Stomping Grounds Open Stage Feat Damon A. Williams

Stomping Grounds is a free monthly open-stage event for young creatives to develop performance, curation, and exhibition skills.
Stomping Grounds is a free monthly open-stage event for young creatives to develop performance, curation, and exhibition skills while connecting to the Chicago creative community. The event is hosted by Stomping Grounds Literary arts Initiative in collaboration with Kuumba Lynx and Elephant Rebellion. Sign-up to perform is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To reserve your spot, sign up here.
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Be advised this Open Stage has no space for racist, sexiest, homophobic, or derogatory language. We say this out of love and respect for everyone who enters our Stomping Grounds Open Stage Space. Sign up below
This event will be live-streamed on twitch.tv/stompinggroundslai
This months Feature is Damon A. WIlliams
Damon A Williams is a movement builder, organizer, hip-hop performing artist, educator and media maker from the south side of Chicago. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production & Media, and the Co-Creator of AirGo, a weekly podcast in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. He is the co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, an artistic activist organization birthed out of supply trips to support the Ferguson uprising in resistance to the murder of Mike Brown. Williams and #LetUsBreathe transplanted the experiences from the front lines and continue to organize direct actions and community enrichment events throughout the streets of Chicago and in their movement building community center The #BreathingRoom Space, with the mission of utilizing cultural production and popular education to redistribute power and resources, eradicate systemic violence, and transform inequity.
In honor of his leadership, Damon has been named a TIME Magazine’s 2020 Guardian of the Year, a Field Foundation 2021 Leader for a New Chicago, a Margaret Burroughs Fellow by the UIC Social Justice Initiative’s Portal Project, and a Power of Cash Narrative Change Fellow by Economic Security of Illinois.