Sunset 1919: A Ritual
Thursday, July 27, 2023 at dusk
Eugene Williams Memorial Marker
125 Fort Dearborn Drive, Chicago IL 60616

By establishing an annual artistic ritual featuring music, movement, and word, Lookingglass Theatre commemorates the start of the 1919 Chicago race riots, incited by the tragic murder of Eugene Williams, a Black teenager stoned to death by a white man, George Stauber, after drifting into a “whites only” section of Lake Michigan. Sunset 1919 is meant to peacefully honor the lives of Black people impacted by the deadly racial attacks that swept the nation that summer, the roots of which stretch back across centuries, and the fruits of which we continue to pluck – a moment in an unbroken line.     

Learn more about our yearly ritual here. 

Watch the short film produced by Lookingglass Theatre Company here.