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SUMMARY:Poetry at The Green at 320: June 2023
DESCRIPTION:Poetry @ The Green at 320 continues for the summer season this June! \nThe Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal are proud to reintroduce this free\, weekly reading and open mic series co-curated by CPC’s Poets in Residence Tarnynon Onumonu and Timothy David Rey. \nJoin us on certain Monday nights in June at 6:00 p.m. in this beautiful setting to hear outstanding featured poets perform their work in this partnership between Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal. After every poetry performance\, there will be an open mic for any individual that would like to share poetry of their own! \nABOUT JUNE’S FEATURED PERFORMERS:\nJune 5: Noa Micaela Fields is a trans writer with hearing aids. She is the author of the poetry chapbook With and has also been published in Tripwire\, Anomaly\, Zoeglossia\, Elderly Mag\, Tyger Quarterly\, and Sixty Inches From Center\, among others. She is a programming curator at the Poetry Foundation and a 2022 fellow with Zoeglossia and Disability Lead. \nJune 12: Nile Lansana is an interdisciplinary artist from the South Side of Chicago. An acclaimed writer\, poet\, performer\, and filmmaker\, his work is centered around revealing radical truths and amplifying marginalized voices and narratives through a lens of Black imagination and visionary intention. He was a nominee for the inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate position. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with degrees in Journalism and English – Creative Writing\, he won the 2021 Ronald Wallace Poetry Thesis Prize and 2020 George B. Hill Poetry Prize. His work is published in American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, & elsewhere. He holds fellowships from the Rebuild Foundation and Obsidian Foundation. He has performed across the country\, including Lollapalooza and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He recently starred in the play “No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks” produced by Manual Cinema. He is a proud uncle and the oldest of four Black boys. You can follow him on Instagram at @nilesupasuit. \nJune 26: Adam Gottlieb is a musician\, poet\, teaching artist\, and organizer from Chicago. This year he was one of the nominees for the inaugural Poet Laureate of Chicago. As a youth\, he was featured in the documentary film Louder Than A Bomb about the poetry slam festival of the same name. He is the leader of the Fusion band Adam Gottlieb and OneLove. He serves as a cantorial soloist for Tzedek Chicago. He has organized with a wide range of grassroots groups around issues such as housing justice\, anti-gentrification\, Indigenous sovereignty\, education\, and police/prison abolition. He also writes for the People’s Tribune. \nABOUT THE CO-CURATORS:\nTarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu is an artist and licensed Paraprofessional born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago and is extremely proud of and humbled by her SouthSide citizenship and West African lineage. In 2017\, she took second place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards and represented Chicago on the Lethal Poetry Team at the 2018 National Poetry Slam. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center since January of 2019 and has been featured in Newcity Magazine and South Side Weekly. \nTimothy David Rey is a writer/performer who works in poetry\, plays\, and monologue (both fictional and autobiographical). He teaches creative writing and performance throughout the city of Chicago and its suburbs. He is a 2015 Semi-Finalist for the Guild Literary Complex’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award\, and one of the winners of Project Exploration (The Poetry Center of Chicago 2004). He is the co-founder of the LBGT Solo Performance Showcase\, Solo Homo (2002-2011). Timothy’s plays and performance pieces have been seen and heard at venues throughout Chicago as well as out of state and in Panama. \nABOUT THE LOCATION:\nThe Green at 320 is a public park located in the West Loop and will be host to many family-friendly activities and events this summer! \nThe Green at 320 is located behind the building at 320 S. Canal\, 1 block west of the river. The main staired entrance to the park is on the corner of Clinton and Van Buren with an ADA-accessible ramp off of Clinton. The park is located 1 block north of the Clinton Blue Line Stop. Please find more detailed transit and location information at https://320southcanal.com/. \nhttps://www.poetrycenter.org/poetry-the-green-at-320-june/
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LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Summer Screenings: Soft (Canada) at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:DIRECTED BY Joseph Amenta\nSYNOPSIS\nThree friends fall in love with summertime Toronto’s lively nightlife. Young\, queer\, and unapologetically self-confident\, the trio spends their days holding court and plotting to sneak into a nightclub. When one of their caregivers goes missing under suspicious circumstances\, reality comes crashing in and their seemingly unbreakable bond is tested. Featuring remarkable performances from its young actors\, Soft is a tender portrait of youth\, friendship\, and life on the city’s margins. \nAccessibility: ASL interpreted\, assistive listening devices\, captioning\, large print program\, wheelchair accessible \nhttps://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/film/soft/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/summer-screenings-soft-canada-at-chicago-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon at Lookingglass Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Hooray! Lucy and Charlie just got hitched…and they’re embracing the worst of the American dream. They do what they want. Take what they want. They’re First Generation Asian American Renegades. In love. And on the run. \nFeaturing original country western and folk songs\, directed by Amanda Dehnert (Peter Pan (A Play)\, Eastland)\, Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon tracks a young couple as they rev it down quintessentially American highways and across stereotypic borders\, fleeing expectation and trawling up trouble along the way. \nDirect from his Broadway debut in Almost Famous The Musical\, Artistic Associate Matthew C. Yee’s world premiere musical romp gives a nod to America’s past\, takes tally of its present\, and blows its future wide open. \nOpen Captioned performance begins at 7:00 PM. \nPlease contact our Box Office to reserve your seats! \nhttps://lookingglasstheatre.org/event/lucy-and-charlies-honeymoon-2022/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/lucy-and-charlies-honeymoon-at-lookingglass-theatre-2/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lab E: In-Progress Showing at Experimental Station
DESCRIPTION:LabE is a series of monthly cohort meetings addressing particular needs of disabled dance artists. \nThe LabE gathering on July 2nd is designed to be a safe\, disability-centric space where artists can come together to share a work-in-progress\, try out new ideas\, workshop concepts\, and experiment with new scores. Hosted by Maggie Bridger\, this inclusive event is open to all artists who seek a supportive community where they can connect with peers who share similar experiences and offer and receive support\, encouragement\, and constructive feedback. \nThis gathering aims to foster community connections among Deaf\, disabled\, sick\, neurodivergent\, and Mad artists while providing a platform for artists to explore their creativity and showcase their unique perspectives. \nIf you are an artist who is interested in showcasing your art or working through new ideas\, please reach out to Maggie at mbridg8@uic.edu to participate in this event. \nhttps://highconceptlabs.org/events/lab-e-july-2023
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/lab-e-in-progress-showing-at-experimental-station/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Women Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe at Raven Theatre
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Computers worked by daylight at the observatory\, studying photographic plates of the night sky. The play follows Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Leavitt through their groundbreaking discoveries that changed the field of astronomy and shaped how we understand the universe. This performance brings the science of space to life through movement\, music\, and light. A celebration of friendship\, curiosity\, and the never-ending search to find our place in the universe. \n2pm Touch Tour \n3-5pm Audio Described performance \nhttp://www.raventheatre.com/stage/universe/
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LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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