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SUMMARY:Teaching Artist Showcase: "Teaching in the Neighborhood"
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex presents a sampling of teaching artists who educate students in various\, diverse Chicago neighborhoods with its Teaching Artist Showcase series in collaboration with Woman Made Gallery\, now celebrating its 20th Anniversary with its 20 Neighborhoods project.\n\nThis is the second event in our series\, and it will featurewriters who teach in middle- and high-schools\, hospitals\, and other community spaces. They’ll share work done with\, inspired by or in contrast to their teaching and students and participate in an audience discussionabout writing\, teaching and learning. There will also be anopen mic\, and possibly some special guests as well – some of the students themselves!\n\nFeatured Artists \n\nAlice George‘s collection of poetry – This Must Be The Place – was published by Mayapple Press in 2008. Her work has also been published in magazines such as Field\, Diagram\, Quarter After Eight\, New Orleans Review and Sentence\, as well as in eight anthologies. She teaches poetry to students in K-12 classrooms independently and through Columbia College’s Project AIM. An article about her arts integration work with 5th graders appears in the current issue of Teaching Artist Journal. Alice is also an instructor within the University of Chicago’s Graham School Certificate in Creative Writing program\, and served as Faculty Advisor for the current Triquarterly issue\, published by Northwestern University. A native of Kentucky\, she lives and works in Evanston\, and is married to sound and installation artist Shawn Decker. Painting is her next frontier; more information about her writing\, teaching and art can be found at www.alicegeorge.org. \nEric Elshtain is a homemaker and poet. Through the non-profit foundation Snow City Arts\, he is the poet-in-residence at John H. Stroger\, Jr. Hospital where he conducts poetry and art workshops with patients ranging in age from six to 21. He has a PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee on the History of Culture and he has been published in a wide variety of domestic and international journals\, in print and on-line; journals such as McSweeney’s\, Notre Dame Review\, Skald\, Fact-Simile\, the Denver Quarterly\, FIELD\, American Letters & Commentary\, New American Writing\, &c. He is the editor of the on-line poetry chapbook press Beard of Bees. \n  \nSusanna Lang’s first collection of poems\, Even Now\, was published in 2008 by The Backwaters Press. A chapbook\, Two by Two\, was released in October 2011 from Finishing Line Press\, and a new collection\, Tracing the Lines\, will be published by Brick Road Poetry Press in winter 2012. She has published original poems and essays\, and translations from the French\, in such journals as Little Star\, New Letters\, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review\, The Green Mountains Review\, The Baltimore Review\, Kalliope\, Southern Poetry Review\, World Literature Today\, Chicago Review\, New Directions\, and Jubilat. Book publications include translations of Words in Stone and The Origin of Language\, both by Yves Bonnefoy. She lives with her husband and son in Chicago\, where she teaches in the Chicago Public Schools. \n  \nToni Asante Lightfoot is a native of Washington\, DC. She has been writing\nand performing around the Western Hemisphere for 20 years. She is the\ncoeditor of Dre of AWord: a Tia Chucha Press anthology and edoti the It’s\nYour Mug 15th Anniversary Anthology. She was the director of writing\nprograms at Young Chicago Authors. When the economy turned she decided to\nhave the most mellow midlife crisis ever by going back to school for\nmassage therapy and acupuncture. She is also currently trying desperately\nto raise a 3 year old child and keep her writing from evolving around that. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/teaching-artist-showcase-teaching-in-the-neighborhood/
LOCATION:Woman Made Gallery\, 685 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching Artist Showcase
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SUMMARY:Teaching Artist Showcase/Multi-University Student Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:In our new Teaching Artist Showcase series\, creative writers who also happen to be teachers will share creative work that was inspired by\, developed with or otherwise related to their teaching work. The series will define “teaching artist” broadly –  from university faculty\, to in-school elementary and high school writing teachers or after-school program instructors\, to those who work in prisons\, hospitals and other institutions.\n\n\n\nThis first event in the series will unite teaching artists with students. The program will feature readings by two university professors (poetry\, prose and/or theater) and a brief Q&A about their writing and teaching. In addition\, there will be a multi-university open mic featuring students from area writing programs. As an added twist\, the school that brings the most audience members will receive 3 complimentary tickets to our annual Benefit “Illuminate – the Art & Craft of Graphic Novels”! (1 ticket for a faculty member\, 2 tickets for students. Discounted tickets will also be available for sale that night for $20 – cash\, please.)\nIf you’re a student interested in signing up  for the open mic\, \ncontact your program coordinator or send your name\, genre and school affiliation to \ninfo@guildcomplex.org\, subject line “Showcase.”  (Space is limited.)\n\n\nConfirmed Participants\n~ Teaching Artists ~\n\nBayo Ojikutu is the author of the novels 47th Street Black and Free Burning. Ojikutu’s short fiction has appeared in the Akashic Press anthology Chicago Noir\, the Other Voices literary journal\, among other collections. In 2009\, his short “Yayi and Those Who Walk on Water: A Fable” was short-listed among the year’s notable fiction by the national Pushcart Prize. He has been the winner of the Washington Prize for Fiction\, the Great American Book Award\, and a 2008 Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature (Fiction) from the African-American Arts Alliance.  Ojikutu\, his wife and son reside in Chicago and he teaches at DePaul University and The Graham School at the University of Chicago.\n\n\nS.L. Wisenberg\, director of the MA/MFA in creative writing programs at Northwestern University\, is the author of the nonfiction book The Adventures of Cancer Bitch\, as well as the essay collection\, Holocaust Girls: History\, Memory & Other Obsessions  and the short story collection The Sweetheart Is In. She has received a Pushcart Prize and awards and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She was a feature writer at the Miami Herald and has taught at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies as well as magazines such as the New Yorker\, Ploughshares\, Michigan Quarterly Review \, and Creative Nonfiction. She is the publisher of TriQuarterly.org. Wisenberg holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.\n\n\n~ Student Readers ~\n\n                   \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Kloess (fiction)\, Roosevelt University – previous publications include: Mythic Circles and the anthology Thirty Under Thirty from Starcherone Books; two-time winner of the Indiana Project XL competition\, and received the Chicago-based Friends of American Writers award in 2009.\n\n\nDavid Ben-Arie (fiction/theater)\, University of Chicago – born and raised in South Africa\, moved to Canada at age twelve; plays produced including New York’s The Samuel French Short Play Festival and the Vital Theatre Company; tutors students in writing at 826-Chicago and is currently finishing his first novel\, The Blue Coast.\nDeepak Unnikrishnan (fiction)\, School of the Art Institute – writes. Short stories. He is Abu Dhabian\, manufactured and product tested in the capital of the Emirates by a quiet yet befuddled Malayalee family.\nEliza Fogel (non-fiction)\, Columbia College – builds stories one word at a time\nGabriel Bump (fiction)\, School of the Art Institute – born and raised on the south side of Chicago. His work focuses on race relations in the “color-blind” generation and attempts to navigate a complex social landscape.\nJim Shadid (fiction)\, DePaul University – lives\, writes\, works and plays in Chicago\nKevin Kane (fiction)\, Columbia College – currently the managing editor of the print and online magazine The Handshake; served as managing editor for the Spring 2012  and Story Week issues of fictionary and an editor for the 2012 Story Week Reader.\nMatt Carmichael (fiction)\, Northwestern University – lives and writes in Chicago; a fiction editor for TriQuarterly Online.\nMellissa Gyimah (fiction)\, DePaul University – born and raised in East London\, but originally from Ghana\, has always been intrigued by different cultures and the communities in which they function http://mellissagyimah.tumblr.com\nSophia Tareen\, Graham School/University of Chicago (fiction) – a reporter for The Associated Press in Chicago\, is attempting a first novel. Twitter: @sophiatareen.\n\nMore participant info to come!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/teaching-artist-showcasemulti-university-student-open-mic/
LOCATION:Experimental Station\, 6100 S. Blackstone (take Dorchester to 61st street then head east; free street and lot parking)\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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