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SUMMARY:R.S.V.P. Deadline: "Illuminate" Annual Benefit
DESCRIPTION:April 13th is the official deadline to r.s.v.p. for this year’s annual Benefit “Illuminate” – the art and craft of graphic novels\, with Nicole Hollander\, Audrey Niffenegger\, C. Spike Trotman and Chris Ware. A very limited number of tickets will be available for sale at the door – click here for more details…
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/r-s-v-p-deadline-illuminate-annual-benefit/
LOCATION:IL
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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
CATEGORIES:Teaching Artist Showcase
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SUMMARY:Applied Words/social activism
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex of Chicago continues its 2012 season with its returning series\, Applied Words\, which explores creative writing’s intersection with an artistic discipline (e.g. music or visual art) or a non-arts field (e.g. social justice or health). This Applied Words event will explore creative writing as an instrument of social activism – how people are using poetry\, prose or theater to provoke social action or effect change in communities’ behavior or perspective. The evening will include an open mic\, featured readers Michelle Boyd\, Sage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard and Brenda Parker\, and audience discussion.  As always\, audiences of all backgrounds are welcome. \nThe event is being co-sponsored by Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy’s Narrative Non-Fiction Working Group at UIC\,  and the UIC English Department’s Program for Writers\, who are sponsoring a pre-reading reception with drinks and snacks. \nTIME:             6:30pm drinks/snacks; 7:00 pm reading and discussion \nADMISSION:            Free with r.s.v.p. – email kdixon@guildcomplex.org\, Subject line: Activism \nABOUT THE WRITERS:  \nBrenda Parker is an Assistant Professor at UIC. She joined the Urban Planning and Policy Program in January 2008. She received her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Human Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Bachelors in Public Affairs from the James Madison College at Michigan State University. She has worked in various non-profit organizations and government agencies\, and as an independent research consultant and program evaluator. Brenda’s current research areas include urban policy\, urban governance\, community and economic development\, and qualitative methods.  She is particularly interested in gender\, race\, community activism\, and progressive politics. She is conducting a research project on relationships between economic development\, secondary markets\, and space. Previous research has focused on community-based mapping\, social justice\, and citizenship. She is also exploring how creative writing can be used to communicate research findings and policy recommendations. \nMichelle Boyd is Associate Professor in the African American Studies and Political Science departments\, and Associate Director for Programs and Partnerships in the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC. An urban ethnographer known for her research on the politics of racial identity\, Boyd has published in the Journal of Urban Affairs\, City and Society and the Urban Affairs Review. Her work has received many honors including Best Paper awards from the Urban Affairs Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Most recently\, her book Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville won the 2009 Best Book Award in the Construction of Equality and Inequality from the American Political Science Association’s Race and Ethnicity section. Michelle’s current project\, “Meet the Budget Cuts\,” is an audio documentary that examines the experiences of public employees who’ve lost their jobs due to state budget cuts. \nSage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard earned her MA in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She is a graduate of Brown University where she double majored in “Performance Studies: Socially Conscious Art of the Everyday” and Ethnic Studies. She is a poet\, activist and teacher from Washington\, D.C. She is the founder of WORD! spoken word artists and activists\, a former DC poetry slam coach and one of the original members of Spoken Resistance and the performance group Sol y Soul\, arts for social change.\n \nABOUT IRRPP at UIC: IRRPP’s Narrative NonFiction Working Group is a multi-disciplinary\, corss-college group of UIC faculty and staff members examinign how scholars can use literary technique to more effectively communicate about race/ethnicity with non-academic audiences. \nThe PROGRAM FOR WRITERS at UIC is a forum of the Department of English. It offers a PhD in English with creative dissertation and also an MA in English with creative manuscript. The Program for Writers at UIC is one of the oldest PhD-granting writing programs in the country. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-wordssocial-activism/
LOCATION:Jane Addams Hull-House Museum\, 800 South Halsted Street\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura "Forgiveness and Memory"
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Yolanda Nieves with featured poets Lisa Alvarado & Kristiana Rae Colón \nCurator \nDr. Yolanda Nieves\, Assistant Professor\, English\, Wilbur Wright College Chicago\, is creative director of The Vida Bella Ensemble\, is part of Teatro Luna’s PlayLab series and her La Matadora/Steel Flags will be produced by Chicago’s Landmark Project Fall 2011. She won the American Educational Research Association’s 2010 Arts-Based Dissertation of the Year Award for the performance-text\, The Brown Girls’ Chronicles:  Puerto Rican Women & Resilience. Her degrees include a Ed.D.\, Master’s in Organizational Development\, and B.A. in English and Education. \nFeatured Readers \nLisa Alvarado is an educator\, poet\, novelist\, and journalist\, the founder of La Onda Negra Press\, author of Reclamo and The Housekeeper’s Diary; originally a book of poetry and now a one-woman performance. Her first novel\, Sister Chicas\, Penguin/NAL\, was released in April 2006. The novel is a coming of age story concerning the lives of three young Latinas living in Chicago. It won 2nd place\, Best First Novel in English. (Latino Literacy Now/2007) \nHer book of poetry\, Raw Silk Suture\, released by Floricanto Press in 2008\, was reviewed by Rigoberto Gonzalez. She has curated multimedia exhibits\, mounted her own multimedia piece\, Reclamo in the Pilsen art corridor in Chicago; and is currently a contributor to the nationally touring exhibit\, Re-imagining the Distaff Toolkit\, curated by Ricki Solinger/SUNY. \nLisa is the recipient of grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs\, The NEA\, and the Ragdale Foundation. In Fall\, 2009\, she was awarded Hispanic Author of the Year by the State of Illinois. In 2010\, she contributed to HaLapid\, The Journal for the Study of Crypto-Judaism. In 2011\, she contributed to Me No Habla with Acento\, edited by Emanuel Xaver\, and released by Rebel Sartori Press\, and Still\, Life\, essays and poetry. \nKristiana Rae Colón is a poet\, playwright\, actor\, and educator living and working in Chicago. She has been featured on Power 92\, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio\, WGN Radio\, and WZRD. Kristiana has rocked the mic at some of the Midwest’s top venues including the Park West\, the Metro\, the Star Plaza Theater\, the Aragon\, Victory Gardens Theater\, Darkroom\, Subterranean\, the Funky Buddha Lounge\, as well as venues across the nation and abroad. Kristiana has shared stages with highly acclaimed writers Marc Smith\, the creator of the worldwide ‘poetry slam’ phenomenon\, Haki Madhubuti\, Patricia Smith\, Sonia Sanchez\, Malik Yusef\, Kevin Coval\, Tara Betts\, and has opened for De La Soul\, Grammy-nominated band Ozomatli and internationally-acclaimed comedian Damon Williams.  \nKristiana has served as an adjunct English and Humanities professor at Chicago State University\, Malcolm X College\, and Tribeca Flashpoint Academy. She is proud to have been nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize for her poem “severance” in Organs of Vision and Speech\, as well as see her work anthologized in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010 and Haven Books’ Not a Muse collection. Kristiana’s work is also featured in Saul Williams’ anthology\, Chorus: A Literary (Re)Mixtape\, released by MTV Publishing in Summer 2012. Other recent publications include Pank\, African American Review\, Diverse Voices Quarterly\, and the Logan Square Literary Review\, among several other online and print journals. Kristiana is also an Assistant Editor for Muzzle\, an online literary magazine.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-forgivness-and-memory/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, 60622\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Open Rehearsal with Poetry Performance Incubator's "Unnatural Spaces"
DESCRIPTION:Get a sneak peak at the creative process behind the Poetry Performance Incubator’s new work-in-progress\, Unnatural Spaces. This event will take place at the Voice of the City studio at 3429 W. Diversey Avenue\, Suite 208. The Incubator artists will do some of the types of writing and performance exercises they’ve been using for the past 3 months as they develop the new show set to premiere in October. They’ll even share some of their experiences working in this new hybrid of poetry and theater — some for the first time. So if you’ve ever been curious about the Incubator’s process for bringing poets together to write original stage work\, now’s your chance to see behind the curtain. \nSee what the Incubator cast has been up to on facebook page and blog too! \n Unnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/open-rehearsal-with-poetry-performance-incubators-unnatural-spaces/
LOCATION:3429 W. Diversey Avenue\, Suite 208\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
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SUMMARY:AWP Conference: Reading with Michael Warr\, Luis Rodriguez\, and Patricia Smith
DESCRIPTION:Experience a true Chicago poetry experience with three of the founders of the city’s original poetry scene. This powerhouse trio of poet/performers will deliver a Guild-style reunion.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/awp-confrence-reading-with-michael-warr-luis-rodriguez-and-patricia-smith/
LOCATION:IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:AWP Conference: Panel on Palabra Pura & Culturally Specific Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:A panel on the history\, evolution and future of culturally-specific reading series like Palabra Pura with a co-founder\, former featured artists\, curators and hosts of Palabra Pura.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/awp-conference-panel-on-palabra-pura-culturally-specific-reading-series/
LOCATION:Hilton Chicago\, Wilford A (3rd Floor)\, 720 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura with Rey Andújar\, Jorge Frisancho and Juan Dicent (Bilingual Poetry)
DESCRIPTION:Palabra Pura continues its 2012 season with its first guest-curator evening with open mic and featured readers. Tonight’s theme: Mutant Body/Cuerpo Migrante. The evening will present the body as a space for multiple questions related to the state of transition. What does the body leave behind in its translation/transfer? What does it acquire or adapt? In this sense language is an element that determines more than its sensory definition. \nCurator Rey Andújar (Santo Domingo 1977) has published narratives and works of theater since 2005. He studies within a laboratory that investigates the Dramaturgy of the Body. He currently lives in Chicago. \nFEATURED POETS\n\nJuan Dicent (a.k.a. Dino Bonao). This poet\, born in the Dominican Republic and located now in New York City\, maintains a hybrid body of written text addressing the concept of nationality through a Bilingual Performance that draws upon an interesting collection of socio-anthropological notes. Other works include: Happy New Year to You (Pequeñas Resistencias 4. Antología del nuevo cuento norteamericano y caribeño. Páginas de Espuma\, Spain\, 2005); Summertime (Editorial Shampoo\, Dom Rep\, 2006; Santiago Arcos Editor\, Argentina\, 2007; Editorial Universos\, Spain 2010); Poeta en Animal Planet (Editorial Vox\, Argentina 2007); My Uncle’s First Jeans (Textos de Cartón\, Argentina 2009); Monday Street (Editorial Cara de Cuis\, Argentina 2011). visit: www.blogworkorange.blogspot.com  and  www.podworkorange.com \nThe poetry of Jorge Frisancho navigates within the posture of the body in terms of its metaphysical character. His book Estudios sobre un cuerpo (Studies of a Body) explores the possibility of body-to-body journeys. The lyric structure of this poet\, who was born in Barcelona\, raised in Peru\, and who has lived in Chicago for some years\, is generous in its speech and extensive in its embrace; it denotes the body as a space for conflicts and opposing forces. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-with-rey-andujar-jorge-frisancho-and-juan-dicent-bilingual-poetry/
LOCATION:IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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