Mission: PrideArts Mission
PrideArts curates LGBTQ stories and art forms that celebrate the queer experience and address issues affecting queer communities and allies. We also provide artists a safe environment to allow them to enhance and explore their artistic endeavors. Programming includes live performances in our theater space in Uptown and a year-round season of short film fests, feature films, and documentaries on LGBT life, culture, and history.
Artistic Excellence
Arts have the power to entertain as well as challenge beliefs and transform lives
Community
We believe in sharing ideas with people who have common interests
PrideArts is a non-profit theater company, and all donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
Please make donations here or mail checks made out to PrideArts to PrideArts, 4139 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60613.
Direct beneficiaries per year: theater audiences from 24 states and 6 countries, along with students, seniors, and special needs audiences.
Geographic areas served: Uptown/Buena Park on Chicago's north side
Programs: PrideArts, founded in 2010 as Pride Films and Plays, is now a hybrid company balancing a full season of live performances with year-round virtual films, including documentaries, features, and LGBTQ shorts. We also promote visual artists in our community, and promote understanding of history of the many queer communities.
PrideArts is a unique, wonderful, organization bringing quality LGBT+ stories to the stage. They also present a film festival. PrideArts is a dedicated resource I value. When I have recommended PrideArts events to others I always receive a thank you.
I am a long time patron and financial supporter of PrideArts because of its excellent productions of plays about the LGBTQI community in all of its diversity. PrideArts presents a range of stories about our community with talented casts and memorable performances. PrideArts also offers film shorts programs presented in theatre and online that bring high quality LGBTQI films from around the world that are not available through other venues. PrideArts fills a vital role in Chicago's LGBTQI community, bringing us together to share our common experience.
PrideArts is a quality organization/theater that sponsors, creates, produces, and funds theater, film festivals, plays, musicals, etc that enlighten, inform, and educate the LGBTQ Community and the public as well about poignant issues of the times! They are known for their high production values, quality of performances, and honest approach to theater. One of the evening events they sponsored is pictured below.
