Collaboraction dedicates a new performance festival to racism and racial healing in Chicago
Last fall, in the vein of its long-running, now-retired Sketchbook festival, the social-issues-focused theater group Collaboraction brought together more than 200 artists to share 24 short "prayers for peace" in Chicago as part of a new performance festival, Peacebook. This winter, the company hones in more specifically on racism and racial healing between communities within the city by curating Encounter, a series o…