Experience the Live Magazine Show, Lit & Luz’s signature celebration. Each year, Lit & Luz supports the creation of new collaborative artworks between writers, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico. The pieces are presented in both Spanish and English and include storytelling, music, poetry, video art, and extemporaneous performances that explore the relationship between languages, art forms, social issues, and cultures of the United States and Mexico through the theme “Repair/ Reparar". This year’s program includes opening remarks from Ambassador Reyna Torres Mendivil, Consul General of Mexico in Chicago, live music by Damon Locks, and the emcee stylings of Rocío Santos and Kamilah Foreman.
Please join us in the lobby after the program for a reception, along with a book signing courtesy of Pilsen Community Books.
Live audio translation in English to Spanish and Spanish to English, along with visual description will be available for this program via your smartphone and headphones.
Presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Hyde Park Art Center, UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas, the Mexican Consulate in Chicago, and with support from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and more.