Everything Must Go Release Party
@ Chop Shop
2033 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, September 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Award-winning poet Kevin Coval and graphic artist Langston Allston bare witness to the effects of gentrification in a Chicago neighborhood.
Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago’s Wicker Park in the late 1990’s, Coval’s home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston’s illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade it. The book excavates and mourns that which has been lost in transition and serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities.
Meet us at Chop Shop September 16th. The night features performances from
IDRIS GOODWIN
SHARKULA
KEE STEIN
(A SPECIAL GUEST)
WITH SOUNDS BY DJ CA$H ERA
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