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SUMMARY:Summer Screenings: Nowhere Special (UK) at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:SYNOPSIS\nThirty-five-year-old window cleaner and single father John has dedicated his life to raising his son. Given only a few months to live\, he traverses Belfast\, visiting homes of the working class and wealthy alike. He has a singular goal: to find the perfect family to raise his toddler Michael. How can he carry out this impossible task? Inspired by true events in the UK\, Nowhere Special is a tender tale of pure love\, profound heartbreak\, and parenthood. DIRECTED BY Uberto Pasolini \nSummer Screenings is Cinema/Chicago’s annual free film series that casts a spotlight on a different country’s national cinema each week all summer.\nCinema has always been fascinated with the city as a “character”— a living\, breathing organism that shapes the world around it. This program showcases the myriad ways in which cities are depicted in cinema and how people live\, love\, move through\, and seek connection in urban spaces.\nFeaturing stories set in cities all around the globe—from the bustling cafes of Bogotá to the seaside cityscapes of Gothenburg and Galway to glittering black and white portraits of Taipei and Seoul to the streets\, skyways\, rivers\, and trains right here in Chicago—these films express the rich\, diverse personalities of cities on screen and how they mold and influence how we live.\nFilms are unrated. Viewer discretion is advised. \nTickets are available to claim 2 weeks before the screening. \nAccessibility
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LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Summer Screenings: Nowhere Special (UK) at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:DIRECTED BY Uberto Pasolini\nSYNOPSIS\nThirty-five-year-old window cleaner and single father John has dedicated his life to raising his son. Given only a few months to live\, he traverses Belfast\, visiting homes of the working class and wealthy alike. He has a singular goal: to find the perfect family to raise his toddler Michael. How can he carry out this impossible task? Inspired by true events in the UK\, Nowhere Special is a tender tale of pure love\, profound heartbreak\, and parenthood. \nhttps://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/film/nowhere-special/ \nAccessibility: ASL interpreted\, assistive listening devices\, captioning\, large print program\, wheelchair accessible
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LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chicago Poet Laureate Celebration with The Poetry Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the kickoff to our Fall 2023 season with a celebration of Chicago’s Poet Laureate\, avery r. young\, at Harold Washington Library. He will perform alongside other poet laureates E’mon Lauren Black (Chicago Youth Poet Laureate)\, Nandi Comer (Michigan)\, Angela Jackson (Illinois)\, Amanda Johnston (Texas)\, and Airea D. Matthews (Philadelphia). \nThis is a hybrid event\, which will be offered in-person and via livestream. \navery r. young is an interdisciplinary artist\, educator\, 3Arts Awardee\, poetry editor for Bridge\, Cave Canem fellow\, and co-director of the Floating Museum. His poetry and prose have been featured in The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, Teaching Black\, The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks\, and AIMPrint\, among other publications\, and alongside images in photographer Cecil McDonald Jr’s In The Company of Black. He is the composer and librettist for a new commissioned work from Lyric Opera of Chicago titled safronia\, and full-length recording tubman (FPE Records)\, the soundtrack to his collection of poetry\, neckbone: visual verses. Learn more at averyryoung.com. \nE’mon Lauren Black is a multi-hyphenate artist and educator from the Wes & Souf side of Chicago whose works explores her coined philosophy of “hood-womanism.” She is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago and has been featured in Vogue magazine\, Chicago Magazine\, and the Chicago Tribune. She is the host and creator of the hit talkshow\, The Real Hoodwives of Chicago\, originally produced by her production company\, BlkHoneyBun Productions\, LLC. Her first book of poems\, COMMANDO\, was published by Haymarket in 2017. \nNandi Comer is the Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press)\, which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. She is a Cave Canem Fellow\, a Callaloo Fellow\, and a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow. She currently serves as a poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and as the co-director of Detroit Lit. \nAngela Jackson is a Chicago poet\, playwright\, and novelist. She has received numerous honors for both fiction and poetry\, including the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, the Pushcart Prize\, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Her poetry collection All These Roads Be Luminous (1998) was nominated for the National Book Award\, and her debut novel\, Where I Must Go (2009)\, won the American Book Award. In addition to Comfort Stew\, Jackson has written several other plays: Witness! (1978)\, Shango Diaspora: An African-American Myth of Womanhood and Love (1980)\, and Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair. \nAmanda Johnston is a writer\, artist\, and the 2024 Texas Poet Laureate. She is the author of two chapbooks\, GUAP and Lock & Key\, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, among them Callaloo\, Poetry magazine\, The Offing\, and the anthologies Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She has received fellowships\, grants\, and awards from Cave Canem\, Hedgebrook\, the Watermill Center\, and American Short Fiction. She is a founder of Torch Literary Arts and a former board president of Cave Canem . \nAirea D. Matthews’ irst collection of poems is the critically acclaimed Simulacra\, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Matthews is also the author of Bread and Circus\, a memoir-in-verse that combines poetry\, prose\, and imagery to explore the realities of economic necessity\, marginal poverty\, and commodification through a personal lens. Matthews received a 2020 Pew Fellowship\, a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, and was awarded the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Matthews earned her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. In 2022\, she was named Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate. She is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College where she directs the poetry program. \nIn-Person Attendance\nMasks are strongly encouraged and available at check-in for those who would like to wear one. Please note that some event performers may choose to perform without a mask. The Foundation reserves the right to update this policy if community levels of COVID-19 increase significantly. Read our full COVID-19 Health & Safety Guidelines. \nLivestream Attendance \nThe YouTube livestream link will be shared with registered guests on the day of the event. In order to receive the livestream details\, please register in advance here. \nPlease note that advanced registration on Eventbrite does not guarantee entrance\, as events at the Harold Washington Library are first come first serve. \nThe Poetry Foundation’s events are completely free of charge and open to the public. This event will include CART captioning and ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation\, please visit our Accessibility Guide. \nAccessibility: ASL Interpretation\, captioning\, \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-poet-laureate-celebration-tickets-691945717267?aff=oddtdtcreator
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LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features (virtual) with The Poetry Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual reading featuring 2023 Forms & Features Visiting Teaching Artists Samira Asma-Sadeque\, Giulia Ottavia Frattini\, grace (ge) gilbert\, Lisa Low\, L. Renée\, and Hua Xi. Forms & Features is the Poetry Foundation’s series of free online creative writing workshops for adults. \nSamira Asma-Sadeque is a New York-based Bangladeshi journalist\, poet\, and educator. She writes about the immigrant experience\, mental health\, hate speech\, and gender violence in both her poetry and journalism. Her poetry appears in HBO’s Take Out with Lisa Ling\, PBS’s ALL ARTS\, Button Poetry\, and has been featured at the Rubin Museum\, among other platforms. She is a Brooklyn Poets fellow\, Tin House alum\, and Best of the Net nominee. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times\, The Guardian\, the Washington Post\, and Al Jazeera\, among other publications. \nGiulia Ottavia Frattini is a poet and writer based in Berlin. She is currently involved in art-oriented practices and collaborates as a contributor for several art magazines while developing her literary path. She perceives words as metamorphic elements\, and her prime focus gravitates toward the unfolding of identity\, language’s physicality\, and lyricism’s disruption. \ngrace (ge) gilbert is a hybrid poet\, essayist\, and collage-worker based in Brooklyn. They received their MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022. grace is the author of three short collections: the closeted diaries\, NOTIFICATIONS IN THE DARK\, and today is an unholy suite. Their work can be found in the Indiana Review\, Ninth Letter\, Passages North\, The Offing\, the Adroit Journal\, and elsewhere. They currently teach hybrid collage and poetics courses at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. They have received support and scholarships from City of Asylum’s Emerging Poet Laureate program and Bread Loaf\, and served as the MCLA Under 27 Writer-in-Residence Fellow at Mass MoCA.They are passionate about making the hybrid arts accessible to all. Learn more at gracegegilbert.com. \nLisa Low’s poems have appeared in Copper Nickel\, Ecotone\, the Massachusetts Review\, Poetry\, the Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize. She has an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Cincinnati. Her debut chapbook\, Crown for the Girl Inside\, won the 2020 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming from YesYes Books. \nL. Renée is a poet and nonfiction writer living in Harrisonburg\, Virginia\, where she works as assistant director of Furious Flower Poetry Center and assistant professor of English at James Madison University. Nominated for Best New Poets\, Best of the Net\, and two Pushcart Prizes\, her work has been published in Obsidian\, Tin House Online\, Poetry Northwest\, the minnesota review\, and elsewhere. The granddaughter of proud Black Appalachians\, she won the international 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize and Appalachian Review’s Denny C. Plattner Award\, among others. A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and the Watering Hole\, L. Renée holds an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University\, where she was nonfiction editor of the Indiana Review\, and an MS in journalism from Columbia University\, where she was a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Moore Fellow. She has received support from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, Inc.\, Oak Spring Garden Foundation\, Peter Bullough Foundation\, the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow\, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Monson Arts\, Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference\, and others. Learn more at Lreneepoems.com. \nHua Xi (she/they) is a poet and artist. Their poetry has appeared in the New Republic\, The Nation\, The Atlantic\, and elsewhere. They previously won the Boston Review Poetry Contest and was the 2022 Poet-to-Come Scholar at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. They sometimes teach poetry workshops with the Spatial Poetry Project. \nThe Zoom link will be shared with registered guests on the day of the event. Poetry Foundation events are completely free of charge and open to the public. This event will include CART captioning and ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation\, please visit our Accessibility Guide. \nAccessibility: ASL interpretation\, captioning \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-the-visiting-teaching-artists-of-forms-features-tickets-673835890287?aff=oddtdtcreator
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LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jonas Becker\, New Normal at the MCA
DESCRIPTION:Jonas Becker’s New Normal explores how we\, as individuals in society\, adjust to large-scale cultural trauma\, environmental deterioration\, the loss of civil liberties\, and increased financial precarity. As conditions erode over time\, expectations shift silently for some\, for others violently. The performance follows an improvisational score in which six trans-masculine performers respond to the slow violence of our current moment through endurance and illusion\, struggle and support. Rocks that appear heavy are made of paper\, and gestures where performers entangle each other oscillate between aggression and care. Importantly\, some radical bodies resist normalization\, while for others\, the new normal is nothing new. The performers test their limits\, adjust and readjust\, responding physically to diminishing environmental standards and political conditions. This presentation expands on an In Progress showing of the work in the MCA’s main atrium in 2019\, with an emotionally resonant arrangement of motion\, sound\, and lighting. \nRun time: 45 minutes \nChicago Performs is organized by Tara Aisha Willis\, former MCA Curator\, with Laura Paige Kyber\, Curatorial Associate. \n\n\n\nAccess Information:\nPrior to the performance the lights will be set low. Please let a staff member know if you need assistance to your seat. \nAudio Description and CART captioning are provided for the performance on Sunday\, September 10.
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LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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