The 12th annual Lit & Luz Festival of Language,Literature, and Art—as featured in, WBEZ’s Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons, Chicago Review of Books, Block Club Chicago, and more—takes place November 9 to November 14, 2025. This one-of-a-kind cross-cultural, bilingual festival brings together writers, poets, and visual artists from Mexico and Chicago for a week-long series of public programming at venues throughout Chicago.
This year’s festival—under the theme of “Repair/Reparar”—ask writers, poets, and artists from Chicago and Mexico to look critically at their surrounding realities in need of repair. Through artistic creation and collaboration, Lit & Luz Chicago will explore and promote the many ways creative acts make an impact and offer new perspectives on what it takes to face and reimagine our shared realities.
The festival’s signature event—the Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on Friday, November 14th!
A full schedule of events and the announcement of the 2025-26 Collaboration Cohort are coming soon.