2020 Virtual Festival Schedule
Join us for a keynote address with the award-winning writer and professor Cristina Rivera Garza
The subjects of this program discuss their practices, how they are responding to current events and social issues, and what audiences could do to support their work and the causes they seek to amplify.
Los participantes de este programa discuten sobre sus prácticas, cómo están respondiendo a los eventos actuales y a los problemas sociales, y qué podrían hacer las audiencias para apoyar su trabajo y las causas que buscan ampliar.
Este taller sucederá en este presente en el que, debido a la contingencia sanitaria, estamos siendo más cuerpos que nunca. Cuando pienso en el verbo acuerpar, pienso en femenino.
Join Mexico City-based visual artist Tania Candiani for a conversation on her artistic practice which spans sculpture, sound, film and performance to examine innovations of the past and present.
Join these prolific Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish literary translators for a discussion on the contemporary translation. Featuring Olivia Lott, Gabriela Jauregui, Sophie Hughes, and Lucía Cornejo. Hosted by Rachel Galvin
En esta conversación con autores de Illinois que escriben en español se discutirán los desafíos de publicar nuevas obras, la historia del idioma español publicado en Chicago, el valor de libros multilingües en Estados Unidos, y más.
Elena Poniatowska y Alicia Mayer dialogarán sobre el movimiento estudiantil de 1968 en México comentando hechos descritos en el libro La noche de Tlatelolco: Testimonios de historia oral.
Join us for a virtual reading that will jump between countries, languages, and forms.
Una conversación con el escritor, músico y profesor distinguido, Julián Herbert. Con moderado Juan Martinez
Virtual programming allows us to “visit” art spaces we may not have the opportunity to set foot in. This event will include virtual gallery and studio visits. The focus will be in genre-defying work—which often includes literary text—as well as themes of motherhood and its cultural context.
The annual edition of the Lit & Luz Festival culminates in a world premiere of the festival’s first virtual Live Magazine Show.
La edición anual del Lit & Luz Festival culmina con el estreno mundial del primer Live Magazine Show en formato virtual
Author Guadalupe Nettel in conversation with a special guest.
Author José Ángel Navejas in Conversation with with special guest Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez.
Author Nate Marshall in conversation with a special guest Jamila Woods and Book Club director Miguel Jiménez.
A conversation with Valeria Luiselli and Erika L. Sánchez. Click here to view this program on YouTube.
Author Fernanda Melchor in conversation with Catherine Lacey. Click here to view this program on YouTube.
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.
