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SUMMARY:10th Annual BrooksDay
DESCRIPTION:BrooksDay 2023 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 10th anniversary of BrooksDay! Join the Guild Literary Complex as we honor the legacy of poet Gwendolyn Brooks and celebrate the launch of One Poem\, One Chicago\, which starts with a reissue of Brooks’ 1987 poetry collection Blacks (Third World Press). \n\n\n\nOne Poem\, One Chicago is a collaboration of the Poetry Foundation\, the Chicago Public Library\, Third World Press\, Brooks Permissions\, and Northwestern University Press. Blacks will be reissued for the 2023 program and printed by Northwestern University Press; copies of the newly published edition will be available at all 81 branches of the Chicago Public Library and in the Poetry Foundation’s poetry library. A limited-run print edition of the collection will be available to the public for purchase from Third World Press. \n\n\n\nSince 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. \n\n\n\nWant to learn more about Gwendolyn Brooks and her legacy? Check out her page on the Poetry Foundation website here! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 BrooksDay Events\n\n\n\nThis year’s BrooksDay will include: \n\n\n\n12:00 pmDoors open for workshop participants only12:15-1:15 pmGolden Shovel Workshop with Maggie Queeney (limited space\, please register here)1:00 pmDoors open for BrooksDay reading1:30 pmBrooksDay reading begins3:30 pmBreak + birthday cake celebration!5:30 pmReading concludes\n\n\n\nAfterwards\, join Brooks Permissions for ALL THIS LIFE: Examining Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha! The panel will feature Sandra Cisneros\, Dr. Joanne Gabbin\, and Sandra Jackson-Opoku delving into the profound impact of Gwendolyn Brooks and her seminal novel\, Maud Martha. The event will be streamed live on Wednesday\, June 7\, 2023\, from 7:00pm to 8:15pm (Central Time) on Brooks Permissions’s Facebook and YouTube channels.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/10th-annual-brooksday/
LOCATION:South Shore Cultural Center\, 7059 S South Shore Dr.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60649
CATEGORIES:BrooksDay
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SUMMARY:TransVengence | Aza Greenlee\, Noa/Nomi Micaela Fields\, and Ava Mirage Wanbli on June 20th
DESCRIPTION:Join us for TransVengence with your host\, Joss Barton! \n\n\n\nThis month features readings by Aza Greenlee\, Noa/Moni Micaela Fields\, and Ava Mirage Wanbli. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7pm upstairs at My Buddy’s!  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\n\n\nNoa Micaela (Nomi) Fields is an echodeviant* (*trans poets with hearing aids) in search of transversal wildness in her one and only captionless life. Find her poems and other writing in Tripwire\, Anomaly\, Zoeglossia\, Elderly\, Tyger Quarterly\, and Sixty Inches From Center. She is a programming curator at the Poetry Foundation and a 2022 Fellow at Disability Lead and Zoeglossia.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAza Greenlee is a body artist and co-conspirator at No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab. This coalescence is one to galavant in dreamscapes\, ancestral juke joints\, chaturbate masturbation web temples\, loose-tooth tanks\, and The Heartspace. They organize “Smudge Cinema Project”\, a now-and-then-wait-when? screening series that takes a look at what happens when a film is projected on a wall for people to watch. Metabolization seems to be what they appear to do\, lately. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAva Mirage Wanbli is a New Media artist and performer based in Chicago\, IL. Her work operates in a multitude of formats\, mediums\, and presentations of persona to build engagement through virtual and physical aspects of virtual world construction. Ava utilizes video game engines\, live performance\, installations\, sculptures\, video\, and body to process components of the self through modalities of becoming. She investigates aspects of performing for the camera\, mirrors\, and virtual reconstructions of the body through 3D scanning\, avatar creation\, and virtual environment building as a means to craft a voice that speaks towards collapsed temporalities\, archiving the body\, as well as potentials of future self. Much of Ava’s work is also in conversation with aspects of fetishization of the consumed body through media depictions and how persona is framed through technology. In her primary approaches\, she aims to confront the voyeur as well as communicate the complexities of trans narratives through hyper-sexualized imagery and performance. \n\n\n\nAva received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. Alongside her art practice and community engagement\, she has been an educator at multiple art institutions for the last 4 years. She is a recipient of 3Arts New Wave Artists Award\, and has been a resident of ACRE Artist residency as well as New Art City Residency. Her most current work has shown at Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Gallery in Chicago and is now being shown in a 6 month solo exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Wanbli has also been published in Tone Magazine as well as curated events at Mana Contemporary in Chicago. Ava continues to organize and build spaces to further her commitment to the conversations around her transwoman body and the voice that it can hold to educate\, uplift\, and complicate narratives around selfhood through hyper-visibility and fetishization.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-aza-greenlee-noa-nomi-micaela-fields-and-ava-wanbli-on-june-20th/
LOCATION:My Buddy’s (Upstairs)\, 4416 N Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640\, United States
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:A Night with Ana Castillo
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Hilton/Asmus Galleries\, the Guild Complex will host a special reading with Ana Castillo from her new book\, Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home. Joining her will be special guest\, IL Poet Laureate Angela Jackson. \n\n\n\nThe event will take place on Monday\, June 26th\, from 6:30pm – 8:30pm at the Hilton/Asmus Gallery\, Bridgeport location (3622 S. Morgan St. at the Morgan Art Complex). \n\n\n\nItems from her current exhibition\, The Many Loves of Ana Castillo\, will be available to view. There will be a brief reception along with a book signing immediately following the reading. Beer provided by Sketchbook Brewery.  \n\n\n\n// \n\n\n\nAna Castillo is a multilingual poet\, novelist\, essayist\, editor\, feminist theorist\, playwright\, translator\, human rights and environmental activist and visual artist.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/a-night-with-ana-castillo/
LOCATION:Asmus/Hilton Gallery (Morgan Arts Complex\, Bridgeport)\, 3622 S. Morgan St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, United States
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