South Side Soiree
Kim L. Hunt, Tracy Baim, Marcia Festen, Roderick K. Hawkins, Eileen Rhodes, Kelly Saulsberry and Dr. Traci Beck are thrilled to invite you to celebrate the Chicago Reader's first 50 years and to help lay the groundwork for 50 more.
EVENT DETAILS:
Saturday, November 6 from 4 to 6 p.m.
at Blanc Gallery, 4445 S Martin Luther King Drive
Free parking available on the street and behind the gallery
Join us on Saturday, November 6 as we toast to the Reader's amazing history and incredible future. All proceeds go toward the Reader's Century Fund.
Please bring your vaccination card in hard copy or a photograph on your phone, as well as a mask to wear while indoors. The space is wheelchair-accessible. There will be beverages and light snacks.
The Century Fund aims to ensure another 50 years of groundbreaking, award-winning, culture-defining journalism and reporting as the Chicago Reader transitions to a fully nonprofit newsroom. The fund will ensure that future generations of Reader leadership and staff are prepared to weather whatever comes our way, while providing the investigative and cultural journalism the Reader has been known for during its first five decades.
The event will feature a short discussion with Chicago authors K. Ancrum, Evan F. Moore, and Dawn Turner.
Dawn Turner is an award-winning journalist and novelist. A former columnist and reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Turner spent a decade and a half writing about race, politics and people whose stories are often dismissed and ignored. Turner, who served as a 2017 and 2018 juror for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary, has written commentary for The Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, CBS Sunday Morning News show, NPR’s Morning Edition show, and elsewhere. Turner is the author of two novels, "Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven" and "An Eighth of August." Her newest book is "Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood."
K. Ancrum is the author of the award-winning thriller "The Wicker King," a lesbian romance "The Weight of the Stars," and the upcoming Peter Pan thriller "Darling." K. is a Chicago native passionate about diversity and representation in young adult fiction. She currently writes most of her work in the lush gardens of the Chicago Art Institute.
Evan F. Moore is a Chicago-based writer who is the co-author of Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It. Evan’s work has been published in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Reader, Ebony, ESPN’s The Undefeated, Chicago Magazine, and The Athletic, among many others. Evan survived the Donald Trump Chicago rally and lived to tell about it.
Books for sale by Semicolon Books: Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery is a Black Woman-owned safe space that was created to merge minds through books and art alike. We pride ourselves on continuing the narrative of Black stories, authors, and artists that created them. Instead of a section in the back, we proudly fill the entire space with color to represent a culture of people who are celebrated and not tolerated here.
Check donations can be made payable to Reader Institute for Community Journalism and mailed to Reader Institute for Community Journalism, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago IL 60616.