Fun Places to Gay
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| | | Raven Theatre
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| | | | Dick's R U Crazee
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| | | | Jackhammer
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| | | | The House Theatre of Chicago at the Chopin Theatre
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| | | | UP Comedy Club
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| | | | Profiles Theatre - The Main Stage
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| | | | Blue Man Group at Briar Street Theatre
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| | | | Clockwise Theatre
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| | | | Jeffery Pub
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| | | | Club Escape
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| | | | Touche
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| | | | Griffin Theatre Company at Theater Wit
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| | | | Farraguts on Clark
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| | | | Hamburger Mary's
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| | | | Charlie's
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| | | | Elixir Lounge
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| | | | Shakers On Clark (Formerly 3160)
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| | | | Roscoe's
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| | | | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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| | | | Spyners Pub
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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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