June 30, 2025. By the end of July 2025, the organization will have wound down operations and there will be no remaining staff.
The Board of Directors will continue to stay active through fall 2025 as they finish closing down the organization. If you need to get in contact with someone on the Links Hall Board of Directors, you can email: [email protected].

Thank you so much for everything.

This Friday and Saturday: Join Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas for "Fillinz, Put Some Respect on It!"Check ...
06/23/2025

This Friday and Saturday: Join Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas for "Fillinz, Put Some Respect on It!"

Check out these photos from rehearsals and the artists' Works-in-Progress performance in May. The Kuumba Lynx Co-Founders invite you to explore prose with them this weekend. Don't miss it!

Get your ticket now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events 🙌

Coming up this Sunday: Dani Oblitas' "Un/Rerooted," a movement exploration of borders, community, and connection with ou...
06/20/2025

Coming up this Sunday: Dani Oblitas' "Un/Rerooted," a movement exploration of borders, community, and connection with our ancestral land.

Take a peek at these photos from rehearsals and the project's Works-in-Progress performance in December 2024.

Oblitas and their collaborators have a beautiful piece to share. Catch them in action this Sunday and next Thursday, June 26th. Get your ticket now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events !

📷 Works-in-Progress photos by Micelle Reid

With four out of twelve performances complete, we are well underway in Links Hall's fifth and final Co-MISSION Festival ...
06/19/2025

With four out of twelve performances complete, we are well underway in Links Hall's fifth and final Co-MISSION Festival of New Works!

The Co-MISSION Festival is partially supported by by a grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Thank you, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events !

Tickets are still available for performances this weekend: Tuli Bera's BANGALI MEYE on Friday and Saturday, and a split-bill of Dani Oblitas' UN/REROOTED and Selena's Lasley's TIMESh*t on Sunday. Get your ticket now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events ! 🙌

Photo by Michelle Reid of Amanda Maraist's FOLK Work-in-Progress presentation, December 2024.

This Friday and Saturday, witness the fourth and final iteration of Tuli Bera's "Bangali Meye" - but first, take a look ...
06/19/2025

This Friday and Saturday, witness the fourth and final iteration of Tuli Bera's "Bangali Meye" - but first, take a look at these beautiful photos and videos from Tuli and their team's time in Studio A this spring.

We'll see you there. Get your ticket now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events ! 💐

Amanda Maraist's FOLK opens tomorrow and we're so excited!Check out these beautiful photos featuring Amanda and her coll...
06/17/2025

Amanda Maraist's FOLK opens tomorrow and we're so excited!

Check out these beautiful photos featuring Amanda and her collaborators in rehearsal. (And then, read this incredible ensemble's bios on the Links Hall website!)

It's going to be a beautiful evening. Won't you join us? Get your ticket now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events 🌿

Introducing the final member of Links Hall's 2025 Co-MISSION cohort: Selena Lasley!Selena Lasley (she/they) is a Chicago...
06/16/2025

Introducing the final member of Links Hall's 2025 Co-MISSION cohort: Selena Lasley!

Selena Lasley (she/they) is a Chicago-based artist. She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Acting (2019). Selena also has studied Modern, West African, solo performance, vogue aesthetics, physical theatre, and improvisation. Selena continues performing and collaborating with multiple artists and has performed throughout Chicago.

Being a research-based artist, Selena is constantly creating, exploring, breaking theories and ideologies with their ongoing research in Psychology of creativity, social and theoretical concepts. The constant shifts of cultural and social climates within the African diaspora, American Dream, Gender identity, and the ongoing questions of non conformity has always been an underlying theme within their research based works. This will be their first residency at Links Hall and is very excited to be sharing the space!

Performing in a split bill with Dani Oblitas' "Un/Rerooted" on June 22nd and 26th, Lasley's "TIMESh*t" is a metaphysical and social collaboration about what it means to be living in this world.

This ongoing work is about questioning the existence of consciousness and the way we perceive ourselves. We as a collective should never have to conform or question ourselves, we can freely express our identity in anyway shape or fashion. And to remind ourselves as humans ever evolving in this world. We do not need to think that material things, class, and wealth is the only way to identify ourselves. So let’s turn up! And have fun!

We can't wait! Get your ticket now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events .

Up next: Get to know Kuumba Lynx Co-Founders Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas!Jacinda Bullie (aka Jah da Amp...
06/16/2025

Up next: Get to know Kuumba Lynx Co-Founders Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas!

Jacinda Bullie (aka Jah da Amp Mouth) is an instigating art maker, creative activator, and practicing heart soother. This sage burning Muslim seeks to practice gratitude & presence. Jacinda likes to write, perform, paint, talk story, move and engage in radical love play. She is a Hip Hop Theater producer, host, arts facilitator & manager who finds freedom in remembering that she is simply a spiritual being having an earthly experience.

Executive Director & Co-Lead Creative, Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas is a Fly Girl Chicagoan by way of South Carolina, Jaquanda is one of the three Founders, and a Co- Creative Lead of Kuumba Lynx. She has been engaging youth and their families in Hip Hop Arts Activism and Culturally Relevant programming for 25 years. Jaquanda gets FREE as an Arts Educator, Mentor, Yoga Instructor, Shamanic Reiki Healer, Performance Artist, Arts Administrator, International Peace Movement Honorary Ambassador, and Hip Hop Theater Director. As a healer Jaquanda is dedicated to holding space for community to address harm, break generational curses, and interrupting systematic sabotage by re-engaging in indigenous and African healing practices.

Bullie and Saulter-Villegas activate prose and coloring pages in "FILLINZ, Put Some Respect on It!" on June 27th and 28th.

Don't miss this performance! Get your ticket now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events ! 👏

We're so excited to welcome back Co-MISSION Fellow Tuli Bera's "Bangali Meye," which Bera first premiered at Links Hall ...
06/12/2025

We're so excited to welcome back Co-MISSION Fellow Tuli Bera's "Bangali Meye," which Bera first premiered at Links Hall in 2019!

Tuli Bera is a Chicago-based performer, choreographer, producer, and dance educator. Their artistic voice is an emulsion of their technical prowess and honest expression of identity. Since moving to Chicago in 2016, they have committed to creating public experiences that foster authentic self-exploration. Bera is informed by various styles of dance, which have led them to feel most comfortable as an improviser. They lead with curiosity and lean into transforming as they navigate through, collaborate, and create within the Chicago arts landscape. Learn more about Bera via the link in our bio, or at www.tuli.space.

The first "Bangali Meye," a solo premiered at Links Hall as part of its 2019 Co-MISSION Residency series, the second at the 2022 Pivot Arts Festival at the Edge Theater with Scott Rubin, and the third iteration at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater in 2023 with Tuli’s younger sibling, Anita. The overarching theme for this series is about acknowledging, exploring, and understanding the experience of inhabiting the body and mind of a [child of immigrants] / [first-generation, settler American], specifically one of [South-Asian] / [Indian] / [Bengali] descent. Each iteration is a sharing of how I connect to a part of my existence. A spectrum of relationships with this part of me, this "Bangali Meye," reveals itself in real time.

You don't want to miss the fourth and final iteration of "Bangali Meye." Get your ticket now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events ! ✨

Get to know Kevin Michael Wesson and Theatre Nobody, in preparation for their SOLD-OUT run of "CAMPOUT, A Night in the W...
06/11/2025

Get to know Kevin Michael Wesson and Theatre Nobody, in preparation for their SOLD-OUT run of "CAMPOUT, A Night in the Woods" starting this Sunday!

Kevin Michael Wesson (he/they) is a proudly unrepresented puppeteer/deviser based in Chicago, originally from Tampa, FL; Recent credits include: "Leonardo!" & "Christmas Carol" (Manual Cinema), “'Where we go together'” or The Flashlight Play" (Theatre Nobody), "Dog or Cats; Augmented Body" (Steppenwolf LOOKOUT), "House of the Exquisite Co**se I-IV" (Rough House Theater), "Deepen the Heart" (Stop Motion Plant), and "Elements of Style" (The Neo-Futurists).

His works have been featured in American Theatre Magazine, The Chicago Cultural Center, No Proscenium, NPR, The Puppetry Journal, nomination for the National Puppet Slam, and various curation for/residencies with Agitator Artist Collective, Links Hall, Chicago Puppet Lab, The National Puppetry Conference, Valdez Theatre Conference, & The Intuit: Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. A firm believer in DIY ethos, they currently organize works-in-progress & community programming for the Chicago-based puppet theatre company, Rough House Puppet Arts, the devised theatre ensemble, Stop Motion Plant, Physical Theater Festival Chicago, and the experimental free theatre outfit, Theatre Nobody.

Wesson's "CAMPOUT, A Night in the Woods" is an intimate & immersive work for a brave audience of two. Winner of No Proscenium's Best Shows and Experiences of 2019, originally performed in New York City in 2019, the show was originally performed for a total of only seven people; this is the Chicago debut and first time it has been remounted in nearly six years.

Reservation is currently full for the run of the show. If you'd like to join the waitlist, please email Links Hall Programs Associate Dana Pepowski at [email protected]. ⛺

We're so excited for Amanda Maraist's performances on June 18th and 29th as part of the Co-MISSION Festival of New Works...
06/10/2025

We're so excited for Amanda Maraist's performances on June 18th and 29th as part of the Co-MISSION Festival of New Works!

Amanda Maraist is a movement deviser + improviser from the texas gulf coast, living in Chicago. She co-directs bim bom studios and works collaboratively with movers, musicians and artists; most recently with Irene Hsiao, Helen Lee, Harlan Rosen, Gina Hoch-Stall, Chrissy Martin, Freedom From and Freedom To, Khecari, and Ayako Kato / Art Union Humanscape. Her movement work exists as both dance-making and physical space-making. Using authentic movement practices and meticulously rendered improvisational scores, her work is process-forward with a do-it-together demeanor. She is supported by a 2024 Links Hall Co-MISSIONS Residency, a 2025 residency at the Ragdale Foundation, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and is a Synapse Arts New Works artist for 2025.

Maraist's "FOLK" is the movement of the present that binds us.

A working class anthem, ballad, lullaby..
archival + future-making.

A quilt in progress / a group effort
Unifying in cacophony
Mobilizing, effortful and true.

Four dancers, two musicians and an audience study themselves and each other to identify what's working, what's not, and where we all go from here.

Do you have your ticket? Get it now at www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events ✨

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