Join us for a special screening of La Bola Negra, with poetry performances by Diego Báez, Stefania Gomez, and Natasha Mijares at Music Box Theatre.

A bold tapestry spanning nearly a century of Spanish history, La Bola Negra tells the story of three generations of men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain, and love in this celebrated film from Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. You may watch the trailer here.

Before hitting Netflix on December 2nd, La Bola Negra, winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, will open in theaters across the country for a limited run. The film will open in Chicago on 10/30, including select screenings in 35mm at the Music Box Theatre.

Diego Báez

Diego Báez is a poet, educator, and abolitionist. He is the author of Yaguareté White (Univ. Arizona), named Best New Poetry Collection by the Chicago Reader (2024). He lives in Rogers Park and co-ordinates Blue Jay Poetry Cafe, a summer reading series at Loyola Beach.

Stefania Gomez

Stefania Gomez is a 2025 Luminarts Fellow in Poetry, a 2023 Fulbright Research Award Grantee, and a finalist for the 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches high school English on Chicago’s South Side.

Natasha Mijares

Natasha Mijares is the author of violent wave (Bridge Books). She received her MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at various galleries. Her work has appeared in Latino Book Review, Gravity of the Thing, Hypertext Review, Calamity, Vinyl Poetry, and more.