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SUMMARY:Applied Words: Broken Windows POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Due to a severe weather forecast we have postponed tonight’s event. Applied Words: “Broken Windows” will now be held on Tuesday\, September 3\, 2013. Visit the new event page for more information.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-broken-windows-postponed/
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "The Diaspora Daughters Speak"
DESCRIPTION:Afro-Latino(a)s/Caribbeans are challenged to reconcile what are seen as conflicting identities. The Guild Literary Complex sheds poetic light on the topic with “The Diaspora Daughters Speak\,” the July installment of our monthly bilingual poetry series Palabra Pura\, curated by Sandra Posados and featuring poets Yolanda Nieves and Maya Emma Nnena Ruth Odim (Maya Odim). “The Diaspora Daughters Speak” takes place Wednesday\, July 17\, 2013\, at 7:30 PM at La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division. The program will be spoken in English and Spanish. Admission is free. \nIssues of identity are at the core of the Afro-Latino(a)/Caribbean experience in the United States. Sometimes seen by Latino(a)s as a novelty\, Afro-Latino(a)s get asked\, “Where did you learn to speak Spanish?” Meanwhile\, whites confuse black Latino(a)s for being African-American. And if an Afro-Latino(a) is light skinned the reality of African roots is not recognized by many family members. July’s Palabra Pura encourages Latino(a)s to redress this conflict. As curator Posado notes\, “We are ‘Latino(a)’ regardless of where we fall on the color spectrum. In their own words\, these empowered\, self-affirming\, educated Afro-Latinas/Caribbean poets [will] share their professional and personal experiences of living with a changing\, often contested identity in a racialized society.” \nSandra Posadas is an educator\, artist/illustrator\, and actress. She holds a B.A. from Roosevelt University and an M.A. in bilingual/bicultural Education from DePaul University. Posadas has performed across the city\, most notably as part of The Brown Girls’ Chronicles. \n  \nYolanda Nieves is an educator\, writer\, and performer. Nieves is an Assistant Professor in English at Wilbur Wright College Chicago and the creative director of The Vida Bella Ensemble. 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. \n \nMaya Emma Nnena Ruth Odim (Maya Odim) is an artist\, educator\, and author of a collection of poems titled: Planets\, Gourds and Traveling Staffs. As a facilitator and co-facilitator she has experience giving creative writing\, poetry and spoken word workshops\, as well as Latin Dance and Break Dance workshops\, in many spaces in the city of Chicago and the state of Connecticut.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-7/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards
DESCRIPTION:Guild Literary Complex is pleased to announce the 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Join us Tuesday July 23\, 2013\, 7:00 pm\, at the Chopin Theater\, 1542 W Division Street\, for a live voting event and award ceremony. Preliminary judges\, Gwendolyn A. Mitchell and Noël Jones have narrowed the submissions down to just 20 semi-finalists who now have the opportunity to showcase their talents in front of a live audience. Audience members will be voting throughout the evening and will ultimately crown the winner of $500 and the 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Brooks’ daughter\, Nora Brooks Blakely will present the first place award. The emcee for the event is celebrated poet and performer Toni Ashante Lightfoot. Included in the festivities will be a special reading by Mark Turcotte\, the first winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards in 1993. Tickets are $7 / $5 for students. \nThe 2013 semi-finalists are: Olivia M. Arredondo\, Lucia Blinn\, Ann Breen-Greco\, Quintin Collins\, Dina Elenbogen\, Glenn Ford\, Amelia M. Garcia\, Marc Livingston (a.k.a. G.P.A.)\, Nate Marshall\, Maya Marshall\, Diana Pando\, Gregory Pickett\, Kelly Reuter\, Shanara “The MouthPeace” Sanders\, Sandra Santiago\, Rachel Slotnick\, Javon Smith\, M. Quinn Stifler\, Sharon Warner\, and Arne Weingart \nEMCEE: Toni Asante Lightfoot is a lecturer and co-editor of Dream of a Word: A Tia Chucha Anthology\, The It’s Your Mug 10th Anniversary Commemorative Anthology\, and The Sixth Wave: An anthology of Black writers from the late 70s to 2000. \n  \n  \nSPECIAL PRESENTER: Nora Brooks Blakely is a committed educator and the daughter of Henry Blakely and Gwendolyn Brooks. She developed Brooks Permissions in 2000 to manage her mother’s body of work. \n  \n  \n  \nSPECIAL READER: Mark Turcotte is an educator and the author of four poetry collections\, including The Feathered Heart and Exploding Chippewas. \n  \n  \nPRELIMINARY JUDGE: Gwendolyn A. Mitchell is a poet and editor.  Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including American Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas\, Essence Magazine\, Spaces Between Us and Valley Voices. Ms. Mitchell is the author of two poetry collections\, Veins and Rivers and House of Women\, and is the author of the book-length poem\, Ain’t I Black.  She is the co-editor of two anthologies\, Releasing the Spirit and Describe the Moment\, both collections of literary work from Gallery 37 in Chicago. Her forthcoming book\, Among the Missing\, will be published later this year. Gwendolyn Mitchell resides in Illinois\, where she serves as Senior Editor for Third World Press. \n  \nPRELIMINARY JUDGE: Noël Jones is a writer and former member of the 2000 National Poetry Slam Champion Team NYC-Urbana\, featured in The New York Times and on NPR’s “Infinite Mind\,” as well as at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin\, TX. As a performance poet\, Jones has toured internationally and was elected to be part of an all-woman tour introducing slam poetry to Denmark. Among other appearances\, Jones has been featured at the YWCA Student Association’s National Convention in Phoenix\, Arizona; on New York’s Studio Y on the MetroChannel and Boston’s Stand-Up Poetry. \n  \nThe 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award program is sponsored by Wicker Park Bucktown SSA #33.  WPB SSA #33 is administered by the WPB Chamber of Commerce.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gwendolyn-brooks-open-mic-awards/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
CATEGORIES:GBOMA
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SUMMARY:Poetry Performance Incubator Auditions
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Performance Incubator is seeking poets and other writers to collaborate on the creation of a workshop production of Like Bread\, a new theatrical performance about making space for a creative life. We are particularly interested in working with poets from a broad range of aesthetics\, backgrounds\, ages\, and Chicago communities. \nInspired by the Roque Dalton poem “Like You\,” Like Bread will explore the relationship between writing and social struggles\, the way that writing can transform a life\, and how challenging (but joyful) it can be to claim oneself “a writer.” \nNoted director (and longtime Incubator artist lead) Coya Paz will facilitate this project. The Guild is particularly interested in working with a multigenerational cast\, and writers of all ages are encouraged to audition. \nTo Audition: \nAuditions will be Thursday\, July 25\, 6:30 PM\, at Free Street Theatre (1419 W. Blackhawk St). Audition slots are 30 minutes and will include you giving a 2-3 minute recital of your original written material\, on-the-spot writing from prompts\, and group theatre exercises. The call back will be Saturday\, July 27\, and by invitation only. The call back will be a full group audition for two hours. \nTo schedule an audition\, email aromero@guildcomplex.org with “Auditions” in subject line\, and give your name\, phone number\, and what time(s) you’re available July 25\, 6:30pm-8:30pm. Then we’ll call you back to schedule your audition.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poetry-performance-incubator-auditions/
LOCATION:Free Street Theatre\, 1419 W. Blackhawk St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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