The Guild builds on Chicago’s rich literary traditions through vibrant storytelling and radical inclusion, advancing access to and from the margins.
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Guild Complex retweeted
18 Jul 2024
The Guild Literary Complex is going places with Andrea Change and help from the Poetry Foundation! See article coming out 7-21-24 at poetryinchicago.vision
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Guild Complex retweeted
4 Jun 2024
Poet Laureate avery r. young will lead a lineup that includes Nora Brooks Blakely, Reginald Gibbons, Niveah Glover, Adrian Matejka, Marc Smith, and Jamila Woods. Lynne Thompson will lead a conversation with Smith at the end of the program.
Learn more: chicagoliteraryhof.org/event…
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4 Jun 2024
Happy Pride Month 🌈 IN 2 WEEKS we’ve got our featured #Pride Month event: TRANSVENGENCE!! A special edition of our recurring Transvengence series with host curator, Joss Barton, performances alongside Joss are artists Jack & Lynzo The Heartthrob! an open mic & discussion
ALT Transvengence: Pride Month - Turn Up! Edition flyer with rainbow sequence background and headshots of artists. June 18 Open mic starts at 7:30pm Clash on Clark (2nd floor) 4416 N Clark St
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Guild Complex retweeted
29 May 2024
Tonight's reading @haymarkethouse was a total blast! We heard stunning poetry & prose from awesome readers, w/ headliner @DearDipika. We were inspired by our gracious and fabulous hosts: @guildLITcomplex & Andrea Change, @luyapoetry, @rhinopoetry & Virginia Bell...(1/2) 👏😍🌈
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2 May 2024
NEXT TUESDAY, May 14th at 7pm - Join the Guild Literary Complex & Haymarket House (800 W. Buena) for What Came After: An Evening of Poetry 🌟📝 with authors Christopher Stewart and John McCarthy! Visit the link in our bio for RSVP more info.
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11 Apr 2024
✨ Join the Guild w/ @UChicagoArts, @artspubliclife & CSRPC for reading & panel: Spirits, Spirituality, & Craft! Moderated by Andrea Change ft. panelists @FaylitaHicks, @tinajbell, & @keliwrites.
Sat. 4/27 @ 1PM, Green Line Performing Arts Center- 329 E. Garfield Blvd. #LinkInBio
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9 Apr 2024
🪄FREE WORKSHOP: Walking the Middle Path: Using Hoodoo to Tell Your Story
4/27 at 12pm, Green Line Performing Arts Center (329 E. Garfield Blvd.)
If your goal is to get over that writer’s block and finally tell your story–hoodoo can help!
RSVP more info @ the link in our bio.
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8 Apr 2024
✨FEATURED EVENT✨ National Poetry Month w/ Angela Jackson & Curtis Crisler! Join us Sat. 4/20 at Blanc Gallery- 4445 S. King Dr. at 2pm 📝 for some poetry by these Poet Laureates & special performances from the Write It Down! Collective. Link in our bio for more info RSVP.
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7 Apr 2024
Happy Poetry Month! Join us on
Saturday, April 27th at @haymarkethouse at 4pm for
Elsewhere: An Elegy Book Release Event with @fmohyu ☀️- poetry & stories of the collective breath held by a
grieving world, & to celebrate Faisal Mohyuddin’s book release. RSVP info #LinkInBio.
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2 Apr 2024
SAVE THE DATE🎉 Thurs. 4/11 @ 6:30pm @ The Honeycomb Network, 2659 W Division St.
The Guild hosts the Nikki Patin Book Release event for her memoir, Working on Me! Join us for a reading & discussion w/ Denise Ruiz, book signing, DJ set w/ Duane Powell, & refreshments✨ #linkinbio
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Guild Complex retweeted
23 Mar 2024
#FlechoQuibdó
La tercera noche cerró con alabaos por parte de Crecencia Ancestral.✨💜 Fabiola Torres, la voz líder de los alabaos en el Chocó nos honró con su presentación y su grupo de jóvenes que heredan esta tradición cultural afrocolombiana.
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Guild Complex retweeted
23 Mar 2024
Durante el tercer día las conversaciones abordaron la transición del periodismo a la literatura, la importancia del bilingüismo para juntar orillas, honraron la vida y obra de Arnoldo Palacios y las obras literarias de
María Fernanda Fitzgerald y Jairo Buitrago. #FlechoQuibdó
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Guild Complex retweeted
23 Mar 2024
También durante el segundo día de #FlechoQuibdó
@KiannyAntigua nos sacudió con las narraciones de sus microcuentos y nos abrió a la realidad de cómo vive el proceso de creación de cada una de sus obras.
@guildLITcomplex
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Guild Complex retweeted
23 Mar 2024
El segundo día, transitamos entre el ritmo exótico y el house. Las conversaciones fueron sobre procesos afrodiásporicos a través de la literatura; la poesía y su fuerza catalizadora; la incidencia de @usaidcolombia y @agendacaf en el territorio; el libro 'Las distancias'...👉🏾
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Guild Complex retweeted
23 Mar 2024
El primer día festejamos los siete años de realización de esta fiesta en #Quibdó. Con la gratitud de hoy contar con un equipo amoroso y entregado a nuestra misión como corporación, y por la presencia de aliadxs estratégicos que nos acompañan a crecer.
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29 Jan 2024
Join Exhibit B OFFSITE at AWP! We'll see you next Thursday & Friday 💚
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19 Jan 2024
⏳¡TODAVÍA HAY TIEMPO! Apoya al Guild Literary Complex y dona hasta el 31 de enero 💚 The Guild está orgulloso de colaborar con la comunidad latina literaria de Chicago para crear más inclusión del idioma español en el arte. ¡Haz click en nuestro bio para donar! #latinxchicago
ALT "Orgullosa de apoyar una organización que tiene en cuenta la diversidad cultural en la literatura. ¡Gracias por todo su gran trabajo!” -Carolina Herrera, Authors Challenge 2023
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5 Jan 2024
From now until 1/31 make a one time $150-$250 donation to get complimentary Guild gift! OR consider a monthly subscription & help us provide honorarium for a working artist/writer, support our hardworking staff, & continue to celebrate Chicago’s writing community 💚 #linkinbio
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