The Chicago Humanities Festival has presented the full line-up for its inaugural spring festival, “Style.” The title does not simply relate to fashion, according to a press release: ” Style governs where writers break a line, how activists present and represent a movement, how we dance to the records, and which we spin over and over and over.”
There will be more than 20 events April 28-May 1.
Style presenters range from Alicia Garza, one of the co-founders of #BlackLivesMatter, to fashion’s Iris Apfel, and a number of First Lady Michelle Obama’s fashion designers, including Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Maria Pinto and Rachel Roy. Pulitzer Prize winner Robin Givhan and inclusive retail and disability advocate Liz Jackson will also be presenting.
Others who will be at the festival include Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington, writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, actress Mary-Louise Parker. Sunday, May 1, will feature three National Book Award winners: Robin Coste Lewis, winner of the 2015 poetry prize for the collection Voyage of the Sable Venus; James McBride, winner of the 2014 prize in fiction, now with a new biography of James Brown, Kill ’em and Leave; and Andrew Solomon, winner of the 2001 prize for nonfiction who latest book is Far and Away.
The full line-up for Style, the first Spring festival from the Chicago Humanities Festival, is available at chicagohumanities.org/style.