At the start of Dance 4 Peace last Saturday, the spacious auditorium of the Gary Comer Youth Center, so usually bathed in light coming through its glass walls, went slowly dark in anticipation for the night’s first dance act.
Author Archive for Katherine Jinyi Li
Let It Shine
by Katherine Jinyi Li •
Chicago-based party collaborative Dale Shine knows there’s no better way to bring people together than a cozy space and good music.
Rebellion in 16mm
by Katherine Jinyi Li •
With an eye toward the past, the Black Cinema House encourages radical filmmakers of the future.
Voices of Chicago Public Housing
by Katherine Jinyi Li •
On a sunny February day, twenty-five UofC students file out of a yellow school bus for a Chicago Studies Program oral history project at the Vivian Carter Apartments.
El Sabor del Desdén
by Katherine Jinyi Li •
Last Friday night, readers and community members gathered in Pilsen’s Casa Michoacán for a reading and discussion of local author Victor M. Cortés’s latest work, “El Sabor del Desdén”. Little by little, it became clear that each character of the event, from the guitarist playing throughout the reception to the book’s presenters, has his or her own personal relationship with the author—his readers are his friends, his neighbors, his family. They are, also, the characters of his stories and his novel.
