Coming Out Day Stories 2022

Oct 11, 2022 7:00PM—8:30PM

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Online: Zoom

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CELEBRATE NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY BY SHARING YOUR STORIES!

Today is National Coming Out Day, a day set aside to honor and celebrate LGBTQ+ coming out stories. Everyone is full of PRIDE in June, but we can’t skip over the beauty, triumph, and bravery of Coming Out Day in October! Join us for this inclusive and supportive workshop where we’ll celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and write and share personal stories. Whatever your story is, whatever your background is, whatever experience level you’re coming from, we want you! Everyone is welcome! Let’s celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, coming out, and write your story!

This online program is presented free but registration is required. To register online for this program, please click the button above. For other registration options, please call 920.868.1457.

 

Jeremy Owens  is the creator, producer and host of You’re Being Ridiculous, a long running Chicago live-lit/storytelling show most recently featured at Steppenwolf Theatre. Jeremy’s work has appeared in the storytelling shows Story Jam at Ragdale Ring, WRiTERS’ NiGHT, Essay Fiesta, Fillet of Solo Theatre Festival, The Paper Machete, and others. He has taught storytelling as a writer in residence at Write On, Door County, Story Studio Chicago, Highland Park High School’s Focus on the Arts Program, Leyden High School Writers Week, Baker Demonstration School, Northwestern Summer Writers Conference, Northeastern Illinois University, and Story Studio Chicago’s Writers Festival. Jeremy is a 2021 Morton Shapiro & Robert Barford Award Recipient from Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and teaches LGBTQ/Queer non-fiction writing and storytelling at Story Studio Chicago.