At Home in Evanston: Diverse Experiences of Our City is a film of interviews that showcase a range of perspectives on living in Evanston today. How did we come here? Why do we stay? What unites us? What divides us? This documentary film was created by Performance in Place Theatre Company partners Lesley Delmenico and Caroline Latta, with De Paul film-maker Alex Sherman and NU graduate student co-collaborator Shelby Mack. Interviewees (portrayed by local professional actors) include: a Fifth Ward resident eligible for reparations, a retirement home dweller, a second-generation Latina, an Asian graduate student, an unhoused resident, a gay pastor, and a young Syrian refugee. The project is supported by the Evanston Arts Council and Northwestern University’s Department of Performance Studies and Department of Neighborhood and Community Relations.

This film showing will be followed by an opportunity for audience members to discuss the production with its makers, including story-owners and actors, and to reflect on the meanings of living in this city in their own experience.