Name: Open Mike Eagle: Interview and Performance
Start: 2025-12-04T17:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-04T19:30:00-06:00
Location: National Public Housing Museum

Open Mike Eagle

Open Mike Eagle: Interview and Performance

TheNational Public Housing Museumis the first cultural institution in the United States dedicated to interpreting the American experience in public housing and the right of all people to a place they can call home.

National Public Housing Museum

Open Mike Eagle launches his Artist as Instigator residency at the National Public Housing Museum

Join us in for an interview and performance with Open Mike Eagle, the museum’s newest Artist as Instigator, to celebrate and launch his 2026 residency!As the National Public Housing Museum’s seventh Artist as Instigator, <a href="https://nphm.org/program/artist-as-instigator/open-mike-eagle/" title="https://nphm.org/program/artist-as-instigator/open-mike-eagle/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Open Mike Eagle</a> will leverage his residency to capture and preserve the stories of artists and musicians raised in housing communities that have been erased.Over the next year, Eagle will develop an immersive audio-visual experience, conduct one on one interviews, and present intimate performances, exploring the lives and music of artists that lived in public housing to honor and celebrate the unheralded generations of families that lived, loved, laughed and died in these spaces.FREE. Light bites and refreshments included.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpoRtYptqtw" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpoRtYptqtw" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LIVESTREAM via YouTube</a> will also be available beginning at 6 pm CT (7 pm ET / 5 pm MT / 4 pm PT). Register to receive the link.

Artist as InstigatorThis event is the launch event for Open Mike Eagle’s 2026 <a href="https://nphm.org/program/artist-as-instigator/" title="https://nphm.org/program/artist-as-instigator/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Artist as Instigator residency</a>, which leverages arts and culture to make creative public policy interventions around housing and related issues.Generous support for the 2026 Artist as Instigator residency at the National Public Housing Museum is provided by the Mellon Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council.

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