Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show: Repair / Reparar

Experience the Live Magazine Show, Lit & Luz’s signature celebration. Each year, Lit & Luz supports the creation of new collaborative artworks between writers, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico. The pieces are presented in both Spanish and English and include storytelling, music, poetry, video art, and extemporaneous performances that explore the relationship between languages, art forms, social issues, and cultures of the United States and Mexico through the theme “Repair/ Reparar".

Check out the 2025-26 cycle’s Collaboration Cohort!

Please join us in the lobby after the program for a reception, along with a book signing courtesy of Pilsen Community Books.

Live audio translation in English to Spanish and Spanish to English, along with visual description will be available for this program via your smartphone and headphones. For any other considerations, please reach out to [email protected].

Presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Hyde Park Art Center, UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas, the Mexican Consulate in Chicago, and with support from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, and more.

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Vive el Live Magazine Show, la característica celebración de Lit & Luz. Cada año, Lit & Luz apoya la creación de nuevas obras de arte colaborativas entre escritores, artistas visuales y músicos de Chicago y México. Las piezas son presentadas en inglés y español e incluyen narrativa, música, poesía, videoarte y performances extemporáneos que exploran la relación entre idiomas, formas de arte, problemas sociales y las culturas de Estados Unidos y México a través del tema “Repair/ Reparar".

El Grupo de Colaboración de 2025-26

Acompáñanos en el lobby después del show para una recepción, así como a una firma de libros, cortesía de Pilsen Community Books.

La traducción simultánea del inglés al español y del español al inglés, junto a la descripción visual, estarán disponible para este evento a través de tu smartphone y audífonos. Para otras consideraciones, por favor escríbenos a [email protected].

Presentado en colaboración con el Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Hyde Park Art Center el Consulado de México en Chicago, y el Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas de la UIC, y con el apoyo de la Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Poetry Foundation y más.

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The 12th annual Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art—as featured in, WBEZ’s Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons, Chicago Review of Books, Block Club Chicago, 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 litluz.org

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