Lesbian love letters 2: a tribute to sapphic love and literature

Artistic Alphabet Mafia presents

Lesbian Love Letters 2:

We are back to start 2025 with a gay big bang! Lesbian love letters is a celebration of all things gay and literary. Channeling sapphos herself, this event will feature book swapping, love letter writing, a gay poetry workshop, an open mic and so much more! While this event is centered on wlw love we also want it to be open to all forms of queer love so don’t be afraid to join in on the valentine’s season celebration (and maybe confess to your crush along the way)

Tickets are pay-what-you-can at $5, $10, $20, or $30 levels. The promo code for free tickets is gayclown and can be used by anyone who needs it, as we never want ticket cost to be a barrier to attending.we ask those who are able to cover the full price cost of their ticket to contribute their fair share ($20) or, better yet, help subsidize tickets for others ($30: your ticket + half of someone else's).

Schedule/activities/vendors

Event will be held from 5-9pm

Activities

-bilingual (spanish/english)sapphic poetry workshop (6-7pm, sign up required)

-open mic (7-8:45, sign up required to preform)

-letter writing and collage

-bookmark making

-flirty book swap

-silent reading corner

-book donation drive for liberation library

Vendors

Rainn Thomas

Typing bat

Anna Claire white

Event schedule and space layout

1st floor main stage- crafting, vendors, book swap, and open mic

1st floor lounge-silent reading corner, book drive

Outdoors- decompression and eating area

The Venue / Accessibility:

Historic Haymarket House in Uptown, an ADA compliant, expansive, indoor-outdoor space owned by Haymarket Books - an independent, radical, non-profit book publisher based in Chicago. "Haymarket House is fully accessible and has a wheelchair ramp entrance through our back entrance off Clarendon. All our restrooms are gender neutral and fully accessible."

Additional accommodations

-virtual livestream of open mic and digital pdfs of workshop materials will be available after the event

Age requirements.

This will be an 18 plus event unless you are attending with a parent or guardian . With that being said we still encourage queer youth to attend and most activities will be accessible to younger audiences and no alcohol will be present on site.

This is a mask-required event. Guests who are able to wear a well-fitted respirator (N95, KN95, KF94 or equivalent) should do so at all times when inside Haymarket House. Free high-quality masks will be available at check-in. Guests will be permitted to temporarily remove their respirators in the outside space to eat, drink, or take a quick mask break. we ask our community to distance themselves as much as possible and to participate in reciprocal masking when in close proximity to others who are themselves wearing a respirator. We also ask to take a Covid test prior to the event.

Air purification: Multiple HEPA air purifiers for large spaces will be provided by Clean Air Club.

Extra respirators (K/N95 or equivalent)

snacks food will not be served on site but Haymarket is close to several restaurants and grocery stores.

Water water bottles will be available on site but it’s still recommended to bring your own bottle if possible

A note: those registering for and attending this event may have their photo/video taken for our socials and future content. If you wish to opt out of this, please notify an organizer at check-in.

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Community guidelines

Please note that this is a queer community focused event, while allies are welcome the of the LGBT attendees will take priority. Hate speech of any kind will not be tolerated at this event and any reports of such can/will result in violators being banned from future events.

Host or Publisher The Artistic Alphabet Mafia