2021 Festival Schedule
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2021 Festival Schedule
Virtual taller de poesía, con cupo limitado, con la reconocida poeta y performer mexicana Rocío Cerón. En español.
Close out a week of festival programs with with a special performance by Mexican poet Rocío Cerón and Chicago-based jazz project Algoritmo.
Join us for this multilingual conversation on contemporary Mexican literature with three of its brightest stars, Jazmina Barrera, Rocío Cerón, and Pergentino José.
In this virtual program co-organized by El BieSMan’s Franky Piña, authors Amrita Das, Naida Saavedra, and Santiago Vaquera Vásquez discuss the Spanish-language literary boom in the US: publishing, graduate programs, and more.
The signature event of the Lit & Luz Festival is the Live Magazine Show. Here pairs of artists and writers from Mexico and Chicago debut collaborations on stage. This year, through the theme Structure
Join us for a conversation centered on sculpture and ideas related to emerging paradigms of new materialisms.
How do you create collective and/or shared spaces? At this live, in-person storytelling event, we hear from architects, designers, artists, and policymakers as they investigate their experience with collective and shared spaces—their merits, and how they impact the built, natural, and the social environments.
Join us for a reading and conversation with Mexican author, editor, and translator, Jazmina Barrera.
NEIU welcomes Mexican poet and multimedia artist Rocío Cerón. An interview will follow the performance.
Join us for a reading and conversation with Oaxacan author Pergentino José was born in 1981 in Buena Vista, San Agustin Loxicha, a village in the Pacific highlands of Oaxaca.
A screening and conversation with Mexico-based artist Daniel Monroy Cuevas.
Limited space available for this poetry workshop with world-renowned poet and performer, Rocío Cerón.
En este programa virtual, escritores y traductores discuten las necesidades, urgencias y retos a los que se enfrenta la traducción literaria de obras en lenguas indígenas.
Join us for a presentation and conversation with Mexico-based visual artists, Chantal Peñalosa.
At this annual event, Lit & Luz participants read their favorite poems in both Spanish and English and offer explanations of the poems’ significance.
Poet Juan Felipe Herrera delivers the 2021 Lit & Luz Keynote Address.
Lit & Luz is produced by MAKE Literary Productions, NFP, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donate.
MAKE acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.