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YEPP 'rises' to occasion at fall fundraiser
2023-11-20
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Members and guests of Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP) gathered Nov. 17 at Chicago Theater Works, 1113 W. Belmont Ave., for the organization's fall fundraiser, Rise Up: Our Celebration of Resistance.
The evening marked both the Transgender Day of Remembrance as well as National Youth Homelessness Awareness Month. As the organization noted in a Nov. 16 statement, "Both of these issues and the communities and individuals are impacted are interwoven throughout the framework of YEPP."
For information of YEPP, see WeSayYEPP.com .
Photos by Vernon Hester |
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