Pure Dope Live!
Fri, Sep 08
|Kehrein Center for the Arts
The goal of Pure Dope Live! is to offer up-and-coming hip-hop and spoken word artists a venue through which to showcase their lyrical talents. It will be a live-taped event, edited down in post-producion to a 60-90 minute documentary film for theatrical release.


WHEN & WHERE
Sep 08, 2023, 5:00 PM
Kehrein Center for the Arts , 5628 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60644, USA
ABOUT
Filmmaker Deontay Wilson, who premiered the first installment of his documentary series, "Westside Stories: Paradise Lost" in Spring of 2023 at the Kehrein Center, is returning to film a section of an upcoming installment to the series, "Pure Dope."
The goal of Pure Dope Live! is to offer up-and-coming hip-hop and spoken word artists a venue through which to showcase their lyrical talents. It will be a live-taped event, edited down in post-producion to a 60-90 minute documentary film for theatrical release.
Each artist will be given 5 minutes to present their original work in front of the live audience. The subject mater of each piece must address some aspect of America’s war on drugs: e.g., the impact of addiction on Black and Brown families/communities; the business and/or politics of drug dealing; the failure of law enforcement/criminal justice institutions to solve the problem; or recovering from substance abuse disorder. Each…