The School of Memoryexplores the Spanish Civil War through one family’s shifting POV

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Original Load Date July 14, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
Last Updated July 14, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
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Héctor Álvarez presents the Chicago premiere of a multimedia meditation that centers on his family’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War but often pans out to encompass global themes of complicity, regret, and forgetting. Álvarez’s is an intense, tightly wound presence around and through which the...