THE MARCH Civil Rights Arts Project presents Urban Gateways' The Birmingham Children's March in Chicago at Christ the Mediator Lutheran Church. This interactive theater experience is a dramatization of the events in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King had to enlist children and teenagers to revive his faltering Civil Rights campaign. The performance features freedom songs, speeches, testimonies, and character-driven drama, all happening around the audience.
The Birmingham Children’s March, a production of THE MARCH Civil Rights Arts Project, is a 40 minute mass meeting performance in two acts. Act I takes place at a mass meeting at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on the morning that the children of Birmingham are about to face Bull Connor’s fire hoses and police dogs for the first time during a demonstration. A Birmingham student expresses their reservations about participating in the march. There is also a voice of dissent from someone within the African American community who does not agree with the tactic of placing children and teenagers in harm’s way.
Join us on 3/29/13 at 3 p.m. for this free performance, a discussion with the writer & cast, followed by a light reception.
Christ the Mediator Lutheran Church
3100 S Calumet Avenue
Chicago, IL 60616
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http://youtu.be/QblZKMfWgH8 - Highlights of The Birmingham Children's March
http://youtu.be/a8RziLLPdU8 - "What Can One Little Person Do? " - The Birmingham Children's March at The Cove School