{"id":423664,"date":"2025-12-04T07:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/423664\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:56:17","slug":"robert-townsends-pop-up-film-festival-being-held-at-columbia-college-chicago-across-downtown-on-saturday-sunday-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/423664\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Townsend&#8217;s Pop-Up Film Festival being held at Columbia College Chicago across downtown on Saturday, Sunday this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, December 4, 2025 1:22AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Robert Townsend's Pop-Up Film Festival in Chicago this weekend\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Townsend&#8217;s Pop-Up Film Festival will be held at Columbia College Chicago and across downtown Chicago on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A Chicago native has been in the entertainment business for 50 years, acting, writing, directing and producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This weekend, Robert Townsend will be hosting a Pop-Up Film Festival at multiple locations in downtown Chicago, helping raise money for local charities.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Townsend joined ABC7 on Wednesday with Troy Pryor, producer and founder of Creative Cypher, to talk more about the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The full interview can be viewed in the video player above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Robert Townsend&#8217;s Pop-Up Film Festival begins at 11 a.m. Saturday and runs for two days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">More information on how to get tickets for the event can be found <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/events.eventnoire.com\/e\/robert-townsend-presents-pop-up-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, December 4, 2025 1:22AM Robert Townsend&#8217;s Pop-Up Film Festival will be held at Columbia College Chicago and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":423665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[197602,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-423664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-197602","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115660232478235599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}