The Chicago Hip-Hop Theater Festival (CHHTF), “Sound Da Alarm,” is coming back to Clarendon Park, 4501 N. Clarendon, June 14-18. The festival is a platform for community building and provides Chicago young adults a public space to tell their story publicly through performances that explore racism, sexuality, abuse, drug addiction, mass incarceration and much more. Kuumba Lynx, an urban arts youth development organization that promote hip-hop as an artistic tool of expression, is the event presenter. The students and alumni from the program are the recipients of several prestigious arts honors, such as (but not limited to) Louder Than A Bomb Poetry Festival Champions and the Lyric Opera Community Created Performances Winners. The festival will feature eight ensembles, with a total of 21 presenters who are all Kuumba Lynx alumni, ages 18-26, who seek to share their truth with the Chicago community through artistic expression. Performances include music, movement, dance, spoken word, and poetry. The artists will address these topics through a critical lens, be it comedic or bittersweet. the suggested donation for attendance is $10 for students and $25 for adults. For more information, visit KuumbaLynx.com.