PRESENTED BY BOOKED & ART MAKERS OUTPOST:

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!!!!!!

Join us on November 2, 2024, for a special EVANSTON HOMETOWN HEROES event with New York Times Best Selling Author Samantha Irby in conversation with her best friend Anna Galland. Expect a night of friendship, laughter, literature, music, dancing & community!

Musical Guests include Anna Soltys, Chris Greene & DJ Pickled Beets.

Complimentary Beer by Sketchbook & Apps by La Principal while supplies last. BYOB is also allowed. Must be 21+ to drink / ID's will be checked at the door.

ALL TICKET HOLDERS WILL RECEIVE A BOOK

Proceeds from this event support the AMO Scholarship Fund & 10% will go to The Evanston Community Fridge Project.

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm at Art Makers Outpost!

Doors open: 6:45

Tickets $85 each

Open Seating & Standing room - first come first serve for seating

(Purchasing a ticket does not guarantee a seat)

SPONSORED BY: BOOKED, Evanston Family Chiropractic, Sketchbook, La Principal, Art Makers Outpost, Main Dempster Mile & Our Evanston

Raffle tix available at event for a variety of awesome prizes

Samantha Irby:

Samantha Irby is an American comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer. She is the creator and author of the blog bitches gotta eat, where she writes humorous observations about her own life and modern society more broadly.Her books We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and Wow, No Thank You. were both New York Times best-sellers. She is a recipient of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for bisexual nonfiction.

She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including HBO's reboot of Sex and the City, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie. In 2016, FX announced that it had purchased the television rights to Irby's 2013 memoir Meaty and her blog, with the intent to adapt them into a series.

Anna Galland:

Anna is a nationally recognized progressive organizer, nonprofit leader and campaign strategist with two decades of experience advancing democracy and economic and social justice in the United States. She serves as Senior Democracy Fellow with Propel, a New York-based investment and philanthropic venture, and regularly serves as a strategic advisor to political and civic organizations.

She is the national board chair of MoveOn Civic Action, following seven years as Executive Director (2012-2019). She led a top-to-bottom overhaul of MoveOn in a time of tremendous growth, increased visibility, and impact - mobilizing millions of people in campaigns to extend & defend access to health care, protect democracy against accelerating assaults and fight for the dignity and safety of immigrants.

In close partnership with MoveOn PAC's Executive Director, she quadrupled MoveOn's budget and base of sustaining donors, tripled the size of the staff team and dramatically grew its membership and reach. She also raised millions of dollars for other organizations and for humanitarian relief.

Her work in national media has included numerous appearances on MSNBC, CNN, and CSPAN, and interviews with print publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour Magazine, Huffington Post, and a range of other outlets. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The Nation and The Boston Globe.

She serves as a member of the boards of Public Citizen and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and as an advisor to a number of other activist efforts and civic start-ups, including the Leadership Center for Social Change at the City University of New York and the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center. She lives with her husband and three children in the Chicago area.

Musical Guest: Anna Soltys

Anna spent the first part of her childhood in Poland followed by six years in Paris before moving to Evanston for middle school & high school and now resides in her self-proclaimed home, Chicago. It is this cross-cultural awareness that may awaken the type of delivery that is so new to her sound. In addition to the music, her lyrical, poetic content fills the heart with an awareness of the self we could all use a little of. 

In addition to her music, Anna has spent over a decade creating public art in Chicago, working with communities, organizations, and individuals to install long-lasting messages of hope, love, and individuality. Whether in a home, on the side of a public building, or the facade of a business, these pieces function as landmarks. She studied fine art at Ball State University and Columbia College Chicago, focusing on a variety of art practices. During these years, she explored 2D and 3D mediums such as painting, ceramics, collage, drawing, and jewelry making. These tools have unlocked the doors leading to the creation both in the physical fine art world, as well as the world of music. Her goal as an artist is to uncover the pieces that strand us all together. 

Musical Guest: Chris Greene

Saxophonist and composer Chris Greene was born in Evanston, IL. He spent his formative years in the award-winning Evanston High School Wind and Jazz Ensembles. As a teenager he began to play professionally with many local pop/rock and jazz bands. Greene eventually went to Bloomington, IN to attend the prestigious Indiana University Jazz Studies program and studied with renowned professor and cellist David Baker.  Greene returned to Chicago in 1994 and has since collaborated with some of the nation’s most creative and versatile musicians. As a performer, Greene can be seen with many different groups - in many different genres. He also leads his own critically-acclaimed group, the Chris Greene Quartet. He has also performed or recorded with the following artists: Common, The Temptations, Eric Roberson, Phonte, Ce Ce Peniston, Poi Dog Pondering, Ed Motta, Steve Coleman & Five Elements, Maysa Leak, Ten City, Sheena Easton, Steve Cole, Michael Manson, Andrew Bird, The J. Davis Trio, Chris Rob, Vic Lavender, Jesse De La Pena, Liquid Soul and The Mighty Blue Kings.

Chris Greene was also featured in several episodes of the FOX-TV show, "Empire" and he also composed the score for the Chicago Childrens’ Theatre’s 2014 production of “Bud, Not Buddy."

Musical Guest: DJ Pickled Beets:

Evanstonian Jenny Greene aka DJ Pickled Beets is an avid lover and custodian of the arts. She started her career earning a BA in Art History from UIC, and curating art shows independently in her free time. Jenny went on to do decade long stint working as staff accountant at Dusty Groove, which broadened her interest in curating painting and installations to also curating music. 20+ years of record collecting, an eclectic ear, and mixing and matching genres create a unique and entertaining experience for a range of events.