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6:00 - 9:00 PM -- Brooksday@Nite -- 100 Ways To Celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks

When:
Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Where:
Logan Center for the Arts -- 915 E. 60th Street
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 915 E. 60th Street
Chicago  60637
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BrooksDay is a celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks that takes place on the anniversary of her birth, June 7th. Each year you can join us for BrooksDay, celebrating the works of Gwendolyn Brooks on her birthday! Each year we honor her legacy as an artist and an iconic figure of generosity and civic conscience in Chicago and in the nation. And 2017 will be all the more spectacular with the City of Chicago and its myriad arts organizations celebrating Brooks during the 2017 centennial. BrooksDay is the marquee event for these celebrations –an evening of Gwendolyn Brooks on her 100th birthday.
Along with youth, other poets, actors and teachers, many notable literary, cultural, civic, and political leaders from Chicago and beyond have taken the stage at the for BrookDay each uniquely celebrating and honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, who was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize. Since 2013 BrooksDay has been a marquee marathon event that has lead to a city-wide Brooks celebration in 2017.