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SUMMARY:Voices of Protest: Home Edition
DESCRIPTION:In September 2014\, the Guild Literary Complex sent five Chicago writers to the 2014 Kapittel International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech in Stavanger\, Norway. NOW\, for the first time since their return\, the authors will give a special reading of creative work inspired by the trip and lead a community dialogue on free speech issues. Voices of Protest: Home Edition will take place on Thursday\, March 12\, 7:00 p.m.\, and is co-presented with 826CHI at 1276 N. Milwaukee Avenue\, Chicago. The program is open to the public and free of charge. Donations will be accepted. \nParticipating authors include: Adam Gottlieb\, L’Oréal Patrice Jackson\, Sahar Mustafah\, Erika L. Sánchez\, and M. Quinn Stifler. Each emerging writer was chosen to participate in Voices of Protest due to their professional practices integrating art and activism\, which includes work on gender\, race\, women’s rights\, peace initiatives\, and other issues. \nVoices of Protest programs are supported in part by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund\, and in a continued partnership with the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN). \nClick here for Facebook RSVP! \nSee below for information on authors and partners! \nFor more information on the 2014 Kapittel festival\, click here. \nFor more information on previous Voices of Protest programs\, click here. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nAdam Gottlieb is a poet/teaching-artist from Chicago. He got into spoken word at age 14 via the Young Chicago Authors teen poetry slam festival Louder Than a Bomb\, and was featured in the documentary film by the same name. He recently graduated from Hampshire College\, where he studied poetry and critical pedagogy. He seeks to promote the use of poetry as a medium for dialogue\, self-expression\, and positive social change. \n  \nL’Oréal Patrice Jackson is an artist rooted in theatre\, music\, movement and writing. As an arts educator she teaches theatre performance\, improvisation\, storytelling\, and multi-disciplinary art. She has worked with Steppenwolf\, Writers Theatre\, and Columbia College Chicago\, among others. Before recently relocating to California\, she served as a youth leader for Soka Gakkai International (SGI)\, a lay Buddhist organization dedicated to peace culture and education\, and she was the Education Associate at About Face Theatre\, a production company with a focus on lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, queer\, and ally arts. \n  \nSahar Mustafah writes about “the others”—Arabs in the United States and abroad—who are often deemed strange and disparate from the larger racial community. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals including Great Lakes Review\, Word Riot\, Flyleaf\, Hair Trigger\, and Chicago Literati\, and she’s performed with 2nd Story Chicago. She’s the recipient of a Pushcart nomination. She is a teacher and co-founder of Bird’s Thumb\, an online literary journal devoted to new and emerging voices. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. \n  \nErika L. Sánchez is a Fulbright Scholar\, CantoMundo Fellow\, and winner of the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Pleiades\, Witness\, Anti-\, Hunger Mountain\, Crab Orchard Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Copper Nickel\, Boston Review\, “Latino USA” on NPR\, and is forthcoming in diode and Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation (Penguin 2015). Her nonfiction appears in The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, Rolling Stone\, Salon\, NBC News\, Cosmopolitan\, and many others. \n  \n  \nM. Quinn Stifler received a B.A. in Creative Writing and Women’s & Gender Studies at DePaul University. Stifler has worked with Threshold\, DePaul’s student-run literature and arts journal\, and is a co-founder and editor of No Assholes Literary Magazine. Stifler was a finalist for the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks Open-Mic Poetry Award\, and regularly participates in and organizes house readings around Chicago. \n  \nABOUT OUR PARTNERS \n826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills\, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-one-one attention\, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. 826 CHI provides after school tutoring\, creative writing workshops\, field trips\, in-school support\, help for English language learners\, and assistance with student publications. All programs are tuition-free\, and serve more than 3\,500 students each year.  (www.826chi.org) \n  \nThe International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) is an association of cities around the world dedicated to the value of Freedom of Expression. Writers have consistently been targets of politically motivated threats and persecution\, and the network believes it is necessary for the international community to formulate and implement an appropriate response. Each ICORN city focuses on one writer at a time\, each writer representing the countless others in hiding\, in prison or silenced forever. By providing a Guest Writer with a safe place to stay and economic security for a standard term of two years\, ICORN cities make an important\, practical contribution to the promotion of Freedom of Expression. (www.icorn.org) \n  \nThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund supports two-way artistic exchanges that benefit Chicago arts and culture nonprofits and their peer organizations abroad. The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just\, verdant\, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows\, the Foundation works to defend human rights\, advance global conservation and security\, make cities better places\, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. (www.macfound.org)
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/chicago-voices-of-protest/
LOCATION:826CHI\, 1276 N. Milwaukee Ave\, Chicago
CATEGORIES:Special Events,Voices of Protest
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: A Dose of Mind and Body
DESCRIPTION:For this Applied Words event\, we ask our featured artists to give us a dose of health-connected stories of the body and/or mind. Tonight’s line-up includes two “Writers to Watch\,” Rey Andújar and Megan Stielstra\, along with special guests Andrew Huff and Samantha Irby. \nAnd to make the program more body related\, we have partnered with the International Museum of Surgical Science (1524 N Lake Shore Dr) to host the event. Your admission to the reading will include admission to the museum (normally $15)\, and the venue will be open a full hour early so you can explore all the exhibits on hand. Click HERE for directions and parking information. \n“Dose” is pay-what-you-can ($10 suggested donation). Audience contributions support honorariums for featured authors. \nREMEMBER: The reading starts at 7:30 p.m.\, but the museum will be open to Guild Complex guests as early as 6:30 p.m. Hooray! \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nRey Andújar is a Dominican writer and dramaturgist. His books have won various awards including: The International Award from Casa de Teatro\, for his book of short stories\, El factor carne (IslaNegra\, 2005); The Puerto Rican Pen Club Award for his novel Candela (Alfaguara\, 2007); The Story Award from the International Book Fair in Santo Domingo for Amoricidio (AgentesCatalíticos\, 2007); The Ultramar Letters Award (New York\, 2011) for Saturnalia (7Vientos\, 2011); and most recently Adújar won The Cuento y Poesía Consenso Award at Northeastern University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAndrew Huff is the editor and publisher of Gapers Block\, an award-winning Chicago-centric news and events webzine he co-founded in 2003\, and the co-host of the eclectic reading series Tuesday Funk. In addition\, he has worked for several years as a professional blogger for corporate clients\, and is a sought-after consultant on content oriented web projects. Andrew holds a journalism degree from The Ohio State University and a certificate in medical writing and editing from the University of Chicago\, and spent 10 years in public relations\, working primarily with clients in the healthcare and biotech industries. He has taught in the journalism departments at Loyola University Chicago and Columbia College\, and is a frequent speaker at SXSW Interactive and other conferences. In 2009 was named to the Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list. \n  \nSamantha Irby is the author of Meaty\, a collection of essays chosen by Barnes & Noble as a Discover Great New Writers selection in addition to being named one of the Big Indie Books of Fall 2013 by Publisher’s Weekly. Samantha writes the wildly hilarious blog\, BITCHES GOTTA EAT\, co-hosts Guts & Glory\, a reading series featuring essayists\, and has performed all over Chicago. She has been profiled in the Chicago Sun-Times\, Chicago Reader\, Chicago Tribune\, as well as in TimeOut Chicago. Her work has appeared on The Rumpus\, XO Jane\, and Jezebel. \n  \nMegan Stielstra is the author of the essay collection Once I Was Cool. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Poets & Writers\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere\, and her essays have been recorded for NPR\, Chicago Public Radio\, and Radio National Australia. She’s a company member of the critically-acclaimed 2nd Story storytelling series and has told stories for all sorts of theaters\, festivals\, and bars (many\, many bars) including the Goodman\, Steppenwolf\, Museum of Contemporary Art\, Neo-Futurarium\, and regularly with The Paper Machete live news magazine at The Green Mill. She is the Associate Director of The Center For Innovation in Teaching Excellence at Columbia College Chicago and teaches in the MFA Program at Northwestern University. \n  \nABOUT OUR VENUE PARTNER \n  \n \n  \n  \nThe mission of the International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is to enrich people’s lives by enhancing their appreciation and understanding of the history\, development\, and advances of surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. In support of this\, IMSS is committed to: \n\nPortraying through exhibits and other appropriate media\, the art and science of surgery\, and related subjects.\nProviding programs and services for the education and enjoyment of the public\, students\, and the medical profession.\nPreserving the IMSS collection for the education\, inspiration\, and aesthetic enrichment of future generations.\nGaining recognition as a leader among medical and health museums worldwide.\n\n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-a-dose-of-mind-and-body/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 N Lake Shore Dr\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words,Special Events,Writers to Watch
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Saint Teresa of Jesús\, The Birth of a Writer and a Poet
DESCRIPTION:Saint Teresa of Jesús held a special\, privileged place for books during her life. Not only did she consider books important for her work as a writer\, but also as a reader. Saint Teresa mainly wrote prose and her most popular poems are those that reflect her mysticism. \nIn this special event\, Instituto Cervantes\, contratiempo\, Teatro Aguijón and the Guild Complex will be reading the 7 poems of Santa Teresa and some of her famous prose passages. The program will be in Spanish. \nFree\, but RSVP required. RSVP here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1362180 \n  \nPart of a full celebration of the 500th birthday of Saint Teresa which includes: \nDOCUMENTARY: THE MYSTICAL MADE WORD; SAINT TERESA OF JESUS\, WRITER \nCONFERENCE: TERESA OF JESÚS “QUIJOTE TO THE DIVINE” IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH \nPOETRY READING: SAINT TERESA OF JESÚS\, THE BIRTH OF A WRITER AND A POET. \nSaturday\, March 28\, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. \n  \nTHE MYSTICAL MADE WORD; SAINT TERESA OF JESUS\, WRITER \nDOCUMENTARY \nSaturday\, March 28\, 11- 11:35 a.m. \nAuditorium \nInstituto Cervantes \nDuration: 35 minutes without subtitles. \nDescription: The Mystical Made Word: Saint Teresa of Jesus\, writer is a documentary about the journey of Teresa as a writer\, and her passion and efforts to turn words into the mystic.  An agile script written by Father Emilio J Martínez\, Vicario General\, and President of the International Carmelitas Descalzos Commission for the Centenary that features 35 minutes of footage of the impressive Saint figure\, and invites the viewer to learn why Teresa writes\, what exactly she writes\, and the difficulties she faced doing it.  The main idea of the documentary comes from the words of Fray Luís of León in Salamanca: “I never met Mother Teresa but I see her alive in her daughters and her works.” \n  \nTERESA OF JESÚS “QUIXOTE TO THE DIVINE” IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH \nCONFERENCE \nSaturday\, March 28\, 11:35 – 12:30 p.m. \nAuditorium \nInstituto Cervantes \nConference Synopsis by P. Celedonio Martínez Daimiel\, O.C.D.: “In short strokes I will delineate the historical figure of Teresa of Jesus:  life\, work\, and mission.  Also\, I will try to relate the entire Teresian figure to the quixotic spirit\, which in my opinion\, is closely related to both the indefatigable quest they do to reach the “Truth\,” and the fact that they knew to discover it in the vast plains of La Mancha\, where Teresa de Cepeda and Alonso Quijano searched relentlessly.” \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/saint-teresa/
LOCATION:Instituto Cervantes\, 31 West Ohio Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60654\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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