Lit & Luz and PATRON invite you and a guest to a first look at Stanzas, a solo exhibition by Dianna Frid, a participant in the 2024–25 Lit & Luz Collaboration Cohort.

This private viewing for friends and supporters also opens the 13th annual Chicago Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art.

The event is free. If you’d like to support the festival, gifts are gratefully welcomed below. Your gift helps keep the festival free and open to all.

Kindly RSVP by October 30 via the Paperless Post invitation extended to you and one guest. Please reach out to Kamilah Foreman, Board Chair, with any questions: kamilah [at] makemag.org.

Suggested donations

Donations greater than $200 automatically include two tickets to the November 13th Live Magazine Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago!

  • $50: Our average cost per attendee to keep Lit & Luz programs free for everyone

  • $200: Artist/writer single event honorarium

  • $625: 1 Collaboration Cohort artist's travel to Chicago

  • $1,000: 1 Collaboration Cohort’s honorarium

  • $1,500: 2 Participants’ lodging in Chicago

Thank you!

Reception

6:00pm Mezcal Reception

6:45pm Remarks

7:00pm Exhibition walkthough with the artist

About Lit & Luz

Featuring the most innovative contemporary artists and writers from Chicago and Mexico, the Lit & Luz Festival is a one-of-a-kind series of readings, talks, panels, and performances. The the signature event, the Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show: cross-cultural experimentations between artists and writers on stage, is presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on Friday, November 13th.

Chicago

November 8–14, 2026

CDMX

March 2–6, 2027