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4th Tuesday of Every Month
(Starting in June 2025) Pete's Pizza & Bakehouse (1100 W Granville, Chicago) Sign Up List at 6:45 pm Stories at 7:00pm FREE |
Do Not Submit Edgewater takes place in the comfy back room of a neighborhood pizzeria.
Arrive at 6:45 to sign up for a spot, and when your name is called, you will get 7 minutes on stage to share/tell/read anything you'd like. (Late arrivals can sign up as long as there are spots still available.) Listeners welcome.
No experience necessary to participate. All ages welcome.
No pressure, judgement, critiques, or scoring.
No restrictions on content or language except for hate speech.
Food available all evening. 2-for-1 slices on Tuesdays!
Venue is open all day.
Free and metered parking on surrounding streets.
Granville Red Line stop just a block or two away.
Questions, comments, concerns or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]
About Your Hosts
Denise McIntosh lived in a YMCA, was raised to believe that White Castles are transgressive, and got locked in a cemetery during the pandemic. She’s an extraordinary condo board president because she keeps meetings to under an hour. Denise has been writing and performing stories with GeNarrations, the Goodman Theatre’s storytelling program for people “55 and better,” since 2018. Other storytelling gigs have included This Much is True, Voicebox, Show and Tell at Writers Theatre, Is This a Thing?, Do Not Submit, Story Vroom Vroom, Six Feet Apart Productions, The Book Cellar, Charmers Cafe, Story Sessions, Tellers’ Night, the All-Skate at Jarvis Square Tavern, Story Luck at Theater Wit, and Homewood Stories. 2024 marked her fifth year of performing and her first year of producing (her show Shall We Dance?) for the Fillet of Solo storytelling festival hosted by Lifeline Theatre.
What if there existed a grand narrative, one that forges integration across the human experience, transcending the boundaries of background, tradition, and circumstance? Mina Patel's life journey has taken her on a “seeker’s” path and is driven by a lifelong quest for understanding and connection. She uses storytelling and filmmaking to explore how individuals forge community and a sense of belonging, a theme evident in her film, Between the Silence, which examines loneliness and the search for connection through the lives of two socially isolated women. A global citizen, Mina has lived, volunteered, and studied all over the world and has come to the conclusion that the universal desire to belong and tell stories is found in all cultures.