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SUMMARY:Book Release for Mike Puican's Central Air
DESCRIPTION:Book Release and Reading for Mike Puican’s new book of poetry\, Central Air. \nSeptember 17\, 2020\n7:00pm – 8:00pm\, reception to follow\nPoetry Foundation\nAlso featuring readings from Mary Hawley and Marc Smith\, with an introduction from Mark Turcotte. \n \nPraise for Central Air: \n“When I read Mike Puican’s Central Air\, I can feel Chicago in my bones like hot sidewalks and gridded streets. Here is a Midwest crooner with a river of Red Line in his blood. Here is a catechism of Father-prayers and tenement doorways. Reader\, ‘Tonight the crack in the asphalt is speaking to me\,’ and its voice is wonderment wandering from Mike’s town to yours. Wherever you are\, open these pages to find a map back to a place where the wind is ruler of everything it touches\, a place that ‘twists its way into our hearts.’” —Pulitzer Prize winner\, Tyehimba Jess\, author of Olio \n“Here we have it—keenly addictive chronicles of the Chicago poet and his Chicago brethren\, living their just-ain’t-no-livin’-like-this Chicago lives against that utterly iconic Chicago backdrop. Mike Puican’s homage to that most relentless of cities is nothing less than revelatory\, and the poetic landscape will have to shift in appreciation.” —Patricia Smith\, author of Incendiary Art (Northwestern\, 2017) \n“In Mike Puican’s striking debut\, Central Air\, poems not only question our surroundings but allow our surroundings to question us—Chicago becoming as central a character as any other. With vivid imagery and a fine control of rhetoric\, Puican’s poems are as strong giving life to a bar joke as they are representing the challenges of addressing the divine.” —C. Dale Young\, author of The Affliction: A Novel in Stories \n“Mike Puican’s poems are stern\, compressed\, and unsentimental. But they are also big-hearted and empathic\, even when their evocations of human failing are at their most acute. The poems succeed through an unobtrusive mastery of craft\, surprising turns of imagery\, narrative precision\, and an unerring consistency of voice. The book is also a masterly evocation of contemporary Chicago\, a worthy successor to collections such as Sandburg’s Chicago Poems or Brook’s A Street in Bronzeville. This is notable company indeed.” —David Wojahn\, author of Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004 \n“Mike Puican’s Central Air is filled with vividly exuberant and deeply empathetic images of life. He has shaped the cheer and sorrows of hundreds of human moments into a bright constellation of poetic energy and inventiveness. His way of capturing spiritual as well as carnal intensities is striking and original. What a great debut! And a great Chicago book\, as well.” —Reginald Gibbons\, author of How Poems Think
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/book-release-for-mike-puicans-central-air/
LOCATION:The Poetry Foundation\, 61 W Superior St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200905T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200906T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200429T233543Z
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SUMMARY:Printers Row
DESCRIPTION:Printers Row Lit Fest 2020 has been postponed until September.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/printers-row/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200608
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200129T210803Z
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SUMMARY:BrooksDay - Postponed
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/brooksday-2/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200429T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura Anniversary Launch
DESCRIPTION:More details coming soon!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-anniversary-launch/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200129T204402Z
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SUMMARY:Poesia en Abril - Postponed
DESCRIPTION:More details to come!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poesia-en-abril/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200331T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200331T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200312T162855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T174130Z
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: 30W2W Book Release & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 to Watch. \nHillegonds’s memoir is a finely wrought exploration of\, and reckoning with\, absent fathers\, fatherhood\, violence\, adolescent rage\, white male privilege\, and his own toxic masculinity. With nuance and urgency\, The Distance Between takes readers through the grit of life on the margins while grappling with the problematic nature of one man’s existence. \nThe evening will also feature readings from:\nChris Green\nMichelle Morano \nTimothy J. Hillegonds is the author of The Distance Between (Nebraska\, 2019). His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, Salon\, The Daily Beast\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere on the web and in print. In 2019\, Tim was named by the Guild Literary Complex as one of their thirty “Writers to Watch.” He earned a Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University in Chicago\, and currently serves as a contributing editor for Slag Glass City\, a digital journal of the urban essay arts. \n  \nChris Green is the author of four books of poetry: The Sky Over Walgreens\, Epiphany School\, Résumé\, and Everywhere West (Mayapple Press\, 2019). His poetry has appeared in such publications as Poetry and The New York Times. He’s edited four anthologies\, including I Remember: Chicago Veterans of War and most recently\, American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans (Big Shoulders Books\, 2020). He teaches in the English Department at DePaul University. More information can be found at www.chrisgreenpoetry.com. \n  \n  \nMichele Morano is the author of the travel memoir Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain and the forthcoming memoir-in-essays Like Love. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, including Best American Essays\, Fourth Genre\, Ninth Letter\, and Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women. She lives in Chicago\, where she chairs the English Department at DePaul University. \n  \nKenyatta Rogers\, one of the Guild’s 30 Writers to Watch\, is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been awarded multiple scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. He has also been nominated multiple times for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. His work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from Jubilat\, Vinyl\, Bat City Review\, The Volta\, PANK\, MAKE Magazine among others. He is as a co-host of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench\, an Associate Editor with RHINO Poetry and currently serves on the Creative Writing Faculty at the Chicago High School for the Arts.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/30w2w-book-release-reading/
LOCATION:Hopleaf\, 5148 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200321T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200321T170000
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Backbone Press Chicago Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Complex Presents: A reading with Backbone Press \nFeaturing our 30 Writers to Watch Tara Betts and Faisal Mohyuddin\, along with other Backbone Press authors Naoko Fujimoto\, Allison Joseph\, and Aozora Brockman. \nAs a response to the bleak state of diversity in publishing\, Backbone Press has been publishing diversely since 2012\, supporting writers who are considered marginalized voices and whose work may not be published elsewhere. Without the political\, protest\, diasporic\, voices of the poor\, and even prison writing\, there are no distinctions. These publications provide necessary bridges\, particularly in terms of generational\, gender\, and racial lines. In addition to informing\, they engage us in broader cultural conversations. \nTara Betts is the author of Break the Habit (Trio House Press) and Arc & Hue (Willow Books). She teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago and lives in Chicago. She has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and her work has appeared in Essence Magazine\, Callaloo\, Drum Voices Revue\, WSQ\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hanging Loose\, and Drunken Boat. \n  \nAozora Brockman holds an MFA from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in the Split Rock Review and Chicago Tribune. She grew up on a small\, family-operated organic farm in Central Illinois\, and much of her poetry is influenced by the meditative spaces of weeding and harvesting. \n  \n  \nNaoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya\, Japan. She was an exchange student and received a B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University. Her forthcoming poetry collections is Where I Was Born\, winner of the editor’s choice by Willow Books\, Spring\, 2019. Her first chapbook\, Home\, No Home\, won the annual Oro FinoChapbook Competition. She is a RHINO Poetry fellow. \n  \nAllison Joseph received a BA from Kenyon College and an MFA from Indiana University–Bloomington. She is the author of several poetry collections\, including Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press\, 2018); Worldly Pleasures (Word Press\, 2004); and What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand\, 1992)\, winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. She also serves as the editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. \n  \n Faisal Mohyuddin is a writer\, artist\, and educator from Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing\, 2018)\, winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize. The recipient of Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley Award and a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize\, his work appears in the Missouri Review\, Narrative\, Crab Orchard Review\, Poet Lore\, RHINO\, Tinderbox\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, Atlanta Review\, and elsewhere. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/backbone-press-chicago-reading/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200211T190122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200211T190122Z
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SUMMARY:One Poet/One Poem
DESCRIPTION:Join 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: \nEmcee: \nMary Hawley \n\nReaders: \nEmmanuel Ayala \nEduardo Arocho \nMelissa Cintron \nCarlos Cumpián \nAngelica Davila \nNick Garcia \nSilvia Goldman \nGregorio Gomez \nAdam Gottlieb \nCarolina Herrera \nKolin Jordan \nOlivia Maciel \nPedro Pablo Marín \nElizabeth Marino \nBrian Martin \nPaul Martínez Pompa \nMiguel Marzana \nYolanda Nieves \nCynthia Pelayo \nMike Puican \nDavid Rade \nIvan Ramos \nMartha Cecilia Rivera \nStuart Ross \nXenia Ruiz \nJohanny Vázquez Paz
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/one-poet-one-poem-3/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200110T171839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200110T171903Z
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SUMMARY:Cyntoia Brown-Long: An Evening in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Join 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. They will also reflect on the impact of trafficking in Black communities in recognition of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month.\n\nWe will also hear from Chicago-based survivor leader and advocate\, Brenda Stewart\, who will open the evening with her own testimony of survival and the work she does to advocate for and support other survivors of exploitation and violence. There will be a Q+A with the audience towards the end of the program.\n\nFree Cyntoia will be available for purchase throughout the program.\n\nAll proceeds go directly to Cyntoia Brown-Long.\n\nTickets are available on a sliding scale from $5-20. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. The event is open to those aged 13 and up and accessible to those using wheelchairs or other mobility devices.\n\n\nFor more information\, please contact Nikki Patin at npatin@caase.org. \n\nParking Info:\nStreet parking is free and plentiful around the Reynold’s Club in the evenings and on the weekends. Visitor parking is also available in surface lots at University Avenue and 59th Street\, Ellis Avenue and 56th Street\, and in a garage at Ellis Avenue and 55th Street.\n\nLearn more about this event here.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/5565/
LOCATION:Mandel Hall\, 1131 E. 57th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191120T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T001849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T001849Z
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SUMMARY:Final Palabra Pura of 2019 on Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 of this event\, so feel free to bring a translation of yours (a poem or a few lines of a prose piece) for the open mic.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/final-palabra-pura-of-2019-on-translation/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T004042Z
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SUMMARY:Incarcerated: Stories\, Poetry and Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Information Wants to Be Free & So Do We\nA Pop Up Library on Communication\, Control & Mass Incarceration \nIn collaboration with Read/Write Library\, the Guild Complex brings the stories from the formerly incarcerated. \n“Information Wants to Be Free & So Do We” asks audiences to question the idea that social\, emotional\, and intellectual control are necessary for public safety\, rehabilitation\, and justice. \nThe event will explore several different perspectives on the subject of incarceration with the following participants: \nA black\, female former corrections officer from Wisconsin\, Velvet Rose Moore-Owen\, will be reading an excerpt from her upcoming book\, Incarcerated: A Memoir. \nIn addition\, we will have representatives from the group\, Black and Pink. Black and Pink: Chicago is an open family of GLBTQ prisoners and “free world” allies who support each other. Our work toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex is rooted in the experience of currently and formerly incarcerated people. We are outraged by the specific violence of the prison industrial complex against GLBTQ people\, and respond through advocacy\, education\, direct service\, and organizing.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/incarcerated-stories-poetry-and-perspectives/
LOCATION:Read/Write Library at the Justice Hotel\, 6108 North Kenmore\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191016T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191016T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T003642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T003642Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Luis Argueta's U Turn
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URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/film-screening-luis-arguetas-u-turn/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190917T183000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T011041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T011052Z
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SUMMARY:GBOMA Finals 2019
DESCRIPTION:The 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 contestants selected by guest judges from the poetry community are invited to perform their original poems at the live finals event\, where the audience favorite is awarded the $500 prize. \n\n\n \nPulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) founded the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award twenty-five years ago. Brooks was born in Topeka\, Kansas and lived in Chicago for the rest of her life. She was the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry and numerous other books. Her many awards and honors include Poet Laureate of Illinois\, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress\, American Academy of Arts and Letters award\, a Pulitzer Prize\, the Frost Medal\, a National Endowment for the Arts award\, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. \n  \n  \n  \nMargot McMahon\, Gwendolyn Brooks: The Oracle of Bronzeville (2018)\, Brooks Park\, Chicago \n\n\nThe list of finalists for GBOMA 2019 can be found here!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gboma-2019/
LOCATION:The Promontory\, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. West\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190724T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190724T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T001725Z
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SUMMARY:Narraciones en Tiempos Distintos / Narrations in Different Times
DESCRIPTION:En 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\, el decálogo\, historias de supermarkets\, literalidad\, teorias secretas y mucho más. \nStories for difficult times and the evolution of the language\, from 4 different perspectives. Democracy\, intertextuality\, the wall\, THC\, LGBTTQQIAAP\, The Decalogue\, supermarkets stories\, literality\, secret theories and much more. \nCon:\nCarolina Herrera\nAnastacio Aranda\nLucia Wrooman\ny\nMiguel Marzana\n(curator)
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/narraciones-en-tiempos-distintos-narrations-in-different-times/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190629T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190629T163000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T003015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T003248Z
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SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest: Legacy of the Black Arts Movement
DESCRIPTION:A screening\, reading & conversation \nThis 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 Protest exhibit\, looking back at the history of Chicago’s BAM and reflecting on the artists and institutions that have extended its impact in the decades since the BAM was at its height in the city. Prof. Thabiti Lewis of Washington State University Vancouver will screen the in-progress documentary film BAM! Chicago’s Black Arts Movement he is co-directing with Prof. Pavithra Narayanan\, and Of Poetry and Protest Co-Editor/Guild Founding Director Michael Warr\, along with some Special Guests\, will read poetry and conduct a public conversation about how the legacy of the BAM lives on in Chicago.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/of-poetry-and-protest-legacy-of-the-black-arts-movement/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190628T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190628T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T003223Z
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SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest Exhibit Opening
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation \nContinuing 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: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (WW Norton)\, this exhibit seeks to capture the transformative power that fuels social movements and sustains families and communities confronting state violence against black and brown youth. Curated by Of Poetry and Protest Co-Editor/Guild Founding Director Michael Warr together with The Guild and Rebuild\, the exhibit presents words and images – portraits\, poems\, documentation\, and creative responses — featured in the book\, alongside Present Absence\, a five-channel video installation by the artists Salome Chasnoff + Meredith Zielke that makes visible the lives of individuals killed by Chicago Police through stories generated from intimate one-on-one interviews with their families and close friends. This work is presented along with\, and in response to\, Rebuild Foundation’s Objects of Care: Material Memorial for Tamir Rice on the Arts Bank lawn. The opening will provide a chance to view all of these works and meet the artists and curators behind the exhibit\, who will also speak about the work during a short\, informal public conversation. Light appetizers will be provided and the Stony Island Arts Bank’s bar will be open for business. The Of Poetry and Protest exhibit will remain on display through the summer. \n  \nPresent Absence promo video from salome chasnoff on Vimeo.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/of-poetry-and-protest-exhibit-opening/
LOCATION:Stony Island Arts Bank\, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190626T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190626T213000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T010626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T010626Z
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SUMMARY:The Guild's 30th Anniversary Party
DESCRIPTION:The 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 Watch in 2019 and beyond. We saw old friends & made some new ones\, while enjoying music\, hors d’oeuvres\, and an-end-of night raffle featuring unique artifacts from the Guild’s archives.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/the-guilds-30th-anniversary-party/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190607T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190607T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T010340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T010423Z
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SUMMARY:BrooksDay 2019
DESCRIPTION:BrooksDay 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 the Guild’s yearly calendar with many literary\, cultural\, and civic leaders from Chicago and beyond taking the stage to celebrate and honor Gwendolyn Brooks\, former Poet Laureate of Illinois and the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize.  BrooksDay honors her legacy as an artist and an iconic figure of generosity and civic conscience in Chicago and the nation. \n5pm Reception\nEach year\, BrooksDay is unique\, but BrooksDay always commemorates Gwendolyn Brooks’ artistic achievements\, her legendary generosity toward other poets\, her influence as a pathbreaking cultural figure in Chicago and beyond\, and her well-deserved status as one of the standard-bearers for progressive values and contemporary poetry in modern Chicago\, through public performances of her work. BrooksDay 2019 is a collaboration between The Guild Complex\, Brooks Permissions\, and Third World Press Foundation\, who have sponsored previous BrooksDays\, and the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University\, where Ms Brooks taught\, and which has recently renamed their library in her honor. \n3-5pm\n4th Floor Atrium\nThe Guild Literary Complex presents a reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’ work featuring members of Chicago’s literary arts community\ncarrying on Ms Brooks’ commitment to the literary arts and literary artists:\nNile Lansana\, Nicole Bond\, Timothy Rey\, Michael Fischer\, Chloe Johnston\, Liz McCabe\, Mike Puican\,\nJennifer Karmin & Marcy Rae Henry\, William Ayers\, Mojdeh Stoakley\, Mario\, Serena Simpson\,\nAngela Jackson\, Haki R. Madhubuti\, & Nora Brooks Blakely \n5-6pm\n4th Floor Solarium\nThe Event Sponsors host a reception celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks’ life and work on her birthday with appetizers and birthday cake! \n6-8pm\n4th Floor Atrium\nThe Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University presents a program in honor of the legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks \nEvent Sponsors: \n \n \n@
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/5549/
LOCATION:Chicago State University\, Gwendolyn Brooks Library\, 9501 S. King Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190530T193000
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SUMMARY:Performing Identities On (& Off) the Page: Queer Femme Artists of Color
DESCRIPTION:Building 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 across writing and performance\, who use language\, body\, and voice to reconsider and confront the limitations and possibilities of identity in diverse ways. Through three unique reading-performances and a moderated discussion\, this evening will explore the performative possibilities of writing to both materialize and transform the experiences and identities queer femme POC across a broad spectrum. \nFeaturing:\nUnoma Azuah\nAda Cheng\nAJ McClenon \nModerator:\nFelicia Holman
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/performing-identities-on-off-the-page-queer-femme-artists-of-color/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee Ave.\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190518T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190518T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T002831Z
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SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest
DESCRIPTION:3A panel presented by\nThe Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation \nThis afternoon with Angela Jackson\, Haki Madhubuti\, and Eugene Redmond\, some of the most important Chicago-area poets working at the intersection of literary innovation and political resistance over the last 50 years\, inaugurates a new collaboration between The Guild and Rebuild Foundation that builds on the widely praised 2016 anthology of African American political art and poetry\, Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (WW Norton) co-edited by Guild Founding Executive Director Michael Warr\, who also joins in this collaboration. This program anticipates the late June installation\, on the Stony Island Arts Bank’s lawn\, of the Gazebo where Tamir Rice was murdered by the Cleveland Police. The Gazebo’s erection as a memorial will be accompanied by additional Of Poetry and Protest programming and a small exhibition co-organized by the Guild and Warr. Looking ahead\, and reflecting on the deconstructed Gazebo currently on display\, these Chicago area writers included in the anthology will gather to share work from the book and engage with Michael Warr\, the collection’s Poetry Editor\, about the histories\, traditions\, and experiences that their work draws on\, and about the role that poetry and art can play in grieving\, memorializing\, and resisting the human cost that the systems of racial violence with which we live extract. \n\n\n\n\nAbout our partner: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebuild Foundation is a platform for art\, cultural development\, and neighborhood transformation. Its mission is to leverage the power and potential of communities\, buildings\, and objects that others have written off through innovative\, entrepreneurial arts and cultural initiatives. This work is informed by three core values: black people matter\, black spaces matter\, and black objects matter. Founded by artist Theaster Gates\, Rebuild is part of a network of sister organizations that collaborate to extend the social engagement of Gates’ studio practice to the South Side of Chicago and beyond.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/of-poetry-and-protest/
LOCATION:Stony Island Arts Bank\, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190413T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T001503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T001503Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura en Poesía en Abril
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URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-en-poesia-en-abril/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190320T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190320T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T002622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T002622Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Freedom: Writing In and Out of Prison
DESCRIPTION:A 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 about prison from both inside and out. \nPresented in partnership with UChicago Arts & Public Life + Chicago Torture Justice Memorials in connection with the exhibition Still Here: Torture\, Resiliency and the Art of Memorializing. \nFeaturing:\nTara Betts\nEric Blackmon\nMichael Fischer\nReuben Taylor \nModerator:\nMike Puican
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/creative-freedom-writing-in-and-out-of-prison/
LOCATION:Green Line Performing Arts Center\, 329 E. Garfield Boulevard\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200317T172641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T172641Z
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SUMMARY:Born Woke: 30 years of Guild Literary Complex – Programming Ahead of the Times
DESCRIPTION:A Newberry Colloquium\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 2\, 2019\n4pm\nTowner Fellows’ Lounge\, Newberry Library\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a talk featuring the Guild Literary Complex’s rich archive\, exhibiting its groundbreaking impact on literary programming across Chicago communities. The discussion will feature Guild collaborators and curators Kurt Heintz\, Marci Merola\, and Lew Rosenbaum. \nKurt Heintz co-founded the Guild’s Poetry Video Festival\, and founded the e-poets network (e-poets.net) which includes the Book of Voices. The Book of Voices (voices.e-poets.net) holds recordings of literally hundreds of poets and\, in a decade long partnership with Woman Made Gallery\, has built one of the largest audible collections of female writers in the Midwest. \n  \n  \nMarci Merola is a local writer and poet who served as a board member\, volunteer and groupie of the Guild Complex for many years. She was director of the Advocacy Office at the American Library Association for the past 10 years. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLew Rosenbaum is a founder of the Guild Literary Complex\, and edits and publishes the Chicago Labor & Arts Notes e-mail newsletter. He has been employed as a garment worker\, printer\, social worker\, and history teacher\, but for most of his life he has been a bookseller\, first at the path-breaking Midnight Special Books in Santa Monica\, CA\, then at the legendary Guild Books in Chicago. He writes on education and independent politics for The People’s Tribune newspaper. \n\n\n  \n\n\n  \nThe Newberry Colloquium is a weekly opportunity for the Newberry community to come together and learn about research or projects being conducted by our staff\, fellows\, scholars-in-residence\, and other invited speakers. Colloquium events are open to the Newberry community and the general public. Colloquia topics usually relate to the Newberry’s collection\, and presentations are intended for a non-specialist audience. \nUnless otherwise noted\, the colloquium convenes on Wednesday afternoons in Towner Fellows’ Lounge on the 2nd floor of the Newberry. Refreshments are served at 3:30 pm\, with the talk beginning at 4 pm. A brief discussion follows each presentation. No reservations are required in order to attend.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/born-woke-30-years-of-guild-literary-complex-programming-ahead-of-the-times/
LOCATION:Newberry Library\, 60 West Walton Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20200107T001305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T001305Z
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SUMMARY:One Poet/One Poem
DESCRIPTION:The 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 a portrait in snapshots of our ongoing bi-lingual reading series and all of the styles\, voices\, and communities it includes.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/one-poet-one-poem/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160622T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160622T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20160427T201313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160526T171812Z
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SUMMARY:Where Margins Meet ~ the Guild's Annual Benefit
DESCRIPTION:The GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX is set to party with you on June 22nd 6:00 – 9:00 PM at Filament theatre.\n \nCome celebrate nearly 30 years of the Guild’s legacy in Chicago as we look to our next 30.  Performances\, music\, fun\, food and drink will round out a night with some of your favorite Chicago literati\, spoken work poets\, prose specialists\, Guild family members\, and on.   \n \nPerformances by Cyn Vargas\, Yung Assata\, Adam Gottlieb\, and Javon Smith will round out a night of Guild announcements and frivolity.  \nTickets are:  \n$15 for Students\, with current Student ID \n$45 for Bronze Level Attendees\, will receive two drink tickets with purchase \n$90 for Silver Level Attendees\, who will enjoy free drinks all night and will receive a Swag Bag; and\,  \n$180 for Guilded Members\, who will enjoy free drinks all night and a Super Swag Bag!  \nRaffle items will include Museum Memberships\, Wine and more\, so be sure to\nGet your tickets Today!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/where-margins-meet-annual-benefit/
LOCATION:Filament Theatre\, 4041 N. MILWAUKEE AVE\, Chicago \, IL\, 60641\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Guild Literary Complex":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160607T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160607T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20160303T063024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160524T123104Z
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SUMMARY:4th Annual BrooksDay\, June 7 2016
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the 4th Annual BrooksDay\,\na day long celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks \n\nTuesday\, June 7\, 2016\, \nTime: 10:00 am until 6:00 pm  \nChicago Cultural Center\,  \n78 E Washington St.\,  \nChicago\, IL 60602.  \nOur annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks is back\, this year at the Chicago Cultural Center.  Special features\, amazing readers and all things Gwendolyn Brooks will commence at 10:00 am and go until 6:00 pm. The Guild Literary Complex\, Brooks Permissions\, the Poetry Foundation\, and Third World Press\, are again partnering as hosts for Chicago’s premier celebration of all things Gwendolyn Brooks: BrooksDay.  This year we return to our roots with BrooksDay being held on the anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’ birthday\, Tuesday\, June 7\, 2016\, from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm at the Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL 60602\, the location of the first-ever BrooksDay.   \nWe are inviting you to join us this year at an event that is intrinsically Chicago! \nOutdoing ourselves\, this year’s program will feature Kevin Coval\, Aviya Kushner\, and Andrea Change\, as emcees\, along with many of Chicago’s top literary and artistic talent including graffiti artist Tyrue Slang Jones\, artistic brother-trio Sketch N’ Tyme\, and readers including Michelle Boone\, Steve Young\, Jackie Taylor\, Calvin Forbes\, Coya Paz\, Eric May\, Angela Jackson\, Toni Asante Lightfoot\, Quraysh Ali Lansana\, and many others.  Putting together a robust day of poetry\, performance\, activism\, and Gwendolyn Brooks\, we are expecting a great and participatory audience for this event\, as we are again centrally located in Chicago’s Loop\, and have the full support of the City of Chicago: DCASE\, as well as last year’s program sponsors including Northwestern University and Intrinsic Books. \nThe past three BrooksDay celebrations have brought wonderful visibility to the poetry\, work and life of Gwendolyn Brooks bringing together artists and audiences representing all facets of Chicago’s diverse community. This year’s reading and performance will be yet another Chicago-must\, serving as a natural launch into the summer poetry and arts festival season with this year’s event featuring thematic segments of her works and writings. As we grow each year looking towards the 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brook’s birth in 2017\, now is the perfect time to discover BrooksDay!  \nEmcee: Andrea Change\nAndrea Change is poet\, writer and a long-time friend of the Guild Complex. She has been a part of the Chicago poetry community for over 20 years.Her work has been published in a number of poetry magazines\, journals and included in such poetry anthologies from Tia Chucha Press as Powerlines and Stray Bullets. Her poetry was also included in the 2001 Steppenwolf Theatre production\, Words on Fire. A hometown girl\, born and raised in Chicago\, much of her poetry is inspired by her experiences growing up in the city. Other influences range from the classic poetry of Browning\, to Pablo Neruda\, to poets from the Harlem Renaissance and the beat poets of the ‘60s. A graduate from Northwestern University\, she is still learning and is constantly fascinated by the great voices she hears at local area poetry readings. She is mother to one son\, Phillip and Sasha\, the dog. Still an active member of the poetry and arts community\, she currently resides in Rogers Park. \nEmcee: Kevin Coval\nKevin Coval is the editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and is the author of Schtick\, L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems\, Everyday People\, Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica and the play\, This is Modern Art\, co-written with Idris Goodwin. Founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival and the Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors\, Coval teaches hip-hop aesthetics at The University of Illinois-Chicago\, is a 4x HBO Def Poet and has written for a wide variety of publications including CNN.com\, Huffington Post and Fake Shore Drive. The Chicago Tribune’s called him “the voice of the new Chicago” and the Boston Globe says he’s “the city’s unofficial poet laureate”. This is Modern Art is forthcoming in the Spring of 2016 on Haymarket Books and Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago is due out in the Spring of 2017\, also on Haymarket Books. \nEmcee: Aviya Kushner:My first book\, The Grammar of God: A Journey Into the Words and Worlds of the Bible (Spiegel & Grau/Random House 2015)\, is about the intense experience of reading the Bible in English after an entire life of reading it in Hebrew. My writing has also appeared in The Gettysburg Review\, Gulf Coast\, Partisan Review\, Poets & Writers\, A Public Space\, The Wilson Quarterly\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. I have worked as a travel columnist for The International Jerusalem Post and as a poetry columnist for BarnesandNoble.com. I am currently an associate professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago\, and I am a contributing editor at A Public Space as well as a mentor for The National Yiddish Book Center. \nEmcee: Mario Smith is the host of News From the Service Entrance on WHPK\, a contributor to\n#TheDownload on WGN Radio and a Break Beat Poet \nBrooksDay 2016 Readers include: \nJavon Smith\nSandra Opoku\nC.Russell\nFatimah Asghar\nElise Paschen\nJulie Nesbitt\nStephen Young\nKimberly Dixon- Mays\nBabu Atiba \nMama Edie\nKai El’Zabar\nCoya Paz\nToni Nealie\nHurley Green\nElizabeth Taylor\nJill Hopkins\nNora Brooks Blakely\nAngela Jackson\nQuraysh Ali Lansana\nVal Gray Ward\nToni Asante Lightfoot\nNatasha Estevez\nHaki Madhubuti\nDuriel Harris\nKofi Ademola\nPage May\nTiff Beatty\nBee Kapri\nK’Love\nBill Ayers\nTim Samuelson\nRebirth with Sketch N Tyme \nFM Supreme\nM’Reld Green\nKristiana Colon\nCalvin Forbes\nJackie Taylor\nRosellen Brown\nMichelle Boone\nPeter O’Leary\nAurora Performance Group
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/4th-annual-brooksday-june-7-2016/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 East Washington Street\, Chicago\, 60602\, United States
CATEGORIES:BrooksDay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160526T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160526T193000
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SUMMARY:RAP 101 meets Real Love No Drama\, Artist Talk about women\, music\, and Mary J. Blige with Author Danny Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 26\, 2016. Wicker Park Chicago\nGuild Literary Complex Presents: Where Margins Meet\n5:30 – 7:30 PM Artist Talk with Danny Alexander\, Volumes Bookcafe\n7:30 Door\, 8:00 – 9:45 PM RAP 101\, Iridium Clothing \nDanny Alexander\, the author of Real Love\, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige will be sitting in with RAP 101 on May 26th. A longtime editor of the music and politics press Rock & Rap Confidential\, Alexander is coming to Chicago to host a conversation sponsored by Guild Literary Complex\, Iron Heart Productions\, and Volumes Bookcafe about music in general\, Blige in particular\, race and the role of women in the artistic markets\, and what all that has to do with the work of Chicago area writers\, musicians and revolutionary thinkers. In a political season that’s come to stand for bullying and divisiveness\, Alexander believes its important for writers and artists to come together around the healing and unifying vision offered by the art we make and the art that inspires us. This will be a freewheeling event beginning with a reading and conversation\, then moving to a night of performances both announced and spontaneous. We’re out to have fun\, share deep\, and dream big. \nJoin the discussion. RSVP on Facebook.  \nRAP 101 will feature host Yung Assata and:  \nHUEY Gang ( Headstrong Urban Educated Youth) is a rap collective started by Stark of HUEY and The Law of HUEY back in 2009 with the goal of making unique music while catering to the community. We help to create and assist with opportunities for youth to express themselves such as the various open mics we host.   Our main goal is to make it to the top with our artform and help others to achieve the same goal; with\, \nClaire Smith (born 1996\, Baltimore\, MD) an African American-Dutch queer artist that is currently pursuing her Bachelors of Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Writing from the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is award winning and has been published in literary magazines in Maryland and Illinois. Her work circles around the concepts of maternal\, romantic\, and platonic relationships\, existential epiphanies\, and sexual and racial identity. \nRSVP to RAP 101 here.\nDanny Alexander\, the author of Real Love\, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige will be sitting in with RAP 101 on May 26th. A longtime editor of the music and politics press Rock & Rap Confidential\, Alexander is coming to Chicago to host a conversation sponsored by Guild Literary Complex\, Iron Heart Productions\, and Volumes Bookcafe about music in general\, Blige in particular\, race and the role of women in the artistic markets\, and what all that has to do with the work of Chicago area writers\, musicians and revolutionary thinkers. In a political season that’s come to stand for bullying and divisiveness\, Alexander believes its important for writers and artists to come together around the healing and unifying vision offered by the art we make and the art that inspires us. This will be a freewheeling event beginning with a reading and conversation\, then moving to a night of performances both announced and spontaneous. We’re out to have fun\, share deep\, and dream big. \nAbout the book: \nTracing the whole sweep of Mary J. Blige’s career through the critically acclaimed 2014 album\, The London Sessions\, this is the first serious look at the music and cultural impact of one of the most important musical artists to emerge in the past quarter century \nMary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman\, celebrated by Oprah Winfrey and beloved by pop mu-sic fans of all ages and races. Blige has sold over fifty million albums\, won numerous Grammys\, and even played at multiple White House events\, as well as the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Displaying astonishing range and versatility\, she has recorded everything from Broadway standards to Led Zeppelin anthems and worked with some of popular music’s greatest artists—Aretha Franklin\, Eric Clapton\, Elton John\, Whitney Houston\, Sting\, U2\, and Beyoncé\, among them. Real Love\, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige tells the story of one of the most important artists in pop music history. Danny Alexander follows the whole arc of Blige’s career\, from her first al-bum\, which heralded the birth of “hip hop soul\,” to her critically praised 2014 album\, The London Sessions. He highlights the fact that Blige was part of the historically unprecedented movement of black women onto pop radio and explores how she and other women took control of their careers and used their music to give voice to women’s (and men’s) everyday struggles and dreams. This book adds immensely to the story of both black women artists and artists root-ed in hip hop and pays tribute to a musician who\, by expanding her reach and asking tough questions about how music can and should evolve\, has proven herself an artistic visionary. \nAbout Danny Alexander\nBeginning his career about the same time Mary J. Blige signed her first record deal\, music journalist Danny Alexander has worked as an associate editor for Dave Marsh’s music newsletter Rock & Rap Con-fidential and covered rock\, hip hop\, and soul for various publications. He is the author of Liner Notes: Soul Asylum.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/real-love-no-drama-book-discussion-about-women-music-and-mary-j-blige-with-author-danny-alexander/
LOCATION:Volumes Bookcafe\, 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave\, Chicago \, 60622\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Guild Literary Complex":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160518T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160518T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura\, May 18\, 2016
DESCRIPTION:Palabra Pura with Miguel López Lemus of Lobo Estepario Press presents:  \nPalabra Pura as part of the Guild Literary Complex \nUna noche bohemia. A bohemian night.\nPoetry\, song\, music\, storytelling\nCuento\, poesía\, música\, canción \nSponsored by Pandora lobo estepario productions press. \nWe are mixing it up a bit this month and will have a group of featured poets and some musicians; but we will be open for circular particiapation where we alternate poets\, musicians and storytellers. Poets\, storytellers\, musicians\, singers share your Art. Bring your poems\, musical instruments\, participate and share.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-may-18-2016/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
ORGANIZER;CN="Guild Literary Complex":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160503T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073526
CREATED:20160303T063841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160503T032356Z
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SUMMARY:BrooksDay Preview at the MCA\, Chicago
DESCRIPTION:The 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 night of artists who represent the broad scope of the BrooksDay legacy and vision.  \nShowcasing their own work\, artists who are part of the BrooksDay family will be performing at this free event\, hosted by the Guild Literary Complex on the top floor of the MCA in conjunction with the Kerry James Marshall exhibition from 6:00 – 7:15 on Tuesday\, May 3rd\, 2016. \nWe hope you will come see and hear the work of some of our great Chicago talent!  \nFeatured artists include:\nTyrue “Slang” Jones\nSketch N’ Tyme with J.Evelyn \nAnd Poets:\nNate Marshall\nPeter O’Leary\nJavon Smith\nC. Russell Price\nNatasha Estevez\nand a special appearance by Nora Brooks Blakely \nA video installation by Noëlle Pouzar will round out the night.   \nCome visit us at the Chicago Cultural Center on\nJune 7th\, 2016 10: 00 AM – 6:00 PM for the 4th Annual BrooksDay!\n \nMeet the artists:  \nA self-taught artist\, Tyrue “Slang” Jones has been cultivating and innovating ideas reflected though his artwork for over 25 years. His wide array of styles\, ranging from graffiti to fine art\, has gained attention around the globe. His signature style of “Figurative Graffiti\,” recognized both nationally and internationally\, combines flowing shapes and abstracted letterforms with traditional figure painting.\nRoger Gastman\, author of “The History Of American Graffiti” says\, “SLANG single handedly defines the Chicago graffiti movement. For 30 years he has been a nonstop force pushing the limits of his art and teaching the history of the culture that he helped to create.” He has worked as an established graffiti artist\, fine artist\, graphic designer\, and professional television animator. His clients have included: Warner Bros. Animation Studios\, Startoons Animation Studios\, Walt Disney Interactive\, General Mills\, Universal Music\, Def Jam\, Interscope\, Allstate\, Leo Burnett and Viacom (MTV\, VH1 and Nickelodeon). Please visit his website at www.slangism.com\n◘\nJohn Towns\, Darnell Towns\, and Robert Towns (aka The Towns Brothers) are the creators of the concept of Sketch N’ Tyme\, a literary arts performance showcasing three brothers who draw rapidly to a host of original stories\, historic events\, and fairytales from around the world on large mural size paper to live narration and music.  Creating a wide reputation for innovative storytelling Sketch N’ Tyme has performed at the DuSable Museum\, The Black Ensemble Theatre\, BrooksDay\, WVON’s Pre Kwanza Celebration at Chicago State University\, The Athenaeum Theatre\, The Black Women’s Expo\, Hyde Park High School’s 150th Anniversary\,  and a host of Chicago Public and Catholic Schools\, just to name a few. Sketch N’ Tyme was also featured on Harry Porterfield’s ‘Someone you should know.’ Using basic art techniques\, the brothers view themselves as modern day Davids against the formidable Goliaths of modern technology.  John\, Darnell\, and Robert graduated from the school of the Art Institute of Chicago and in the 150th year history of that institution\, the Towns Brothers hold the distinction of having the most siblings to graduate from that prestigious institution in back-to-back years.  On Monday\, October 27\, 2014\, Sketch N’ Tyme received a Special Recognition Black Excellence Award from The African-American Arts Alliance for their contribution to Art and Literacy. The 14th Annual Black Excellence Awards was held at the DuSable Museum. Please visit their website at sketchntyme.com.\n◘\nNora Brooks Blakely was the Producing Artistic Director and primary playwright for Chocolate Chips Theatre Company in Chicago for 29 years.  Ms. Blakely taught for 8 years in the Chicago Public Schools; spent over 20 years teaching drama and writing workshops for students and teachers; conducted readings and lectures in several states. She recently added to her teaching time with 3 years teaching theatre at the DuSable Leadership Academy\, part of the Betty Shabazz International Charter Schools family. Nora has also served on boards and committees for several youth and arts organizations.  She is the daughter of two writers\, Henry Blakely and Gwendolyn Brooks and founded Brooks Permissions\, a company which manages her mother’s body of work and promotes its continued relevance in the 21st century.\n◘\nNate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is the author of Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh) and an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books). Wild Hundreds has been honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. His last rap album\, Grown came out in 2015 with his group Daily Lyrical Product. Nate is a member of The Dark Noise Collective. He won a 2015 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wabash College.\n◘\nPeter O’Leary is the author of five books of poetry\, including The Sampo (Cultural Society\, 2016). He has also edited several volumes of Ronald Johnson’s poetry\, including ARK (Flood Editions\, 2013) and The Book of the Green Man (Uniformbooks\, 2015).  He lives in Oak Park and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of Chicago. With John Tipton\, he edits Verge Books.\n◘\nJavon J. Smith\, an educator\, is a double Louder Than A Bomb college slam champion. He recently appeared in Victory Gardens Theater’s We Must Breathe. He is last year’s winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award\, and has won numerous awards with Totally Positive Productions\, Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus\, Queer Foundation\, and Young Chicago Authors. A graduate of DePaul University\, Smith studied Secondary Education English with three minors in African and Black Diaspora Studies\, LGBTQ Studies\, and Theatre Studies. He has served as an Artist-in-Residence with Young Chicago Authors and Teaching Artist for Free Street Theater and Victory Gardens Theater. His poetry collection “Righteous Rage” will be released later this year.\n◘\nC. Russell Price is an Appalachian genderqueer punk poet living in Chicago. Previous publications include: Assaracus\, Court Green\, Nimrod\, MiPOesias\, Weave\, and elsewhere. They currently work with The Offing (a channel of the LA Review of Books) and Northwestern University. Their chapbook Tonight\, We Fuck The Trailer Park Out Of Each Other will be published in June 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press.\n◘\nJ.Evelyn moved to Chicago almost three years and is the 2016 BrooksDay Project Coordinator. She’s also an active storyteller\, poet\, and actor in Chicago. Recently\, a House Ensemble member of Chicago Slam Works upon arriving to Chicago\, by way of Cincinnati\, she boldly made Chicago home performing her one-woman show ‘Arn’t I Still: Lessons of Her for the Solo Chicago Festival. She’s featured for several festivals in the Chicagoland area including Ravenswood Art Walk\, Chicago’s own Beast Women: All Female Cabaret for two seasons\, Still Point Theatre Collective’s “Strong Women” a play created from poetry written by women\, not just inmates of Cook County Jail. She treasures the opportunity to tell stories and helping others searching for their voice to find it\, use it\, and share it.\n◘\nNatasha Estevez is a 20 year old currently living in Chicago attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for Creative Writing. Up and out her streets of Harlem\, growing up like many around Natasha with ambition and a movement up in my mind. To be better then what she had seen and to break the cycle of her streets. The mic is Natasha’s home at times where I get to spark something in someone’s mind.\nWith the stories she tells she hopes those who listen leave with a new found hope in their hearts\n◘\nNoëlle Pouzar is a feminist sex essayist and graphic designer. Her practice primarily focuses on female suppression by higher institutions\, societal standards\, and male dominance. Noëlle is currently an undergraduate student at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\n◘ \nThis is a free event and will coincide with an exhibition of painter Kerry James Marshall.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/brooksday-preview-at-the-mca/
LOCATION:Museum of Contemporary Art\, 220 East Chicago Avenue\, Chicago\, 60611\, United States
CATEGORIES:BrooksDay
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SUMMARY:RAP 101
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Chicago’s newest DIY underground hip-hop event. \nOn the last Thursday of the month (August and December excluded) the Guild Literary Complex hosts an a cappella hip-hop series with a diy/underground flair.  Partnering with Artist AWK and Iron Heart Productions theRAPY 101 is featuring local and national spoken word talent\, spin-artists\, DJs\, and one of Chicago’s premier open mic sets. theRAPy 101 opens the doors to a new generation of poets\, musicians\, and activists.  \nApril 28th will include:  \nLandon Tate hails from Mississippi but has always existed elsewhere. His perspective comes living with having to find beauty in life’s imbalances. Miserably Lovely. \nPoets: \nHank is a writer and arts organizer in Chicago.  He is currently attempting to date every man in America simultaneously.  He is also attempting to write a lot of books simultaneously. 2518021089 hmu if you are interested in either. \nIke is a writer\, poet\, and organizer from the south side of Chicago.  He loves art and artistry of all kind.  Performed at the White House. \nSammy Ortega is a Young Chicago Authors student intern.  He is now part of the Kuumba Lynx Poetry Ensemble.  Sammy is a 2016 Louder Than A Bomb individual finalist\, and a junior at Phoenix highs school.  He writes short stories\, novels\, and poetry. \nNatasha Estevez attends SAIC for creative writing. She grew up in Harlem with ambition and a will to move up like many people around her.  She hopes to be better than what she’s seen and break the cycle of her streets. With the stories she tells\, she hopes those who listen leave with a new found hope in their hearts. \nEach event will be held in the Wicker Park Neighborhood with Iron Heart Productions. from 7:30- 10:00 pm. Doors are a ‘suggested $10 donation.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/rap-101/
LOCATION:Iridium Clothing CO\, 1330 North Milwaukee Avenue\, Chicago\, 60622\, United States
CATEGORIES:theRAPY 101
ORGANIZER;CN="Guild Literary Complex":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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