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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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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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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
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