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SUMMARY:¡Slam Diáspora: GRAND SLAM!
DESCRIPTION:The first and only Spanish language slam in Chicago returns in-person!\n\n\nPrimera llamada to this year’s GRAND SLAM! Winners go on to Abya Yala Poetry Slam and Circuito Nacional Poetry Slam México – así que échenle todo el power a sus versos que con la poesía se viaja. All participants have a chance to compete at the international level at the final slam hosted by a Latinx country. Hosted and curated by Crystal Vance Guerra and Luis Tubens “Logan Lu.” \nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. SIGN UP HERE. \nRequirements:\nSlam– 2 poems in Spanish/Spanglish\nOpen Mic– Any genre of performance art in any language! \nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers.\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. Participants and winners from last year can participate again! \n——————————————– \n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ. \nRequisitos:\nSlam– Dos poemas (en español/spanglish)\nOpen Mic– Música/Poesía/Cuento etc\, en cualquier idioma \nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva.\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une\npoetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. ¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo! \nJUEZ DE HONOR: ÉRIKA ORDOSGOITTI\n \nÉrika Ordosgoitti (Caracas\, 1980) lives in Chicago\, Illinois. A performance\, audiovisual\, and poetry artist\, Ordosgoitti holds a degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in New Media from the Instituto Universitario de Artes Armando Reverón in Caracas. For the last 25 years\, her research has focused on studying the concept of freedom in relation to art. \nOrdosgoitti is known for her site-specific interventions in public space\, which she calls «photo-assaults» («fotoasalto»). These are performative declarations of freedom intended to bear witness to her fleeting existence and inspire new acts of disobedience. Risk is a significant element in her artistic practice. \nHer work explores the mechanisms of power that operate on behavior\, using her own body as the fundamental signifier and a space of contention\, recognizing it as power’s primary target and\, therefore\, the sole vehicle for freedom.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-en-vivo-2026-4/
LOCATION:Taqueria El Mezquite\, 1756 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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SUMMARY:La Bola Negra: Poetry Pop-up
DESCRIPTION:An exclusive screening of the film La Bola Negra & pre-show poetry performances by the Guild Literary Complex’s Palabra Pura community\n\n\nJoin us for a special screening of La Bola Negra\, with poetry performances by Diego Báez\, Stefania Gomez\, and Natasha Mijares at Music Box Theatre. \n6:30pm poetry | 7:30pm film \nBUY YOUR TICKETS HERE or at the door. \nA 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. \nBefore 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. \nDiego Báez\n \nDiego 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. \nStefania Gomez\n \nStefania 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. \nNatasha Mijares\n \nNatasha 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.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/la-bola-negra-poetry-pop-up/
LOCATION:Music Box Theatre\, 3733 North Southport Avenue\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura,Partner Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261014T210000
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SUMMARY:¡Slam Diáspora en Vivo!
DESCRIPTION:The first and only Spanish language slam in Chicago returns in-person!\n\n\nThe first and only Spanish language slam in Chicago returns in-person! All participants have a chance to compete at the international level at the final slam hosted by a Latinx country (TBD). Hosted and curated by Yesenia Roman and Luis Tubens “Logan Lu.” \nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. SIGN UP HERE. \nRequirements:\nSlam– 2 poems in Spanish/Spanglish\nOpen Mic– Any genre of performance art in any language! \nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers.\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. Participants and winners from last year can participate again! \n——————————————– \n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ. \nRequisitos:\nSlam– Dos poemas (en español/spanglish)\nOpen Mic– Música/Poesía/Cuento etc\, en cualquier idioma \nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva.\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une\npoetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. ¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo! \nJUEZ DE HONOR\n\n \n\n\n\n\nYazud E. Brito-Milian (they/them) is a Chicane poet\, impatient collagist\, abolitionist\, and eldest sister. Born in Winston-Salem\, NC\, and based in Chicago\, IL\, they are working on their first chapbook\, crossfade\, dedicated to their dad’s black and yellow KORG M50 and the musicians who raised them. Yazud has received fellowships from The Watering Hole\, Periplus\, and CantoMundo. Their work appears in Muzzle Magazine\, Voicemail Poems\, The Poetry Project\, and Huizache Magazine. They are one of the founding members of Tanda Poetry Collective\, a BIPOC-led poetry book club and workshop space for BIPOC poets. They also co-host a new reading series and open mic on the South Side called Canto-Kòjo. In Spanish\, canto means “to sing\,” and in Yoruba\, kòjo means “together.” Yazud hopes to continue using poetry as a tool for gathering—to ensure our communities remain alive and celebrated.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-en-vivo-2026-3/
LOCATION:Taqueria El Mezquite\, 1756 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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SUMMARY:Guild Literary Complex @ Printers Row Lit Fest
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Printers Row Lit Fest from September 12-13! The Guild Literary Complex is excited to host our annual Authors Table (TBA) where anyone at the fest has the opportunity to chat with prolific and flourishing authors and pick up a signed copy of one of their books. \nWe will also host a Musicality of Poetry event at PRLF featuring author Nikki Patin who will sign books afterwards. \nMore details to come.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/guild-literary-complex-prlf-2026/
LOCATION:Printers Row\, Between Dearborn and Polk \, Chicago
CATEGORIES:Musicality of Poetry,Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260909T210000
DTSTAMP:20260831T203329Z
CREATED:20260811T001524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260831T203329Z
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SUMMARY:¡Slam Diáspora en Vivo!
DESCRIPTION:The first and only Spanish language slam in Chicago returns in-person!\n\n\nThe first and only Spanish language slam in Chicago returns in-person! All participants have a chance to compete at the international level at the final slam hosted by a Latinx country (TBD). Hosted and curated by Crystal Vance Guerra and Luis Tubens “Logan Lu.” \nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. SIGN UP HERE. \nRequirements:\nSlam– 2 poems in Spanish/Spanglish\nOpen Mic– Any genre of performance art in any language! \nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers.\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. Participants and winners from last year can participate again! \n——————————————– \n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ. \nRequisitos:\nSlam– Dos poemas (en español/spanglish)\nOpen Mic– Música/Poesía/Cuento etc\, en cualquier idioma \nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva.\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une\npoetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. ¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo! \nJUEZ DE HONOR: MIGUEL MENDEZ\n\nNació en El Paso\, Texas y creció en Ciudad Juárez\, Mexico. Más tarde\, su familia se mudo a Chicago. Asistió a Northeastern Illinois University y obtuvo una licenciatura en Español con enfoque en Literatura Latinoamericana y una especialización en Estudios Latinoamericanos. Terminó su maestría en Letras Hispánicas en la Universidad de Loyola de Chicago y su interés de investigación se centra en la escritura creativa de inmigrantes mexicanos en Chicago. Es un poeta y escritor activo y ha participado en varios eventos de poesía en la ciudad. Algunos de sus textos se encuentran en las revistas literarias de Chicago Contratiempo y El Beisman.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-en-vivo-2025-2/
LOCATION:Taqueria El Mezquite\, 1756 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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SUMMARY:¡Slam Diáspora en Vivo!
DESCRIPTION:The first and only Spanish language slam in Chicago returns in-person! All participants have a chance to compete at the international level at the final slam hosted by a Latinx country (TBD). Hosted and curated by Crystal Vance Guerra and Luis Tubens “Logan Lu.” \nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. SIGN UP HERE. \nRequirements:\nSlam– 2 poems in Spanish/Spanglish\nOpen Mic– Any genre of performance art in any language! \nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers.\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. Participants and winners from last year can participate again! \n\n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ. \nRequisitos:\nSlam– Dos poemas (en español/spanglish)\nOpen Mic– Música/Poesía/Cuento etc\, en cualquier idioma \nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva.\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une\npoetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. ¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo! \n\nJUEZ DE HONOR: YOLANDA NIEVES\nYolanda Nieves\, born and raised in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood\, identifies as a second-generation Puerto Rican and is an activist scholar\, poet\, playwright\, director\, and educator. She is the author of two poetry books with Plain View Press: Dove Over Clouds (2007) and The Spoken Body (2010). Nieves’s research and poetry feature Latine women’s narratives about their history in Humboldt Park. Her activist projects have included teacher training in Costa Rica\, Guatemala\, and Puerto Rico\, and the Hopi Nation’s Gathering of Men and Women in Arizona. \nNieves’s research and poems have been published in the Journal of Latina Critical Feminism\, Edges and Borders journal\, and Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry and with After Hours Press. Nieves received the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for Arts-Based Research in 2010 and the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women’s Woman of the Year Award in 2012. In 2014 she was awarded Northeastern Illinois University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award\, and in 2016 she received the Kirchmeier Teaching Award from the North Central Council of Latin Americanists. \nNieves earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from Loyola University Chicago\, a master’s from Northeastern Illinois University\, and a doctorate in adult education from National Louis University. She teaches at the City Colleges of Chicago. Nieves writes that she fully embraces Mindy Nettifee’s\, author of Glitter in the Blood\, idea: “be intentional about your meaning even when you don’t exactly know what you mean.”
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-2026-1/
LOCATION:Taqueria El Mezquite\, 1756 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260618T200000
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SUMMARY:Fuller Award: Ed Roberson
DESCRIPTION:Poet Ed Roberson will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for his lifetime achievements as a writer. He will be the 19th Chicago author given the CLHOF’s highest honor\, at a ceremony at and in partnership with the Poetry Foundation. Speakers\, including CM Burroughs\, Peter O’Leary\, Saretta Morgan\, julie patton\, Lena Roberson\, and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young\, will give context to Roberson’s significant contributions here and around the country. The ceremony takes place on Thursday\, June 18\, beginning at 6 p.m. In addition to the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and Poetry Foundation\, partners for the ceremony include the American Writers Museum\, Chicago Poetry Center\, Columbia College Chicago\, Guild Literary Complex\, Northwestern University\, and University of Chicago. \nA native of Pittsburgh\, Roberson has spent more than two decades in Chicago\, teaching at Northwestern University\, Columbia College\, and the University of Chicago. Since 1970\, when he published his debut collection\, When Thy King is a Boy\, Roberson has been among America’s most innovative\, important\, and decorated poets. His 13 poetry collections resonate with influences spiritual\, musical\, and visual. In the title poem of his 2022 collection\, asked what has changed\, the narrator stares out of his Chicago apartment window as a start to a muse on the natural world and our relationship to it. Roberson’s poems sometimes criticize as well as question\, and in his work he’s been a force for societal change. An examination of race\, including in his use of language\, permeates much of his work. Among his many awards\, Roberson has won the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award (2008); the Penn/Voelcker Prize for Poetry (2016); the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poety Prize (2016); an Academy of American Poets Fellowship (2017); and Poets & Writers’s Jackson Poetry Prize (2020). \nHere is the event page and registration page (for both in-person or livestream attendance). The event\, as always\, is free and open to the public.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/fuller-award-2026/
LOCATION:The Poetry Foundation\, 61 W Superior St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,Partner Event
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SUMMARY:¡Slam Diáspora en Vivo!
DESCRIPTION:Last chance!\nJoin us for the final Slam Diáspora of 2025 – the first and only Spanish language slam in Chicago. Participants have a chance to win a trip to a Latin American country (TBD) to compete in the international slam. Hosted and curated by Crystal Vance Guerra and Luis Tubens “Logan Lu.” \nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. \nRequirements:\nSlam– 2 poems in Spanish/Spanglish\nOpen Mic– Any genre of performance art in any language! \nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers.\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. Participants and winners from last year can participate again! \n\n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. \nRequisitos:\nSlam– Dos poemas (en español/spanglish)\nOpen Mic– Música/Poesía/Cuento etc\, en cualquier idioma \nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva.\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une\npoetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. ¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-2025-4/
LOCATION:Taqueria El Mezquite\, 1756 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T210000
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SUMMARY:¡Slam Diáspora en Vivo!
DESCRIPTION:The first and only Spanish language slam in Chicago returns in-person! Participants have a chance to win a trip to a Latin American country (TBD) to compete in the international slam. Hosted and curated by Crystal Vance Guerra and Luis Tubens “Logan Lu.” \nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. \nRequirements:\nSlam– 2 poems in Spanish/Spanglish\nOpen Mic– Any genre of performance art in any language! \nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers.\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. Participants and winners from last year can participate again! \n\n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. \nRequisitos:\nSlam– Dos poemas (en español/spanglish)\nOpen Mic– Música/Poesía/Cuento etc\, en cualquier idioma \nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva.\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une\npoetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. ¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-2025-3/
LOCATION:Taqueria El Mezquite\, 1756 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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SUMMARY:Culture is Our Weapon: The Power of the Word - Amiri Baraka
DESCRIPTION:HotHouse has developed a rich series of programming that shines a spotlight on artists that took great risk to speak out against the prevailing and dominant STATE forces – often constituted in dictatorships brutally repressing political (and artistic) opposition or otherwise antagonistic to human rights. \nPartnering with the HotHouse\, The Guild Complex has curated two events related to this theme. Aligning historical voices with local contemporary multi-disciplinary writers\, these special programs will re-assert the mutual commitment to present and affirm “we will not go back” and we will not accept the re- writing of our experiences through the lens of neo-colonial impositions. Culture is our Weapon! \nOn Sunday\, Oct 19th\, the Guild Complex will present a screening of the documentary\, The Power of the Word featuring author/activist Amiri Baraka. This will be immediately followed by a brief discussion and reading with Billy Tuggle\, Antonio Foli and Kao Ra Zen. \n  \n\nAntonio Foli (formerly kwabena foli) is a multidisciplinary artist\, writer\, filmmaker\, and scholar born in Belgium and raised on the South Side of Chicago. His work spans poetry\, digital collage\, cinema\, and academic research\, all rooted in a deep exploration of Black interiority\, masculinity\, mental health\, and ancestral memory. He is the author of three major poetry collections: learning rhythm (Flowered Concrete)\, a lyrical biomyth rooted in journaling and healing pedagogy; ON GOD (Candor Arts)\, a visceral portrait of urban spirituality and street language; and THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SAY OUR NAME\, a self-published collection confronting grief\, race\, and bipolar disorder type-II through a distinctly Black lens. His poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review\, Meridian\, Crab Orchard Review\, Salt Hill\, Cream City Review\, and others. He has performed nationally as a Chicago Poetry Slam Champion and appeared at venues and platforms such as the All Def Poetry and the Green Mill. Foli’s visual/digital work blends photography\, design\, and collage into ritualized archives—most notably in series like god gives rest/not sleep\, blk excellence\, and juke. His triptychs and digital altars have been exhibited at Seerveld Gallery\, Elastic Arts\, Chicago Artist Coalition and have been shared over 400 million times online. His aesthetic centers lo-fi techniques\, ancestral rhythm\, and spiritual narrative—honoring Black grief\, celebration\, and stillness as sacred acts. \nHis cinematic debut\, Rise of the Tiger\, is a psychological martial arts horror film set in 1969 Harlem. Told in stark black and white\, it explores trauma\, hallucination\, and obsession through the descent of a prodigious fighter. The film expands on his written work’s themes—dissecting legacy\, delusion\, and the metaphysical cost of becoming a legend. Foli holds a B.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Communication Studies from Southern Illinois University. He’s also held residencies at Ragdale\, Banff Centre for Arts\, and the Poetry Center of Chicago. His academic interests include Black media theory\, trauma representation\, spiritual poetics\, and performance as pedagogy. He has served as a teaching artist\, workshop facilitator\, and cultural worker in both academic and community spaces\, weaving scholarship with creativity and ritual. \nAcross form and field\, Antonio Foli creates work that is devotional\, interrogative\, and deeply human. \n\nBilly Tuggle is a parent\, husband\, educator\, mentor\, and proud South Side Chicagoan. A literary games\ncompetitor\, recognized by Odyssey On-line as one of the “Top 30 Slam Poets over 30. His work has\nbeen displayed at the Chicago HipHop Heritage Museum\, often centering on urban culture\, social\njustice\, and Afrofuturism. Among two volumes\, several chapbooks\, and numerous anthology & journal\nplacements\, Billy’s latest collection- A Tree (Falls In) The Hood- is available from Swimming With\nElephants Press. It earned him a “Best New Collection” nod in the Chicago Reader 2024 poll; and a\nPushcart Prize nomination. \n\nKao Ra Zen is a Chicago-based rapper\, spoken word poet\, multimedia performance artist\, video\ndirector\, recording engineer\, curator\, photographer\, and educator. Kao has performed and/or curated at\nvenues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Symphony Center\, DANK-Haus\, Elastic Arts\,\nConstellation\, Alhambra Palace\, Oliva Gallery\, and Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago; in addition to\nperformances and screenings in New York; Berlin\, Germany; and turku\, Finland. Kao earned his Associate in Fine Arts degree from Harold Washington College and then earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Much of Kao’s written\, musical\, and performance work addresses\nhistorical and contemporary societal concerns\, existential matters\, and promotes self expression\,\nfostering community\, and challenging oppressive systems and intolerant perspectives.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/culture-is-our-weapon-2/
LOCATION:Front Porch Arts Center\, 5851 W Madison St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60644\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event
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SUMMARY:Culture is Our Weapon: Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez\, Good Women and Baddd
DESCRIPTION:HotHouse has developed a rich series of programming that shines a spotlight on artists that took great risk to speak out against the prevailing and dominant State forces – often constituted in dictatorships brutally repressing political (and artistic) opposition\, or otherwise antagonistic to human rights. \nPartnering with the HotHouse\, The Guild Complex has curated two events related to this theme. Aligning historical voices with local contemporary multi-disciplinary writers\, these special programs will re-assert the mutual commitment to present and affirm “we will not go back\,” and we will not accept the re- writing of our experiences through the lens of neo-colonial impositions. Culture is our Weapon! \nOn Sat Oct 18th\, the Guild Complex will present a screening of the film from the Lannan Foundation:\nWriters Uncensored-Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez\, Good Women and Baddd. This will be\nimmediately followed by a brief discussion led by author Dr. Tara Betts\, from the DePaul University\nDepartment of Peace Studies\, along with a reading featuring Keli Stewart\, poet/writer\, and Angelique\nZobitz. \n \nDr. Tara Betts\, Ph.D. is the author of Refuse to Disappear\, Break the Habit\, and Arc & Hue. She also coedited The Beiging of America and edited a critical edition of Philippa Duke Schuyler’s Adventures in Black and White\, and Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex. In addition to her work as a teaching artist and mentor for young poets\, she has taught at several universities and at Stateville Prison via the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project. She is the Inaugural Poet for the People Practitioner Fellow at University of Chicago. Betts currently serves as Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review. \n \nKeli Stewart (she/her) is an author\, educator\, and arts activist whose writing has been published in Rhino\, Meridians\, and WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas\, among others. Her published works include the full-length collection Small Altars (Bronzeville Books\, 2021). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Award\, and an Augusta Savage Gallery Arts International Residency. Stewart was a 2021-2022 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Nichols Tower Artist-in Residence. An alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and Callaloo summer writing workshops\, her writing won first place for a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award from the Illinois Center for the Book. She earned a BA in fiction writing from Columbia College in 2002 and an MFA in poetry from Chicago State University. She is proud to be the founder and executive director of Front Porch Arts Center and founder of WestSide Arts House\, for which she opens her historic Victorian home to her community on Chicago’s West Side. \n\nAngelique Zobitz (she/her) writes from the lineage of Black womxn\, resilience\, and lyrical reclamation. Her debut full-length collection\, Seraphim (CavanKerry Press\, 2024)\, explores joy as communal resistance and was a finalist for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize and a semifinalist for the 2022 Philip Levine Prize. She’s also a chapbook author: Burn Down Your House (Milk & Cake Press\, 2021)\, a white- out erasure of Madeleine L’Engle’s marriage\, and Love Letters to The Revolution (American Poetry Journal\, 2020). Her work has earned finalist spots for the 2022 St. Lawrence\, Tupelo\, and Georgia Poetry Prizes\, plus nods from Best of the Net\, Best New Poets\, and Pushcart Prize. Her poems appear in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, The Journal\, Sugar House Review\, About Place\, and many others. She holds a B.A. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has served as Poetry Editor at The Night Heron Barks and Ran Off with the Star Bassoon and Contributing Editor at Cave Wall. She writes to honor maternal legacies and to reimagine survival beyond colonial narratives. Find her at angeliquezobitz.com and @angeliquezobitz.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/culture-is-our-weapon/
LOCATION:Front Porch Arts Center\, 5851 W Madison St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60644\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event
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SUMMARY:¡Slam Diáspora en Vivo!
DESCRIPTION:Schedule\n\n6:30– Doors open/Sign Up7:00– Slam Starts8:30– Open Mic9:00– ¡ADIOS! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. \n\n\n\nRequirements:Slam– 2 poems in Spanish/SpanglishOpen Mic– Any genre of performance art in any language! \n\n\n\nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \n\n\n\nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers. \n\n\n\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. \n\n\n\nParticipants and winners from last year can participate again! \n\n\n\n\n\n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. \n\n\n\nRequisitos:Slam– Dos poemas (en español/spanglish)Open Mic– Música/Poesía/Cuento etc\, en cualquier idioma \n\n\n\nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \n\n\n\nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva. \n\n\n\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une poetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. \n\n\n\n¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-2025-2/
LOCATION:Taqueria El Mezquite\, 1756 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250910T210000
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SUMMARY:¡Slam Diáspora en Vivo!
DESCRIPTION:Schedule\n6:30– Doors open/Sign Up7:00– Slam Starts8:30– Open Mic9:00– ¡ADIOS! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. \n\n\n\nRequirements:Slam– 2 poems in Spanish/SpanglishOpen Mic– Any genre of performance art in any language! \n\n\n\nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \n\n\n\nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers. \n\n\n\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. \n\n\n\nParticipants and winners from last year can participate again! \n\n\n\n\n\n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. \n\n\n\nRequisitos:Slam– Dos poemas (en español/spanglish)Open Mic– Música/Poesía/Cuento etc\, en cualquier idioma \n\n\n\nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \n\n\n\nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva. \n\n\n\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une poetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. \n\n\n\n¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-2025/
LOCATION:PACH 21\, 2141 W 21st St\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250606T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250606T210000
DTSTAMP:20250521T165808Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T165808Z
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SUMMARY:SAY THEIR NAMES Community Salon w/ NON:op
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on June 6 at Experimental Station in Woodlawn as we remember Black Americans killed by police violence and honor the memory of Ronald Browne\, lead researcher and one of the originators of the SAY THEIR NAMES project. Join us for food and drinks\, a demonstration of the new and database\, live art-making\, and the presentation of the STN commissioned artists who will talk about how their new works will engage with the map. \n\n\n\nJune 6\, 6pm • Experimental Station6100 S Blackstone Ave\, Chicago\, IL 60637 \n\n\n\nExperimental Station is wheelchair accessible.For other accessibility requests contact non [at] nonopera [dot] org
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/say-their-names-community-salon-w-nonop/
LOCATION:Experimental Station\, 6100 S. Blackstone\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T210000
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SUMMARY:¡SLAM EN VIVO!
DESCRIPTION:A la mitad de nuestra serie ¡SLAM EN VIVO! \n\n\n\nTodxs tenemos poemas\, todxs tenemos algo que decir\, compartalo en este espacio de juego\, apego\, y fuego 🔥 \n\n\n\nNo importa que nunca hayas compartido tus versos\, solo necesitas dos poemas para participar (all styles welcome!) \n\n\n\nComo siempre\, tenemos un Juez de Honor increible: Carlos Cumpian 💥 \n\n\n\nCarlos Cumpián is a chicano poet\, editor & teacher. His poetry & community work been recognized by the Illinois Library Assoc. & he has received the Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poet award. \n\n\n\n¡Nos vemos el 13 de Noviembre! \n\n\n\n7pm-8pm: Slam en Español8pm-9pm: All languages open mic!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-en-vivo/
LOCATION:18th Street Casa de Cultura\, 2057 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241026T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241102T210000
DTSTAMP:20241025T214345Z
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SUMMARY:Lit & Luz Literary Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:VIEW SCHEDULE\n\n\n\n\nThe 2024 Chicago Lit & Luz Festival\, Saturation/ Saturación\, returns with a fantastic roster of writers and artists from the US and Mexico. The weeklong series of free events begins October 26th and concludes with the Live Magazine Show at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on November 2nd. \n\n\n\nInspired by the media landscape of both presidential elections taking place in the countries this year\, the theme of the festival is “Saturation/Saturación.” Participants will consider concepts such as intensity\, combination\, absorption\, maximums and limitations as they respond to the urgent political\, social\, and environmental issues confronting both countries. \n\n\n\nInspirado en el panorama mediático de ambas elecciones presidenciales ocurridas este año en los países involucrados\, el tema del festival es “Saturation/Saturación.” Lxs participantes considerarán conceptos como la intensidad\, combinación\, absorción\, máximos y limitaciones mientras responden a los urgentes problemas políticos\, sociales y ambientales que enfrentan ambos países. \n\n\n\nCatch programs you missed on our website or head over to our YouTube channel (and subscribe!). \n\n\n\nThe Lit & Luz Festival is a one-of-a-kind series of events featuring renowned authors\, visual artists\, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico in cultural exchange and conversation. This series of readings\, conversations\, artist talks\, and performances\, including signature event\, the Live Magazine Show\, highlights new translations and artistic collaborations—showcasing some of the most innovative contemporary artists from both countries. The festival takes place in Chicago in the fall\, followed by the Lit & Luz Festival Mexico City in the winter. Click here to learn more. \n\n\n\nEl Lit & Luz Festival es una especial serie de eventos con reconocidos escritores\, artistas visuales y músicos de Chicago y México\, en intercambio y conversación cultural. Esta serie de lectutras\, conversaciones\, charlas de artista y performances\, incluyen el evento representativo\, el Live Magazine Show\, destaca nuevas traducciones y colaboraciones artísticas\, mostrando algunos de los artistas contemporáneos más inovadores de ambos países. El festival se lleva a cabo en Chicago durante el otoño\, seguido del Lit & Luz Festival CDMX en el invierno. Da click aquí para saber más. \n\n\n\n¡Síguenos en nuestras redes sociales o suscríbete a nuestro newsletter para conocer las últimas actualizaciones y más!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/lit-luz-literary-festival-2024/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Lit + Luz,Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241009T210000
DTSTAMP:20240924T185729Z
CREATED:20240924T185726Z
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SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora (LIVE)
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic + Featuring Eduardo Arocho \n\n\n\nMore details to come
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-live/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, 60622\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura,Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240924T220000
DTSTAMP:20240903T160347Z
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SUMMARY:CLHoF Fuller Award: Alex Kotlowitz
DESCRIPTION:Registration is now open. On September 24\, Alex Kotlowitz will become the 17th recipient of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for his lifetime achievements. The ceremony will be free and open to the public\, with a reception to follow. Ben Austen will lead a speaking lineup that includes Stuart Dybek\, Julie Justicz\, Meribah Knight\, and Mary Rowland. The Chopin Theatre ceremony will highlight Kotlowitz’s lasting importance as one of our greatest storytellers. At the end of the program\, Dawn Turner will lead a conversation with Alex. The ceremony\, starting at 7 p.m.\, and the following reception are free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Registration is required. Along with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and Chopin Theatre\, co-presenters for the evening include American Writers Museum\, Bookends & Beginnings\, David Black Agency\, Frame Warehouse\, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism\, Ragdale Foundation\, and Write On\, Door County. \n\n\n\nAs a Manhattan native\, Alex Kotlowitz’s career in journalism sent him around the country. He took a reporting position for The Wall Street Journal\, which sent him to Chicago\, and it wasn’t long before Kotlowitz fell in love with the city. For forty years\, Kotlowitz has been telling deeply intimatetales of struggle and perseverance. He is the author of four books\, including his most recent\, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago (2019)\, which received the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. His other books include the Chicago-based Never a City So Real (2004) and the national bestseller There Are No Children Here (1991)\, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. It was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year along with his second book\, The Other Side of the River (1998) which also received The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Nonfiction.  \n\n\n\nA former staff writer at The Wall Street Journal\, Kotlowitz’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, and This American Life. His stories have been featured in Granta\, Rolling Stone\, The Chicago Tribune\, Slate\, and The Washington Post\, as well as on PBS and NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition. His play\, An Unobstructed View\, written with Amy Drozdowska\, premiered in Chicago in June 2005. \n\n\n\nKotlowitz has also produced a significant body of film and radio work. His documentary\, The Interrupters (2011)\, a collaboration with Steve James\, was cited as one of the best films of the year by The New Yorker\, The Chicago Tribune\, Entertainment Weekly\, and The LA Times. He received an Emmy\, a Cinema Eye Award\, and an Independent Spirit Award for the film.  \n\n\n\nKotlowitz has been honored in all three mediums\, including two Peabodys\, two Columbia duPonts\, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award\, and the George Polk Award. He’s the recipient of eight honorary degrees\, the John LaFarge Memorial Award for Interracial Justice given by New York’s Catholic Interracial Council\, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters\, one of Chicago Magazine’s 2019 Chicagoans of the Year\, and the 2019 Harold Washington Literary Award.  \n\n\n\nAlex is currently a professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism\, where he’s been teaching since 1999. He’s been a writer-in-residence at the University of Chicago\, a visiting professor for seven years at the University of Notre Dame\, a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College\, and a Distinguished Visitor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  \n\n\n\nRegistration for the Fuller Award ceremony will open soon.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/clhof-fuller-award-alex-kotlowitz/
LOCATION:Chopin Theatre\, 1543 West Division Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60642\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240911T210000
DTSTAMP:20240918T160612Z
CREATED:20240903T155533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T160612Z
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SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora En Vivo
DESCRIPTION:6:30– Doors open/Sign Up7:00– Slam Starts8:30– Open Mic9:00– ¡ADIOS! \n\n\n\n¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades!Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar.Sólo necesitas dos poemas (en español/spanglish) para el Slam o un poema/canción/relato etc en cualquier idioma para el Open Mic.Se puede registrar en línea o el mismo día en persona: https://bit.ly/vivoslamCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya.Recuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva.Slam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une poetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras.¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo!Gracias a Guild Literary Comple por apoyar este proyecto *******Open to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. All you need to Slam are 2 poems– for the open mic you can bring anything in any language at all to share.You can register online or on the same day\, in person:https://bit.ly/vivoslamRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers.We believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow.Slam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders.Participants and winners from last year can participate again!Thank you to the Guild Literary Complex 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-en-vivo/
LOCATION:18th Street Casa de Cultura\, 2057 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240711T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240711T200000
DTSTAMP:20240628T220935Z
CREATED:20240628T220933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240628T220935Z
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SUMMARY:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Fuller Award: Patricia Smith
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame\, American Writers Museum\, and Guild Literary Complex\, the ceremony will present Chicago poet Patricia Smith with the Fuller Award for her lifetime contributions to literature. Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young will lead a lineup of presenters that includes Nora Brooks Blakely\, Reginald Gibbons\, Poetry Out Loud National Champion Niveah Glover\, Adrian Matejka\,  Marc Smith\, and Jamila Woods. Lynne Thompson will moderate a conversation with Ms. Smith at the end of the program.   \n\n\n\nPatricia Smith was born in Chicago and raised on the city’s West Side. She attended Southern Illinois University\, Northwestern University\, and the University of Southern Maine. She has had a distinguished literary career as a poet\, spoken-word performer\, author\, and teacher. Individual awards include four National  Poetry Slam championships\, the 2023 Aiken Taylor Award\, and the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation. Smith is a 2022 inductee to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\,  Guggenheim fellow\,  Civitellian\,  National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient\,  finalist for the Neustadt Prize\,  two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, and a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.   \n\n\n\nThe Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s (CLHOF) Fuller Award was inspired by Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929)\, author\, editor\, poet\, critic\, and composer\, one of Chicago’s earliest novelists\, and the author of The Cliff-Dwellers (1893) and With the Procession (1891). It is awarded annually to a writer with strong Chicago roots who has made a significant lifetime contribution to literature. CLHOF’s’s mission is “To honor and preserve Chicago’s great literary heritage—past\, present\, and future.”CLHOF is a not-for-profit organization.  \n\n\n\n*** \n\n\n\nIn-Person Attendance:Masks are strongly encouraged and available at check-in for those who would like to wear one. The Foundation reserves the right to update this policy if community levels of COVID-19 increase significantly. Read our full COVID-19 Health & Safety Guidelines. Guests are encouraged to register in advance. \n\n\n\nLivestream Attendance:The livestream link will be shared with registered guests on the day of the event. In order to receive the livestream details\, please register in advance.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/chicago-literary-hall-of-fame-fuller-award-patricia-smith/
LOCATION:The Poetry Foundation\, 61 W Superior St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240530T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240530T213000
DTSTAMP:20240514T142323Z
CREATED:20240513T212613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T142323Z
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SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora Encuentro Nacional 2024: Mayo/Primera Ronda
DESCRIPTION:COMENZAMOS! Ciclo oficial de Slam Diaspora— 30 de Mayo\, 8pm hora chicago ✨🔥✨ \n\n\n\nRegistracion abierta a cualquier poeta de reside en territorio EEUU! http://bit.ly.com/mayoslam24  \n\n\n\nSlam Diaspora es un colectivo que busca unir a poetas de la diáspora latinoamericana con poetas en latinoamérica usando el slam como nuestro punto de encuentro. que viva la poesía viva!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-encuentro-nacional-2024-mayo-primera-ronda/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240504T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240504T230000
DTSTAMP:20240426T021910Z
CREATED:20240426T021833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T021910Z
UID:11314-1714856400-1714863600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora @ Feria del Libro
DESCRIPTION:¡EN PERSONA! @ The Pub\, Ida Noyes Hall (1212 E. 59th Street) \n\n\n\n9pm Puertas AbrenComienza 9:30pm \n\n\n\nMCs: Crystal Vance y Luis Tubens \n\n\n\nRequisitos:Preparar 2 poemas de 3 minutos cada unoPoemas deben ser 75% en Español \n\n\n\nMás información sobre Feria del Libro
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-feria/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall | University of Chicago\, 1212 E. 59th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240504T230000
DTSTAMP:20240426T020840Z
CREATED:20240426T020748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T020840Z
UID:11316-1714672800-1714863600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Feria del Libro
DESCRIPTION:El español está vivito y coleando en Estados Unidos; incluso\, el país ha escalado a la cuarta posición con mayor número de hispanohablantes en el mundo. Se habla ampliamente en el ámbito público y privado\, y no solamente por la comunidad latina. Con más de 42 millones de hablantes\, el español es el segundo idioma más hablado en Estados Unidos. Se escucha en los pasillos de las instituciones de educación superior\, mientras los poetas lo respiran\, y tanto los troqueros como las babysitters y los ruferos sueñan en español. Para muchos\, el español es una mina de oro. Aproximadamente 66.5 millones de latinos tienen un poder adquisitivo de aproximadamente de 2.5 mil billones de dólares en 2023\, pero más allá de las cifras gargantuescas\, los invitamos a reflexionar sobre el español y la literatura propia de Estados Unidos que está emergiendo de costa a costa. La Feria de Libro de Chicago se realizará del 2 al 4 de mayo de 2024 en el campus de la Universidad de Chicago en colaboración entre El BeiSmAn y la organización Hispanic and Luzo-Brazilian Student Committee.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/feria-del-librio-2024/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240416T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240416T200000
DTSTAMP:20240509T215445Z
CREATED:20240313T020133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T215445Z
UID:11114-1713288600-1713297600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:The new Chicago Literary Hall of Fame class of  Hamlin Garland\, Eunice Tietjens\, and E. Donald Two Rivers will be inducted at a ceremony featuring a lineup that includes William J. Bowe\, Melissa Bradshaw\, Carlos Cumpián\, Jesse Raber\, and Dorene Wiese. Two Rivers’s daughter\, Annabelle Broeffle\, and Garland’s great grandson\, Christopher Harper\, will be on hand to accept the CLHOF statues. A reception will follow the ceremony.  \n\n\n\nPoster Design by Annabelle Broeffle
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/chicago-literary-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231013T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231021T235959
DTSTAMP:20231219T223106Z
CREATED:20230924T175356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231219T223106Z
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SUMMARY:Lit & Luz Festival | 10th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:This year’s theme is “TEN\,” –celebrating 10 years of remarkable programming. This October\, join us for more than a dozen bilingual programs throughout Chicago. This year’s festival kicks off on October 13th with an exhibition of work from Lit & Luz Collaboration Cohort artists from the past decade at Chicago Art Department and closes on October 21st with the Live Magazine Show at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. \n\n\n\nLit & Luz Festival is a one-of-a-kind series of events featuring renowned authors and visual artists from the US and Mexico in cultural exchange and conversation.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/lit-luz-festival-10th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Lit + Luz,Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T210000
DTSTAMP:20230924T172450Z
CREATED:20230924T172236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230924T172450Z
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SUMMARY:Generative Multilogue: Artful Protest
DESCRIPTION:Creative Iranian Women\n\n\n\nDigital Projection and Immersive Experience \n\n\n\nInvited Artists: Shaghayegh Mohajeri\, Alemeh Bagherian\, Hedie Javani\, Saba Soleimani\, Pouye Peyman\, Sara Rahanjam \n\n\n\nOpening reception with musical performances and poetry recitation.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/generative-multilogue-artful-protest/
LOCATION:South Asia Institute\, 1925 South Michigan Avenue\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60616
CATEGORIES:Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230506T210000
DTSTAMP:20231219T223149Z
CREATED:20230418T185500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231219T223149Z
UID:9165-1683399600-1683406800@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora @ Feria del Libro
DESCRIPTION:¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir\, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo– todos están bienvenidos a participar. Sólo necesitas dos poemas  \n\n\n\nUbicado en El Pub\, un bar en el beisman de la Universidad de Chicago Ida Noyes Hall. Se puede registrar en línea o el mismo día en persona: http://tiny.cc/feriaslam \n\n\n\nRecuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra. \n\n\n\nCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya. \n\n\n\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de Chicago y busca crear un espacio que une poetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras. \n\n\n\n¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo! \n\n\n\nGracias a El Beisman\, Feria del Libro Chicago\, Guild Literary Complex\, Contratiempo y la Universidad de Chicago por apoyar este proyecto  \n\n\n\n******* \n\n\n\nOpen to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. All you need is 2 poems  \n\n\n\nLocated at The Pub\, a basement bar at the University of Chicago’s Ida Noyes Hall. You can register online or on the same day\, in person:http://tiny.cc/feriaslam \n\n\n\nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the poetry. We want to grow a poetry community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers. \n\n\n\nWe believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow. \n\n\n\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in Chicago and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders. \n\n\n\nParticipants and winners from last year can participate again! \n\n\n\nThank you to El Beisman\, Feria del Libro Chicago\, the Guild Literary Complex\, Contratiempo + the University of Chicago for supporting this project  \n\n\n\n\n\n¿Qué es un Slam de Poesía?\n\n\n\nEl slam es un juego de poesía en el que los poetas interpretan sus obras originales frente a una audiencia y jueces\, y son “calificados” en función de ciertos criterios\, como contenido\, originalidad\, lyricismo\, entrega y presencia en el escenario. El concepto del Slam se originó en Chicago a mediados de la década de 1980 y desde entonces se ha extendido a nivel mundial.Los principios del slam son: la escucha profunda\, la palabra viva\, la alegría poética\, y la comuna creciente. \n\n\n\nLa intención de Slam Diáspora es conectar a poetas de raíz latinoamericana con poetas en América Latina\, a pesar de las fronteras\, y por medio de la palabra viva\, la palabra hablada. Slam Diáspora se conecta a la comuna de poesía slam: Slam Abya Yala\, y Poetry Slam México. \n\n\n\nLa estructura del Slam involucra varias rondas y límites de tiempo. Los poetas se eliminan después de cada ronda hasta que se declara un ganador. En este caso serán 10 poetas (registración abierta)\, habrán dos rondas\, y se permite 3 minutos por poema. \n\n\n\nEl slam es un juego de intercambio. El punto no son los puntos\, el punto es la comunidad que se crea. Para poetas que participan\, es una oportunidad para desarrollar sus habilidades escénicas\, y experimentar con la oralidad\, la palabra viva. \n\n\n\nEl slam hace volar poemas que muchas veces se quedan en papel.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-feria-del-libro/
LOCATION:The Pub – University of Chicago\, Ida Noyes Hall (basement)\, 1212 E 59th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:Slam Diáspora
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