Fun Places to Gay
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| | | Writers Theatre
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| | | | Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
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| | | | Club Escape
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| | | | The Station House
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| | | | Steep Theatre Company
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| | | | The Second City
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| | | | The Call
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| | | | TimeLine Theatre
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| | | | Replay Beer & Bourbon
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| | | | Tom Robinson Gallery
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| | | | Broadway Youth Center
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| | | | The pH Comedy Theater
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| | | | Cellblock
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| | | | DS Tequila Company
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| | | | The ComedySportz Theatre
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| | | | The Joffrey Ballet at Auditorium Theatre
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| | | | Emerald City Theatre at the Apollo Theater
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| | | | Baton Show Lounge
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| | | | Second Story Bar
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| | | | Jackhammer
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| Wednesday September 27th
Book Launch Party: Chicago Renaissance by Liesl Olson 7:30pm
This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago's cultural development from the 1893 World's Fair through mid-century, illuminating how Chicago writers revolutionized literary forms during the first half of the twentieth century. From Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olson's enthralling study bridges the gap between two distinct and equally vital Chicago-based artistic "renaissance" moments: the primarily white renaissance of the early teens, and the creative ferment of Bronzeville. Stories of the famous and iconoclastic are interwoven with accounts of lesser-known yet influential figures in Chicago, many of whom were women. Olson argues for the importance of Chicago's editors, bookstore owners, tastemakers, and ordinary citizens who helped nurture Chicago's unique culture of artistic experimentation.
Liesl Olson is director of Chicago studies at the Newberry Library. She is the author of Modernism and the Ordinary and many essays about twentieth-century writers and artists. She currently live in Chicago.
Event Website
Women & Children First Bookstore 5233 N Clark St Chicago, IL 60640 (773) 769-9299 Location Website
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