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19th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award – final event
Chopin Theatre 1543 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United StatesThe Guild Literary Complex closes out its 19th Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award competition with its final event: an American Idol-style evening of poetry performance and audience voting. The semifinalists – named after a combination of traditional judging and a public facebook vote – will perform in a series of rounds followed by audience votes. […]
Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards
Chopin Theater 1543 W DivisionGuild Literary Complex is pleased to announce the 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Join us Tuesday July 23, 2013, 7:00 pm, at the Chopin Theater, 1542 W Division Street, for a live voting event and award ceremony. Preliminary judges, Gwendolyn A. Mitchell and Noël Jones have narrowed the submissions down to just 20 […]
22nd Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards Program
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E 60th, Chicago, IL, United StatesUpdate: Congratulations to the winner, Javon J. Smith! After the first four rounds, the finalists were chosen by the live audience—no easy task—and included Aja Zakiya Hall, Cassandra McGovern, Javon J. Smith, and Sam Herschel Wein. Javon won with his dynamic performance of the poem "Nig(g)ot." Javon J. Smith, an educator at Perspectives/IIT Math & […]
2023 | Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards
The Den Theatre 1331 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, ILCongratulations to the 2023 GBOMA winner: Myron Stokes! Come out and support the 2023 finalists for the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA) as they perform their works live! GET TICKETS NOW 2023 finalists: Fadia AntabliJóse Bono RovirosaJanet BurrowayMars CaultonMorgan EklundKat FreezeAllison JosephKhloe KammerzellChuck KramerRobert LawrenceIrene MartinezMiguel MarzanaDavid MathewsFrancesca MoroneyHilesh PatelTimothy David ReyMyron StokesKira TuckerCrystal Vance […]
GBOMA 30th Anniversary Celebration
Chicago History Museum 1601 N. Clark St., Chicago, IllinoisThe Guild Complex will celebrate thirty years of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA), with performances from past winners along with a special celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks' Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Annie Allen, at the Chicago History Museum in the Robert McCormick Auditorium. Reception at 6:00pm and 7:00pm event start. This […]