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CABINET’s mission is to be RITUAL ENGINEERS™, COMMUNITY ARCHITECTS™ and CELEBRATION CONSULTANTS™
Cabinet continues to recognize our city’s “joy deficit” and lack of opportunity for community members to participate in meaningful ritual design and events framed by HOPE. Cabinet continues to satisfy these critical cultural practices through our unique work in urban spaces — parks, streets, and corners.
They witnessed our humorous and outrageous objects, engaged in meaningful rituals, pedaled bikes to activate large art installations, and came together to celebrate community and experience transformation.
Help support us in 2025 to realize:
The remake of The Cabinet, which Frank Maugeri made two decades ago at Redmoon Theater and remained Redmoon’s most highly acclaimed and longest-running indoor production in the history of that company. Strategically, we are doing one week of the Chicago International Puppetry Festival to create the initial excitement to accomplish a self-produced four week run in October 2025.
Monthly Cardboard Coffins ritual events, which we offer individuals to host at their homes and provide their communities a chance to reflect and celebrate.
Our outdoor event this spring called THE RESILIENCE RITUAL: the SPI/RITUAL, that includes community authorship, bonfires, Cabinet’s whimsical, mystical, spiritual objects and performers, and a spectacle image. This ritual will be our first ticketed ritual — at a very reduced cost.
Our third year of our pedal-powered series, Kazoo-apalozza: Pedal Powered Panoramic Year 3—a visual story created in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, Poet Justin Pugh, the School of the Art Institute, Brandon Boler, Lawndale Neighborhood Organizations, and the Marquette Park, Lawndale, and Bridgeport communities. The event for will be free.
School of Celebration, which now graduates and employs eight students annually, and mature our Celebration Consultancy by fine-tuning our language, catalog, and partners.
The conclusion of our year will be to continue our investment in the Clayco Foundation’s Illumination, where we develop our catalog and engage new audience members.
Become an integral part of achieving that goal. Give today.
Why support Cabinet?
We remain steadfast in that we offer something no one else does: interactivity, authorship, participation, and non-religious spiritual engagement. Frank is adamant we remain debt-free and right-sized, and we have done this to date.
The activity of designing, testing, and building multiple pedal powered devices is costly and ambitious, and we need your help to continue our efforts of training the next generation of Celebration Makers, Students of Ritual, and Human-Powered, authentically immersive, and interactive events.
Cabinet is a small enterprise which pays every participant a minimum of $25 per hour for design, rehearsal, and performance hours.
We respect the emerging and professional artists and refuse free labor or stipend-based labor.
