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Conversations

The Future of Black Voices In Cabaret: Our April 2024 Zoom meeting discussing what is next for Black Voices In Cabaret.

Our April 2022 Round Table on Making Jazz, Arthur Briggs and Josephine Baker, French featured scholars and authors and a lively online audience. Learn more about them at cabaretconnexion.org/roundtable/

  • Black History Month Black History Videos “I’m inspired by…”
  • Black Voices in Conversation–the beginning of “Healing through Song” (video conference)
  • Chicago Black Cabaret – a history
  • The Problem With Minstrelsy
  • Round Table on Making Jazz French (video conference)

Upcoming BVIC Events

Lynn Colbert-Jones presents “Reimagining Cabaret: The Bronzeville Edition." – May 17, 2025

We play with . . .

  • Acts Of Kindness Cabaret
  • Chicago Cabaret Professionals
  • The Griffin Institute of Music
  • The Quarry: South Shore cultural center
  • Southside Jazz Coalition
  • WDCB 90.9 FM Radio

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Lynn Colbert-Jones, 630-703-9723, Director of Black Voices in Cabaret, bvic@workinginconcert.org
Claudia Hommel: 773-509-9360, Executive Director of Working In Concert, claudia@workinginconcert.org

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Working In Concert partners with…

Acts Of Kindness Cabaret
Chicago Cabaret Professionals
Choose Chicago (tourism bureau)
ChristineSteyer.com
Claudia Hommel’s Cabaret-Paree.com
Community Music Division, DePaul University School of Music
The Guild Literary Complex (Chicago poets)
The Jazz Fauré Project
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame

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