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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@
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LOCATION:Chicago State University\, Gwendolyn Brooks Library\, 9501 S. King Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Guild's 30th Anniversary Party
DESCRIPTION:The Guild hosted an evening celebrating the Guild’s first 30 years\, and looking forward to the next 30. Important voices from the Guild’s past introduced the Guild’s 30 Writers to Watch in 2019 and beyond. We saw old friends & made some new ones\, while enjoying music\, hors d’oeuvres\, and an-end-of night raffle featuring unique artifacts from the Guild’s archives.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/the-guilds-30th-anniversary-party/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest Exhibit Opening
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation \nContinuing the collaboration between The Guild Complex and Rebuild Foundation built on the 2016 anthology of African American political art and poetry\, Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (WW Norton)\, this exhibit seeks to capture the transformative power that fuels social movements and sustains families and communities confronting state violence against black and brown youth. Curated by Of Poetry and Protest Co-Editor/Guild Founding Director Michael Warr together with The Guild and Rebuild\, the exhibit presents words and images – portraits\, poems\, documentation\, and creative responses — featured in the book\, alongside Present Absence\, a five-channel video installation by the artists Salome Chasnoff + Meredith Zielke that makes visible the lives of individuals killed by Chicago Police through stories generated from intimate one-on-one interviews with their families and close friends. This work is presented along with\, and in response to\, Rebuild Foundation’s Objects of Care: Material Memorial for Tamir Rice on the Arts Bank lawn. The opening will provide a chance to view all of these works and meet the artists and curators behind the exhibit\, who will also speak about the work during a short\, informal public conversation. Light appetizers will be provided and the Stony Island Arts Bank’s bar will be open for business. The Of Poetry and Protest exhibit will remain on display through the summer. \n  \nPresent Absence promo video from salome chasnoff on Vimeo.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/of-poetry-and-protest-exhibit-opening/
LOCATION:Stony Island Arts Bank\, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest: Legacy of the Black Arts Movement
DESCRIPTION:A screening\, reading & conversation \nThis multi-media program looks at the legacy of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in Chicago as part of the opening weekend of the Of Poetry and Protest exhibit\, looking back at the history of Chicago’s BAM and reflecting on the artists and institutions that have extended its impact in the decades since the BAM was at its height in the city. Prof. Thabiti Lewis of Washington State University Vancouver will screen the in-progress documentary film BAM! Chicago’s Black Arts Movement he is co-directing with Prof. Pavithra Narayanan\, and Of Poetry and Protest Co-Editor/Guild Founding Director Michael Warr\, along with some Special Guests\, will read poetry and conduct a public conversation about how the legacy of the BAM lives on in Chicago.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/of-poetry-and-protest-legacy-of-the-black-arts-movement/
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