Sat, May 04
|Ramova Theater
CHICAGO - In conversation with Damon Locks of Black Monument Ensamble
Time & Location
May 04, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Ramova Theater, 3520 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60609, USA
About the event
TICKETS
https://www.chicagohumanities.org/events/attend/spooner/
(note: There will be limited $5 rush tickets at the door.)
ABOUT THE EVENT
Award-winning graphic novelist James Spooner and comes to Chicago Humanities for a chat on punk, comics and Black Identity with Damon Locks.
James Spooner is a prominate member in the Black punk community. His works include the seminal documentary Afro-Punk (2003), creation of the Afro Punk Festival, and a graphic memoir, The High Desert. In this book, Spooner shares his experience being Black in small-town California and finding salvation in punk music, winning the American Library Association Alex Award and the Cartoonist Studio Prize. The artist and activist returns as an editor for his latest book, Black Punk Now. This anthology shares the voices and stories from the Black punk community. It is filled with contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations and comics that collectively describe punk today and give punks—especially the Black ones—a wider frame…