THE PEOPLE SPEAK LIVE!, with Matt Damon *SOLD OUT*
Tue. 01/31 | 6:00PM @ Metro (map)
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- Click here for Premium Tickets Part of a new, yearlong arts and education initiative in Chicago, a benefit performance of “The People Speak, Live!” produced by Voices of a People’s History takes place at Metro, Tuesday, January 31st, 2012. Bringing to life the extraordinary history of ordinary people who made the United States what it is today, the evening pairs Academy Award®-winner Matt Damon with local Chicago talent for dramatic readings and songs of the actual words of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from America’s past—and present. “The People Speak, Live!” is based on the award-winning documentary feature The People Speak which had its broadcast premiere on HISTORY™ in December 2009. Seen by more than eight million people, The People Speak features Matt Damon reading John Steinbeck; Bob Dylan performing Woody Guthrie; Marisa Tomei describing the 1937 Flint sit-down strike; Morgan Freeman and Don Cheadle performing the words of Frederick Douglass; John Legend reading Muhammad Ali; and many others performing the work of both the acclaimed and anonymous in U.S. history. The January 31st benefit performance of “The People Speak, Live!”--its Chicago premiere--will feature readings of a fifteenth century priest documenting Columbus’ arrival in the New World; a fugitive slave’s scathing letter to a former master; the words of pathbreaking Chicago labor organizers; testimony of civil rights activists; musical performances from the songbooks of Woodie Guthrie and one-time Chicagoan Sam Cooke; poetry from the earliest days of Hip-Hop; Studs Terkel’s interview with Mamie Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till; and more.
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flavorpill on THE PEOPLE SPEAK LIVE!, with Matt Damon *SOLD OUT* @ Metro
3 months agoJust like its artistic point of reference (the Howard Zinn-affiliated documentary The People Speak), this live-reading/performance benefit brings in the Hollywood megawatts in service of a good cause. more at flavorpill.com
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