The Mill: Variety Show & Open Mic, 1 year anniversary show!!

🎃THE OCTOBER SHOW 🎃 🌀 Please join us for a very special Mill show! Our one year anniversary!! The Mill is a monthly variety show & open mic that happens on the third Thursday of every month raising money for charity. 🌟 The night begins with featured performances and then we open the floor for our all-genres open mic. This month's performances include: 🎹 music by folk-punk band The Kiosk Girls 🫀 poetry by Won Lee 👑 drag performance & short film screening by Elle XL 🐴 "an adventure into fantasy, romance, and the marginal hearts of horses" by Sergio Soltero & Laura Hawkbaker 🩵 secret other things! This month we are fundraising for Millstone Books, Chicago-based micropress that prints poetry and prose out of a giant mill at the bottom of the ocean. Millstone has published many chapbooks like I, Triesis; this is my body, the only thing I own in its entirety; map of a bird; Millstone Magazine and has plan to publish a book-length poetry work in 2027. _ Our performer submissions are currently open, please follow us @millstone.mag to find the submission form