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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160420T213000
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SUMMARY:Return Us to Nakedness\, A Celebration of Rane Arroyo
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URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/return-us-to-nakedness-a-celebration-of-rane-arroyo/
LOCATION:Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center\, 4048 West Armitage\, Chicago\, IL\, 60639\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Guild Literary Complex":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160415T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160417T170000
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SUMMARY:RUTHERFORD'S TRAVELS with Dr. Charles Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Theatre has a special deal this weekend just for\nGuild Literary Complex fans: \nThis weekend\, Pegasus Theatre presents sneak peak readings of RUTHERFORD’S TRAVELS\, a spellbinding tale based on the beloved book MIDDLE PASSAGE. Told through Rutherford Calhoun’s 1830s log entries\, The newly freed Illinois youth has migrated south to New Orleans seeking fortune\, where he stows away on an outbound rigger to escape debtors. But The Republic isn’t just any ship. It’s a slave ship and it’s headed to Africa! From an open rehearsal on April 15\, to a staged reading and discussion\, Guild Complex members are invited to engage! Use code “Guild” to reserve complimentary passes to our Open Rehearsal on Friday\, April 15 (limit two per reservation and subject to availability); or $8 on Saturday\, April 16 at 7:30pm or $8 on Sunday\, April 17th at 3:00pm! All events are at Chicago Dramatists\, 773 N. Aberdeen Street (Corner of Aberdeen and May).\nTo reserve complimentary passes for Friday’s open rehearsal\, reply to boxoffice@pegasustheatrechicago.org with your name\, phone number and # of tickets (1 or 2)\nTo reserve $8 tickets for Saturday or Sunday\, follow this link: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/956837 to purchase your tickets using code “Guild”
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/rutherfords-travels-with-dr-charles-johnson/
LOCATION:Chicago Dramatists\, 773 N. Aberdeen\, Chicago\, 60642\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160316T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160316T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura March 16\, 2016
DESCRIPTION:Palabra Pura March 16\, 2016 7:30 – 9:00 pm \n“Turnt in Relevant Opacity” Curated by Ricardo Gamboa \nCurrent events ranging from cover-ups of police shootings and growing social inequalities further underline just how dark or “opaque” times have become for some of us in this city. These injustices are exasperated when it comes to mainstream Chicago arts and cultural production where Chicago narratives and voices (particularly those of color) are absent. Societal blind spots have not always been spaces of denigrated living\, but also places where people have found creative ways to live under social pressures. The Guild LIterary Complex invites you to Palabra Pura\, an event where four Latino writer-performers share their poetry. All being Chicago natives\, they extend into their communities through radically politicized actions and often operate without institutional support and outside of the non-profit industrial complex. The fresh work complicates notions and expectations of Latino identity while bringing a native voice to the Midwest\, urban\, brown community often unrepresented in local culture. \n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\n\nKRISTIANA RAE COLÓN \n\n\n\n\nELIJAH RUIZ \n\n\n\n\nSTEVEN BEAUDION \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGARCIA JULISSA \n  \n\nOpen Mic Returns so come join in!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-march-16-2016/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160120T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
CREATED:20160111T202120Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura 2016 Season Kick Off ~ One Poet  / One Poem Returns
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the 11th season of PALABRA PURA returning with “One Poet / One Poem”.  Come join in the fun 11 years in the making. This year’s season will feature 2016 Guest Palabra Pura curators and past readers some telling of plans for the year ahead and others sharing a poem during this annual party celebrating poetry in more than one tongue. Contributing authors include: \nDarren Angle | Emmanuel Ayala | Diego Báez | Beatriz Badikian Gartler | Emilio Maldonado | Martha Cecilia Rivera | Miguel López Lemus | Mark Litwicki | Miguel Marzana | Elizabeth Marino | Yolanda Nieves | Fernando Olszanski | Jennifer Patiño Cervantes | Jan Peña Davis | Rubén Quesada | Luis Tubens | Febronio Zatarain | and many more! \nThe event is free + donations are welcome! Oh\, and it’s a cash bar\, so come with some green in your pockets. \nMore information at guildcomplex.org. \nClick here to RVSP/Share on Facebook. Due to the number of readers for the party\, there will be no open mic\, but he open mic will return in March! \n*** \nABOUT PALABRA PURA\nThe Guild’s night of poetry and community\, curated by and spotlighting Chicago’s most powerful voices in the Chicano and Latino communities. Palabra Pura takes place every other third Wednesday of every month starting in January of 2016 (we are Dark in  August and December).
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-2016-season-kick-off-one-poet-one-poem-returns/
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:20151118T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151118T210000
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CREATED:20151030T224856Z
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SUMMARY:PALABRA PURA: NOSSA AMÉRICA
DESCRIPTION:PALABRA PURA: NOSSA AMÉRICA \nNOVEMBER 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm | $5 \nLa Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division in Humboldt Park \n  \nThe last Palabra Pura for 2015 features the theme “Nossa América\,” with readings by Rodrigo Garcia Lopes\, Jack Martínez and AKaiser.  November’s curator Patricia Anzini quotes American poet Walt Whitman as she discusses this month’s Palabra Pura: “The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature.” \n  \nAnzini mixes Whitman’s vision of the future inhabitants of this teeming continent with that of Palabra Pura. “Those predictions fell upon Palabra Pura when it first began its Chicagoland search for those teeming voices ten years ago. This November\, we will continue and expand upon that exploration by expanding Palabra Pura’s latinidad to Brazil. We will hear the voices of Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (Brazil)\, Jack Martínez (Peru) and AKaiser (New York) as they address the Americas as a fundamentally ongoing intercontinental country. This work—their voices\, our Chicago—will help us navigate and retrace the fluid borders between poetry and prose\, Spanish\, Portuguese\, and English\, and also\, therefore\, what it means to be American in ‘nossa América.’” \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n  \nRodrigo Garcia Lopes is a poet\, translator\, and composer from Brazil. He has an M.A. from ASU (USA) and a Ph.D. in English from UFSC (Brazil). He has published six collections of poetry\, translations of Whitman\, Rimbaud\, Plath\, and Riding. Last year he released the historical detective novel The Troubadour. His poems have been widely published and anthologized\, including in The Best 100 Brazilian Poems of the Twentieth Century. As a composer\, he recently released the CD Songs from Reality Studio. Site: http://www.rgarcialopes.wix.com/site  \n  \nJack Martínez (La Oroya\, Perú\, 1983) graduated in 2007 from the University of San Marcos (Lima\, Perú) with a B.A. in Latin American Literature. In 2011\, he moved to the United States where he wrote his first novel\, Bajo la sombra (Under the Shade)\, published in Peru by Animal de Invierno in 2014. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University\, and is currently working on his second novel\, a love story which deals with the fictions of Latin American nationalisms in the U.S.  https://jackmartinezarias.wordpress.com/ \n  \nAKaiser’s poems have recently appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly\, Temenos Journal and Coldnoon: Travel Poetics. Her poem\, “At the speed of light\, squared\,” was a finalist in the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2014 and can currently be read at www.wasafiri.org. This past spring\, AKaiser completed her MFA at Carlow University (Pittsburgh/Dublin) and was invited to JIWAR\, an artists’ and researchers’ residency in urban creativity in Spain. She has also been a resident at Brushcreek Foundation for the Arts in the US. AKaiser curates a bi-annual poetry reading series in collaboration with Station Independent Projects art gallery in NYC. She is also a translator of French\, Spanish\, and Catalan\, currently working on the writings of Cebrià de Montoliu\, the first translator of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass into Catalan. \n  \nPatrícia Anzini holds a BA in Studies of Languages and Literature and an MA in Literary Studies partially from her hometown Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP (Brazil) and from the University of Winnipeg (Canada)\, where she wrote her thesis on poets associated with Brazilian Marginal Poetry (1970s) in dialogue with Tropicalism (1960s). She is a PhD student in the Comparative Literary Studies Program at Northwestern University. She also has experience with teaching in the field of languages and is currently involved with the practice of poetry translation.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-nossa-america/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151112T213000
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CREATED:20151027T053922Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Prose Awards
DESCRIPTION:Annual Prose Awards Event \nNovember 12\, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.\, Chopin Theater \n  \nEvery fall\, the Guild Literary Complex acknowledges emerging and established prose writers via a judged competition and recognition event at the historic Chopin Theatre in Chicago. \n\nThree semi-finalists in both fiction and non-fiction will read their work at our annual Prose Awards event\, and the winners will be announced live November 12\, 2015. The event starts at 7:30 pm\, Chopin Theater\, 1543 West Division Street\, Chicago. Cost is $8. \n\nA cash prize of $500 in each category (fiction and non-fiction) will be awarded. This year’s guest judges are Anne Calcagno (fiction) and S.L. Wisenberg (non-fiction). 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/annual-prose-awards/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
CATEGORIES:Prose Awards
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151105
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SUMMARY:Auction: Reginald Gibbons' Library of First Edition Books
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE:\n\nReginald Gibbons’ Library of First Editions Book Auction\n\nAvailable Starting November 4th\n\nReginald Gibbons is a poet\, fiction writer\, translator\, educator\, critic\, the former editor of  TriQuarterly magazine and National Book Award finalist. Over the years\, Reginald has acquired first editions through his many friendships and literary acquaintances. His collection of first edition\, many of them signed\, will be made available for auction beginning November 4\, 2015. Proceeds will be entirely for the benefit of the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago.The collection includes fiction and poetry first editions and other interesting and valuable volumes. More details are forthcoming!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/auction-reginald-gibbons-library-of-first-editions-books/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151021T210000
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CREATED:20151009T181322Z
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SUMMARY:PALABRA PURA: MEMORY AND GHOSTS
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nCurated by Cynthia Pelayo \nOctober 21 @ 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM \n$5 | La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division in Humboldt Park \nThis month’s curator\, Cynthia Pelayo\, provides the Guild Literary Complex with our October theme of Memory and Ghosts\, featuring readings by Diana Pando\, Adriana Galvan. Pelayo explains the theme this way: “historically\, autumn has been the time of year to reflect on difficult work conducted that generated one’s harvest. \n“While many of us in an urban environment cannot relate to the dedicated tasks of tending\, watering and nurturing soil in order to produce we can all agree that autumn is a great time of transition. Many of us even comment that during fall the air smells different. We can see the color of the leaves shift and fade\, and these are the hints that death is coming. Winter blankets us in death\, covering life\, but we know that life is renewed again in spring. The artists will join together in a series of readings that address cultural ideas of life and death in a celebration of autumn. We will reflect on the living and the dead. Here\, words will welcome memory and ghosts.” \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nDiana Pando is a writer from Chicago who loves telling stories. She recently published her poem Mythology of Fleshand Turquoise Serpents in the Offerings of Flesh Anthology by Mujeres de Maiz (2014 – California) and  Coyolxauhqui Rising in Cenzontle Literary Magazine.  She has been a featured poet at Logan’s Run Reading Series and featured storyteller at 2nd Story. Her work has also been spotlighted on WBEZ’s Afternoon Shift as well as Vocalo.org. Currently\, she is a co-founder of the Chicago Latino Writers Initiative and a founding member of Proyecto Latina. She also teaches her signature writing workshop Puro Cuento. http://chicagolatinowriters.com/directory/diana-pando/ \n  \nAdriana Galvan is a multi-genre writer whose passion for storytelling began at a young age when she would listen to her late grandmother share stories about growing up in Northern Mexico and later immigrating to Northwest Indiana. She received her BA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago and is currently working on her first novel\, In a Distant Dream. She resides in Chicago\, but spends many weekends with her family in East Chicago\, Indiana.http://chicagolatinowriters.com/directory/adriana-galvan/ \n  \n  \nCynthia Pelayo’s first novel Santa Muerte (Post Mortem Press\, 2012) is an International Latino Book Award winner in the category of Young Adult Fiction. The sequel\, Santa Muerte: The Missing\, will be released in 2016\, as well as a poetry collection. Pelayo is also the owner and publisher of Burial Day Books. Her short stories have appeared in The Horror Zine\, Danse Macabre\, MicroHorror\, Seedpod Publishing\, Static Movement\, Flashes in the Dark\, among other publications. Her nonfiction work has appeared in Gozamos\, Time Out\, Extra Bilingual News\, Venus Zine\, FNews\, Atlas Obscura\, and The Richest. She lives in Chicago with her husband and her son. www.cinapelayo.com \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/memory-and-ghosts/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Curated by Cynthia Pelayo
DESCRIPTION:More information on October’s Palabra Pura will be available late summer 2015.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-curated-by-cynthia-pelayo/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150930T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150930T210000
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CREATED:20150901T033535Z
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SUMMARY:The Lonely (a Writers to Watch reading)
DESCRIPTION:This reading  draws inspiration from the work of the featured writers\, each of them exploring themes of loneliness\, longing\, and love. There is desire\, and there is dread. There is even decency. \nUsing personal stories\, fiction\, and fairy tales\, authors Keith Ecker\, Jac Jamc and Cecilia Pinto—three of the Guild’s 25 Writers to Watch—will navigate the not-necessarily-fraught territory of isolation with humor\, wit\, and understanding. \nThe Lonely will take place in the upstairs event space of Schubas Tavern (3159 N Southport). Admission is pay-what-you-can ($5 suggested donation). A full bar and food menu is available. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n  \nKeith Ecker is the co-creator and executive producer of PleasureTown\, a serial audio drama featured on the WBEZ podcast network. He is also the creator of two of Chicago’s most notable live lit series\, Guts & Glory and Essay Fiesta. Keith has performed his personal essays throughout Chicago at venues as Printers Row Lit Fest\, the Chicago Writers Conference\, Write Club and Story Club\, among many others. \n  \n  \n  \nJac Jemc‘s first story collection\, A Different Bed Time\, was named one of Amazon’s Best Short Story Collections of 2014. Her novel\, My Only Wife was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award. She is the nonfiction editor for Hobart Web. Jac teaches fiction at the University of Notre Dame. \n  \n  \nCecilia Pinto‘s writing has appeared in a variety of publications including Esquire\, Fence\, Quarter After Eight\, Diagram\, and TriQuarterly. Her anthologized work appears in Saints of Hysteria\, Sonneteering\, Mentor and Muse\, Billet-Doux\, and elsewhere. She has worked with students in the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Park District\, and has taught for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern\, the Graham School at the University of Chicago\, and the Poetry Center of Chicago among others. She received degrees in writing from Knox College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Cecilia’s chapbook\, A Small Woman\, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/the-lonely-a-writers-to-watch-reading/
LOCATION:Schubas Tavern\, 3159 N Southport\, Chicago\, IL\, 60657\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writers to Watch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150926T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150926T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
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SUMMARY:100\,000 Poets for Change
DESCRIPTION:Experiment #89: \n\n\n\n\nFight the Power\n\nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 26th7pm / doors lock 7:30pm\nA special event with\n\n100 Thousand Poets for Changehttp://www.100tpcmedia.org \nOn September 26\, 2015\, many poets around the world will make their voices heard. To declare the change they’d like to see most in the U.S. and throughout the international community\, events are being staged worldwide as part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change.  In Chicago\, this night of poetry and activism is based on the theme”Fight the Power”.  Inspired by Public Enemy’s song Fight the Power\, local writers will address standing up to the big man\, the boss\, the entities that have control over many aspect of our lives.  Fighting negative power by doing positive work over time.  Fighting the power in any way you can.\n\n\nFEATURING: \nToby Altman\, Jay Besemer\, Sarah Carson\, Andrea Change\, Rey Escobar\, Dan Godston\,\nMarcy Rae Henry\, Kortney Morrow\, Daniela Olszewska\, Lew Rosenbaum\, Alix Anne Shaw\,\nNat Sufrin\, Diana Goddess Warrior Tyler\, avery r. young + more special guests\n\n\n\n\nat Outer Space Studio1474 N. Milwaukee Avesuggested donation $4logistics —\nnear CTA Damen blue linethird floor walk upnot wheelchair accessible\nCo-sponsored by the Guild Complex & the Chicago Calling Arts FestivalCurated by the 100 Thousand Poets for Change\, Chicago Community Council 2015: Barbara Barg\, Laura Goldstein\, Jennifer Karmin\, Toni Asante Lightfoot & Kenyatta Rogers \n\n  \n\n\nRed Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local\, national\, and international writers\, artists\, and performers. Founded in 2005\, the over eighty events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/100000-poets-for-change/
LOCATION:Outer Space Studio\, 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150916T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150916T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
CREATED:20150528T193100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150908T185659Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Who Stands With Us
DESCRIPTION:According to this month’s curator\, Emilio Maldonado\, challenging each other and the status quo is the responsibility of the committed artist\, and he has programmed author/activists Aricka Foreman\, Christina Obregon\, and Raina Wodatch\, and to engage the theme Who stands with us? \n“During this current wave of open aggression and hostility it is important to find who our allies really are\,” Maldonado says. “Where we learn who stands with us can be as important as who stands against us. Far too often we act against our own interests because we allow division to creep in. Liking a post on Facebook just isn’t near enough. The featured readers are strong voices who are committed artists.” \nAll “mother” tongues are welcome! Arrive early to sign up for the open mic. \nPalabra Pura is pay-what-you-can ($5 suggested donation). Audience contributions support honorariums for the curators and featured authors. \nRSVP and share the event via Facebook by clicking here. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nAricka Foreman’s work has appeared in The Drunken Boat\, Torch Poetry: A Journal for African American Women\, Minnesota Review\, Union Station Magazine\, Vinyl Poetry\, and Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the NextGeneration by Viking Penguin.  A Cave Canem and Callaloo Writer’s Workshop Fellow\, she is the Enumerate Editor for The Offing. \n  \n  \nChristina Obregon\, a second generation Xicana\, was born and raised on the southwest side of Chicago. Since her late teens she has been politically and culturally involved in a series of human rights campaigns including ending violence and the exploitation of women and children. Christina has also been actively involved with La Casa de Arte y Cultural- Calles y Sueños\, a self sustaining autonomous cultural center in the heart of the Pilsen Neighborhood in Chicago. She has been guided and strongly influenced by Jose David\, founder of Calles y Sueños\, and continues to dedicate her time to the development of the project. She is also the coordinator of Calles y Sueños. \n  \nInspired by Chicago’s spoken word and slam poetry community\, Raina Wodatch left her ten-year career in teaching high school English to continue her education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she is working on her MFA in Writing. Though her focus is on poetry\, SAIC’s interdisciplinary program has prompted her to begin a practice in studio arts\, influenced by studies in Concrete Poetry and Surrealism. Tending to her initial interests in spoken word\, Raina has frequented open mics throughout Chicago\, including: The Gala\, Urban Sandbox\, Weeds\, K(NO)W ARMY and West Side School for the Desperate\, Mental Graffiti\, and The Green Mill. \n  \nABOUT OUR CURATOR \nEmilio Maldonado is a poet and performer born and raised in Chicago’s concrete jungle\, where streets bury streets. He knows layers\, has the city’s voices in his bones. As a world traveler with familial roots in Mexico\, he writes for the world\, the everyman\, with poems also layered in the collisions of culture\, and the music\, and the late night streets of anywhere alone. \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-who-stands-with-us/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150802
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
CREATED:20150528T191846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150528T192658Z
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SUMMARY:The Guild Goes Dark in August
DESCRIPTION:It’s our annual summer programming break! We’ll be taking some time away to regroup through the month of August. Keep an eye out for our Fall Preview\, which will contain information on programming and events for September-November 2015!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/the-guild-goes-dark-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150722T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150722T213000
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
CREATED:20150528T191427Z
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SUMMARY:22nd Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards Program
DESCRIPTION:Update: Congratulations to the winner\, Javon J. Smith!\nAfter 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.” \nJavon J. Smith\, an educator at Perspectives/IIT Math & Science Academy\, is a double Louder Than A Bomb college slam champion. He recently appeared in Victory Gardens Theater’s We Must Breathe. He 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 a Teaching Artist for Free Street Theater and Victory Gardens Theater. His poetry collection Righteous Rage will be released later this year. (Updated July 24 \,2015) \n/// \nFor 22 years\, the Guild Literary Complex annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award has recognized emerging poetic voices from across Illinois. That tradition continues with an award program and live reading from 20 semi-finalists and special guests—and the audience will choose the $600 winning poem! \nHere are the semi-finalists:\nCatalina Bode\, Asia Calcagno\, Suman Chhabra\, Solomohn Nallshi Ennis-Klyczek\, Aja Zakiya Hall\, Larry Janowski\, Caroline Johnson\, Maya Marshall\, Cassandra McGovern\, David Nekimken\, Kelly Raymundo\, Timothy David Rey\, Rachel Slotnick\, Javon Smith\, Myron Stokes\, Jacob Victorine\, Adam Webster\, Sam Wein\, Dylan Weir\, and Kelly Xintaris. (Laura Merleau-McGrady is also recognized as a semi-finalist\, but will not be competing on July 22.) \n  \nMore party than reading\, Chicagoist says of the event\, “If you only attend one poetry reading a year\, it might as well be the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award.” The program sold out last year\, so get your tickets in advance! \n  \nThe 22nd annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award will be co-hosted by Toni Asante Lightfoot (2005 winner) and Quraysh Ali Lansana. Last year’s award winner Deepak Unnikrishnan will return to give an opening reading of a Gwendolyn Brooks poem\, and special guest avery r. young will present a poetic tribute in memory of author\, activist\, and teacher Mama Brenda Matthews\, one of the first winners of the award and an inspiration in the spoken word community. \nThere will be a free reception following the event\, with drinks provided by the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and food courtesy of the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics\, and Culture. \nThis event is co-presented with the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts\, and is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics\, and Culture. \n  \nABOUT OUR EMCEES\n\nQuraysh Ali Lansana is author of eight poetry books\, three textbooks\, a children’s book\, editor of eight anthologies\, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute and the Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2011\, where he was also Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing until 2014. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry\, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. His most recent books include The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop w/Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall (Haymarket Books\, 2015) and The Walmart Republic w/ Christopher Stewart (Mongrel Empire Press\, September 2014). \n  \n\nToni Asante Lightfoot is a founding member of the Modern Urban Griots\, a performance poetry group that was just honored with a Splendid Wake Award from George Washington University in Washington\, DC. She has coached several poetry slam teams over the past 15 years\, and her 2003 Gwendolyn Brooks Center team won Brave New Voices National Teen Poetry Slam in 2003. Since her 2005 fellowship at Soul Mountain in Connecticut\, Lightfoot has been researcing and writing poems/vignettes about Mom’s Mabley’s life as a vaudevillian\, actress\, and as a comedian who came out to her audience in her 70’s. \n  \nABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS \nDeepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi. His first set of short stories\, Coffee Stains in a Camel’s Teacup was published by Vijitha Yapa Publications (Colombo\, Sri Lanka). His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Drunken Boat\, Himal Southasian\, Bound Off\, The State Vol IV: Dubai\, the art project Autopoiesis (www.autopoiesis.io)\, and in the anthology Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan Books\, India). He has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, where on scholarship he completed the manuscript for his first work of fiction set in the Gulf\,  excerpts from which are forthcoming in Guernica. He is the winner of the 2014 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. \n  \navery r. young is a multidisciplinary artist and a Cave Canem alum & 3Arts Awardee who’s work has appeared in American Studies Journal AIMPrint\, Coon Bidness\,and other anthologies. His work with language\, visual text & sound design has been featured in exhibitions & on-line publications. Recently\, as an artist-in-residence at The University of Chicago\, young completed a collection of sound designs that will be featured on his first full-length album “booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid” and a collec- tion of concrete poems called “cullud sign(s).” His work celebrates Black American history and culture\, all the while pushing boundaries in aesthetics and the spaces language lends itself. \n  \nABOUT OUR PRELIMINARY JUDGES \n  \nYolanda Nieves\, a Chicago native\, is a researcher and poet. She has a M.A. in Organizational Development from Loyola University\, an M.A. in Reading from Northeastern Illinois University\, and an Ed.D in Adult Education from National Louis University. Her work has been published in various independent anthologies\, literary magazines\, and research journals.  Additionally\, she is a playwright and centers her work on social justice issues.  Dr. Nieves is the recipient of the Dissertation of the Year Award-Arts Based Research from the American Educational and Research Conference\, 2009. Currently\, she is an adult educator and is an Associate Professor at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago. \n  \nCoya Paz is a poet\, Artistic Director of Free Street Theater\, and an Assistant Professor in the Theatre School at DePaul University. She is also a founding member of Proyecto Latina\, and the co-founder of Teatro Luna\, where she served as co-Artistic Director from 2000-2009. Recent projects include Nerds\, Sluts\, (Commies) and Jocks and DOPE at Free Street Theater\, and The Americans\, based on interviews. Coya holds a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University and is a regular commentator on race\, media\, and pop culture for Vocalo.org (FM 90.7). In 2014\, the Guild Complex named Coya one of 25 Writers to Watch. \n  \n  \nABOUT OUR PARTNERS \n  \nThe Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts advances arts practice\, inquiry\, and presentation at the University of Chicago\, and fosters meaningful collaboration and cultural engagement at the university\, on the south side\, and in the city of Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for the Study of Race\, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago was established in 1994 under the direction of Professor Michael Dawson. From its inception\, faculty\, students\, and staff who have been involved with the Center have been committed to establishing a new type of research institute devoted to the study of race and ethnicity\, one that seeks to expand the study of race beyond the black/white paradigm while exploring social and identity cleavages within racialized communities. \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/22nd-annual-gboma/
LOCATION:Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts\, 915 E 60th\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:GBOMA,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150715T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150715T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
CREATED:20150528T190611Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Latinidad-Who are we? Latino Poets on Identity
DESCRIPTION: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 compelling stories about the lives of men and women navigating a changing landscape of language\, culture\, and the physical body. Their passion is for the experiences of the unheard\, the misunderstood\, and the undervalued. They manifest political\, historical\, and secret stories with vehement compassion and grace. \nThis month’s program is coordinated by Ruben Quesada. \nAll “mother” tongues are welcome! Arrive early to sign up for the open mic. \nPalabra Pura is pay-what-you-can ($5 suggested donation). Audience contributions support honorariums for the curators and featured authors. \n  \nABOUT OUR FEATURED AUTHORS \nDiego Báez grew up in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University – Newark. An inaugural fellow at CantoMundo in 2010\, his poems\, fiction\, and reviews have appeared most recently at Ostrich\, The Acentos Review\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Chicago and teaches at the City Colleges. \n  \n  \nAmy Sayre Baptista’s writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Ninth Letter\, S’ouwester\, LUSO American Voices\, LUNA LUNA\, and Chicago Noir. She is a 2013 CantoMundo fellow\, a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee\, and a 2011 scholarship recipient to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon\, Portugal. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, and lives in Chicago. \n  \n  \nABOUT THIS MONTH’S CURATOR \nRuben Quesada is the author of Next Extinct Mammal and Exiled from the Throne of Night. His writing appears in Guernica\, BOAAT PRESS\, Rattle\, The California Journal of Poetics\, American Poetry Review\, Cimarron Review\, Superstition Review\, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter @rubenquesada. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-latinidad/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150617T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150617T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
CREATED:20150528T184316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150528T190910Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Does English Matter
DESCRIPTION: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 Latino/a cultural and political communities\, when does the implied “Spanish Only” remain empowering\, and when does the English-dominant Latino/a activist need to transgress? This month’s program is coordinated by poet and educator Elizabeth Marino. Bring your own voice to the short pre-show open mic. \nAll “mother” tongues are welcome! Arrive early to sign up for the open mic. \nPalabra Pura is pay-what-you-can ($5 suggested donation). Audience contributions support honorariums for the curators and featured authors. \nThis event is supported by Poets & Writers\, Inc. \n \n  \n  \nABOUT OUR FEATURED AUTHORS \nAdam Gottlieb is a poet/emcee\, teaching-artist\, musician\, community organizer\, and revolutionary from Chicago. As a teen he was featured in the 2009 documentary film “Louder Than A Bomb\,” about the world’s largest youth poetry slam festival by the same name. Since then\, he has gone on to perform and teach widely throughout Chicago\, the U.S.\, and even the world\, working mostly with youth as a facilitator of safe spaces for creative expression and cultural community-building. In March 2014 he co-founded the Chicago chapter of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. That same year he was selected by the Guild Complex to be one of five emerging writers in a project called “Voices of Protest\,” through which he participated in the “Kapittel” festival for Literature and Freedom of Speech in Stavanger\, Norway. He leads a band\, “Adam Gottlieb & One Love\,” that plays his original songs. He is also a regular contributor of both poetry and articles to the People’s Tribune. \n  \nAngelina Llongueras is a multicultural\, multilinguist artist\, communicator at heart\, and also a traveler. Angelina works as an actor\, playwright\, director\, poet and interpreter. Her one woman show “Phoolan is Everyone” has traveled the world and is going to India this coming winter\, and she has interacted with many international theatre groups interested in helping communities reconnect with their basic trust in their own cultural power and resources. Her credits include: “Metamorfosis” by La Fura dels Baus\, “Tie Me Up\, Tie Me Down” by Almodovar\, and many others. She is originally from Barcelona\, Catalonia. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THIS MONTH’S PALABRA PURA CURATOR \nElizabeth Marino is a poet and educator\, born and based in Chicago. Her chapbook\, Debris: Poems and Memoir\, went into a second printing in 2011 (Puddin’head Press). She was awarded 2011 Hispanic Serving Institution funding from NEIU for her Latina/o Community Creative Non-Fiction Workshop and received a 2012 CAAP grant and conference scholarship to attend the initial Las Dos Brujas Writers’ Workshops\, where she studied with Juan Philipe Herrera\, poet laureate of California. She was a Ragdale resident and holds an MA from UIC’s Writers’ Program\, in addition to having studied literature at Oxford University on public scholarship. Her BA was from Barat College. Elizabeth’s poetry has appeared in print journals\, anthologies and live performance. New work includes a chapbook from dancing girl press (“Ceremonies”) and two international print anthologies originating from India\, due in 2015 (Muse of Peace and The Significant Anthology). A contribution to a jazz poetry anthology is also in the works. She has conducted a creative writing workshop for GLBTT seniors at the Center on Halsted. She was proud to see her work re-appear in the “Best of 2014” issue of the national Latino blog of culture and literature “La Bloga\,” along with the FB page “Poets Responding to SB 1070.” She is a Revolutionary Poets Brigade (Chicago) member. She is also an English dominant Latina poet. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-does-english-matter/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150613T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150613T153000
DTSTAMP:20260423T215052
CREATED:20150528T182015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150604T172338Z
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SUMMARY:Luis Rodriguez reading
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \n  \n  \nThis program takes place at the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center located at 4048 W. Armitage. \nThere will be an open mic! Arrive early to sign up. \nAdmission is a suggested $5 donation\, or pay-what-you-can. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nLuis J. Rodriguez is co-founder in 1989 of the Guild Complex and was active in Chicago with poetry\, gangs\, prisons\, the homeless\, and migrant communities for fifteen years. He now lives in Los Angeles where in 2014 Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed him the official Poet Laureate  of the city. Luis has 15 books in poetry\, children’s literature\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, including “Always Running\, La Vida Loca\, Gang Days in L.A.” He is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press  and co-founder of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley.  His last book\, “It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love\, Addiction\, Revolutions\, and Healing” was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. (Photo credit: Arlene Mejorado) \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SEGUNDO RUIZ BELVIS CULTURAL CENTER (SRBCC) \nSRBCC realizes its mission to preserve and promote appreciation of the culture and arts of Puerto Rico and its African heritage\, through innovative programing and cultural events for the community. Formerly the Karlov Theater\, their current space was built in 1925 and includes five retail spaces\, two apartments\, and a theatre area. SRBCC currently completed the conversion of the former theater into a multipurpose space. www.srbcc.org \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/luis-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center\, 4048 West Armitage\, Chicago\, 60639\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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