Events

Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • The Guild Goes Dark

    We'll be taking some time away to regroup through the month of August after a fruitful spring and summer. Keep an eye out for our Fall Preview, which will contain...

  • Dispatches from Kapittel

    The Guild is sending six Chicago writers to the Kapittel International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech in Stavenger, Norway as a part of our ongoing work with writers living...

  • Palabra Pura: Calling Home

    Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street

    Our monthly bilingual reading series in September features Ana Castillo and Paul Martinez Pompa and is curated by Cristina Correa. The event is hosted and co-presented by the Poetry Foundation. States Correa,...

  • Palabra Pura: Want

    La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs) 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    Curated by Cyn Vargas, the theme of this month's Palabra Pura is Want. Cyn writes, "Want. It could be a person, thing, words we long to hear, a new place....

  • Annual Prose Awards Reading and Recognition Event

    Chopin Theatre 1543 West Division Street, Chicago, United States

    UPDATED: ANNOUNCING THE 2014 PROSE AWARD WINNERS! Kate Duva, winner of the 2014 Prose Award in Fiction Elora de Grey, winner of the 2014 Prose Award in Non-Fiction The Guild...

    $8

  • Colm Tóibín’s Transatlantic Literary Worlds

    Northwestern University School of Law, Thorne Auditorium 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago , United States

    The Guild Literary Complex is proud and excited to partner with the 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival to present Colm Tóibín's Transatlantic Literary Worlds, a live interview with the award-winning author conducted...

    $12

  • TONIC

    Beauty Bar 1444 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

    The Guild’s “good for you” year-end party has returned! This year, after much celebration of our 25th anniversary, we look forward to the future. We plan to celebrate with music,...

    $30

  • Palabra Pura: From the Margins of the Margins

    La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs) 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    In response to the hangover from colonialism still lingering in the United States, a new literary space has been carved out where historically marginalized bodies, narratives and histories finally have...

  • Winter Break!

    The Guild will be dark for the month of December. We'll be announcing 2015 programming soon...See you next year!

  • Palabra Pura: Urban Realities/Realidades urbanas

    La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    Chicago is a complicated place, a city where senseless acts of violence and random acts of kindness happen every day, where some can dare to dream and others dream of...

  • Uncharted: a “25 Writers to Watch” kick-off

    Schubas Tavern 3159 N Southport, Chicago, IL, United States

    As part of the Guild's 25th anniversary last year, we highlighted 25 Chicago area Writers to Watch. This year, we program all of them—starting now! "Uncharted" features readings by Eric...

  • Voices of Protest: Home Edition

    826CHI 1276 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

    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...

  • Palabra Pura: A Toda Madre, Men Pay Tribute to Their Mothers

    La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    Sharing California roots, a love of poetry, and a feminist devotion to their mothers, Tijuana native Brian Martin and L.A. native Arturo “Tootie” Alvarez blend English and Spanish to pay homage...

  • Applied Words: A Dose of Mind and Body

    International Museum of Surgical Science 1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, United States

    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,"...

  • The Alphabet of Distant Harbours

    The Chicago Cultural Center 78 E Washington St.

    The Guild Complex continues a new reading platform to foreground Asian / American authors and themes. Curated by Dipika Mukherjee, this spring's program—The Alphabet of Distant Harbours—features Toni Nealie, Zhou...

  • Palabra Pura: Borderless Bodies

    La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    This month's Palabra Pura is curated by Daniel Borzutzky, who believes that this month's performers, Duriel E. Harris and Rodrigo Toscano, are two of our present moment's most innovative, most...

  • The Wall of Respect and People’s Art Since 1967 Symposium Opening

    Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Wing 159 E Monroe St, Chicago, IL, United States

    The Guild Literary Complex joins the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and other partners in a symposium launch event tonight to honor and discuss the legacy of the...

  • Applied Words: On Belonging

    Schubas Tavern 3159 N Southport, Chicago, IL, United States

    In a city—let alone a world—of vast geographies, identities, experience and more, how do we understand our place? Using personal stories, our guest authors will navigate the territory of belonging...

    $5

  • Wink and Whisper: the Guild’s 2015 benefit party

    Uptown Underground 4707 N Broadway, Chicago, IL, United States

    Click here to buy tickets! The Guild Complex is re-imagining the 1920s through music, song, comedy, and dance in our sixth annual benefit, Wink & Whisper: A 1920s LGBT Cabaret....

  • Palabra Pura: Inner Landscape Queens

    Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center 4048 West Armitage, Chicago, United States

    Please note this month's Palabra Pura is taking place at a special location: the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center (4048 W Armitage Ave). Three fearless and unique feminine voices with...

    $5

  • Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir

    Preston Bradley Center 941 West Lawrence, Chicago, IL, United States

      Tickets available at door (advance sales have ended). Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir is a radical performance community based in New York City, and they are coming...

    $12

  • BrooksDay 2015 – By Any Art Necessary

    Logan Arts Center 915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL, United States

    June 7, 2015 marks the Third Annual BrooksDay and promises to be an exciting continuation of The Guild Literary Complex’s signature event with nonstop readings and performances this year in...

  • Luis Rodriguez reading

    Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center 4048 West Armitage, Chicago, United States

    Founder of Tia Chucha Press and L.A. Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez returns to Chicago for a special reading event sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc.     This program takes...

    $5

  • Palabra Pura: Does English Matter

    La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    Performers Adam Gottlieb and Angelina Llongueras use their original music, poetry and experience as activists, here and in Spain, to pursue the question: Does English matter? For English expression in...

    $5

  • Palabra Pura: Latinidad-Who are we? Latino Poets on Identity

    La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    For featured authors Diego Báez and Amy Sayre Baptista, violence inhabits their lives and what they write about. This is a violence that divides our culture and us; this is a colonization of our identity as a man, as a woman, and as a Latina/o. What does it mean to be Latina/o? These poets sing...

    $5

  • 22nd Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards Program

    Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E 60th, Chicago, IL, United States

    Update: Congratulations to the winner, Javon J. Smith! After the first four rounds, the finalists were chosen by the live audience—no easy task—and included Aja Zakiya Hall, Cassandra McGovern, Javon J. Smith, and Sam Herschel Wein. Javon won with his dynamic performance of the poem "Nig(g)ot." Javon J. Smith, an educator at Perspectives/IIT Math &...

    $8