Return Us to Nakedness, A Celebration of Rane Arroyo
RANE Flyer, Jpeg Guild Literary Complex, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, After Hours Press, and the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center invite you to join us for an evening celebrating...
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Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center 4048 West Armitage, Chicago, IL, United States
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RAP 101
Iridium Clothing CO 1330 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, United StatesWelcome to Chicago's newest DIY underground hip-hop event. On the last Thursday of the month (August and December excluded) the Guild Literary Complex hosts an a cappella hip-hop series with...
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BrooksDay Preview at the MCA, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United StatesThe 4th Annual BrooksDay is right around the corner, and to pique your interest the Guild Literary Complex in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a preview...
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Palabra Pura, May 18, 2016
La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United StatesPalabra Pura with Miguel López Lemus of Lobo Estepario Press presents: Palabra Pura as part of the Guild Literary Complex Una noche bohemia. A bohemian night. Poetry, song, music, storytelling...
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RAP 101 meets Real Love No Drama, Artist Talk about women, music, and Mary J. Blige with Author Danny Alexander
Volumes Bookcafe 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago , United StatesThursday May 26, 2016. Wicker Park Chicago Guild Literary Complex Presents: Where Margins Meet 5:30 - 7:30 PM Artist Talk with Danny Alexander, Volumes Bookcafe 7:30 Door, 8:00 - 9:45...
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4th Annual BrooksDay, June 7 2016
Chicago Cultural Center 78 East Washington Street, Chicago, United StatesWelcome to the 4th Annual BrooksDay, a day long celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks Tuesday, June 7, 2016, Time: 10:00 am until 6:00 pm Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St.,...
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Where Margins Meet ~ the Guild’s Annual Benefit
Filament Theatre 4041 N. MILWAUKEE AVE, Chicago , IL, United StatesThe GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX is set to party with you on June 22nd 6:00 - 9:00 PM at Filament theatre. Come celebrate nearly 30 years of the Guild's legacy in...
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One Poet/One Poem
La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United StatesThe Guild’s annual One Poet/One Poem event starts the year off by looking back. Past Palabra Pura performers are invited to return and share a single poem or other 3-minute piece, painting...
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Born Woke: 30 years of Guild Literary Complex – Programming Ahead of the Times
Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, ILA Newberry Colloquium Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4pm Towner Fellows’ Lounge, Newberry Library Join us for a talk featuring the Guild Literary Complex’s rich archive, exhibiting its groundbreaking impact on...
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Creative Freedom: Writing In and Out of Prison
Green Line Performing Arts Center 329 E. Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL, United StatesA reading and panel featuring formerly incarcerated writers, and writers who teach in prisons, sharing their work and their perspectives on writing in prison, writing outside of prison, and writing...
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Palabra Pura en Poesía en Abril
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Of Poetry and Protest
Stony Island Arts Bank 6760 S. Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL, United States3A panel presented by The Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation This afternoon with Angela Jackson, Haki Madhubuti, and Eugene Redmond, some of the most important Chicago-area poets working at the intersection of...
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Performing Identities On (& Off) the Page: Queer Femme Artists of Color
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesBuilding on a conversation begun with last Fall’s Applied Words: Performing Queerness On (& Off) the Page, this reading and performance panel brings together three Chicago-based queer femme artists of color working...
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BrooksDay 2019
Chicago State University, Gwendolyn Brooks Library 9501 S. King Drive, Chicago, IL, United StatesBrooksDay is the Guild Literary Complex’s annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks, held every year on June 7th, the anniversary of her birth. Since 2013, BrooksDay has been a marquee event in...
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The Guild’s 30th Anniversary Party
Chopin Theater 1543 W DivisionThe Guild hosted an evening celebrating the Guild’s first 30 years, and looking forward to the next 30. Important voices from the Guild’s past introduced the Guild’s 30 Writers to...
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Of Poetry and Protest Exhibit Opening
Stony Island Arts Bank 6760 S. Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL, United StatesPresented by The Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation Continuing the collaboration between The Guild Complex and Rebuild Foundation built on the 2016 anthology of African American political art and poetry, Of Poetry and Protest:...
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Of Poetry and Protest: Legacy of the Black Arts Movement
A screening, reading & conversation This multi-media program looks at the legacy of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in Chicago as part of the opening weekend of the Of Poetry and...
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Narraciones en Tiempos Distintos / Narrations in Different Times
La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United StatesEn estos tiempos difíciles y en mérito a la evolucion de la lengua, contamos las historias que nuestros zapatos caminan, desde 4 perspectivas diferentes. Democracia, intertextualidad, el muro, THC, LGBTTQQIAAP,...
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GBOMA Finals 2019
The Promontory 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. West, Chicago, IL, United StatesThe Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA) is an annual poetry competition founded by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) and open to all Illinois residents over the age of 18. The top...
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Film Screening: Luis Argueta’s U Turn
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Incarcerated: Stories, Poetry and Perspectives
Read/Write Library at the Justice Hotel 6108 North Kenmore, Chicago, IL, United StatesInformation Wants to Be Free & So Do We A Pop Up Library on Communication, Control & Mass Incarceration In collaboration with Read/Write Library, the Guild Complex brings the stories...
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Final Palabra Pura of 2019 on Translation
La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United StatesJoin the Guild Literary Complex for the last Palabra Pura event of the year, hosted by Kolin Jordan and featuring Amaia Gabantxo and Andrew Hertzberg. Translation will be a theme...
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Cyntoia Brown-Long: An Evening in Dialogue
Mandel Hall 1131 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL, United StatesJoin us for a powerful evening of dialogue between Dr. Tara Betts, the Literary Editor of New City, and author Cyntoia Brown-Long as they discuss her new book, Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System.
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One Poet/One Poem
La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United StatesJoin us for the Guild’s annual One Poet/One Poem event as part of our ongoing bi-lingual Palabra Pura reading series. Here are this year's participants: Emcee: Mary Hawley Readers: Emmanuel...
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Cancelled: Backbone Press Chicago Reading
Chopin Theater 1543 W DivisionThe Guild Complex Presents: A reading with Backbone Press Featuring our 30 Writers to Watch Tara Betts and Faisal Mohyuddin, along with other Backbone Press authors Naoko Fujimoto, Allison Joseph,...
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Cancelled: 30W2W Book Release & Reading
Hopleaf 5148 N Clark St, Chicago, ILJoin the Guild Literary Complex in celebrating the recent release of The Distance Between by Timothy J. Hillegonds, and a reading from Kenyatta Rogers, two of the Guild’s 30 Writers...
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Poesia en Abril – Postponed
More details to come!
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Palabra Pura Anniversary Launch
More details coming soon!
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BrooksDay – Postponed
BrooksDay 2020 will not be held on June 7th, due to COVID-19 restrictions. We're planning a date for the fall and will have more details soon.
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Printers Row
Printers Row Lit Fest 2020 has been postponed until September.