Join Us for the First ‘Conversation’ on Art and Resistance

Update: You can now watch the full stream of the event right here.

This Thursday (January 26 at 7:30 p.m.), the Chicago Review of Books will live-stream the inaugural edition of The Conversation. If you can’t make it to the event in person, you can watch our stream right here via Facebook Live.

The Conversation is a new a literary and cultural series at Chicago’s Women & Children First Bookstore. This Thursday, literary stars Monica Trinidad, Roger Reeves, Aleksandar Hemon, Eula Biss, and Coya Paz will have a timely conversation about “Art and Resistance.” This is not a reading, but a conversation that will open up to include the audience. The conversation will continue afterwards at Las Manos Gallery on Foster, where we’ll eat, drink, argue, and organize.

Each month, The Conversation pairs visiting artists or writers with local ones to talk about an issue of political, social, or cultural importance. Participants will discuss issues as diverse as art and activism, race and racism, sex, class, feminism, intimacy, darkness in literature and the life of the city.

Each conversation will end with a Takeaway (kind of like optional homework)—an article to read, an organization to engage with, a movie to go home and watch, a protest to attend. But even better: after the event, the conversation will always continue at a nearby bar, gallery, or restaurant where we can eat, drink, argue, and organize.

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The Conversation is a free, no-ticket event, open to all, but donations will be collected at the afterparty to fund a local nonprofit. Click here for more event details, and like our Facebook page to get a notification the minute we go live at 7:30 p.m. The video will also be available to watch online after the event.

The series is curated by Kim Brooks, Rebecca Makkai, Zoe Zolbrod, Jana-Maria Hartmann, and Aleksandar Hemon, with Sarah Hollenbeck of Women & Children First.