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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:Lost & Found: Letters\, Poems\, and Marginalia of Cross Cultural Experience \nThis evening\, Palabra Pura will travel to Mexico City\, Korea\, and Haiti via our writers to explore the Cross Cultural Experiences of a Dancer\, an Educator\, and a Poet. Curated by Maribel Mares. \nAbout the Artists\n \n  \nDarren Angle is a poet living in Chicago. His work has appeared in LIT and BOMB. He received degrees from Macalester College and Brown University\, where he won a Weston Fine Arts Award and was an Adele K. Seaver Fellow in Creative Writing. Darren will share poetry inspired by his time in Haiti along with a slideshow of photos. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nMayra Jimenez is a Mexican-American Educator living in Korea; a world traveler\, a connoisseur of cultures and human behavior; She is an educator as well as student striving for social justice. A collector of the five senses\, she loves cooking\, writing\, film\, and exploring the natural world. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nYesika Perez was born and raised in the Mexico City (Tenochtitlan). She began dancing the age of 5 years; she studied Dance at the National Institute of Fine arts (INBA) in Mexico City.  She is the owner of her own business in Chicago. Amongst other things\, she was bartender\, street sweeper\, and a vendor in a street market. A proud single mother\, a free spirit\, she acts as a stabilizer of emotions\, a healer to friends\, family\, and anyone she encounters! We find her this night in Chicago\, lost and found in her circling root system.  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Curator\nMaribel Mares is an author\, educator\, and organizer. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a founding member of the Division Collective\, a salon series featuring emerging writers\, artists\, musicians\, architects\, designers\, and thinkers. She is also the co-creator of Kid City Chicago. She is a Latina Writer from the Southwest side of Chicago\, exploring the cultural and regional identity of Mexican American families.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-curated-by-maribel-mares/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Reading & Award
DESCRIPTION:Writers across Illinois submitted their poems to the Guild for the 21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award between June 7 and June 30\, 2014. 20 of those poems were selected to be presented on July 23\, where each author will read their poem to an audience who will then vote on the winner of a $500 prize. \nSpecial appearance by Nora Brooks Blakely\, and a performance by Aurora Performance Group. Marian Hayes\, poet\, will also read her work “The Blues”\, which won her the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award 20 years ago. \nThis years semifinalists are: \nFatimah Asghar\, Chirskira Caillouet\, Miles Clark\, Olivia Cole\, Livia Regina Harkow\, Andy Karol\, Samy Lang\, Ele Matelan\, Cameron McGill\, Sharon L. Powell\, Kelly Reuter Raymundo\, Charles “Charley” Reynard\, Irene Savine\, Rachel Lena Slotnick\, Mojdeh Stoakley\, Deepak Unnikrishnan\, Jacob Victorine\, Erin Watson\, Dylan James Weir\, and Jamila Woods. \nJoin us at the Chopin Theater to celebrate these 20 semifinalists\, hear some fantastic poetry out loud\, and decide who is going to be the 2014 winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. \nPast winners include Sename Amagashie\, Lucy Anderton\, Tara Betts\, C.C. Carter\, Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez\, Marian Hayes\, Tricia Hersey\, Tyehimba Jess\, Langston Kerman\, Toni Asante Lightfoot\, Nate Marshall\, Sage Morgan-Hubbard\, Stephanie Rose Perez\, Tristan Silverman\, Dan “Sully” Sullivan\, and Mark Turcotte\, among others. \nTickets are $8 adults / $6 students and seniors. \nAbout the Emcee\nToni Asante Lightfoot has been living in Chicago since 2002. She’s worked with the Guild Complex\, Neighborhood Writing Alliance\, ETA Theater\, and Young Chicago Authors where she is currently the Director of Writing Workshops. Lightfoot is a Cave Canem fellow and spent 2 years as a Soul Mountain fellow held in the retreat home of Marilyn Nelson\, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut. Lightfoot’s poetry and reviews can be found in numerous anthologies\, journals\, and online. She is married with a lovely daughter who inspires Lightfoot to laugh\, write\, and dance.  \n  \n  \nAbout the Performers\n \nMarian Hayes has been a poet in Chicago for decades. She has done what the late great Gwendolyn Brooks encouraged all poets to do; take their poetry to all walks of life; tavern\, campuses\, schools\, highways and by ways. She is presently working on a series of Blues haiku poems. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAurora Performance Group is a musical group based in Chicago\, IL. Assembled by the daughter of Gwendolyn Brooks\, Nora Brooks Blakely\, APG performs in honor of Mrs. Brooks’ tremendous legacy. \n  \nAbout the Preliminary Judge\n \nJ.W. Basilo is a writer\, performer\, comedian\, and educator from Chicago. He is a National and World Poetry Slam finalist\, a PushCart Prize Nominee\, Executive Director of Chicago Slam Works\, one half of Poetry/Comedy duo Beard Fight\, and a company member with Red Theater Chicago. His work has appeared on NPR\, CNN\, CBS\, WGN\, in the Chicago Tribune\, and in hundreds of live venues. Currently\, you can catch him every Sunday in Chicago at the Green Mill\, where he co-hosts The Uptown Poetry Slam\, and Mondays at Haymarket Pub & Brewery\, where he serves as curator and host of The LitMash. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCO-SPONSORED BY: \n \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.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gwendolyn-brooks-open-mic-reading-award/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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