FREE Documentary Thursday: The Road Up

716 West Addison Street,Chicago IL 60613

13 January, 2022

Description

Join us for the next installment of Documentary Thursdays featuring The Road Up with guest speaker director Greg Jacobs. The Road Up follows four participants in Cara, a Chicago job-training program, as they seek to make the long journey from rock bottom to stable employment. Throughout, they are guided, goaded, and challenged by their impassioned mentor, Mr. Jesse, whose own complicated past drives him to help others find hope in the face of poverty, addiction, homelessness, and trauma. Taken together, their stories create a powerful mosaic of the struggles millions of Americans face every day in a precarious and unforgiving economy, the daunting and often interconnected challenges that prevent so many from getting—and keeping—a job. Join us for the screening followed by discussion with Director Greg Jacobs. Located at the intersection of Broadway and Addison, Third Space is a community hub where people can meet, gather, work, learn, grow and form lasting, meaningful relationships.  There’s a sociological theory that to be happy, people need three spaces that feel like theirs: home, work, and somewhere else. A third space where they can belong, where they are known and would be missed if they were gone. That third space is just what we’re building.