Lit & Luz Festival CDMX 2023

Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art Revision continues to support the creation of new art through international collaboration, and make space for essential dialogues between residents of Mexico and the United States.

The 2023 festival is themed Revision—re-envisioning the arts in light of the pandemic, reconsidering the canon, and revising for the future. 

This cultural festival runs March 7-11 with nine free, bilingual artist talks, film screenings, poetry readings, and more at venues throughout Mexico City, including Casa del Cine, Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl, Centro Cultural Elena Garro and Museo Universitario del Chopo.

The festival’s signature event, the Live Magazine Show, will be presented on March 11 at 7 p.m. in partnership with El Museo Universitario del Chopo. At this program, pairs of Mexico- and US-based participants present the multimedia collaborative pieces created in the months prior.

The festival is honored to host an exemplary cohort of writers and artists.

Mexican participants include: Aura Arreola, Baram Bartolomé, Dolores Dorantes, Héctor Jiménez Castillo, Robin Myers, Mariana Oliver, and yolanda segura.

 Chicago-based participants include:  Visual artists Amber Ginsburg, Victoria Martinez, and Laleh Motlagh; and writers Antonio Díaz Oliva, Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, and Marty McConnell. Musician and artist Andy Slater serves as this year’s Live Show musical director.

The complete bios of all the 2023 participants, are available in this link.

At its heart, Lit & Luz is a cultural exchange between writers, visual artists, and musicians from Mexico and United States. With the festival taking place first in Chicago, then Mexico City, it is a conversation between two countries. Past participants include luminaries such as Krista Franklin, Cristina Rivera Garza, Valeria Luiselli, José Olivarez, Jac Jemc, and Erika L. Sánchez.

The Lit & Luz Festival is a special series of events with renowned writers, visual artists and musicians from Chicago and Mexico, in cultural exchange and conversation. This series of readings, conversations, artist talks and performances, including the signature event, the Live Magazine Show, highlights new translations and artistic collaborations, showcasing some of the most innovative contemporary artists from both countries. The festival takes place in Chicago during the fall, followed by the Lit & Luz Festival CDMX in the winter.

— Lit & Luz Festival CDMX 2023

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