Crossroads Fund: Reading Change
Reading Change is a year-long reading and events series of The Crossroads Fund exploring racial, social and economic justice in Chicago. The second Reading Change event will be Reading Change: My Desire For History, a panel discussion about the untold history of LGBTQ organizing in Chicago and across the country. It will take place on Wednesday, February 8 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at the Center on Halsted, 3656 North Halsted Street.
The panelists are: John D'Emilio, discussing "My Desire For History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History," a book he co-edited containing the essays of late LGBT historian Allan Berube; Kim Hunt, Executive Director of Affinity Community Services; and Tania Unzueta, Coordinator of the LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Project at the Association of Latino Men for Action.
Reading Change celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Crossroads Fund. The February 8 Reading Change program is co-sponsored by Public Square, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives and Women & Children First bookstore.
The Sound of Failure: Broadway Musical Flops and the People Involved
You may know the Cats of Broadway, but do you know the dogs?
Successful musicals can run for years, welcome replacement casts, preserve recordings, and adapt into feature films. But crushing failure haunts the majority of Broadway stages, where fully produced musicals can close after one performance, quickly losing millions of dollars, and are rarely pressed on disc. What defines a Broadway musical flop? Why do new productions fail regularly? And what happens to the careers of those involved when they experience defeat?
The risk of failure is an unavoidable obstacle in any industry. Nowhere is it better illustrated than in the audacious and highly collaborative commercial art form of musical theater where the arts, and the people involved, persevere through difficult economic times, changing tastes, and countless questionable risk.
The Sound of Failure, curated by Gavin Rehfeldt, offers an understanding of what causes Broadway musicals to fail and how they inform the careers of those involved. This exhibition opens on Friday, January 20.
Out in Chicago Exhibit
Only three months remain until Out in Chicago closes. Run, don't walk, to the Chicago History Museum, 1601 North Clark Street, to see this exhibition on the history of the LGBT commuity in Chicago. Gerber/Hart loaned many artifacts to the exhbition, including posters, LPs, periodicals, and photographs.
Book Discussions
BTQ Book Group
The BTQ Book Group next meets Tuesday, February 7, from 7:30 until 9 pm to discuss Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam.
Gay Men's Book Group
The gay men's book group will next meet on Tuesday, February 28, from 7:30 to 9 pm, to discuss Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman.
For additional information, see our book discussion groups page.
Community Events and Organizations Meeting at Gerber/Hart
Genderqueer Chicago (web site)
Wednesday, January 4, at 7 pm,
Wednesday, January 18, at 7 pm.
New Town Writers (web site)
Thursday, January 5, at 7:30 pm,
Thursday, January 19, at 7:30 pm.
New Town Writers Playwriting Group (web site)
Thursday, January 12, at 7 pm.
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