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SUMMARY:the undercommons : New Work by Brandon Carlton
DESCRIPTION:Arts + Public Life presents the undercommons\, the first solo exhibition by painter Brandon Carlton. The exhibition explores the complexities of contemporary Black life through Carlton’s distinct approach to stylized figuration. Drawing influence from Alex Katz\, David Hockney\, and Jordan Casteel\, his work engages with portraiture and spatial composition to evoke intimacy\, distance\, presence\, and longing. \nCarlton’s paintings consider the undercommons as a site of fugitive sociality—an ungovernable space where collective life unfolds beyond dominant structures. His figures occupy liminal environments\, neither fully contained nor entirely free\, reflecting a continuous negotiation of belonging\, agency\, and historical memory. Inspired by Casteel’s attention to everyday Black life and the layered surfaces of Katz and Hockney\, Carlton’s work reimagines the aesthetics of presence\, using gesture\, color\, and space to suggest ways of seeing and being that resist fixed narratives.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/the-undercommons-new-work-by-brandon-carlton/2025-08-01/
LOCATION:UChicago Arts Incubator\, 301 E. Garfield Boulevard\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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SUMMARY:Summer Shakespeare in the Park - The Taming of the Shrew
DESCRIPTION:Summer Shakespeare in the Park – The Taming of the Shrew \nJoin us for our annual Summer Shakespeare in the Park! \nLucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her older sister Katharina marries. The eccentric Petruccio marries the reluctant Katharina and attempts to “tame” her into an obedient wife. \nPerformances Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday on August 1-3 and Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday on August 8-10 in Nichols Park starting at 6:00 pm. \nFree to watch\, donations encouraged! We will pass the hat after the shows or you can donate here. Bring chairs or blankets to sit on the grass.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/summer-shakespeare-in-the-park-the-taming-of-the-shrew-2/2025-08-01/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk and Signing - Bones at the Crossroads with LaDarrion Williams
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk and Signing – Bones at the Crossroads with LaDarrion Williams \nJoin us on Friday\, August 1 at 7 p.m. as we celebrate the follow-up book in LaDarrion Williams’ Blood at the Root series\, Bones at the Crossroads! LaDarrion will be joined in conversation with Chicago author Julian Randall! \nBooks will be available to purchase either with admission or on-site during the event. \nIn the sequel to the “unforgettable” (People)\, New York Times bestselling fantasy debut Blood at the Root\, a Black teenager with magical powers returns to Caiman University only to find new dangers and new secrets. \nIt’s Homecoming season at Caiman University\, and all 17-year-old Malik Baron wants to do is be a regular college student…or as regular as he can get at a magical HBCU for young\, Black Conjurers. He’s ready to go to parties\, hang out with his new friends\, choose a major\, and talk to girls. Instead\, he’s reeling from a summer of revelations\, heartbreak and betrayal\, and still uncovering the truth about his powers and his legacy.The family he only just discovered is already fractured beyond repair\, and a new relative who shows up on his doorstep brings even more questions. Then there’s the mother he risked everything to find\, who might be the biggest threat to the life he’s trying to build. To protect his new community\, Malik joins an elite secret society with roots in ancient magic. \nHis journey takes him even deeper into his own heritage and the history of the magical world\, while bringing him closer to a classmate whose friendship might mean something more\, if Malik is ready to let her in. But how can he use powers he can’t even control to defend a world he’s not sure will ever fully accept him? And as the pressure and danger builds\, will he be able to confront the deepening cracks within the magical society\, and those building within himself? \nLaDarrion Williams is a Los Angeles based-playwright\, filmmaker\, author\, and screenwriter whose goal is to cultivate a new era of Black fantasy\, providing space and agency for Black characters and stories in a new\, fresh and fantastical way. He is currently a resident playwright/co-creator of The Black Creators Collective\, where his play UMOJA made its West Coast premiere in January 2022 and produced North Hollywood’s first Black playwrights festival at the Waco Theater Center. Blood at the Root is his first novel. His viral and award-winning short film based on the same concept\, is currently on YouTube and Amazon Prime. \nJulian Randall is a Living Queer Black author from Chicago. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Callaloo\, and the Watering Hole. Julian is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the winner of the 2019 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from the Publishing Triangle. Julian is the author of five books across three genres. For adults Refuse (Pitt\, 2018)\, winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for a 2019 NAACP Image Award and The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives\, Mississippi and Black TV Nerd Sh!t (Bold Type Books\, May 2024). For younger readers: the Pilar Ramirez duology and the middle grade novel The Chainbreakers (all from Holt Books for Young Readers).
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/book-talk-signing-bones-at-the-crossroads-with-ladarrion-williams/
LOCATION:Call and Response Books\, 1390 E Hyde Park Blvd.\, Chicago\, 60615
CATEGORIES:Community,Free,Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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