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SUMMARY:BrooksDay @ American Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join the Guild Literary Complex’s annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks\, held every year on her birthday\, June 7th.\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 poet to win the Pulitzer Prize. \nBrooksDay honors her legacy as an artist and an iconic figure of generosity and civic conscience in Chicago and the nation. \n  \nPresented by: American Writers Museum\nBrooksDay 2026: Children Celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks \n2:30 pm – 3:10 pm \nFeatured writers: Nora Brooks Blakely and young writers \nLed by author and educator Nora Brooks Blakely\, the daughter of Gwendolyn Brooks\, young scholars take the stage as part of BrooksDay. Hear presentations by young people ages 5-11\, representing Brooks-related schools and groups. Fun and inspiring for the whole family! \nBrooksDay is the Guild Literary Complex’s annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks\, held every year on June 7th\, the anniversary of her birth. This year\, they take the stage at the American Writers Festival to honor her legacy as an artist and an iconic figure of generosity and civic conscience in Chicago and the nation. Presented in partnership with Brooks Permissions and the Guild Literary Complex. \n  \nBrooksDay 2026: Gen Z Celebrates Gwendolyn Brooks \n3:30 pm – 4:30 pm \nFeatured writers: Brooks Permissions and the Guild Literary Complex \nBrooksDay is the Guild Literary Complex’s annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks\, held every year on June 7th\, the anniversary of her birth. This year\, they take the stage at the American Writers Festival to honor her legacy as an artist and an iconic figure of generosity and civic conscience in Chicago and the nation. Presented in partnership with Brooks Permissions and the Guild Literary Complex. \nFULL SCHEDULE
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/brooksday-2026/
LOCATION:Harold Washington Library Center\, Chicago Public Library\, 400 South State Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Transvengence Vol. 12
DESCRIPTION:Join us during Pride Month for TRANSVENGENCE\, our bimonthly open mic and performance series\n  \nREVENGE OF THE DOLLS\nHosted by Joss Barton \nFeaturing Ava Mirage Wanbli & Eris \n  \nDoors: 7PM \nOpen Mic: 8PM \nPerformances: 8:30PM \n\n\n  \nFeatured Performers\n\n \nAva Mirage Wanbli\n\n\nAva Mirage Wanbli (b.1989) is a Chicago based new media performance artist. Her work addresses consumption and production of self through interdisciplinary practices in performance art\, new media video animations\, and experimental video game development. Ava draws from her fascination on 3D scanning to archive her body while expanding on dialogues around hyper sexualization\, voyeurism\, labor\, and self constructed mythologies as a trans woman. She has performed and exhibited at the Supernova Digital Animation Festival in Denver\, CO\, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison\, Wisconsin\, Chicago Artist Coalition\, and at the Depaul Art Museum in Chicago. She has received the Make A W ave Artist Award from 3Arts organization in Chicago. She has been featured as one of the ten New City 2024 Breakout Artists of Y ear in Chicago.  \nShe currently is focused on how ritualized actions operate as psychological contracts of embodied communion across mythologized presence within live performance art\, voice as signal\, digital world building\, and activated sculptures as bodily expansion \n\n\n \n\n \nEris\nProfessional succubus by day\, exclusive girlfriend to many by night. A lover of all things sensual and chaotic\, Eris blends the alluring darkness of a supercilious showgirl with the delicate charm of a southern belle serving flaky biscuits with a side of cinnamon honey butter. Yes\, I know you’re drooling and shame has no place in this temple.My artistry explores the tender layering of the histories of Black womanhood\, malleability of trans identity\, my commitment to faith and Spirit\, and embracing the erotic as roads for transformation\, which can only bloom from experience. Blending showgirl performance \, ancestral and orisha-based veneration\, spoken word\, and dance Eris is packaged and inspired by the mystique of self-determination: favor of the martyr leads resurrection of one’s highest self.This performance will be an insight into my personal journey with glamour\, rage\, sisterhood\, affirmation\, and grace.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-vol-12/
LOCATION:Podlasie Club\, 2918 N Central Park Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60618
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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