Lit & Luz: 2025 Keynote Address with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

The Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and ArtBegan in 2012 (unofficially) with the release of the fully translated—Spanish/English—MAKEMagazineissue 13, "Intercambio/Exchange." In 2014 the Lit & Luz Festival was launched from those pages and ever since has produced yearly events in Mexico City and Chicago, with writers and artists from Chicago, Mexico, and beyond.MAKE Literary Production’s sixth annual Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art, themed "Movement" is an ambitious exchange between Mexico City and Chicago. The week-long festival takes place at over a dozen arts venues and universities throughout Chicago, October 12th-19th. It concludes at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago with our signature event, the “Live Magazine Show." The following February, a similar series of events are held in Mexico City.We are honored to welcome inspiring authors, artists, and arts professionals from Mexico to Chicago. Art and language are key to understanding culture and community, and the cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico. With events such as Lit & Luz, we hope to strengthen the relationship between the two countries, and in particular, to increase the distribution of literature and art from Mexico for Chicago audiences and beyond.

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Lit & Luz Keynote Address on  festival theme, Repair/Reparar, by critically-acclaimed author and poet, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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Lit & Luz Festival Chicago 2025

The 12th annual Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art returns this fall to Chicago, November 9 - 14. This one-of-a-kind, cross-cultural, bilingual festival brings together renowned writers and visual artists from Mexico and Chicago.

Please join us at Pueblo Unido Gallery at Centro Romero for the Lit &amp; Luz Festival’s 2025 Keynote Address on this year’s festival theme, Repair/Reparar, by critically-acclaimed author and poet, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo.On this special occasion, Castillo will read a number of unreleased poems as well as selected excerpts from International Latino Book Award Finalist Children of the Land: a Memoir (<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/children-of-the-land-marcelo-hernandez-castillo?variant=40827578318882" title="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/children-of-the-land-marcelo-hernandez-castillo?variant=40827578318882" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Harper Collins</a>, 2020).After the address and reading, Castillo will be joined by author and Lit &amp; Luz founding Artistic Director, Daniel Borzutzky, for an intimate conversation on Castillo’s writing.Meet the author after the event for a book signing and a complimentary cafecito reception to celebrate the beginning of the festival week! Presented in partnership with the Lit &amp; Luz Festival, UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas, and Pueblo Unido Gallery.---The 12th annual <a href="https://www.litluz.org/about" title="https://www.litluz.org/about" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lit &amp; Luz</a> Festival of Language, Literature, and Art—as featured in, <a href="https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/10/31/artists-in-mexico-city-and-chicago-come-together-to-ponder-themes-of-saturation-in-midst-of-historic-presidential-elections" title="https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/10/31/artists-in-mexico-city-and-chicago-come-together-to-ponder-themes-of-saturation-in-midst-of-historic-presidential-elections" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">WBEZ’s Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons</a>, <a href="https://chireviewofbooks.com/2024/10/28/lit-luz-festival-showcases-bilingual-artists-from-chicago-and-mexico/" title="https://chireviewofbooks.com/2024/10/28/lit-luz-festival-showcases-bilingual-artists-from-chicago-and-mexico/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chicago Review of Books</a>,<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/10/23/lit-luz-festival-brings-authors-and-artists-together-from-chicago-and-mexico/" title="https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/10/23/lit-luz-festival-brings-authors-and-artists-together-from-chicago-and-mexico/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Block Club Chicago</a>, and more—takes place November 9 to November 14, 2025. This one-of-a-kind cross-cultural, bilingual festival brings together writers, poets, and visual artists from Mexico and Chicago for a week-long series of public programming at venues throughout Chicago.This year’s festival––under the theme of “Repair/Reparar”–– explores how writers, poets, and artists from Chicago and Mexico critically examine the artist’s role in impacting and offering new perspectives on what it takes to face and reimagine our shared realities.To learn more, visit <a href="https://litluz.org/" title="https://litluz.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">litluz.org</a>

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