Lit & Luz: REENCOUNTERS/ REENCUENTROS Opening Night

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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Chicago Art Department, South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL, USA

REENCOUNTERS/ REENCUENTROS Opening NightOn the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Lit &amp; Luz Festival, we bring together work by 14 artists and past Collaboration Cohort participants for this reunion exhibition—celebrating a decade of collaboration, discovery, artistic innovation, and critical expression. If the first encounter is serendipitous, a reencounter is almost destined. In this exhibition, each artist brings a recent work, revisits an old creation, or materializes a new iteration of a series. REENCOUNTERS/REENCUENTROS offers glimpses into the artists’ most up-to-date interests, their ongoing research, and their continued inquiries into socio-political and environmental issues, human conditions, kinship, and most prominently, the power and complexities of language in all its shapes and forms. In the spirit of the festival, we also commissioned past participant writers to produce a creative response to an artwork on view in the exhibition. And thus new encounters begin. —Esteban King, Nicky Ni, and Caleigh Stephens, Curatorial TeamCon motivo del décimo aniversario del Lit &amp; Luz Festival, esta muestra reúne una selección de obras de 14 artistas que participaron con anterioridad en el Grupo de Colaboración del festival. La exhibición, concebida a la manera de una reunión, celebra una década de colaboraciones, descubrimiento, innovación artística y expresión crítica. Si el primer encuentro es fortuito, un reencuentro está casi destinado. En esta exposición, cada artista presenta una obra reciente, revisita una antigua creación o materializa la nueva versión de una serie.REENCOUNTERS/REENCUENTROS ofrece destellos de los intereses más recientes de lxs artistas, sus propias investigaciones en curso y sus continuas indagaciones sobre cuestiones sociopolíticas y ambientales, las condiciones humanas, el parentesco y, lo más destacado, el poder y las complejidades del lenguaje en todos los ámbitos y formas. Retomando el espíritu del festival, también fueron comisionados una serie de textos — escritos por diversxs autorxs que participaron con anterioridad en el festival— que responden de manera creativa a cada una de las obras expuestas. Comenzando así nuevos encuentros. —Esteban King, Nicky Ni, y Caleigh Stephens. Equipo CuratorialP﻿articipating Artists:Balam Bartolomé (MX/2022-23)Susy Bielak (US/2016-17)Julietta Cheung (US/2021-22)Edgar Cobián (MX/2018-19)Amber Ginsburg (US/2014-15)Amanda Gutiérrez (MX/2016-17)Sebastián Hidalgo (US/2019-2020)Héctor Jiménez Castillo (MX/2022-23)Kirsten Leenaars (US/2014-15)Israel Martínez (MX/2019-2020)Daniel Monroy Cuevas (MX/2021-22)Laleh Motlagh (US/2022-23)Chantal Peñalosa (MX/2021-22)Selina Trepp (US/2017-18)_﻿___________<h2>The Lit &amp; Luz Festival Celebrates 10 Years of International Exchange and Collaboration!</h2>October 13-21, MAKE Literary Productions’s <a href="https://www.litluz.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lit &amp; Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art</a> celebrates ten years of making space for essential dialogues between residents of Mexico and the United States through curated artist collaborations and a week-long series of free programming in Spanish and English.
The 2023-24 festival is themed “TEN”—a celebration of the festival’s tenth anniversary and all things commemorative. The theme also alludes to the Spanish meaning of the “ten,” and considers what it is to have—and have not.
This one-of-a-kind cultural festival runs October 13-October 21 with over a dozen bilingual events taking place at venues throughout Chicago, as well as online.
In partnership with Chicago Art Department, the festival kicks off October 13th with REENCOUNTERS/REECUENTROS, an exhibition featuring new work from past and present Collaboration Cohort participants curated by Esteban King (Mexico City) and Nicky Ni (Chicago). October 14th, the legendary author Ana Castillo delivers our keynote address in partnership with UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas.
On Saturday, October 21st, the Live Magazine Show, returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art theater. <a href="https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/lit-and-luz-festival-2023/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">At this ticketed program,</a> six pairs of Mexico- and Chicago-based participants—the Collaboration Cohort—debut multimedia collaborative pieces they have been working on in the prior months. 
C﻿heck out the fill event schedule on our website:<a href="https://www.litluz.org/2023-chicago-schedule" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> https://www.litluz.org/2023-chicago-schedule</a>

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