Headphones belong on the packing list for Friday’s Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The performances move between Spanish and English, and the festival’s audience guide says a smartphone and headphones will give listeners access to live audio translation in either direction. The program also offers closed captions and visual description.
The show on November 13 is where the festival’s commissions get their first audience. MAKE Literary Productions brought together eight writers and artists from Mexico and Chicago to make new pieces in pairs around the theme Edge/Borde. That pairing extends to the form of the work. A writer can bring a text into the theater and find that another artist has a way of answering it in an entirely different medium.
One pair brings together Mexico City writer and translator Marina Azahua and Chicago artist Aram Han Sifuentes. Azahua’s nonfiction considers what gets kept in an archive and how people are represented there. Sifuentes makes participatory art about citizenship, protest and voting. The festival’s introduction to the artists traces those two practices. Friday is the chance to see what the artists made together.
Rocío Santos and Kamilah Foreman will host, with live music by Ana Everling. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at the MCA, 220 E. Chicago Ave. The performance runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m., with a reception and book signing in the lobby afterward.
General admission is $19 and student tickets are $10. The program and ticket page includes the festival’s contact for access questions, including arrangements to check in advance if you’re coming without a smartphone or headphones.
Stefania Gomez performs Where Corn Lives at the 2025 Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show at MCA Chicago. Photo by Natasha Moustache, courtesy of Lit & Luz.
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