Join us for six days of poetry readings, artist talks, exhibition walkthroughs, and conversations with participants from Mexico and the United States!
The 12th annual Lit & Luz Festival of Language,Literature, and Art—as featured in, WBEZ’s Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons, Chicago Review of Books, Block Club Chicago, and more—takes place November 9 to November 14, 2025. This one-of-a-kind cross-cultural, bilingual festival brings together writers, poets, and visual artists from Mexico and Chicago for a week-long series of public programming at venues throughout Chicago.
This year’s festival—under the theme of “Repair/Reparar”—ask writers, poets, and artists from Chicago and Mexico to look critically at their surrounding realities in need of repair. Through artistic creation and collaboration, Lit & Luz Chicago will explore and promote the many ways creative acts make an impact and offer new perspectives on what it takes to face and reimagine our shared realities.
The closing and signature event of Lit & Luz is the Live Magazine Show, a stage presentation in which pairs of artists from both countries—the Collaboration Cohort—debut new work that was jointly created in the months prior. The 2025 Chicago Live Magazine Show is presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on Friday, November 14 at 7 p.m.
As you enjoy this week of magnificent programming, be sure to mark your calendar for Part Two of “Repair/Reparar” taking place in Mexico City from March 16 - 21, 2026!
The Lit & Luz Festival is a one-of-a-kind series of events featuring renowned authors, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico in cultural exchange and conversation. This series of readings, conversations, artist talks, and performances, including signature event, the Live Magazine Show, highlights new translations and artistic collaborations—showcasing some of the most innovative contemporary artists from both countries. The festival takes place in Chicago in the fall, followed by the Lit & Luz Festival Mexico City in the winter. Click here to learn more.
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El Lit & Luz Festival es una especial serie de eventos con reconocidos escritores, artistas visuales y músicos de Chicago y México, en intercambio y conversación cultural. Esta serie de lectutras, conversaciones, charlas de artista y performances, incluyen el evento representativo, el Live Magazine Show, destaca nuevas traducciones y colaboraciones artísticas, mostrando algunos de los artistas contemporáneos más inovadores de ambos países. El festival se lleva a cabo en Chicago durante el otoño, seguido del Lit & Luz Festival CDMX en el invierno. Da click aquí para saber más.
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