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SUMMARY:Self-Care as Resistance: Ekphrastic Poetry Reading @ Epiphany Center for the Arts
DESCRIPTION:Caring for ourselves helps us to be more present in the world. Becoming aware of those areas where we might need additional support and asking for help can be scary but\, in the end\, it is what makes us stronger. The Guild Complex presents five writers who words help tell their stories of finding strength while battling body positivity\, mental illness\, depression and grief. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: Kwabena Foli\, April Gibson\, Sam Herschel\, Faylita Hicks\, and Jennifer Karmin \n\n\n\nLocation: The Guild Room at Epiphany Center for the Arts \n\n\n\nThis special program takes place at the Epiphany Center for the Arts in the midst of a powerful art exhibition\, RESET\, and will include a special artist talk with the artist\, Dwight White. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKWABENA FOLI is a multidisciplinary artist born in Belgium but predominately raised in the South Side of Chicago. He is the author of ON GOD (Candor Arts)\, and learning rhythm (Flowered Concrete). Other publications include The Los Angles Review\, Meridian\, Crab Orchard Review\, Salt Hill Journal and elsewhere. He is also a Chicago poetry slam champion\, national poetry slam finalist\, and selected by the Guild Literary Complex as 30 individuals whose careers represent the future of the literary arts in Chicago and beyond. His visual work has over 200 million shares\, and residences include Ragdale\, Banff Centre of Arts\, Chicago HATCH\, Elastic Arts\, and Poetry Center of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL GIBSON is a poet\, writer\, and professor from the South Side of Chicago. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Rhino Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award among other honors. She teaches in the Department of English\, Literature\, and Speech at Malcolm X College. Her poetry collection The Span of a Small Forever was published by Amistad/HarperCollins in 2024.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAYLITA HICKS is a queer Afro-Latinx multidisciplinary artist\, writer\, hoodoo practitioner\, and cultural strategist advocating for people directly impacted by the carceral system. An Art for Justice Fund grantee\, voting member of the Recording Academy\, and winner of the 2020 Sappho Poetry Award from Palette Poetry\, they are the author of A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books\, 2024) and HoodWitch (Acre Books\, 2019)\, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. Currently based in Chicago\, they are working on their forthcoming memoir about their pretrial incarceration\, A Body of Wild Light (Haymarket Books\, 2026)\, their next contemporary jazz-infused spoken word album\, and a digitally immersive performance piece tentatively entitled The Echoes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJENNIFER KARMIN has published\, performed\, exhibited\, taught\, and experimented with language across the U.S.\, Cuba\, Japan\, Kenya\, and Europe.  As a founding curator of the Red Rover Series\, she has often led ensembles of poets improvising together at festivals\, artist-run spaces\, and on city streets.  Widely published in anthologies and journals\, her books include the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice and The Sexual Organs of the IRS a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer.  Since 2000 she has worked with immigrants and refugees at Truman College\, using creative writing to support literacy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSAM HERSCHEL WEIN is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee and were the recipient of a 2022 Pushcart Prize. They have published three chapbooks\, most recently Butt Stuff Flower Bush with Porkbelly Press. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Recent poems can be found in the American Poetry Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, and Shenandoah\, among others. They can be found in the cheese aisle of most stores\, in the middle of a hug\, or editing poems at your local coffee shop.
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SUMMARY:Chicago House Music: Culture + Community
DESCRIPTION:Reading and panel discussion with book author\, Marguerite L. Harrold along with Khari B\, Discopoet\, Founder of The Debauchery Ball and veteran House music DJ Michael Ikechukwu Ezebuku. \n\n\n\nIncluding a special highlights viewing from the PBS documentary\, House Music: A Cultural Revolution with Barbara Allen\, Director and Producer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarguerite L. Harrold is a Poet\, Writer\, Educator\, Community Activist and Ecologist\, originally from Chicago. She is the author of Chicago House Music\, Culture and Community. She earned an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She is an Associate Editor for Prairie Schooner\, the Educational Promotions Manager for African Poetry Book Fund at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\, where she is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing. Marguerite was nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize (Matador Review).  She was also nominated for a 2020 Illinois Arts Council grant (Chicago Review) and was a 2020 finalist for an Allied Arts Council grant. She is a member of the Community of Writers and attended the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Conference and was a 2021/2022 Hugo House Fellow. Her work has been published in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, Chicago Review\, RHINO\, Anti-Heroin Chic and other journals.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/chicago-house-music-culture-community/
LOCATION:Co-Prosperity\, 3219 S Morgan St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608
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SUMMARY:Exhibit B: The Poets Platform
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit B will be joined by artists using the Democratic Party platform as a prompt. We are proud to be part of DEMOCRAZY FEST going on from Aug 8-18th at Co-Prosperity with Lumpen Magazines!  \n\n\n\nIdeally\, community feedback would directly impact policy. In this moment where many folks feel either entirely removed from the political process or overwhelmed by it\, Exhibit B will be joined by artists using the Democratic Party platform as a prompt. We are proud to be part of DEMOCRAZY FEST going on from Aug 8-18th at Co-Prosperity! More about DEMOCRAZY FEST: The Democratic National Convention is coming back to Chicago this August 19-22\, and the Left is coming back to protest\, too! Public Media Institute is coordinating a collaborative welcome to artists and activists coming into town. We’re Lump’n it all together under the theme of “Democrazy.” We are living in the legacy of the 1968 DNC protests when activists and artists came together in our city to fight war with love but were met with police violence and state repression. Lumpen 142: Democrazy will revisit these histories while prioritizing the urgent contemporary movements that will bring people back to our streets this year.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/exhibit-b-the-poets-platform/
LOCATION:Co-Prosperity\, 3219 S Morgan St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608
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