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Join UChicago for events throughout the spring in honor of the 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’ birth.
Centennial Brooks Conference
April 6-7, 2017
Logan Center and DuSable Museum
The Centennial Brooks event is both a scholarly conference and a celebration, gathering scholars, writers and musicians in tribute to Brooks’ legacy.
Free.
A Song in the Front Yard – An evening with Imani Winds celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks
May 3, 2017 at 7:30pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall
The brilliant and intrepid Imani Winds join the citywide celebrations and pay tribute to Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks’ centenary with this concert that honors artists who forge their own paths.
$35 / $28 Faculty and Staff / $5 students.
Angela Jackson – A Surprised Queenhood
May 30, 2017 7 PM
Logan Center, Performance Penthouse
Join us for a retrospective discussion on the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her one hundredth birthday with Angela Jackson.
Free.
BrooksDay@Nite
June 7, 2017 6-9:00 PM
Logan Center, Performance Hall
There are many ways Gwendolyn Brooks is being honored this centennial year, but BrooksDay@Nite is the central celebration!
$35 before May 7, $45 May 7th through day of Event.
Reading: “The Whiskey of our Discontent”
June 10, 2017 3-4:30 PM
Logan Center, Performance Hall
Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff will discuss “The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent.”