Before you poke around its ambitious sprawl of 50-something events, consider the stresses of piecing together this kind of 60-day dinner party.
Thurston Moore in conversation during the Great Escape Festival at Old Market on May 11, 2019 in Brighton, England. and provocative essayist alongside a fair number of elderly attendees. The Chicago Humanities Festival was initially a one-day fall thing. It’s now in its 34th year and, at its most sprawling, once offered about 130 events a year. These days, the festival is year-round and puts on roughly 100 events. Like other cultural institutions, it’s also smaller.
The good news is, that the audience is younger than a decade ago, when the festival’s membership rolls, like other Chicago theater companies and musical arts organizations, looked overly gray.If Lauren Pacheco has her way, that change will continue. “If we’re feeling different this year, if we’re visibly looking different, that’s because we are moving in a different direction,” said Pacheco,as co-creative director with Michael Green. “Michael and I have a vision and we’re still getting to know each other and find our alignments, and like other cultural organizations, we recognize a need to cultivate a younger audience, and a more diverse audience, and also addressing the relevant issues.
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