Street Level

We know things have been a lil quiet in the last couple of weeks, but we want you to know we haven’t forgotten about you. We want to let you know we will be merging all our Facebook accounts into one. Moving forward we will be posting all of our Urban Gateways Teen Arts Pass and Street Level content undeUrban Gateways. This will apply to all of our social media platforms. Please make sure you follow Urban Gateways so you don’t miss anything!

Shout out to artist and Street Level intern Jason Roman for his beautiful art work that was featured in both our digital zine and recently at Urban Gateways Bubbles & Beats Auction!

Here Jason gets signs his prints and gets them ready for pick-up.

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An amazing first day with our participants from Vaughn Occupational High School! 🙌🏽🙌🏽

We celebrated the final day of our GoOfff! screening series through partnership with and friendship w/ a great group of femmes, women and girls! 🥳

*HUGE shout out to Justus, Jason, James and Matt for supporting Behind the scenes.

📽️🎙️ Join us this Saturday @ Street Level for our (Final!) POV Film Screening, "An Act Of Worship"

Afterwards we'll record/film a conversation discussing the movie!

Stipends & lunch provided. DM to sign up!

Design by Ty’Kira

CEO of Urban Gateways Leslé Honoré joined us this weekend for the series podcast with our friends from AMDOC!

We watched the film "Unapologetic", and Bella BAHHS whose journey was covered in the doc, popped in to say hello!

📽️🎙️Are you interested in film/documentaries and podcasting?

Are you between the ages of 13-19?

Do you identify as a woman, femme, or non-binary person?

Join us this Saturday @ Street Level for a viewing of "Unapologetic" ! Afterwards we'll record/film a conversation discussing the movie!

Stipends & lunch provided. DM to sign up!

Fall is here! So are our friends from Vaughn Occupational Highschool to create some new media projects with Video Coordinator, James Duke.

Contact us about booking a residency for your school in our website. urbangateways.org.

Wishing Jason Roman a very Happy Birthday!! We're proud of you! 🥳🎉🎊✨🎈

From Chicago Park District and Teens In The Parks comes TIP Fest!

T.I.P. (Teens in the Park) Fest is the largest platform for Chicago’s young artists to showcase their talent, connect to resources, and celebrate one another's talents. Performers include singers, rappers, dancers, and poets between the ages of 14 and 24. The fest features the top 10 performers selected from auditions held this summer.

The top three winners will receive 1st place - $500, 2nd place - $250, & 3rd place - $150.

Support our city's amazingly talented young artists and enjoy a great day celebrating Chicago teens on 9/30 @ Union Park!

Happiest Birthday Reggie!!! We are so proud of youuuuuu 📸🎶🎶🤟🏾

This Summer Video Coordinator and Teaching Artist James Duke is teaching Photo-Journalism with youth from Noble Schools which includes some field trips to galleries and museums throughout Chicago.