Join Mouse Arts and Letter for our ribbon cutting at noon! A day full of facility tours will follow, plus pinhole cameras, calendars, merch, and at last, a news night at 7pm. Ring in the new year with warmth and joy!

Journalists from all publications are invited to work together at the club all day, whether you’re a member or not. We will have a citywide pitch meeting/discussion at 10:30AM.

Practica español y/o inglés

Practice spanish and/or english

Celebrate the release of the second issue of acclaimed audio documentary magazine Signal Hill! One of the BBC’s best podcasts of the year, Signal Hill spotlights formally ambitious and intellectually rigorous audio reporting and audio essay work. Its Chicago launch will feature a listening party followed by discussion with contributors.

Join the Chicago based arts collective momoration 椋鳥群飛 for a screening of Wan Qing’s work “Three Giant Salamanders in the Basement” along with two other short films concerning anarchist tofu stands, martial arts, and identity cards. Following the screening, attendees will be invited to correspond via letter with the artists in Guangzhou. This event is part of Mouse’s Event Series: Soybean Investigations.

Screening of the Spectacle Optical Corporations 48 hour digital film festival! Participants have 48 hours to make a digital film.

Translation nights are monthly salons where we read translations we have made, translations others have made, and on occasion, our own writing. It's not a writing workshop. It is a convivial gathering of friends who read their brief works, then ask each other questions about it.

Long-time activist and collector Isaac Silver uses buttons and other personal ephemera to tell history: from the activity of socialist parties and activists in movements against war and for international solidarity, to the struggles for self-determination of oppressed people, and the labor movement’s engagement with electoral politics.

Join Midwest Modern for a photography-centered lecture on modern architecture in West Michigan, with an emphasis on the outsized role its furniture industry played in shaping the image of modern design in the popular imagination.  

Join Todd Fredson for a discussion of his translation of Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril by the West African neo-oralist poet Azo Vauguy. The masterful poems evoke the legendary figure of Zakwato, who, having slept through the massacre of his village, marches to the blacksmith to have his eyelids removed so that he might never sleep again.