Silk Road Rising is an award-winning Chicago non-profit theater and cultural center that creates new pathways to explore multicultural ideas through theater, online videos, youth education and community engagement.
Much like the iconic trade route for which it’s named, Silk Road Rising fuses art and storytelling with cross-cultural interactions, bringing forth fresh perspectives in an increasingly globalized world.
Silk Road Rising is so much more than a theatre company; throughout the year we feature a wide array of events with the intent to immerse patrons into the world of Asian and Middle Eastern American cultures. We invite you to celebrate these cultures through experiences that are sure to engage and entertain.
Not Quite White expands the American conversation on race by zeroing in on whiteness as a constructed social and political category, and it explores the complicated relationship of Arab and Slavic immigrants to American notions of whiteness.
