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SUMMARY:the un-blessed | a poetry reading // solo show | by elena victoria feliz
DESCRIPTION:if the bible were a movie\, this piece is about the extras.\n\n\nABOUT\nthe un-blessed is a biblical reimagining. if the bible were a movie\, this piece is about the extras. what does it mean to know that world defining events are happening around you\, and you exist in the margins\, that you are not among the chosen? does it make you angry? do you give up? do you try anyway – even if you doubt there is a god who believes in you? in the face of despair\, disaster\, war\, miracles (or their absence)\, and the fear of being forgotten after we are gone\, the un-blessed is a poetic exploration of the human capacity for hope. \n \nA BRIEF EXCERPT\nblessed are those who are collateral in the stories of those we think we know\, \nthe martyrs in the margins \nfor the world was built on their backs \ntheir hearts are sacred too \n \nblessed are the forgotten\, for they shall inherit the imagination of those who care enough to try \n \nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThis piece contains mature themes and is recommended for mature audiences (17+). A more detailed content advisory is available upon request at the time of the event. \n \nIMPACT CAMPAIGN\nAll ticket proceeds will be donated to Ele Elna Ewak – an emergency relief organization on the ground in Gaza\, supporting Palestinian communities amidst the genocide\, with a focus on restoring clean drinking water.
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/the-un-blessed-a-poetry-reading-solo-show-by-elena-victoria-feliz-3/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Creative Workspace
DESCRIPTION:A space where creatives and artists can write\, craft\, read\, journal\, and crochet every Wednesday from 7p – 10p. Hosted by Jett & Friends~\n\n\nA weekly space where artists can maHave a creative project you wanna finish or just need a late night-ish place to get some journaling done? Orrr — would you just like to make new friends while attempting to crochet your first grandma square?? \nWell come hang with us starting next Wednesday (1/21) from 7pm to 10pm✨ BYOS (bring your own supplies~) Bar and bookstore will be open. No cover. Hosted by Jett Parr & friends 🙂
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/the-creative-workspace-5/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:Snacks with Chats: Let’s Talk Local!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of community\, fundraising and a discussion on organizing and local elections. Hosted by The Local Lab co.\n\n\nJoin us for our first Chats With Snacks of 2026! \nThis gathering is all about local elections\, fundraising\, and creativity. \nAmerica is celebrating 250 years of life this year! Can you believe it? I have learned that the things I love most about this country are: \n1.) the fact that we get to fundraise at a small level to support each other when the support structures around us aren’t working! \n2.) local elections make my life better (even if the federal government might* hate me) \nSo bringing my joys together\, thanks to my gratefulness for 250 years\, we will spend an evening fundraising for ICIRR\, listening to music from local artists creating new works to share with us\, and having conversations about local elections and how we can strengthen our communities. \nI’m excited to see you all back at The Understudy on March 9th at 7p \n-Kevin\, founder of The Local Lab co. \n \nTLDR?\nCome through to:– Snack and chat with fellow artists & neighbors– Experience short performances– Express yourself in conversations and hear theannouncement of this season’s theme– Share your new works or ideas in a welcoming space \nOur event is free & open to the public 🙂
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/snacks-with-chats-lets-talk-local/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Creative Workspace
DESCRIPTION:A space where creatives and artists can write\, craft\, read\, journal\, and crochet every Wednesday from 7p – 10p. Hosted by Jett & Friends~\n\n\nA weekly space where artists can maHave a creative project you wanna finish or just need a late night-ish place to get some journaling done? Orrr — would you just like to make new friends while attempting to crochet your first grandma square?? \nWell come hang with us starting next Wednesday (1/21) from 7pm to 10pm✨ BYOS (bring your own supplies~) Bar and bookstore will be open. No cover. Hosted by Jett Parr & friends 🙂
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/the-creative-workspace-6/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:Again and Again and Again: on writing and reflection
DESCRIPTION:A prose-based generative writing workshop hosted by Tori Rego and Taylor Thornburg.\n\n\n“Again and Again and Again: On Writing and Reflection” is a prose-based generative writing workshop hosted by Tori Rego and Taylor Thornburg. Participants will study excerpts of fiction and nonfiction works fixated on memory\, recollection\, and narrative form\, including Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak Memory\, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time\, and Taylor Thornburg’s Agathe: 6:00pm to 7:27. Workshop participants will be led through a series of writing prompts to probe their own memories in search of weaving new stories that interlace the past\, the present\, and all the spaces inbetween.
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/again-and-again-and-again-on-writing-and-reflection/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Creative Workspace
DESCRIPTION:A space where creatives and artists can write\, craft\, read\, journal\, and crochet every Wednesday from 7p – 10p. Hosted by Jett & Friends~\n\n\nA weekly space where artists can maHave a creative project you wanna finish or just need a late night-ish place to get some journaling done? Orrr — would you just like to make new friends while attempting to crochet your first grandma square?? \nWell come hang with us starting next Wednesday (1/21) from 7pm to 10pm✨ BYOS (bring your own supplies~) Bar and bookstore will be open. No cover. Hosted by Jett Parr & friends 🙂
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/the-creative-workspace-7/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fem/Them Comedy Open Mic at The Understudy
DESCRIPTION:If you identify as funny and not-a-dude-onstage\, this is your night diva! Hosted by Preeti Thaker and Jordan Levene\n\n\nPreeti & Jordan present: A Comedy Open Mic for Women + Non-Binary Comics!\nIf you identify as funny and not-a-dude-onstage\, this is your night diva! \n  \nWHAT’S THE PLAN?\n• 7:30 PM — arrive responsibly early\, wonder what the vibe is gonna be like. Support the space by buying a drink! \n• 8:00 PM — the mic starts\, the chaos begins \n• Sign-ups close at 9 PM because of boundaries \n  \nSET DETAILS\n• 4 minutes of pure lightning \n• 5 minutes if you buy a drink — please support and tip our bartenders ♥️ \n  \nCAN MEN ATTEND?\nOf course! \nMen can sit\, watch\, hydrate\, clap\, and support women (a skill we’d love to see more of) \nWe kindly ask that you practice not-mansplaining \nIf you feel a mansplanation rising in your throat\, please swallow it \n  \nANYTHING ELSE?\nBring the vibes baby! This is our first time doing a comedy open mic and we’d love to make it a tradition. Come through! \n  \nxx \nPreeti & Jordan
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/fem-them-comedy-open-mic-at-the-understudy-2/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:ikaros ensemble and cloud community college presents:  threaded
DESCRIPTION:explore shades of tenderness\, relationship\, and community through music and spoken word\n\n\nLove serves as a needle pulling thread\, fastening the connection between our souls. It takes on many forms\, but is sewn into the fabric of our lives allowing for us to live in harmony.Chicago-based string collective Ikaros Ensemble partners with local poets inside and out of writing collective Cloud Community College to present Threaded – a collaborative tapestry of music and spoken word\, indulging in themes of love and connection. \nCome experience this dynamic collaboration rooted in love at The Understudy (5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL 60640) Tuesday\, March 24th at 8:30pm (doors at 8pm). Cocktails and other beverages are available for purchase (21+ with a valid ID). \nXOXO\, \nIkaros X Poets
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/ikaros-ensemble-and-cloud-community-college-presents-threaded/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:JUNIOR PROM: A LATTE ART THROWDOWN!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of beautiful latte art\, good food\, bevvys and drag as we celebrate our 3rd birthday~\n\n\n🎂 The Understudy is turning 3 and what better way to celebrate our birthday than to host another latte art throwdown? And y’all know\, we looove to dress up at The Understudy\, so the theme is JUNIOR PROM: A NIGHT IN PARIS. (Scroll down if you need some inspo\, and yes there will be a costume contest!) \nSO. CALLING ALL TALENTED BARISTAS IN THE CHICAGOLAND AREA: think you got what it takes to be crowned coffee royalty? 👑 \nHosted by Jett and Casey with a special halftime performance from the iconic Ari Gato. \n \nAnd since it’s our third birthday\, we are going aaaaalllll out- there will be: \n\n🍕 from Pizza Lobo and sweet treats from Milli \n🍺 and 🍹 NA Bevvys provided by MARZ Brewing\, Hopewell Brewing and Spirit Tea\n💐 A pop-up flower shop and coursages made by Colin\, The Helpful Hummingbird\n📸 A prom-inspired photobooth with pictures by Kyle Bode\n\n \nAdmission is free\, but it’s $10 to compete. Doors and competitor check-in starts at 7pm\, first pour is at 7:30(ish)pm. Contestants can only use steaming pitchers provided by The Understudy. \nEach participant will receive a goody bag from Metric and the first 100 folks that show up will receive a free tote in courtesy of noissue! \nTop 3 winners will win a cash prize of $150\, $100 or $50\, a royal court sash and crown as well as other prizes from Espresso Parts\, La Marzocco\, and Spirit Tea. \nThe throwdown will be judged by Ari Gato\, Elle Jaballas\, and a special guest from Metric. \nBe there or be ▪️ \n \nRSVP if you’re going. SIGN UP AND PAY UP IF YOU’RE FEELIN’ BRAVE ! \n \n♥️Maaaany thanks to our sponsors🌹\nMetric Coffee \nSpirit Tea \nMinor Figures \nEspresso Parts \nLa Marzocco \nNatural Direct \nnoissue \nMilli by Metric \nMARZ Brewing \nHopewell Brewing \nPizza Lobo \n \n💗aaaand shout out to our Understudy Team for making this happen🦉\nAnder Shunneson \nJett Parr \nCasey Whisler \nKT Teston \nMagdalena Dalzell \nAdam Crawford
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/junior-prom-a-latte-art-throwdown/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:March Lobo Book Club: The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes
DESCRIPTION:A monthly book club collab between Pizza Lobo x The Understudy. Hosted by Magdalena and Chloe✨\n\n\nA monthly book club collab between Pizza Lobo Andersonville and The Understudy~ \nGrab a copy of The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes at The Understudy and join us for a discussion over some pizza and drinks at Pizza Lobo Andersonville! Those who show their book at the bar will get a free 10″ cheese pizza.  \n \nWhat’s the book about?\nApril is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hide away in a locked bathroom\, her ears plugged into an ambient soundscape\, and a mantra on her lips: dead inside. That is\, until one day\, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic rage she calls the white hot\, a voice inside her tells her to just…walk away. She wanders to a bus station and asks for a ticket to the furthest destination; she tells the clerk to make it one-way. That ticket takes her from her Philly home to the threshold of a wilderness and the beginning of a nameless quest—an accidental journey that shakes her awake\, almost kills her\, and brings her to the brink of an impossible choice. \nThe White Hot  takes the form of a letter from mother to daughter about a moment of abandonment that would stretch from ten days to ten years—an explanation\, but not an apology. Hudes narrates April’s story—spiritual and sexy\, fierce and funny—with delicate lyricism and tough love. Just as April finds in her painful and absurd sojourn the key to freeing herself and her family from a cage of generational trauma\, so Hudes turns April’s stumbling pursuit of herself into an unforgettable short epic of self-discovery.
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/march-lobo-book-club-the-white-hot-by-quiara-alegria-hudes/
LOCATION:Pizza Lobo-Andersonville\, 5457 North Clark Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Shark is Broken
DESCRIPTION:A play reading written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and produced by Exit\, Pursued by a Play Reading\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \nExit\, Pursued by a Play Reading is a new reading series where Chicago’s best and most beloved actors find themselves chased by rabid\, unrehearsed\, theatrical comedies – desperately trying to stay ahead\, as they strive to tickle your fancy\, brighten your heart\, and warm the chilliest of Chicago evenings. \nThis time\, we’re reading The Shark is Broken by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon \nThe Story \nThe historic first summer blockbuster movie is being filmed – but no one working on the film would know it. Dive deep into the tumultuous\, murky waters of the making of a major motion picture with dueling co-stars\, unpredictable weather and a shark prop whose constant breakdowns are looking like an omen for the future of the movie. In this comedy written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon\, the short tempers and short circuits of Jaws stars Robert Shaw (father of the play’s co-author Ian)\, Richard Dreyfuss\, and Roy Scheider take center stage as they bond\, argue\, drink\, gamble and pray for an end to the film shoot\, not knowing it will change their lives forever. \n \nCast TBA
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/the-shark-is-broken/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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