Below is a calendar of our upcoming scheduled programming including open mic nights, art workshops, reading and writing groups, film screenings and more! View individual events for RSVP or ticketing details.
Issue 5 Release Party
Saturday, June 20th, 6:00-9:00pm
Dovetail Brewery, 1800 W Belle Plaine Ave
the pub is celebrating the release of our fifth issue at Dovetail Brewery on Saturday, June 20th! Join us from 6-9pm for free copies of issue five, live readings and music. See you there!
Book Swap
Friday, June 12th, 7:00-9:0pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
In the same vein as our Bring Your Own Vinyl Night, we want to encourage folks to share what interests them! Bring a few books that you love and are willing to swap with another attendee!
We’ll do three book swaps total, at 7:30pm, 8pm and 8:30pm. See you there!
Comedy Night: This Just in Comedy!
Friday, June 19th, 7:00-9:00pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
BREAKING! In our frantic world, the news never seems to stop but at “This Just in Comedy,” neither do the jokes! Chicago’s best stand up comedians share their hilarious takes on everything going on, current events, and every headline that makes you say, “Is this really happening?” Stop the doom scrolling and come laugh with the funniest people in the city about the news!
Producers: John McCombs, Alex Tsakanikas
Comics: Fab Monroe, Deanna Ortiz, Adam Burke, Mike Knight
Doors open at 6:45 pm; show starts at 7:15 pm. $12 ticket online/$15 ticket at the door.
Skill Share: Bikes! A Fundamental Maintenance Clinic
Saturday, June 27th, 1:00-3:0pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
Professional courier and amateur bike mechanic Caroline Sharp breaks down bike basics, including diagnostics, changing flats, chain maintenance, proper locking practices, and more!
Bring Your Own Vinyl Night
Friday, June 26th, 6:00-10:00pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
Join us for an evening of music exploration into the night. Music selection will be curated by our readers on a first come, first serve basis, and will be tied to the event’s theme. This month’s theme is Summer Vibes Vinyls. Bring a vinyl you think everyone else should hear, and be ready to be put on to something you haven’t heard before!
InterCcECT: The Object Does Not Exist
Monday, June 29th, 5:00-7:00pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
InterCcECT is partnering with the pub to host a special session on Jaques Lacan.
Precisely 70 years ago, Jacques Lacan conducted his 4th seminar, La Relation d’Objet et les Structures Freudienne, criticizing the then prominent Object Relations school for its failure to encounter the definitive lack of the object. There are varieties of lacking the object – frustration, deprivation, castration – but lack itself is primary. Since objectal ontologies have multiplied in the interim, and ideologies of presence prevail, how are we to theorize absent objects, negative objects, and radical lack today?
InterCcECT resident Summer Lacanian Chris Breu joins us once again to facilitate a special session on the seminar. We’ll aim to read the whole first section, pages 3-84 – but those new to Lacan or working at summer speed should prioritize parts i, ii, and iii (ie through page 51).
Vibes on Logan
Sunday, June 14th, 3:00-7:00pm
2600 W Logan Blvd
the pub will be hanging out on Logan Boulevard, listening to DJs and enjoying the start to summer! Bring some drinks, a picnic blanket, and just vibe.
OMWP Studios Pop-Up Shop
Weekly in June and July
2150 W Armitage Ave
Chicago-based OMWP Studios is a curated shop for creators and collectors who value physical media. Since 2013, they’ve specialized in the preservation of tactile tech, from the mechanical click of a vintage shutter to the nostalgic snap of a game cartridge. Come peruse their premier product line at the pub house this June and July.
Mutual Aid Fair
Saturday, June 14th, 11:00am-3:00pm
Movement on Montrose, 2951 W Montrose Ave
the pub is tabling at a Mutual Aid Fair hosted by Chicago United Solidarity Project and Women Unite. There will be DJs, yoga for kids, face painting and other cool organizations to check out. Come say hi!
Lit Night
Second Mondays, 6:00-7:30pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
Upcoming: June 8th
A monthly open mic: join us to share your poetry, short fiction, essays and other writing. Sign up for reading slots will begin 15 minutes before the event starts and we will have a brief break in the middle. We look forward to seeing you and listening to some wonderful writing. Hosted by Maxx Zenisek.
Midwest Reading Group
Bimonthly Saturdays, 1:00-3:00pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
Do you love being a Midwesterner? Do you want to read difficult books and talk about them with other smart people? Join the pub‘s new biweekly Midwest Reading Group!
We’ll be reading Jon Lauck’s 2022 book The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900. Lauck charts the development of democratic ideals in the region from the organization of Ohio through just before WWI, aiming to tell a broad history of the regular working people who made up the region during that century. Lauck is the leader of the new revival of Midwestern Studies, and we’ll take to task the kind of new regional history he proposes. Hosted by Lillian Lippold.
Email [email protected] to sign up and get connected. Feel free to sign up and attend even if you have not attended previous sessions.
Lino Cut Workshop
Third Thursdays, 6:30-9:00pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
Upcoming: May 21st
Learn how to make your own prints with lino cut! Taught by Madi Fang, artist and illustrator of the pub’s Blue Line Column, participants will learn how to carve their own designs, roll ink, and apply their lino cut stamp to paper. This class is intended for beginners, but artists who want to review instruction or want a space to craft more intricate designs are welcome. Supplies provided and you get to take your stamp home.
Collage Night
Bimonthly: 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 6:00-9:00pm
2150 W Armitage Ave
Upcoming: June 11th
A collage series aiming to create a small, cozy vibe to give folks a community to make art in. The goal is to just play around with collage making.
Materials are provided for collage, stencils, some lino cut, and general art supplies to work on collages. $5 suggested donation for supplies at the event. Hosted by Ian Fugett.
Spring Writers’ Group
A weekly writers’ group focused on creating community and improving craft by mutually reading and discussing each other’s work. Each session will begin with a free write. This is very loose and allows for some flexibility for people to arrive after the start. After this, we will jump into the critique, which will be split into two sections. In Section One, the author cannot speak and will listen to the initial reactions from everyone else in the group for 30 minutes. In Section Two, the author will have the opportunity to respond to the critique and ask any questions they would like clarification on. Both sections are very conversational! Fiction or creative nonfiction only (1500-3000 words). Hosted by Carly Travis and Maxx Zenisek.
This workshop session is currently FULL. Keep an eye out for the next session’s signup.