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SUMMARY:Write That Down! Show & Tell
DESCRIPTION:Write That Down! is having another Show & Tell at Elastic Arts in Avondale/Logan Square!\nWTD!’s Show & Tell series is possible through our partnership with Chicago’s Guild Literary Complex. \nCome by and SHOW a keepsake that’s dear to you\, a favorite bit of junk\, or a cute knick knack. TELL a story about your artifact and its meaning\, a new poem\, or some speculative fiction you’ve been working on. \nThe evening will begin with an open mic and archiving session\, followed by a presentation from a past (and/or future) contributor. Attendees are encouraged to bring ephemera and memorabilia that they would like scanned/archived for inclusion in the magazine’s upcoming issue. BYOB. \nRSVP HERE. \n  \nAbout Write That Down!\nWrite That Down! is an archival project and magazine capturing the particulars of our current moment\, both here in Chicago and in the world at large. The goal is to gather everyday artifacts that tell stories about what is important to us and our communities. There is no memento too big or local story too small for these pages. If it matters to you\, write it down!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/wtd5/
LOCATION:Elastic Arts\, 3429 W. Diversey Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60647\, United States
CATEGORIES:Press Room
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SUMMARY:Write That Down! Show & Tell
DESCRIPTION:Write That Down! Mag invites you to “Show & Tell” presented by Chicago’s Guild Literary Complex.\n\n\n\n\nWrite That Down! is back with a special edition of our Show & Tell series in tandem with Promise(d)\, the first exhibition curated by Teddy Sandler at Evoke Gallery. This group show explores destiny and manifests a collective dream through visualizations of growth in times of decay. \nSHOW a keepsake that’s dear to you\, a favorite bit of junk\, or a cute knick knack; then TELL a story about your artifact and why it’s important to you. BYOB. \n\n\nThe evening will begin with an open mic and archiving session\, followed by selected readings from past (and future) mag contributors. Attendees are encouraged to bring ephemera and memorabilia that they would like scanned/archived for inclusion in the magazine’s upcoming Summer/Winter issue. \nAbout Write That Down! \nWrite That Down! is an archival project and magazine capturing the particulars of our current moment\, both here in Chicago and in the world at large. The goal is to gather everyday artifacts that tell stories about what is important to us and our communities. There is no memento too big or local story too small for these pages. If it matters to you\, write it down! \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/wtd4/
LOCATION:Evoke Gallery\, 3040 N Central Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60634\, United States
CATEGORIES:Press Room
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SUMMARY:Write That Down! Autumn/Winter Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Write That Down! Mag is back with their new Autumn/Winter Issue and we want to celebrate with you!\n\n\nRSVP ON PARTYCLICK \nWrite That Down! is an archival project capturing the particulars of our current moment\, both here in Chicago and in the world at large. The goal is to gather everyday artifacts that tell stories about what is important to us and our communities. There is no memento too big or local story too small for these pages. If it matters to you\, write it down. \nCome through\, pregame\, and get a free copy of the mag 🙂 \nThis party is taking place in a 3rd floor walk-up. \nPlease respect the space and BYOB. \n  \nCONGRATS to co-founder/editor of Write That Down! Magazine\, Charlie Kolodziej\, named one of the 35 Writers to Watch. Join the Guild Complex in celebrating the writers at our special event next month.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/write-that-down-autumn-winter-launch-party/
LOCATION:1902 N Milwaukee Ave\, 1902 North Milwaukee Avenue\, Chicago\, IL\, 60647\, United States
CATEGORIES:Press Room
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SUMMARY:Write That Down! Show & Tell
DESCRIPTION:Write That Down! is hosting a very special LOVE themed Show & Tell for February! Bring a keepsake that celebrates love in your life be it platonic\, romantic\, or some secret third thing. \nThis is the third of our monthly “Show & Tell” series at Podlasie Club in partnership with Chicago’s Guild Literary Complex. \nSHOW a keepsake that’s dear to you\, a favorite bit of junk\, or a cute knick knack; then TELL a story about your artifact and why it’s meaningful. The evening will begin with an open mic and archiving session\, followed by selected readings from past (and future) mag contributors. \nAttendees are encouraged to bring ephemera and memorabilia that they would like scanned/archived for inclusion in the magazine’s upcoming Autumn/Winter issue. \n  \nAbout Write That Down!\nWrite That Down! is an archival project and magazine capturing the particulars of our current moment\, both here in Chicago and in the world at large. The goal is to gather everyday artifacts that tell stories about what is important to us and our communities. There is no memento too big or local story too small for these pages. If it matters to you\, write it down!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/wtd3/
LOCATION:Podlasie Club\, 2918 N Central Park Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60618
CATEGORIES:Press Room
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SUMMARY:Write That Down! Show & Tell
DESCRIPTION:Write That Down! invites you to the second of our monthly “Show & Tell” series at Podlasie Club in partnership with Chicago’s Guild Literary Complex. \nSHOW a keepsake that’s dear to you\, a favorite bit of junk\, or a cute knick knack; then TELL a story about your artifact and why it’s meaningful. The evening will begin with an open mic and archiving session\, followed by selected readings from past (and future) mag contributors. Attendees are encouraged to bring ephemera and memorabilia that they would like scanned/archived for inclusion in the magazine’s upcoming Autumn/Winter issue.\nP.S. We heard a rumor there might be puppets… \n  \nAbout Write That Down!\nWrite That Down! is an archival project and magazine capturing the particulars of our current moment\, both here in Chicago and in the world at large. The goal is to gather everyday artifacts that tell stories about what is important to us and our communities. There is no memento too big or local story too small for these pages. If it matters to you\, write it down!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/wtd2/
LOCATION:Podlasie Club\, 2918 N Central Park Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60618
CATEGORIES:Press Room
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SUMMARY:Transvengence Vol. 10: Holiday Edition
DESCRIPTION:Join us again at Podlasie Club for our recurring open mic/performance series\, TRANSVENGENCE VOL.10! Our regular show this month brings a special holiday twist with guest performances by Celeste\, Noa Micaela Fields\, and your hostess\, Joss Barton. The show will follow a community open mic by audience members. \n\nDoors 7PM\nOpen Mic 8PM\nPerformances 9PM\n\n\nÁle Campos (Celeste)\n\nÁle Campos aka Celeste is a multidisciplinary artist and performance maker whose elastic studio\npractice is anchored in the vernacular of drag. They generate live performance works that are often\nrhapsodic and mediated by technology\, unfolding from and into the mediums of sculpture\, sound\, text\,\nvideo and installation. Their work dissects perception\, queer relationality\, self-imagination and the\nmechanics of drag itself. They perform and present work across various contexts\, merging the borders\nbetween the art world and queer nightlife. \n\nNoa Micaela Fields (Nomi)\n\nNoa Micaela Fields aka Nomi is an echodeviant enjambment queen (trans poet with hearing aids). She\ncurates readings at the Poetry Foundation\, edits for Chrysalis (a trans youth literary magazine)\, and\ndisemvowels on dance floors. Her debut collection (poetry\, not fashion\, but not not fashion) E is out\nnext month from Nightboat Books.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-vol-10/
LOCATION:Podlasie Club\, 2918 N Central Park Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60618
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:Write That Down! Show & Tell
DESCRIPTION:Write That Down! invites you to our first “Show and Tell” presented by Chicago’s Guild Literary Complex. SHOW a keepsake that’s dear to you\, a favorite bit of junk\, or a cute knick knack; then TELL a story about your artifact and why it’s important to you. \nThe evening will begin with an open mic and archiving session\, followed by selected readings from past (and future) mag contributors. Attendees are encouraged to bring ephemera and memorabilia that they would like scanned/archived for inclusion in the magazine’s upcoming Autumn/Winter issue. \n\nAbout Write That Down!\nWrite That Down! is an archival project and magazine capturing the particulars of our current moment\, both here in Chicago and in the world at large. The goal is to gather everyday artifacts that tell stories about what is important to us and our communities. There is no memento too big or local story too small for these pages. If it matters to you\, write it down!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/wtd1/
LOCATION:Podlasie Club\, 2918 N Central Park Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60618
CATEGORIES:Press Room
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SUMMARY:Transvengence Vol. 9: Queer Pop-up
DESCRIPTION:Join us after Printers Row Lit Fest at Podlasie Club for TRANSVENGENCE: VOL. 9! Our regular show this month will close off the literary weekend with special performances following an audience open mic. \n\n\n\nHost: Joss Barton \n\n\n\nFeatured Artist: Joy Guidry \n\n\n\n\nDoors 7PM\n\n\n\nOpen Mic 8PM\n\n\n\nPerformances 9PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoy Guidry\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoy Guidry is a bassoonist\, versatile improviser\, performance artist\, and composer of experimental\, daring new works that embody a deep love of storytelling; Joy’s music channels her inner child in honor of their ancestors and predecessors. The San Diego Tribune has hailed her performances as “lyrical and haunting…hair-raising and unsettling.” \n\n\n\nJoy was born in Houston\, Texas\, into a creative family that has shaped who she is today. Joy has presented her original work at The Whitney Museum for American Art\, Hauser & Wirth\, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego\, The Kitchen\, Redcat\, among many other venues. She has been commissioned by The National Sawdust\, Long Beach Opera\, JACK Quartet\, Gaudeamus Festival\, and the I&I Foundation. Joy has been featured in festivals\, including the La Biennale di Venezia\, A’Larme Festival\, Cologne Jazz Week\, Spoleto Festival USA\, Big Ears Festival\, and many more. \n\n\n\nJoy holds a bachelor’s degree in Bassoon Performance from the Peabody Conservatory and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Mannes School of Music. In addition\, Joy Guidry is the winner of the 2021 Berlin Prize for Young Artists. She Is currently playing on a Heckel Bassoon number 6101.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-vol-9/
LOCATION:Podlasie Club\, 2918 N Central Park Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60618
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:Transvengence Pride Month
DESCRIPTION:TRANSVENGENCE VOL. 8: LIBERATION BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY\n\n\n\n\n\nScreenshot\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHost: Joss Barton  \n\n\n\n\nOpen Mic sign up 7pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Performances 8:30\n\n\n\n\n\nOpen Mic for all and discussion with the artists\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\n\nDutchesz Gemini\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi Bitch! The gorgeous and gifted Dutchesz Gemini is a Chicago based drag and performance artist\, DJ\, and event host. Her nectareous and high drama presentations take inspiration from ballroom and the worldwide queer underground\, with music selections informed by Chicago house\, techno\, queer hip hop and club bangers. Dutchesz is a resident host/collaborator with Diamond Formation at Smartbar\, CLUBWIVES\, the collective LowVisibility\, and the party and collaboration series RUMORS. \n\n\n\n\n\nOdette Stout\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOdette Stout is an artist and drag performer whose experimental costumes are a staple in Chicago underground nightlife. They stage intermedia performances that cast collaborating artists as otherworldly living artworks\, called on to help tell stories from spaces where self-creation is a survival art practice. Their runway events synthesize fashion\, digital installation\, dance\, drag and poetry and are designed to catalyze an ever-present possibility of transformation. Their unique handmade silicone wearables\, often augmented reality responsive\, are lended out of their studio to local performers and artists. These wearables are documented through their many lives and uses as they gradually degrade and vanish into underground lore.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-pride-month-2025/
LOCATION:Podlasie Club\, 2918 N Central Park Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60618
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:Transvengence | September 2024
DESCRIPTION:September’s Transvengence features Aza Greenlee with your host\, Joss Barton. \n\n\n\nDoors open and open mic sign-up begins at 7pm.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAza Greenlee is a body artist and co-conspirator at No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab. This coalescence is one to galavant in dreamscapes\, ancestral juke joints\, chaturbate masturbation web temples\, loose-tooth tanks\, and The Heartspace. They organize “Smudge Cinema Project”\, a now-and-then-wait-when? screening series that takes a look at what happens when a film is projected on a wall for people to watch. Metabolization seems to be what they appear to do\, lately.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-september-2024/
LOCATION:Clash on Clark\, 4416 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:Transvengence: Pride Edition
DESCRIPTION:June 2024: Transvengence\, Pride Month – Turn Up! Edition \n\n\n\nFeaturing Jack and Lynzo the Heartthrob\, with your host\, Joss Barton.  \n\n\n\nOpen mic starts at 7:30pm.  \n\n\n\nLearn more about Transvengence here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynzo The Heartthrob is a born & bred Chicagoan; an exotic dancer with a background in ballet\, modern\, and African dance teachings. Emceeing/producing Black LGBTQIA events\, Mixology\, Plus Size Styling\, Dance (both exotic and traditional) teachings carries Lynzo across the stages of Chicago\, Los Angeles\, & London\, England. Chicago’s Big Titty Heartbreaker! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJack is a 25 year old transsexual woman who has lived in Chicago since 2023. Like her trans woman fam\, she is interested in story telling\, whores\, and trans identity formation through experiences of medicalization & violence.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoss Barton is a writer\, journalist\, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life\, love\, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Combining prose poetry\, non-fiction confessional essays\, drag artistry\, and spoken word stage performances\, Joss examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhoods from historical\, political\, and pop cultural identities of death\, desires\, dreams\, and disco. 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-pride-edition/
LOCATION:Clash on Clark\, 4416 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240213T210000
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SUMMARY:Transvengence: Valentine's Day Edition
DESCRIPTION:Transvengence: Valentine’s Day Edition; open mic starts at 7:30pm.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-valentines-day-edition/
LOCATION:Clash on Clark\, 4416 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:Transvengence feat. C. Russell Price and Trinity Sapphire (+ Open Mic)
DESCRIPTION:Join your host Joss Barton for Transvengence on Thursday\, September 7th! This month features performances by C. Russell Price and Trinity Sapphire\, followed by a discussion and open mic.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-feat-c-russell-price-and-trinity-sapphire-open-mic/
LOCATION:Clash on Clark\, 4416 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:"…Advice at the beginning of the revolution" with Michael Warr + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Press Room series\, join us for a reading and discussion with Bay Area authors\, Michael Warr and Tongo Eisen-Martin (San Fransisco Poet Laureate) about their work\, the nature of protest\, and how the historical acts of revolution during the heyday of the Black Power Movement in the Bay Area have influenced literary activism in a post-George Floyd era of radical social change. \n\n\n\n“. . .Advice at the beginning of the revolution” is a line from Tongo Eisen-Martin’s poem “A Good Earth“ and serves as a framework for this important conversation. \n\n\n\n**We ask that all attendees wear masks during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments.** \n\n\n\nRSVP on Eventbrite here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin\n\n\n\nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His latest book “Blood On The Fog” was released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series and named one of the New York Times poetry books of the year. In 2020\, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Warr\n\n\n\nPoet Michael Warr’s literary honors include San Francisco Arts Commission Awards in 2023 and 2021  and the 2020 Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex (Tia Chucha Press). He is a San Francisco Library Laureate and recipient of a Creative Work Fund Award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese as part of “Two Languages / One Community” a collaborative project with poet and translator Chun Yu. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora\, a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, and founding Director of the Guild Literary Complex.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/advice-at-the-beginning-of-the-revolution-with-michael-warr-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Press Room
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SUMMARY:TransVengence | Aza Greenlee\, Noa/Nomi Micaela Fields\, and Ava Mirage Wanbli on June 20th
DESCRIPTION:Join us for TransVengence with your host\, Joss Barton! \n\n\n\nThis month features readings by Aza Greenlee\, Noa/Moni Micaela Fields\, and Ava Mirage Wanbli. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7pm upstairs at My Buddy’s!  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\n\n\nNoa Micaela (Nomi) Fields is an echodeviant* (*trans poets with hearing aids) in search of transversal wildness in her one and only captionless life. Find her poems and other writing in Tripwire\, Anomaly\, Zoeglossia\, Elderly\, Tyger Quarterly\, and Sixty Inches From Center. She is a programming curator at the Poetry Foundation and a 2022 Fellow at Disability Lead and Zoeglossia.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAza Greenlee is a body artist and co-conspirator at No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab. This coalescence is one to galavant in dreamscapes\, ancestral juke joints\, chaturbate masturbation web temples\, loose-tooth tanks\, and The Heartspace. They organize “Smudge Cinema Project”\, a now-and-then-wait-when? screening series that takes a look at what happens when a film is projected on a wall for people to watch. Metabolization seems to be what they appear to do\, lately. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAva Mirage Wanbli is a New Media artist and performer based in Chicago\, IL. Her work operates in a multitude of formats\, mediums\, and presentations of persona to build engagement through virtual and physical aspects of virtual world construction. Ava utilizes video game engines\, live performance\, installations\, sculptures\, video\, and body to process components of the self through modalities of becoming. She investigates aspects of performing for the camera\, mirrors\, and virtual reconstructions of the body through 3D scanning\, avatar creation\, and virtual environment building as a means to craft a voice that speaks towards collapsed temporalities\, archiving the body\, as well as potentials of future self. Much of Ava’s work is also in conversation with aspects of fetishization of the consumed body through media depictions and how persona is framed through technology. In her primary approaches\, she aims to confront the voyeur as well as communicate the complexities of trans narratives through hyper-sexualized imagery and performance. \n\n\n\nAva received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. Alongside her art practice and community engagement\, she has been an educator at multiple art institutions for the last 4 years. She is a recipient of 3Arts New Wave Artists Award\, and has been a resident of ACRE Artist residency as well as New Art City Residency. Her most current work has shown at Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Gallery in Chicago and is now being shown in a 6 month solo exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Wanbli has also been published in Tone Magazine as well as curated events at Mana Contemporary in Chicago. Ava continues to organize and build spaces to further her commitment to the conversations around her transwoman body and the voice that it can hold to educate\, uplift\, and complicate narratives around selfhood through hyper-visibility and fetishization.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-aza-greenlee-noa-nomi-micaela-fields-and-ava-wanbli-on-june-20th/
LOCATION:My Buddy’s (Upstairs)\, 4416 N Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640\, United States
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:Transvengence | Maurice Tracy + Open Mic on April 26th
DESCRIPTION:Transvengence is back!  Launched in 2022 as part of the Guild’s Press Room series\, the brainchild of your host\, Joss Barton\, a trans performer\, poet and writer.  This event will include an open mic and feature: Maurice Tracy from St Louis. \n\n\n\nMaurice Tracy is a transfemme at the beginning of their journey. They are a social worker\, a cultural critic—at least in their mind—\, a home cook\, a lover\, a slut\, possibly a writer\, and a fat dark skin being trying to live and love and help make a better world than the one we’ve been asked to live in.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-maurice-tracy-open-mic-on-april-26th/
LOCATION:My Buddy’s (Upstairs)\, 4416 N Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640\, United States
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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