July 10th at 7pm at See You Soon (upstairs in 203C)

Join Cengiz Yar for a discussion on his debut photobook 'This Alabaster Grave' at The Kimball Arts Center with See You Soon.

This event will feature a presentation by Yar detailing his work in Mosul, Iraq, covering the war against ISIS, and publishing the work in a monograph published in 2025 by Ocotillo Press.

Yar's photobook explores the overwhelming destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul, within the context of its history and unique, now largely ruined, architecture. It questions the cost of the fight against ISIS and the global war on terror with a focus on the lives and city that bore the brunt of its destructive force. The photographs were made between 2015 and 2023.

The book includes a foreword from Azmat Khan, an essay by Campbell MacDiarmid, and a pullout map. It is designed by Jason Koxvold of Gnomic Book and written in both English and Arabic. Learn about the photobook here.

This free event is hosted by See You Soon and Realm Books.

Please be advised: This presentation will include graphic imaegery

RSVP HERE. Seating is limited.

July 23rd from 6pm to 8:30pm

Presented by Kimball Arts Center and the Comfort Station with Miguel Limón.

Southeast: A City Within a City is a documentary about Chicago's Southeast Side, a neighborhood built around steel, and what was left when the mills closed. Directed by Steven J. Walsh, the film follows the impact of deindustrialization on a community that had everything, until it was taken away.

This screening is presented by Miguel Limón for Registros at Kimball Arts Center and Huellas de Paso /Marks of Passage at Comfort Station, two concurrent exhibitions by Limón rooted in the same geography and history; Mexican migrant labor, industrial erasure, and the Southeast Side as living archive. It takes place as the former U.S. Steel South Works site, the mill at the center of the film's story, is being redeveloped into the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a transformation already generating urgent debate about who benefits, who is protected, and whose history gets carried forward.

Walsh and Limón will be in conversation following the screening.

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.

RSVP HERE

August 2nd from 2pm to 4pm

Screenprinting can seem like an expensive and high effort undertaking, but you can get started with just a screen and a few simple supplies. Bring some old clothes (preferably natural fiber) and/or scrap fabric to practice on; we'll provide the rest.

$60 charge for screen you can keep + materials.

RSVP HERE