Silk Road Rising (formerly known as Silk Road Theatre Project) creates live theatre and online videos that tell stories through primarily Asian American and Middle Eastern American lenses. In representing communities that intersect and overlap, we advance a polycultural worldview.

The community is invited to attend the next meeting of the Naperville Township Democratic Organization to be held at 7:30 PM on Thursday, May 21st at the Naperville Municipal Center, lower level.

Following a short business meeting, we will hear a very special presentation by Silk Road Rising, a nonprofit theater in Chicago. At Silk Road Rising, they use arts to generate conversations to build greater cultural understanding and support for Asian and Middle Eastern Americans. We will view a 20 minute online video play – Mosque Alert – which is centered on the story of two fictional Naperville families whose lives are torn apart when a new mosque is proposed for their neighborhood. Following the viewing, Jamil Khoury, Artistic Director (and creator of the “Mosque Alert” project) at Silk Road Rising, will lead the “talkback session” during which participants will have an opportunity to weigh in on the characters’ motivations and behavior, with the goal of better understanding current debates surrounding the locating of Islamic houses of worship.  (Silk Road Rising’s Executive Director Malik Gillani will also be joining us.)

For more information, call Dianne at 630-420-8502.