Lit & Luz: Live Magazine Show: Saturation / Saturación

Experience the Live Magazine Show, the Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art’s signature celebration. Each year, Lit & Luz supports the creation of new collaborative artworks between writers, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico. In the months leading up to the festival, teams of participating artists from the two countries work remotely to co-create a performance incorporating their respective mediums. The pieces are presented during the show in both Spanish and English, and they often explore the relationship between the languages, art forms, and cultures of the United States and Mexico. The theme of the 2024-25 festival and the Live Magazine Show is “Saturation/Saturación.”

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Vive el Live Magazine Show, la celebración principal del Festival de Arte, Literatura y Lenguaje Lit & Luz. Cada año, el programa Lit & Luz apoya la creación de nuevas obras de arte de colaboración entre escritores, artistas visuales, y músicos de Chicago y México. En los meses previos al festival, equipos de artistas participantes de las dos países trabajan a distancia para co-crear un performance incorporando sus respectivos medios. Las piezas se presentan durante el Live Show tanto en español como en inglés y a menudo exploran la relación entre los idiomas, las formas de arte, y las culturas de Estados Unidos y México. El tema del festival 2024-25 y del Live Magazine Show es “Saturation/Saturación”.

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].

La traducción en vivo del inglés al español y del español al inglés, acompañada de una descripción visual, estará disponible para este programa a través de tu teléfono móvil y audífonos. Para más consideraciones, escríbenos a [email protected].

Presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, National Endowment for the Arts, Driehaus Foundation, Poetry Foundation, Mexican Consulate in Chicago, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Illinois Arts Council, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and UIC's Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas.

Presentado en asociación con el Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, National Endowment for the Arts, Driehaus Foundation, Poetry Foundation, Mexican Consulate in Chicago, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Illinois Arts Council, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation y UIC's Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas

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The 11th annual Festival of Language, Literature, and Art—as featured in, ,, and more—takes place October 26 to November 2. This one-of-a-kind cross-cultural, bilingual festival brings together writers and visual artists from Mexico and Chicago for a week-long series of public programming at venues throughout Chicago.

Inspired by the media landscape of both presidential elections taking place in the countries this year, the theme of the festival is “Saturation/Saturación.” Participants will consider concepts such as intensity, combination, absorption, maximums and limitations as they respond to the urgent political, social, and environmental issues confronting both countries.
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