At Work Forum: Taxes, Accounting, and Recordkeeping

Mon., February 13, 6 p.m., Columbia College

In partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and Columbia College, the Chicago Music Commission presents an At Work Forum on taxes, accounting, and recordkeeping. more...


Kimberly Dixon, Guild Literary Complex

Integrating Public and Private Art

The trick: public vs. private

When I first joined the Guild Literary Complex [a community-based literary organization that presents and supports diverse, divergent, and emerging voices through innovative programming] more...


Chicago Publishes

The online home of the DCASE's Publishing Industry Programs

Chicago Publishes is the online home of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events' Publishing Industry Programs—and a partner website to CAR-Literary. It showcases Chicago's dynamic publishing community, offering regularly updated news, featured books and periodicals from the Chicago Publishers Gallery, and a comprehensive literary events calendar.

Its searchable database of all Chicago-area book and periodical publishers is the first of its type to exist in the Chicago area. more...

Maggie Kast

Writing and Dancing: Finding Community in Solitary Pursuits


When I was in my 50s, my body showed signs of wear and tear, and my lifetime career in modern dance began to limp. At the time, I was making site-specific work for dance concerts in churches, using both professional and community dancers. more...