Rebuild Foundation

Thursday, June 4, 7 PM - 9 PM | In partnership with the Poetry Foundation, Rebuild and D-Composed invite you to join us at The Land School for Love Is…, an evening exploring love through poetry and music. Throughout the program, D-Composed will breathe new life into poetry and the written word through music by Black composers.

This performance features the D-Composed string quartet alongside Chicago poets Davon Clark (@), Shawnee Dez (), Faylita Hicks (), Raych Jackson (), Shanta Nurullah (), and Marvin Tate (). Throughout the evening, audio and visual vignettes of footage from the South Side Home Movie Project will also be presented.

Please RSVP via the link in bio. We look forward to welcoming you.

Please note: All Poetry Foundation events are free and open to the public. Advanced registration is encouraged. The performance space is ADA-compliant and wheelchair-accessible, and ASL interpretation will be provided.

Updated Hours | Each week at The Land School, we continue to deepen our practice of listening through our almost-daily sonic offering, Listening Hours.

This season, we’re pleased to welcome you to Listening Hours Wednesdays through Saturdays, from 12 PM to 8 PM.
Evoking the ethos of the Japanese ongaku kissa and situated within the sonic resonance of Black space, our Listening Hours program invites us to gather within a shared context of space, music, and study. Each session offers an opportunity to be present and listen through select records from our in-house vinyl selection alongside our team and special guest selectors.

We look forward to listening with you.

Friday, May 22, 7 PM to 8 PM | We invite you to join us at The Land School for an evening with D-Composed, as they pay sonic tribute to Miles Davis on his centennial.

Celebrating 100 years of Miles Davis and curated by D-Composed ensemble member Seth Pae, this intimate concert held in A Listening Space will showcase selections from the expansive catalogue of one of the most influential composers and cultural icons in history. Revered not only in the jazz scene but across fashion, pop culture, visual art, and many genres of music, Miles Davis’ complex and enduring legacy continues to shape generations of innovation, music, and artistic expression.

On this night, D-Composed’s string quartet will offer a performance honoring Miles Davis’ groundbreaking body of work, in all its depth, resonance, and experimentation.

RSVP via the link in our bio. Space is limited.

Wednesday, May 20, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM | We invite you to join us as D-Composed, The Land School’s inaugural creative partners-in-residence, welcomes Jessie Montgomery to The Land School for Listening Hours.

Jessie Montgomery is a GRAMMY® Award-winning composer, violinist, and educator whose work interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, poetry, and social consciousness, making her an acute interpreter of 21st-century American sound and experience. Named Performance Today’s 2025 Classical Woman of the Year, her profound pieces are performed regularly by leading orchestras, ensembles, and soloists around the world.

At the heart of Montgomery’s work is a deep sense of community enrichment and a desire to create opportunities for young artists and underrepresented composers to broaden audience experiences in classical music spaces.

We look forward to welcoming you into her intimate sonic inspirations, compositions, and artistic inquiries that inform her prolific body of work today. 

RSVP via the link in bio. Space is limited.