Lit & Luz Video documentation
Videos are arranged with the most current at the top.
Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show, October 19, 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Shot by Justin Harancher, Edited by Harrison Martin, Music by Sadie Woods
Lit & Luz Festival Live Magazine Show featuring Dalia Huerta Cano, Eula Biss, Laura J. Ramirez, Yvette Mayorga, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Israel Martínez, Sara Uribe, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Diana del Ángel, and Zacbe Pichardo with hosts Miguel Jiménez and Rachel Galvin
The Inaugural Lit & Luz Keynote Address featuring Luis Alberto Urrea
A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Urrea is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 17 books (including The Devil’s Highway, Into the Beautiful North, and The House of Broken Angels) winning numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. With an introduction by poet Daniel Borzutzky
Ayotzinapa: Cinco años sin justicia, Lit & Luz Chicago 2019
En este video, filmado vivo en estudio CAN TV como parte de Lit & Luz Festival 2019 Chicago, Diana del Angel, basada en México y autora de Procesos de la noche, habla con activistas basados en Chicago, Laura J. Ramirez, cofundadora de el Justicia en Ayotzinapa Comité Chicago, y muralista Roberto Ferreyra. La conversación, moderada por periodista Mago Torres, considera el asesino de estudiante Julio César Mondragón, la desaparición de 43 de sus compañeros estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Raúl Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa, y la continua búsqueda de la verdad por familia y participantes en México y EE. UU. En medio de la discusión de la violencea sancionasa por el estado, los cuatro participantes contemplan el papel que juega la imaginación en transformando solidaridad a traves de las fronteras y cómo la marginación connecta a las personas.
Lit & Luz CDMX 2019 Highlight Video
Featuring Chicago-based playwright and performer Kristiana Rae Colón and novelist Daniel Kraus
Pictured in thumbnail: Musician Bill MacKay, Chicago-based poet José Olivarez, and Mexico City-based poet Jimena González
Shot and edited by: Harrison Martin
Music: “Scarlet's Return” by Bill MacKay
Author Julián Herbert reading and in conversation with Tim Kinsella at Roosevelt University for Lit & Luz Chicago 2018
Author, Julian Herbert reads from his written works at Roosevelt University’s Lit & Luz Festival. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network (CAN TV).
Contemporary Art, Mexico. Lit & Luz Festival, Chicago 2018
This roundtable conversation at Co-Prosperity Sphere featuring Mexican and Mexican American visual artists, lead by artist and ESPAC curator Esteban King, will discuss what Americans miss when they think of Mexican contemporary art and will ask if the hesitation to embrace contemporary art is universal or cultural. Participants include visual artists Edgar Cobián (Guadalajara), Salvador Jiménez-Flores (Chicago), Libia Bianibi (Oaxaca/Chicago), Cecilia Beaven (Mexico City/Chicago) and more. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
An overview of Lit & Luz events in Mexico City, February 22-24, 2018. Shot and edited by Harrison Martin.
Erika L. Sánchez y Guadalupe Nettel en Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Lit & Luz 2017-18, Ciudad de México
Erika L. Sánchez y Guadalupe Nettel conversaron el sábado 24 de febrero, en el marco del Lit & Luz Festival, sobre escritura, migración y muchos otros temas, como lo que representa la figura materna en su vida, sus trabajos literarios y sus pasiones.
Highlight video of Lit & Luz 2017 Live Show at Co-Prosperity Sphere, October 21st. Shot and edited by Justin Harenchar at Joyland Creative.
Eduardo Rabasa in conversation with Christian Tebordo at Roosevelt University, Lit & Luz 2017, Chicago.
Eduardo Rabasa, author of The Zero-Sum Game (Deep Vellum Press) reads from his novel and discusses Sexto Piso, Mexico City’s foremost independent publisher, now in its 15th year. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Lit & Luz Chicago 2016 Live Show highlights
The Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art's grand finale is an exclusive night of debut collaborative performances from Gabriela Jauregui + Susy Bielak & Fred Schmalz, Jorge Méndez Blake + Samantha Hill, Guadalupe Nettel + Vu Tran + Amanda Gutiérrez, Daniel Saldaña París + Jessica Anne, Alejandro Albarrán Polanco + Rachel Galvin + Jim Becker. This event will move between Spanish and English and through the theme, “(Anti-)Static” or “Motion,” explore the contexts in which both Chicago and Mexico City exist. With music from (((SONORAMA)))'s Charly Garcia.
Shot by Dakota Sillyman and Chris Owsiany and edited by Erin Turney. Produced by Sarah Dodson and Hannah Welever.
Lit & Luz 2014: Luis Felipe Fabre, Valerie Mejer, and Daniel Borzutzky at the Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation celebrates Lit & Luz, a four day poetry festival in Chicago and Mexico with readings from well known poets. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Lit & Luz 2014 Chicago: Archive, a Live Magazine Extravaganza
MAKE Literary Productions introduces the inaugural Lit & Luz Festival with the theme of "Archive," featuring Valeria Luiselli, Luis Felipe Fabre, Susana Iglesia, Brenda Lozano, Luis Felipe Fabre, Aguillón-Mata, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Daniel Borzutzky, Mauricio Tenorio, Moira Pujols, Tania Candiani, Joel Craig, Kirsten Leenaars, Kathleen Rooney, Fred Sasaki, Marvin Tate, Irvine Welsh, Adam Burke, Ruth Guerra. Through readings, performances, visual art, and the 2014 theme “Archive,” the participants will explore both Chicago and Mexico City’s historical contexts; how we document our lives and our culture in a digital age; and translation between language and artistic mediums. Click here for the event line-up.
Shot and edited by Hannah Welever.
