Lit & Luz festival
Event
-> Mar 8 2022 – Mar 12 2022
At its heart, Lit & Luz is a cultural exchange between writers and visual artists from Mexico and United States. With the festival taking place first in Chicago, then Mexico City, it is a conversation between two countries. They choose to focus on collaborations in order to foster meaningful and lasting professional relationships and cross-cultural friendships.
Activity program
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Nostalgia & Memory: What We Leave Behind
A film screening and an exchange.
Schedule: 5:00 pm 7:30 pm
Address: Cine Tonalá 261 Tonalá Roma Sur, CDMX, 06760 Mexico.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
"Estructura" y la Colaboración Trasnacional a través de las expresiones artísticas
Schedule: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Address: Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl, Citlaltépetl 25, Hipódromo Condesa, Cuauhtémoc.
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A film screening and an exchange.
Schedule: 8 pm - 10 pm
Address: Cine Tonalá 261 Tonalá Roma Sur, CDMX, 06760, Mexico.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Schedule: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 pm
Address: Museo Universitario del Chopo 10 Calle Doctor Enrique Gonzalez Martinez Ciudad de México, CDMX, 06400 Mexico.
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Schedule: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Address: 112 Juan de la Barrera Colonia Condesa, CDMX, 06140 Mexico.
Friday, March 11, 2022
A talk about architecture with Jordan Hicks and Roberto Michelsen Engell
Schedule: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Address: Laguna172 Calle Doctor Erazo Doctores, CDMX, 06720 Mexico.
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Poetry and music in the Secret Garden
Join us for this poetry and music-filled celebration with Chicago poet Joel Craig celebrating the release of his latest book Humanoid.
Schedule: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Write to litluz@makemag.org to reserve your place and get the location.
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Violence & Survival: What We Lose
A film screening and an exchange.
Schedule: 8 pm - 11 pm
Address: Cine Club Sin Elipses 8 Bonampak Vértiz Narvarte, CDMX, 03600 Mexico.
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Poesía &... Lectura y conversación con poetas multidisciplinarios
How does poetry inform your visual art, essays, performance, and fiction? In a conversation moderated by multidisciplinary Mexico City poet Rocío Cerón, Chicago poets Krista Franklin and Jose-Luis Moctezuma and special guest consider this question and read from their illuminating work.
Schedule: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Address: Biblioteca Aeromoto 23 Calle Venecia Juárez, CDMX, 06600 Mexico.
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Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show: Estructure
The signature event of the Lit & Luz Festival is the Live Magazine Show where pairs of artists and writers from Mexico and Chicago debut collaborations on stage. This year, through the theme “Structure,” participants will consider the physical structures that house us, political and societal structures that surround us, and much more.
Schedule: 8:00 pm
Address: Museo Universitario del Chopo 10 Calle Doctor Enrique Gonzalez Martinez, Ciudad de México, CDMX, 06400 Mexico.