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Haymarket Events

Haymarket is proud to host a wide range of in-person and virtual events, including urgent political discussions, book launches, organizer roundtables, poetry readings, and more. We aim to bring people—in Chicago and around the world—together in community, to learn from one another and histories and practices of struggle for a better world.

Upcoming Events

Radical Used Book Fair

October 18, 2026 Chicago, IL

Join us Sunday, October 18th for the Radical Used Book Fair!

Censorship and Resistance: A Prison Banned Book Week Conversation

October 20, 2026 Online

Join us this Prison Banned Books Week for a discussion on how how prisons prevent incarcerated people from reading.

Solidarity Under Fascism, World-Building at Empire’s End

October 24, 2026 Chicago, IL

Join Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Heoli Osorio, SA Smythe, Sophia Azeb, and moderator Uahikea Maile for a discussion on how solidarity can both demonstrate how another world is possible, as well as showing us how to continue cultivating it.

Films for a Changing World Double Feature: Now We Live on Clifton & Two Summers on Hayes Ave

October 27, 2026 Chicago, IL

Join us for a Films for a Changing World double feature! We will be screening the 1974 documentary short Now We Live on Clifton and Tess Lacy's 2025 documentary, Two Summers on Hayes Avenue.

Chicago & LA Poets Laureate on the Arts as an Organizing Tool

October 28, 2026 Chicago, IL

Please join award-winning poets Luis J. Rodriguez and Mayda De Valle for an energizing conversation and reading led by Haymarket editor and poetry director, Maya Marshall.