Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre presents

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Saturday, August 3, 2024

7 pm – 8:30 pm (performance)

To be followed by a 30-minute conversation

Dessert bar and coffee will be offered

Noyes Cultural Arts Center

927 Noyes St., Evanston, IL

You are invited to join us for a special evening of theatre and conversation on Saturday, August 3. Following this powerful performance, there will be an engaging conversation with YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s domestic violence team centering women of color and their experiences with domestic violence.

Tickets for this event are $45/each. Proceeds will benefit YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s comprehensive, trauma-informed Domestic Violence Program and services, including: Mary Lou’s Place Emergency Shelter, Longer-Term Housing at Bridges, Counseling and Support services for residents and community members, Alternatives to Violence for those who have caused harm, Children & Teens Program, and Violence Prevention including 40-hour DV training.

About the Play

Inspired by personal events, For Colored Girls weaves poetry, song, and movement to tell the story of seven women of color, each identified solely by a color. With unflinching honesty and emotion, each woman voices her survival story using poetry, song, and movement of having to exist in a world shaped by sexism and racism. Stories and poems that speak to our world today.

Filled with passion, humor, and raw honesty, legendary playwright/poet Ntozake Shange’s form-changing choreopoem tells the stories of seven women of color using poetry, song, and movement. It speaks to our world today about women’s struggles, strength, resilience, and the sanctified magic of love and possibility.

Questions? Please contact Michele Lacy, Director of Grants and Corporate Relations, at mlacy@ywca-ens.org.