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SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \n Unnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1096/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
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SUMMARY:Crafting Castoffs into "Unnatural Spaces"
DESCRIPTION:As part of Chicago Artists Month\, the Guild and Voice of the City will host a workshop featuring the Set Designer and Costume Designer for the Poetry Performance Incubator show “Unnatural Spaces” (playing Fridays\, Saturdays and Sundays in October). Because the show’s theme is the environmental complexities of urban living\, as part of the creative development process\, the designers are using recycled and re-purposed materials to create the set\, props and costumes. In this workshop they will show and tell the methods they’ve used to harvest and manipulate the material.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/crafting-castoffs-into-unnatural-spaces/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator,Special Events
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SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-show-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee Ave.\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120928T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120709T193501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120816T162704Z
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SUMMARY:Submission Deadline for the 2012 Prose Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s annual contest awards two $250 prizes\, one for short fiction and one for short non-fiction. 2012 judges are Amina Gautier (fiction) and David Lazar (non-fiction). The submission deadline to enter this year’s contest (for email OR snail mail arrival)  is 5pm\, September 28th\, 2012. To complete your entry\, CLICK HERE for judge biographies and full submission guidelines – incomplete submissions cannot be considered.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/submission-deadline-for-2012-prose-awards-for-short-fiction-and-non-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Intercambios Generaciónales con Palabras y Ritmos" (Generational Exchange with Words and Rhythms)
DESCRIPTION:Three Poets and a master percussionist demonstrate the continuing contributions of Puerto Ricans to Chicago literature. This evening is curated by Eduardo Arocho and features poet Judy Diaz\, poet/musician David Hernandez\, and percussionist and musician Peter Vale. \nCurator \nEduardo Arocho has been writing and performing poetry since 1992. He has been featured in many venues in Chicago including: Citiverse Poetry Series at the Sultzer Library\, The Institute for Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and the Guild Complex among others. His poetry has been published in OPEN FIST: Anthology of Young Illinois Poets\, by Tia Chucha Press (1993)\, POWERLINES: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex\, by Tia Chucha Press (2000) and EL CENTRO JOURNAL\, Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, Hunter College New York\, NY\, (2001). His career also includes performing on Chicago Public Radio\, the feature film Urban Poet by New Film Productions (2003) and the Documentary Flags of Steel by Mildred Amador (2008). As a freelance reporter his articles have appeared in several local Chicago newspapers\, as well as the National Public Radio program Latino USA: The Radio Journal of News and Culture. He is currently completing work on his forthcoming poetry manuscript\, Nació Maestro (New and Selected Poems). \nFeatured Artists \nJudith Díaz was born and raised in Humboldt Park\, earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Master’s in Educational Psychology for Youth Development at University of Illinois at Chicago. Judy has also worked as a youth advocate in Pilsen through the National Center for Latinos with Disabilities and as an Affordable Housing Community Organizer at Blocks Together in the West Humboldt Park community. Her involvement in Paseo Boricua began with Batey Urbano where she combined her passion for community building and poetry. Batey Urbano became the space where she worked with students of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School (PACHS) for the first time. She was inspired by their resiliency and became more interested in education. She began working as a mentor at PACHS in 2005. Currently\, Judy is the Dean of Student Affairs at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School. She dedicates herself to working with youth in the Humboldt Park community to provide educational alternatives and help them realize their potential to be agents of self/social transformation. \nDavid Hernandez He is a founding member of the Latino Arts movement and has continued this commitment as board member\, editor\, panelist and juror with the Poetry Foundation\, Illinois Arts Council and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. As a poet and educator\, he has touched the lives of over 600\,000 students from public schools\, community and regional programs\, to libraries\, colleges\, universities and professionals at agencies and corporations. He has organized student performances\, city-wide poetry festivals\, poetry contests and edited several anthologies of poetry. His grants\, awards and other recognition include being the 1st recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Outstanding Poet of Illinois award and the Illinois State Library Patron’s Choice award. In 1971 he founded Street Sounds-Chicago’s award-winning premier poetry/music group. \nPeter Vale‘s instruments include Congas\, Bongo and Timbales. He has performed with the following bands: Son Bayu\, Salsa Dulce\, Acusticos\, Joe Rendon & Friends\, Latin Inspiracion\, Suena Latin Jazz\, Taino DNA\, Albert Sierra & His Cuban Flavor\, and more. He studied Latin Percussion under Master Congero Osbaldo “Ogie” Merced.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-3/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120913T210059
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SUMMARY:Final Open Rehearsal with "Unnatural Spaces" from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:This will be the final sneak peek at the creative process behind the Poetry Performance Incubator’s new work-in-progress\, Unnatural Spaces\, before it premieres in October. The Incubator artists will do some of the types of writing and performance exercises they’ve been using for the past 9 months to develop the new show. They’ll even share some of their experiences working in this new hybrid of poetry and theater — some for the first time. So if you’ve ever been curious about the Incubator’s process for bringing poets together to write original stage work\, this is your last chance to see behind the curtain before the show opens in all its multidisciplinary\, multimedia and multi-voiced glory. (Learn more about the Incubator’s history and cast here. And see the latest conversations and observations among the Incubator cast on their facebook page\, blog and twitter too!)
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/final-open-rehearsal-with-unnatural-spaces-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator/
LOCATION:Voice of the City studio\, 3429 W. Diversey Avenue\, Suite 208\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120718T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120718T210059
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Cross-Cultural Latino/a"
DESCRIPTION:This evening will showcase two poets with a passion for cross-cultural experiences – poetry that travels. \nCurator \nFrancisco Aragón is Director of Letras Latinas\, the national literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies\, University of Notre Dame\, and has been a member of the Institute since 2003. He has published\, edited or contributed to numerous poetry books and journals and his poems and translations have appeared in various print and web publications. He is a member of Macondo Writing Workshop and serves on the board of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). He holds degrees in Spanish from the University of California at Berkeley and New York University\, and an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis and the University of Notre Dame\, respectively. \nFeatured Poets \nErika L. Sánchez graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid\, Spain\, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She is currently a reader for Another Chicago Magazine\, a freelance bilingual book reviewer for Kirkus Reviews\, and a contributor for The Huffington Post and Mamiverse. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades\, Drunken Boat\, Witness\, Anti-\, Rhino\, Hunger Mountain\, Crab Orchard Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Copper Nickel\, and others. Her nonfiction has appeared in Jezebel\, Ms. Magazine\, and American Public Media. She is currently working on a memoir and poetry manuscript. erikalsanchez.com \nRichard Blanco was made in Cuba\, assembled in Spain\, and imported to the United States — meaning his mother\, seven months pregnant\, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Forty-five days later\, the family emigrated once more\, eventually settling in Miami where he was raised and educated. His acclaimed first book of poetry\, City of a Hundred Fires\, which explores the negotiation of cultural identity as a Cuban-American\, won the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press (1998). Since 1999\, Blanco has traveled extensively and lived in Guatemala\, Brazil\, Connecticut\, where he was Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Latino Literature\, and Washington DC\, where he taught at Georgetown and American University. His second book\, Directions to the Beach of the Dead continues to explore themes of home\, place\, and identity (University of Arizona Press\, Camino Del Sol Series\, 2005). His poems have appeared in major literary journals and anthologies\, including The Best American Poetry 2000\, Great American Prose Poems\, The Breadloaf Anthology of New American Poets\, and he has been featured on National Public Radio. Blanco received the John Ciardi Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, a Florida Artist Fellowship\, and a Residency Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A builder of bridges and poems\, Blanco earned both a bachelors of science degree in Civil Engineering (1991) and a Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1997) from Florida International University\, where he studied with Campbell McGrath. http://www.richard-blanco.com/ \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-cross-cultural-latinoa/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120620T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120620T210059
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Spanish Harlem"
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Afro-Latino poetry – curated by Marta Collazo and featuring Jeanette. \nCurator \nMarta Collazo is a Puerto Rican woman born and raised in Lorain\, Ohio. She has lived in the Chicago area for the last fourty years. Collazo studied Communications and Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a social activist\, a mother\, an educator\, an athlete\, and a poet. She has performed her poetry at several venues throughout Chicago. She was included in the anthology Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest published by MARCH/Abrazo Press in 2001. \nFeatured Poet \nJeanette\,  born and raised in Humboldt Park \, currently serves the Humboldt Park community professionally as a therapist/clinician for both the Association House of Chicago as well as C4. As a clinician Just Jeanette is engaged in her life’s purpose working with individuals and families in crisis. Jeanette attended Malcolm X College for her Associates in Social Science\, Northeastern University for her Bachelor’s in Social Work and graduated from Dominican University with a Master’s in Social Work but is most proud of her graduation from The Family Learning Program @ The Puerto-Rican Cultural Center where she obtained her High School Diploma at the age of twenty six and learned to embrace her heritage\, her people\, and her voice. Jeanette was a member of The National Committee for the Release of The Puerto Rican Prisoners of War (Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!) and is forever grateful for that experience and privilege. Jeanette’s written work mirror’s her professional work in that its intention is to provoke movement through self acceptance and self-empowerment. Jeanette is currently working on a series of children’s books designed to encourage the understanding of the beauty and importance of diversity and self love. Jeanette is also beginning the collection of works of young women of color in this and other communities in the hopes of compiling an Anthology that speaks to their diverse and similar experiences\, dreams\, and tears. Jeanette is the proud mother of four boys ages 22\, 16\,12\, and 6 and the stepmother of a beautifully unique 23 year old daughter all of whom challenge her regularly to avoid settling… at all costs. \nTresalyn Bray is a full-time mother of five\, writer\, and graduate student at Chicago State University in the MFA Creative Writing program. She has been writing for over twenty years in a variety of genres\, including but not limited to short stories\, flash fiction\, historical fiction\, non-fiction\, poetry\, theater\, and spoken word. She has performed with Performers or Writers for Women On Women’s issues (POWWOW) Performance Ensemble in the staged reading of Eve Ensler’s Any One of Us. Tresalyn has a passion for using both written and spoken word to give voice to those who cannot speak for themselves.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-spanish-harlem/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120618T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120618T210059
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SUMMARY:19th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award - final event
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex closes out its 19th Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award competition with its final event: an American Idol-style evening of poetry performance and audience voting. The semifinalists – named after a combination of traditional judging and a public facebook vote – will perform in a series of rounds followed by audience votes. At the end of the evening one poet will be named this year’s GBOMA award winner and go home with a $500 prize! \n2012 GBOMA Semi-Finalists: \nAmaris Howard \nAmelia Garcia \nAsia Calcagno \nBetsy Merbitz \nBobby Biedryzcki \nC.L. McFadyen \nClayton Guse \nDan Hanrahan \nDiana Pando \nKate Duva \nKelly Reuter \nKyndall Jones \nLucia Blinn \nNicole Bond \nPhyllis Humphries \nQuintin Collins \nRaven Hogue \nSamy Sabh \nSharrieff Muhammad \nStephanie Rose Perez \nFind out more about GBOMA here.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/19th-annual-gwendolyn-brooks-open-mic-award-final-event/
LOCATION:Chopin Theatre\, 1543 West Division Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60642\, United States
CATEGORIES:GBOMA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120608T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120608T220059
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SUMMARY:Gil Scott Heron - Passages\, Interludes\, Subtext n' Understandin'
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin us for an evening of poetry\, music and discussion of the legendary poet/musician/activist. Presented by the Guild’s “Applied Words” series\, with support from the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics & Culture – University of Chicago\, and the Friends of Blackstone Library. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFeatured speakers and performers: \nCarol Adams As one of the nation’s most esteemed educators\, Dr. Adams helped to bring about the convergence of art and education in Chicago\, particularly in its museums and public schools.  Former positions include Chairman of the African American Studies Department at Loyola University; Director\, The Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois University; and most recently the Secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services. Carol Adams has spent much of her career engaged in cultural arts research\, analysis and production. Her unique perspective on art and its integral role in shaping and defining culture and community is informed by her parallel study of sociology and Africana history and culture. Among her many awards and honors is the Illinois Arts Council Governor’s Award in the Arts. \nMaggie Brown is a tremendously talented singer and performer using her gift to not only entertain\, but educate as well. Maggie is the daughter of the late Oscar Brown\, Jr. a world renowned composer\, social activist\, and legendary giant on the Jazz music scene. Mr. Brown passed on his artistic integrity to his daughter who now uses her own voice to create images that excite and inspire. For 19 years\, the songstress has nationally toured her one-woman show\, “LEGACY: Our Wealth of Music” which follows the history and evolution of African American music and covers a wide range of musical forms. Miss Maggie’s vocal musicianship proudly heralds the LEGACY left by those who came before us. “Music is a powerful force. We need to use our music\, which is our cultural expression\, in a way that uplifts humanity\, rather than simply for material gain\,” said Brown. The singer\, actress\, and educator Maggie Brown is no stranger to jazz-vocal legends with unique styles of songwriting: she grew up with one in her father. In 1999 Brown worked with the late singer/composer Abbey Lincoln on her CD\, “Wholly Earth”. \nKrista Franklin is a poet\, visual artist and performer from Dayton\, OH who lives and works in Chicago. Her poetry and mixed medium collages have been published in lifestyle and literary journals such as Vinyl 5\, The New Sound\, Coon Bidness\, Copper Nickel\, RATTLE\, Indiana Review\, Ecotone\, Clam and Callaloo\, and in the anthologies Encyclopedia Vol. II\, F-K and Gathering Ground. Her visual art has been featured on the covers of award-winning books\, and exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions\, and her chapbook Study of Love & Black Body was published in 2012 by Willow Books. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow\, a co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon\, a community meeting space for writers\, visual and performance artists\, musicians and scholars. www.kristafranklin.com \nTravis Jackson is an ethnomusicologist whose work centers on jazz\, rock and recording technology. His theoretical interests include urban geography\, race/culture and identity\, ethnographic method\, performance and aesthetics. He is the author of the forthcoming Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene\, as well as articles on topics ranging from the intersection of jazz and poetic performance to the interpretation of meaning in rock. His current work focuses on the affective attachment of musicians and listeners to recording labels. \nKeith M. Kelley is a poet\, spoken word artist\, musician and audio artist. He has been performing professionally since 1991 with his spoken word band\, Funky Wordsmyths and in his one-man “Electric Poetry” show that blends spoken word\, rhythmic utterances\, and live instruments with effects processing and live phrase sampling and looping. In addition to performing\, Kelley has been conducting Poetry\, Spoken Word\, and Music workshops with youth and adults for 20 Years. Kelley is the Executive Director of the Spoken Word Academy of Chicago\, a not-for-profit organization established to provide a comprehensive resource for learning\, practicing\, performing\, and experiencing the spoken word art form. \n Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of five poetry books\, including They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press\, 2004); a children’s book titled The Big World (Addison-Wesley\, 1998); and editor of eight anthologies\, including Dream of A Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology (Tia Chucha Press\, 2006). He is Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at Chicago State University\, where he served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing from 2002-2011. He is a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School and former Associate Editor-Poetry for Black Issues Book Review. Quraysh earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the Creative Writing Program at New York University\, where he was a Departmental Fellow. 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. mystic turf\, his third full-length book of poetry\, will be released in November 2012 by Willow Books. \nMario \, Chicago poet\, educator\, activist and radio personality\,  hosts “News From the Service Entrance” on WHPK 88.5FM/whpk.org/iTunes. He has written essays for Chicago’s public radio affiliate WBEZ \, appeared on Voice of America\, provided Election Night 2008 analysis for BBC Devon\, and has performed his poetry at DePaul University\, University of Chicago\, Traffic Series at Steppenwolf Theater (Inaugural Season)\, MCA\, United Nations Dialogue Among Civilizations\, Old Town School of Folk Music\, Art Institute of Chicago\, Chicago Cultural Center. \nSalim Muwakkil is a senior editor of In These Times\, where he has worked since 1983. He is the host of “The Salim Muwakkil” show on WVON\, Chicago’s historic black radio station\, and he wrote the text for the book HAROLD: Photographs from the Harold Washington Years. Muwakkil has also written for the Washington Post\, Chicago Reader\, The Progressive\, Newsday\, Cineaste\, Chicago Magazine\, Emerge Magazine\, The Black Scholar\, and Utne Reader among others. Muwakkil has won a variety of journalism awards including the “Top Ten Media Heroes of 1994\,” from the Institute of Alternative Journalism\, the “Black Rose Achievement Award for 1997\,” from the League of Black Women\, and the 2001 Studs Terkel Award for Journalistic Excellence from the Chicago-based Community Media Workshop. In his spare time\, Muwakkil serves as a board member for the Progressive Media Project and the Chicago-based Public Square. He has been a faculty member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest’s Urban Studies Program\, and an adjunct professor at Columbia College\, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \nThe Primeridian\, a hip-hop based\, power group consisting of Simeon Viltz (See-Me-On)\, and Darshon Gibbs (Race)\, hail from the eclectic\, historical music scene of Chicago. With musical influences from blues and R&B\, to house and acid jazz\, the Primeridian fuses these influences into a soulful\, jazzy\, acid-funk sound independent of musical genres and classifications pushing hip hop to new levels of exposure\, experimentation and expression using thought-provoking lyrics\, a touch of humor\, skilled production and musicianship and years of explosive live performances. Simeon AKA “V\,” a native of Chicago’s southeast Hyde Park area\, represents the ‘the soul’ of Primeridian. Darshon “Race” Gibbs is an electrifying and captivating emcee able to entice those in earshot with lyrical prowess\, depth and a distinct\, strong voice. Original member\, Jaime “Tree” Roundtree is now a teacher\, focused on making connections with his students as an educator and his audience as an artist. \nDavid Stovall is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).  His scholarship investigates four areas 1) Critical Race Theory\, 2) concepts of social justice in education\, 3) the relationship between housing and education\, and 4) the relationship between schools and community stakeholders. In the attempt to being theory to action\, he has spent the last ten years working with community organizations and schools to develop curriculum that address issues of social justice.  His current work has led him to become a member of the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School of Social Justice High School design team\, which opened in the Fall of 2005. Furthering his work with communities\, students\, and teachers\, Stovall is involved with youth-centered community organizations in Chicago\, New York and the Bay Area.  In addition to his duties and responsibilities as an associate professor at UIC\, he also serves as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice. \navery r. young is a writer\, performer and teaching artist.  He is a Cave Canem Fellow and his works have been published in AIMPrint\, Callaloo\, Spaces Between Us and many other anthologies and periodicals.  He is also featured on Urban Audiology:  The Art of Audio Truism and other compilations. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gil-scott-heron-passages-interludes-subtext-n-understandin/
LOCATION:Experimental Station\, 6100 S. Blackstone\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120524T210059
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SUMMARY:Open Rehearsal with Poetry Performance Incubator’s “Unnatural Spaces”
DESCRIPTION:Get a sneak peak at the creative process behind the Poetry Performance Incubator’s new work-in-progress\, Unnatural Spaces. The Incubator artists will do some of the types of writing and performance exercises they’ve been using for the past 5 months as they develop the new show set to premiere in October. They’ll even share some of their experiences working in this new hybrid of poetry and theater — some for the first time. So if you’ve ever been curious about the Incubator’s process for bringing poets together to write original stage work\, now’s your chance to see behind the curtain. (Learn more about the Incubator’s history and cast here. And see what the Incubator cast has been up to on their facebook page and blog too!)
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/open-rehearsal-with-poetry-performance-incubators-unnatural-spaces-2/
LOCATION:Voice of the City Studio\,     3429 W. Diversey Avenue\, Suite 208 (upstairs)\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="Guild Literary Complex":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120516T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120516T210059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120415T181017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120515T185719Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura "South of the Border: Way South”
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Beatriz Badikian Gartler and featuring Fernando Olszanski and Bernardo Navia. \nCurator \nBeatriz Badikian-Gartler was born and reared in Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, and has lived in the Chicago area for over thirty-five years. Badikian-Gartler holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches at various institutions of higher learning. Her essays\, poems\, and stories have been published in numerous journals\, anthologies\, and newspapers in the United States and abroad. She is a popular performer in the Chicago area and lectures often on women’s issues\, art\, and literature. In 2000 Badikian was selected as one of the One-Hundred Women Who Make a Difference in Chicago by Today’s Woman magazine. She is an Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar and a frequent Newberry Library instructor. Her second full length collection\, Mapmaker Revisited: New and Selected Poems\, was published in 1999 from Gladsome Books in Chicago. Her first novel Old Gloves – A 20th Century Saga was published in 2005 by Fractal Edge Press in Chicago. Her art work has been exhibited at Robert Morris College\, Around the Coyote art festival\, and other venues in Chicago. Her collages are available for purchase on her website: www.bbgartler.com \nFeatured Poets \nFernando Olszanski was born in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. He has lived in Ecuador\, Europe\, Japan and currently in the United States. Is the author of the novel Rezos de marihuana\, the book of poems Parte del polvo and participated in several anthologies around the world. As a writer he has been awarded for his poetry\, fiction and essays in Argentina\, Spain Mexico\, Venezuela and the U.S. He has published his work in The Barcelona Review and Espéculo\, in Spain; Franchachela and Las Letras in Argentina\, Contratiempo\, The Cove\, Ventana Abierta\, The Bilingual Review\, Divergencias\, in the US\, and also in Mexico\, Chile\, Ecuador\, Denmark\, Japan\, Brasil\, Philippines\, and Colombia. Part of his work has been translated to Japanese. He is the Chief Editor of Revista Consenso\, a publication of Northeastern Illinois University. As a Filmmaker he has participated in several film festivals\, including the Chicago Latino Film Festival and the Chicago Anarchist Film Festival. His last book\, El orden natural de las cosas\, has been awarded with the International Latino Book Award in the Best Popular Fiction category. He lives in Chicago. \nBernardo E. Navia L. was born in Chilán (Chile) in August\, 1967. He had the opportunity of living in many Chilean cities and in several Latino countries as well. In September 1987 he and his family moved to the United States. He studied a Major in Spanish from the Universidad de las Antillas\, in Puerto Rico and obtained a Spanish Master from UIC. In 2001 he graduated from UIC as well with a Ph.D. in Spanish. At the present moment he works as a Spanish Assistant Professor at DePaul University. Bernardo has published several essays\, poems\, and short stories in different magazines and newspapers\, from United States and abroad. He has also published two poetry books\, Doce muertes para una resaca (Madrid: Betania 2000)\, and Viaje en dos jornadas (Bloomington: Palibrio 2011); one book of short stories\, Sin tregus y otros desórdenes urbanos (Bloomington: Palibrio 2010); he has also co-authored another two short stories books\, Vocesueltas: Cuatro cuentistas de Chicago (Chicago: Ediciones Vocesueltas 2007); and Voces Online (Santiago de Chile: Escritores.CL 2010). Bernardo is married to Leslie Klatt; they have three children: Inti (7 years old)\, Leaf (4 years old)\, and Rain (1 year old). \nBernardo E. Navia L. nació en Chillán (Chile) en agosto de 1967. Tuvo la oportunidad de vivir y viajar por muchas ciudades de Chile así como también por diversos países de América Latina. En septiembre de 1987 se radicó con su familia en Estados Unidos. Cursó estudios de Bachillerato en Español en la Universidad de Las Antillas en Puerto Rico y Maestría en Español en UIC. En el año 2001 terminó su Ph.D. en la misma universidad y actualmente trabaja como profesor asistente de español en DePaul University. Bernardo ha publicado varios ensayos\, poemas y cuentos en diversas revistas y periódicos tanto de Estados Unidos como del exterior. Ha publicado también dos libros de poesía\, Doce muertes para una resaca (Madrid: Betania 2000) y Viaje en dos jornadas (Bloomington: Palibrio 2011); un libro de cuentos\, Sin tregua y otros desórdenes urbanos (Bloomington: Palibrio 2010); y es co-autor de otros dos libros de cuentos\, Vocesueltas: Cuatro cuentistas de Chicago (Chicago: Ediciones Vocesueltas 2007); y Voces Online (Santiago de Chile: Escritores. CL 2010). Bernardo está casado con Leslie Klatt y tiene 3 niños: Inti (7 años)\, Leaf (4 años) y Rain (1 año). \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (2nd floor)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura,Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Guild Literary Complex":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120508T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120508T210059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120303T232921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120417T130918Z
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SUMMARY:“Illuminate” – The Guild Literary Complex’s Third Annual Benefit!
DESCRIPTION:This year’s theme is the art and craft of graphic novels and features cocktails\, appetizers and a panel discussion with Nicole Hollander\, Audrey Niffenegger\, C. Spike Trotman and Chris Ware!  Learn more here.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/827/
LOCATION:DePaul Art Museum\, 935 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120418T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120418T210059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120321T145126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120331T160842Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura "Lives Between Love and Darkness"
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Gregorio Gómez and featuring Nora Leon and Martin Rubio Jr. \n  \nCurator \nGregorio Gomez is the MC of Chicago’s most infamous and longest running underground poetry venue at “WEEDS”.  Gregorio who emigrated from Veracruz\, Mexico has been a major influence in the development of the spoken word and many venues of Chicago’s poetry community for at least two decades. As the Managing Director of the Latino Chicago Theater Company at The Firehouse (Damen and North Ave.); the company was at the forefront in the advancement of theater and the arts in Wicker Park.  As well as the community’s economic development…and he takes blame for being a factor in the gentrification of Wicker Park. Gregorio has been featured at many Chicago poetry venues (and throughout the Mid-West)\, including readings with Fareed Haque\, (jazz guitarist)\, Guillermo Gómez-Peña (poet/author)\, Carlos Cortes (poet/labor activist)\, Luis Rodriguez (poet/author/publisher)\, Patricia Smith (poet/journalist). \nFeatured Readers \nMartin Rubio Jr was born and raised locally in Pilsen. He began writing poetry and prose early on\, and his first works appeared in the underground magazine called Zacapuntas. Early local influences were Carlos Cortez and Carlos Cumpian. As the work progressed\, he recited at places he would frequent as a spectator. Places like Cafe Jumping Bean\, Lit X\, and most recently Weeds. Currently\, he is a co-founder and resident writer at Blink Mob Studios\, on the southwest side of Chicago. Blink Mob Studios is an artist collective which consists of creative writing\, painting\, music\, and screen printing; and will combine these many different types of media to express art. His first poetry collection\, Introspection and Awakenings\, will be published in house and available in the summer of 2012. \n  \nNora Leon was born and raised in Chicago.  She moved to Puerto Rico and resided there for 7 years and after her return to Chicago\, graduated from Steinmetz High School and attended Wright College that same year.  She started working in the medical field in the year 2000 and is currently working at Mercy Hospital. Her passion for poetry and writing flourished while in Puerto Rico composing Hip Hop lyrics and performing at talent shows with her colleague Ray.  Her first performance in Chicago was at Weeds\, reading her very first poem named “The Ways”. Ms. Leon went into hiatus through the years 2008-2010 having multiple eye surgeries after enduring an injury causing her to lose some vision of her left eye.  During this time she had to re-adjust to a new life style being half blind.  Throughout her rehabilitation period she never lost her passion or drive for writing poetry\, photography or film. She made her comeback at Weeds participating in “The Best Off the Wall” poetry contest\, taking third place after performing her poem titled “Neptune’s Future”.  With her new found strength and confidence\, she is actively writing poetry and movie scripts.  Has created a poetry group online called “Punk Rock Poetry Society”; along with her brother Leonardo they own “Gear Punk Photography” and “Kiosk Notebooks”.  “Gear Punk Photography” specializes in portraits\, scenery shots\, photo and video editing; “Kiosk Notebooks” specializes in uniquely designing collages on composition notebooks which are sold online. Ms. Leon is grateful to be participating in her first feature reading at The Guild Complex\, Palabra Pura.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-lives-between-love-and-darkness/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120414
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120321T144744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120321T144912Z
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SUMMARY:R.S.V.P. Deadline: "Illuminate" Annual Benefit
DESCRIPTION:April 13th is the official deadline to r.s.v.p. for this year’s annual Benefit “Illuminate” – the art and craft of graphic novels\, with Nicole Hollander\, Audrey Niffenegger\, C. Spike Trotman and Chris Ware. A very limited number of tickets will be available for sale at the door – click here for more details…
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/r-s-v-p-deadline-illuminate-annual-benefit/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120411T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120411T203059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120321T153103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120411T142100Z
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SUMMARY:Teaching Artist Showcase/Multi-University Student Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:In our new Teaching Artist Showcase series\, creative writers who also happen to be teachers will share creative work that was inspired by\, developed with or otherwise related to their teaching work. The series will define “teaching artist” broadly –  from university faculty\, to in-school elementary and high school writing teachers or after-school program instructors\, to those who work in prisons\, hospitals and other institutions.\n\n\n\nThis first event in the series will unite teaching artists with students. The program will feature readings by two university professors (poetry\, prose and/or theater) and a brief Q&A about their writing and teaching. In addition\, there will be a multi-university open mic featuring students from area writing programs. As an added twist\, the school that brings the most audience members will receive 3 complimentary tickets to our annual Benefit “Illuminate – the Art & Craft of Graphic Novels”! (1 ticket for a faculty member\, 2 tickets for students. Discounted tickets will also be available for sale that night for $20 – cash\, please.)\nIf you’re a student interested in signing up  for the open mic\, \ncontact your program coordinator or send your name\, genre and school affiliation to \ninfo@guildcomplex.org\, subject line “Showcase.”  (Space is limited.)\n\n\nConfirmed Participants\n~ Teaching Artists ~\n\nBayo Ojikutu is the author of the novels 47th Street Black and Free Burning. Ojikutu’s short fiction has appeared in the Akashic Press anthology Chicago Noir\, the Other Voices literary journal\, among other collections. In 2009\, his short “Yayi and Those Who Walk on Water: A Fable” was short-listed among the year’s notable fiction by the national Pushcart Prize. He has been the winner of the Washington Prize for Fiction\, the Great American Book Award\, and a 2008 Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature (Fiction) from the African-American Arts Alliance.  Ojikutu\, his wife and son reside in Chicago and he teaches at DePaul University and The Graham School at the University of Chicago.\n\n\nS.L. Wisenberg\, director of the MA/MFA in creative writing programs at Northwestern University\, is the author of the nonfiction book The Adventures of Cancer Bitch\, as well as the essay collection\, Holocaust Girls: History\, Memory & Other Obsessions  and the short story collection The Sweetheart Is In. She has received a Pushcart Prize and awards and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She was a feature writer at the Miami Herald and has taught at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies as well as magazines such as the New Yorker\, Ploughshares\, Michigan Quarterly Review \, and Creative Nonfiction. She is the publisher of TriQuarterly.org. Wisenberg holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.\n\n\n~ Student Readers ~\n\n                   \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Kloess (fiction)\, Roosevelt University – previous publications include: Mythic Circles and the anthology Thirty Under Thirty from Starcherone Books; two-time winner of the Indiana Project XL competition\, and received the Chicago-based Friends of American Writers award in 2009.\n\n\nDavid Ben-Arie (fiction/theater)\, University of Chicago – born and raised in South Africa\, moved to Canada at age twelve; plays produced including New York’s The Samuel French Short Play Festival and the Vital Theatre Company; tutors students in writing at 826-Chicago and is currently finishing his first novel\, The Blue Coast.\nDeepak Unnikrishnan (fiction)\, School of the Art Institute – writes. Short stories. He is Abu Dhabian\, manufactured and product tested in the capital of the Emirates by a quiet yet befuddled Malayalee family.\nEliza Fogel (non-fiction)\, Columbia College – builds stories one word at a time\nGabriel Bump (fiction)\, School of the Art Institute – born and raised on the south side of Chicago. His work focuses on race relations in the “color-blind” generation and attempts to navigate a complex social landscape.\nJim Shadid (fiction)\, DePaul University – lives\, writes\, works and plays in Chicago\nKevin Kane (fiction)\, Columbia College – currently the managing editor of the print and online magazine The Handshake; served as managing editor for the Spring 2012  and Story Week issues of fictionary and an editor for the 2012 Story Week Reader.\nMatt Carmichael (fiction)\, Northwestern University – lives and writes in Chicago; a fiction editor for TriQuarterly Online.\nMellissa Gyimah (fiction)\, DePaul University – born and raised in East London\, but originally from Ghana\, has always been intrigued by different cultures and the communities in which they function http://mellissagyimah.tumblr.com\nSophia Tareen\, Graham School/University of Chicago (fiction) – a reporter for The Associated Press in Chicago\, is attempting a first novel. Twitter: @sophiatareen.\n\nMore participant info to come!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/teaching-artist-showcasemulti-university-student-open-mic/
LOCATION:Experimental Station\, 6100 S. Blackstone (take Dorchester to 61st street then head east; free street and lot parking)\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching Artist Showcase
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120328T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120328T183059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120304T163503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120322T144050Z
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SUMMARY:Applied Words/social activism
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex of Chicago continues its 2012 season with its returning series\, Applied Words\, which explores creative writing’s intersection with an artistic discipline (e.g. music or visual art) or a non-arts field (e.g. social justice or health). This Applied Words event will explore creative writing as an instrument of social activism – how people are using poetry\, prose or theater to provoke social action or effect change in communities’ behavior or perspective. The evening will include an open mic\, featured readers Michelle Boyd\, Sage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard and Brenda Parker\, and audience discussion.  As always\, audiences of all backgrounds are welcome. \nThe event is being co-sponsored by Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy’s Narrative Non-Fiction Working Group at UIC\,  and the UIC English Department’s Program for Writers\, who are sponsoring a pre-reading reception with drinks and snacks. \nTIME:             6:30pm drinks/snacks; 7:00 pm reading and discussion \nADMISSION:            Free with r.s.v.p. – email kdixon@guildcomplex.org\, Subject line: Activism \nABOUT THE WRITERS:  \nBrenda Parker is an Assistant Professor at UIC. She joined the Urban Planning and Policy Program in January 2008. She received her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Human Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Bachelors in Public Affairs from the James Madison College at Michigan State University. She has worked in various non-profit organizations and government agencies\, and as an independent research consultant and program evaluator. Brenda’s current research areas include urban policy\, urban governance\, community and economic development\, and qualitative methods.  She is particularly interested in gender\, race\, community activism\, and progressive politics. She is conducting a research project on relationships between economic development\, secondary markets\, and space. Previous research has focused on community-based mapping\, social justice\, and citizenship. She is also exploring how creative writing can be used to communicate research findings and policy recommendations. \nMichelle Boyd is Associate Professor in the African American Studies and Political Science departments\, and Associate Director for Programs and Partnerships in the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC. An urban ethnographer known for her research on the politics of racial identity\, Boyd has published in the Journal of Urban Affairs\, City and Society and the Urban Affairs Review. Her work has received many honors including Best Paper awards from the Urban Affairs Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Most recently\, her book Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville won the 2009 Best Book Award in the Construction of Equality and Inequality from the American Political Science Association’s Race and Ethnicity section. Michelle’s current project\, “Meet the Budget Cuts\,” is an audio documentary that examines the experiences of public employees who’ve lost their jobs due to state budget cuts. \nSage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard earned her MA in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She is a graduate of Brown University where she double majored in “Performance Studies: Socially Conscious Art of the Everyday” and Ethnic Studies. She is a poet\, activist and teacher from Washington\, D.C. She is the founder of WORD! spoken word artists and activists\, a former DC poetry slam coach and one of the original members of Spoken Resistance and the performance group Sol y Soul\, arts for social change.\n \nABOUT IRRPP at UIC: IRRPP’s Narrative NonFiction Working Group is a multi-disciplinary\, corss-college group of UIC faculty and staff members examinign how scholars can use literary technique to more effectively communicate about race/ethnicity with non-academic audiences. \nThe PROGRAM FOR WRITERS at UIC is a forum of the Department of English. It offers a PhD in English with creative dissertation and also an MA in English with creative manuscript. The Program for Writers at UIC is one of the oldest PhD-granting writing programs in the country. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-wordssocial-activism/
LOCATION:Jane Addams Hull-House Museum\, 800 South Halsted Street\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:kdixon@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120321T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120321T193059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120223T020145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120315T131335Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura "Forgiveness and Memory"
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Yolanda Nieves with featured poets Lisa Alvarado & Kristiana Rae Colón \nCurator \nDr. Yolanda Nieves\, Assistant Professor\, English\, Wilbur Wright College Chicago\, is creative director of The Vida Bella Ensemble\, is part of Teatro Luna’s PlayLab series and her La Matadora/Steel Flags will be produced by Chicago’s Landmark Project Fall 2011. She won the American Educational Research Association’s 2010 Arts-Based Dissertation of the Year Award for the performance-text\, The Brown Girls’ Chronicles:  Puerto Rican Women & Resilience. Her degrees include a Ed.D.\, Master’s in Organizational Development\, and B.A. in English and Education. \nFeatured Readers \nLisa Alvarado is an educator\, poet\, novelist\, and journalist\, the founder of La Onda Negra Press\, author of Reclamo and The Housekeeper’s Diary; originally a book of poetry and now a one-woman performance. Her first novel\, Sister Chicas\, Penguin/NAL\, was released in April 2006. The novel is a coming of age story concerning the lives of three young Latinas living in Chicago. It won 2nd place\, Best First Novel in English. (Latino Literacy Now/2007) \nHer book of poetry\, Raw Silk Suture\, released by Floricanto Press in 2008\, was reviewed by Rigoberto Gonzalez. She has curated multimedia exhibits\, mounted her own multimedia piece\, Reclamo in the Pilsen art corridor in Chicago; and is currently a contributor to the nationally touring exhibit\, Re-imagining the Distaff Toolkit\, curated by Ricki Solinger/SUNY. \nLisa is the recipient of grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs\, The NEA\, and the Ragdale Foundation. In Fall\, 2009\, she was awarded Hispanic Author of the Year by the State of Illinois. In 2010\, she contributed to HaLapid\, The Journal for the Study of Crypto-Judaism. In 2011\, she contributed to Me No Habla with Acento\, edited by Emanuel Xaver\, and released by Rebel Sartori Press\, and Still\, Life\, essays and poetry. \nKristiana Rae Colón is a poet\, playwright\, actor\, and educator living and working in Chicago. She has been featured on Power 92\, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio\, WGN Radio\, and WZRD. Kristiana has rocked the mic at some of the Midwest’s top venues including the Park West\, the Metro\, the Star Plaza Theater\, the Aragon\, Victory Gardens Theater\, Darkroom\, Subterranean\, the Funky Buddha Lounge\, as well as venues across the nation and abroad. Kristiana has shared stages with highly acclaimed writers Marc Smith\, the creator of the worldwide ‘poetry slam’ phenomenon\, Haki Madhubuti\, Patricia Smith\, Sonia Sanchez\, Malik Yusef\, Kevin Coval\, Tara Betts\, and has opened for De La Soul\, Grammy-nominated band Ozomatli and internationally-acclaimed comedian Damon Williams.  \nKristiana has served as an adjunct English and Humanities professor at Chicago State University\, Malcolm X College\, and Tribeca Flashpoint Academy. She is proud to have been nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize for her poem “severance” in Organs of Vision and Speech\, as well as see her work anthologized in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010 and Haven Books’ Not a Muse collection. Kristiana’s work is also featured in Saul Williams’ anthology\, Chorus: A Literary (Re)Mixtape\, released by MTV Publishing in Summer 2012. Other recent publications include Pank\, African American Review\, Diverse Voices Quarterly\, and the Logan Square Literary Review\, among several other online and print journals. Kristiana is also an Assistant Editor for Muzzle\, an online literary magazine.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-forgivness-and-memory/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, 60622\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120308T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120308T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120303T230811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T181036Z
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SUMMARY:Open Rehearsal with Poetry Performance Incubator's "Unnatural Spaces"
DESCRIPTION:Get a sneak peak at the creative process behind the Poetry Performance Incubator’s new work-in-progress\, Unnatural Spaces. This event will take place at the Voice of the City studio at 3429 W. Diversey Avenue\, Suite 208. The Incubator artists will do some of the types of writing and performance exercises they’ve been using for the past 3 months as they develop the new show set to premiere in October. They’ll even share some of their experiences working in this new hybrid of poetry and theater — some for the first time. So if you’ve ever been curious about the Incubator’s process for bringing poets together to write original stage work\, now’s your chance to see behind the curtain. \nSee what the Incubator cast has been up to on facebook page and blog too! \n Unnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/open-rehearsal-with-poetry-performance-incubators-unnatural-spaces/
LOCATION:3429 W. Diversey Avenue\, Suite 208\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120301T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120301T190059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120221T050516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120225T172820Z
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SUMMARY:AWP Conference: Reading with Michael Warr\, Luis Rodriguez\, and Patricia Smith
DESCRIPTION:Experience a true Chicago poetry experience with three of the founders of the city’s original poetry scene. This powerhouse trio of poet/performers will deliver a Guild-style reunion.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/awp-confrence-reading-with-michael-warr-luis-rodriguez-and-patricia-smith/
LOCATION:IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120301T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120301T170059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120223T015725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120223T015725Z
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SUMMARY:AWP Conference: Panel on Palabra Pura & Culturally Specific Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:A panel on the history\, evolution and future of culturally-specific reading series like Palabra Pura with a co-founder\, former featured artists\, curators and hosts of Palabra Pura.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/awp-conference-panel-on-palabra-pura-culturally-specific-reading-series/
LOCATION:Hilton Chicago\, Wilford A (3rd Floor)\, 720 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120215T230059
DTSTAMP:20260424T101201
CREATED:20120130T051616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120130T053903Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura with Rey Andújar\, Jorge Frisancho and Juan Dicent (Bilingual Poetry)
DESCRIPTION:Palabra Pura continues its 2012 season with its first guest-curator evening with open mic and featured readers. Tonight’s theme: Mutant Body/Cuerpo Migrante. The evening will present the body as a space for multiple questions related to the state of transition. What does the body leave behind in its translation/transfer? What does it acquire or adapt? In this sense language is an element that determines more than its sensory definition. \nCurator Rey Andújar (Santo Domingo 1977) has published narratives and works of theater since 2005. He studies within a laboratory that investigates the Dramaturgy of the Body. He currently lives in Chicago. \nFEATURED POETS\n\nJuan Dicent (a.k.a. Dino Bonao). This poet\, born in the Dominican Republic and located now in New York City\, maintains a hybrid body of written text addressing the concept of nationality through a Bilingual Performance that draws upon an interesting collection of socio-anthropological notes. Other works include: Happy New Year to You (Pequeñas Resistencias 4. Antología del nuevo cuento norteamericano y caribeño. Páginas de Espuma\, Spain\, 2005); Summertime (Editorial Shampoo\, Dom Rep\, 2006; Santiago Arcos Editor\, Argentina\, 2007; Editorial Universos\, Spain 2010); Poeta en Animal Planet (Editorial Vox\, Argentina 2007); My Uncle’s First Jeans (Textos de Cartón\, Argentina 2009); Monday Street (Editorial Cara de Cuis\, Argentina 2011). visit: www.blogworkorange.blogspot.com  and  www.podworkorange.com \nThe poetry of Jorge Frisancho navigates within the posture of the body in terms of its metaphysical character. His book Estudios sobre un cuerpo (Studies of a Body) explores the possibility of body-to-body journeys. The lyric structure of this poet\, who was born in Barcelona\, raised in Peru\, and who has lived in Chicago for some years\, is generous in its speech and extensive in its embrace; it denotes the body as a space for conflicts and opposing forces. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-with-rey-andujar-jorge-frisancho-and-juan-dicent-bilingual-poetry/
LOCATION:IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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