Latest Events in Clark(May Updated)

You are cordially invited to an exclusive art exhibition featuring the remarkable work of Shonn Tucker and his Unique Wood Designs. This event will include a silent auction showcasing a diverse array of pieces, from intricate carvings to striking large-scale works, all exemplifying exceptional craftsmanship. The exhibition will take place in person at 409 N Clark Rd, Cedar Hill, TX 75104. We encourage you to seize this opportunity to experience these masterpieces firsthand and engage with the talented artist behind them. We look forward to your attendance. Information Source: eventbrite

Doors | 6:30 PM Show | 7:00 PM Tickets | $20/Early Bird Pricing; $25/Standard Pricing --------- Pre-order your copy today! https://buttonpoetry.com/product/about-time/ --------- Button Poetry Presents: Neil Hilborn’s About Time Tour Come join Button Poetry at the Bramble Arts Loft on November 5th to celebrate the release of Neil Hilborn’s newest poetry collection About Time. This night of poetry will feature special guest performances by Cory Sutter, Billy Tuggle, and Eric Sirota! Neil Hilborn returns with the poignant and profound collection About Time. Balancing between devastation and perseverance, About Time shares the struggle to maintain mental health during the recent global crises. With his distinctly conversational tone and dark humor, Hilborn breaks down the cycle of mental illness—small improvements, setbacks, and the process of recovery. This collection fights against itself as the poems try to find a place for hope, love, and goodness in a lonely, terrifying world—ultimately, inspiring belief in and connection to all the small joys that we can find. Fans new and old will be stunned by Hilborn’s third collection. Continuing in the legacy of his previous works, About Time is hot soup for the troubled soul and absolutely cannot be missed. About your Features: Neil Hilborn (he/him) is a best-selling author and, with over 150 million views to his credit, he is the most-watched poet ever. He has performed in 41 states and 8 countries, and in 2019 alone he drove coast to coast five times while on tour. His favorite touring moments are: crying while meeting a wombat in Australia; spending two weeks in Edinburgh at the Fringe Festival; meeting Dionne Warwick at the Smithsonian; and putting 12,000 miles on a minivan in two months with his fellow road goblin Mark. His favorite sandwiches come from: Primanti Bros in Pittsburgh, Black’s BBQ in Austin, one specific Publix in Tampa, and a torta truck he found while stranded in Pasco, Washington. One time on stage he accidentally punched the microphone and broke his wedding ring, and thanks to years of therapy he did not interpret this as a sign. His preferred stage entrance music is “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen, during which he walks very slowly. In addition to touring and writing he runs workshops on craft, performance, and how to apologize for ignoring texts. He and his wife live on a hobby farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where they adopt too many animals. Cory Sutter (they/them) is an animator, art director, poet, and general they/them about town. Cory has featured at Poetry on the Green, Afterglow, Giggle Hour, Read Some Shit, and others. Cory hosts the Sunday live lit show, Open Book Open Mic, at the Bramble Arts Loft; co-hosts the weekly comedy poetry podcast, Pathetic and Poetic; and spends their off hours looking for a decent bagel in Chicago. Follow them @corysutter if you like sketches and selfies or @openbookopenmic if you like poetry and puns! Billy Tuggle (he/him) Swimming With Elephants Publications author Billy Tuggle is also a parent & educator from the South Side of Chicago. A stage performer in HipHop and spoken word for over 25 years; recognized by Odyssey Online as one of the top 30 slam poets over 30; and continues to win and place in competition everywhere. When he isn't sharing stages with Patricia Smith, Rhymefest, Psalm One, the Large Professor, or touring partner Wil Gibson, he’s teaching beatboxing and stage combat via pro wrestling to grade schoolers. His new collection A Tree Falls In The Hood is available from SWEP. Find him on FB/IG @Backpackfiles Eric Sirota (he/him) is a Best of the Net nominated poet, rapper, and public interest housing lawyer based in Chicago. His first chapbook, Holy Days, was published by FreezeRay Poetry in 2017, and his second, Giveth & Taketh, by Wild Pressed Books in 2020. His full length debut The Rent EATS First is forthcoming from Button Poetry. His work has been featured by Button Poetry, Entropy, Barren Magazine and elsewhere. You can’t miss him. He’s the tallest Jew for miles. Information Source: Button Poetry | eventbrite

Hillside Steppers Present Madden TournamentGAME TIME!!!!Calling all Gamers; Parents, Staff and Students of CHISD. Whether you're a seasoned player, just starting out, or just want to watch the competition this envent is for you. Show off your skills, compete against others, and have a blast! BRING YOUR OWN CONTROLLER, pick your team, and get ready to face off in intense matches. Walk away with a CA$H PRIZE and Cedar Hill bragging rights as The Ultimate Madden champion! $10 registration fee for all player $5 spectators for all non players who can compete: all 6th-12th grade CHISD Students, including their parents/gardians and CHISD staff. Concessions will be sold (so no outside food)Dont forget this is BRING YOUR OWN CONTROLLERCA$H PRIZE Information Source: Hillside Steppers Booster Club | eventbrite

Watch the selected film at your own pace and join us for a lively discussion monthly, to meet new people and share ideas. The program is in person at Bathurst Clark Resource Library. You also have the option to attend virtually on Zoom. This program is for adults. Nov 13: Fat: A Documentary: Debunking Myths About Nutrition This documentary tells the far-fetched but completely true history of how our country became so unhealthy, tracing a detailed history spanning 150 years to show just how misinformation and outright lies have become truth. Watch on Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/6000054 December 11: The Endless (Registration opens on November 20th) Acclaimed filmmakers Moorhead and Benson return with this mind-bending thriller that follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Watch on Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/12201134 Vaughan Public Libraries is committed to accessibility. Please email us here to inquire about accommodation for our programs. The personal information collected from you on this form will only be used for the purpose of Vaughan Public Libraries' program and/or event registration. Your personal information will not be shared with outside organizations, except as indicated in the Privacy Statement. Information Source: Vaughan Public Libraries | eventbrite

Welcome to Studio 61 Fest at HVAC Pub in Wrigleyville! Join us for a night of amazing music featuring Everyday Fantastic, The Mild West, and SmackTalk. Get ready to rock out with these talented bands in person. Don't miss out on this epic event! First 50 people to arrive at the venue with a ticket will receive a free, band-themed shot! Information Source: eventbrite

Please join us for a celebratory evening with Donna Seaman for the release of River of Books: A Life in Reading. This event will be hosted at the Swedish American Museum (5211 N Clark St) and Donna will be joined in conversation by Women & Children First co-founder Linda Bubon. This event is part of our 45th Anniversary programming, as we celebrate 45 years of W&CF. A memoir of reading and working with books by the renowned Booklist editor. With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donna Seaman charts the course of her early reading years in a book-by-book chronicle of the significance books have held in her life. River of Books recounts Seaman’s journey in becoming an editor for Booklist, a reviewer, an author, and a literary citizen, and lays bare how she nourished both body and soul in working with books. Seaman makes palpable the power and self-recognition that she discovered in a life dedicated to reading. Donna Seaman is the adult books editor at Booklist, a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum, and a recipient of the Louis Shore Award for excellence in book reviewing, the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism, and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award. Seaman has written for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She has been a writer-in-residence for Columbia College Chicago and has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Seaman created the anthology In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness, her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books, and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists. Linda Bubon is co-founder of Women & Children First Bookstore. She and her business partner, Ann Christophersen, opened the bookstore in1979 as a way to contribute to the international feminist movement and to join with and support those in Chicago working to further the rights and well-being of women & children. Women & Children First has been honored with awards from Chicago Now, the ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Foundation, Bailiwick Reportory Theatre, and The Lesbian Community Cancer Project, among others. Accessibility: This event will be hosted at the Swedish American Museum, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. If you have questions, access needs, or need ASL-interpretation, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com no later than 14 days before the event. Information Source: Women & Children First | eventbrite

Please join us for an event celebrating the release of Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes, curated by Danez Smith. For this event, Danez will be joined in conversation by avery r. young. Please note: This event is free to attend, but registration is required. Masks are required. From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works—both polished poems and raw, unfinished, work-in-progress written from 1921-1927—curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith. Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City, seeking funds to pursue his passion. His early poems see Hughes finding his voice and experimenting with style and form. Beloved verses like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” were written without formal training, often on the back of napkins and envelopes, and were inspired by the sights and sounds of Black working-class people he encountered in his early life. Blues in Stereo is a collection of select early works, all written before the age of twenty-five, in which we see Langston Hughes with fresh eyes. From the intimate pages of his handwritten journals, you will travel with Hughes outside of Harlem as he ventures to the American South and Mexico, sails through the Caribbean, and becomes the only Harlem renaissance poet to visit Africa. His poems and journal entries celebrate love as a tool of liberation. His songs showcase the musicality of verse poetry. And the collection even includes a play he cowrote with Duke Ellington with a full score that experiments with rhythm and structure. Blues in Stereo portrays a young man coming of age in a changing world. Page by page, a young, fresh-faced Hughes contends with matters beyond his years with raw talent. And by keeping his original, handwritten notations found in archival material, we get to witness a genius’s earliest thought process in real time. National Book Award-nominated poet Danez Smith offers their insight and notes on themes, challenges, and obsessions that Hughes early work contains. Beautifully rendered and thoughtfully curated, Blues in Stereo foreshadows a master poet that will go on to define literature for centuries to come. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1901. Often called 'The People’s Poet,' he authored and edited over thirty works poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children’s books. He was a poetic innovator and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and his writing promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and helped shape American literature and politics. He died on May 22, 1967, in New York City. ABOUT THE CURATOR: Danez Smith is the author of four poetry collections including Bluff, Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. Danez was won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and has been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez lives in Minneapolis with their people. ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER: Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate, interdisciplinary artist and educator avery r. young is a Leader for a New Chicago 2022 awardee, a Cave Canem fellow and a co-director of The Floating Museum. His poetry and prose have been featured in BreakBeat Poets, Teaching Black, Poetry Magazine and alongside images in photographer Cecil McDonald Jr’s, In The Company of Black. He is the composer and librettist for a new commissioned work from The Lyrics Opera of Chicago titled safronia. HIs full length recording tubman. is the soundtrack to his collection of poetry, neckbone: visual verses. Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com by no later than 14 days before the event. For other questions or access needs, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com. Information Source: Women & Children First | eventbrite

A cheeky how-to guide, as raunchy as it is heartfelt, from a bright new literary voice. A bold and vulnerable collection from a new, young voice, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a daring mash-up of pillow book, grimoire, and manifesto by writer Vera Blossom. From hooking up to trans witchcraft, petty crime, capitalism, friendships, divorce, and survival, Blossom brings wit and melancholy, grandeur and smarts, debuting a bright literary voice as raunchy as it is heartfelt. A cheeky how-to guide that earnestly asks if it is possible to fuck oneself into girlhood, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a cult classic in the making. Vera Blossom is a proud Filipina American and transfemme monster. Her work explores desire, pleasure, gender, and death. She writes the steamy, confessional newsletter How to Fuck Like a Girl, and cofounded Snack Report, a food blog focused on rituals, feelings, and friendship. In 2021, she helped produce Black Mountain Radio, an artist-driven audio project published in collaboration with Black Mountain Institute and the Believer magazine. In 2022, she was associate producer on season 2 of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, which focused on the disinformation ecosystem constructed by the Christian Nationalist movement. In 2023, she was selected as an Ann Friedman Weekly Fellow and a PEN America Emerging Voice. Jessica Hopper is the author of the books The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic and Night Moves. Her writing has appeared in GQ, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Elle, and Bookforum, among other outlets. A long time contributor to the Chicago Reader, she has been a columnist for the Village Voice and Chicago Tribune, the music consultant for This American Life, the editorial director for MTV News, and a senior editor at Pitchfork and Rookie. Her essays have appeared in several editions of Best Music Writing, and she currently serves as series editor of the American Music Series at the University of Texas Press. Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com by no later than 14 days before the event. For other questions or access needs, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com. Information Source: Women & Children First | eventbrite

We're throwing an Poetry/Art Market! Open Book Open Mic is bringing together some of Chicago's finest authors and artists to swap and share work, network and connect, and find the perfect local gifts for your loved one this holiday season. Instead of a gift card to Target- get your parents a custom typewriter poem about how much you love them. Get your best friend a pair of earrings made this morning. Buy your partner a signed book and then become best friends with the author. Sunday December 8th, 2024 Doors open at 11 AM at the Bramble Arts Loft in Andersonville (5545 N Clark St. - 2nd Floor (ADA accessible)). Bramble Arts Loft has a fully stocked bar, so grab a drink, browse, and take in some amazing poetry and art. Information Source: Open Book Open Mic | eventbrite

Support the beginning of an emerging Chicago theatre!Instrumental Theatre Company is committed to inspiring harmony through ensemble storytelling crafted at the intersection of actors and musicians. We examine stories through a musical lens and collaboratively create new scenes, songs, and shows with a rotating cohort of artists. This event will feature live music and scenes performed by Instrumental collaborators inspired by myths, tales, and legends.Appetizers will be provided and all funds raised will help support Instrumental Theatre's first full production to be performed in 2025! Information Source: eventbrite