Next week’s Intergenerational Lunch features a conversation about Glenville’s beloved Gordon Park with Andrew Sargeant (@bydesigndrew). Stop by to offer your thoughts on how we can best utilize this space for this community.

Hope to see you there.

Join ThirdSpace and their history preservation partners to chat Cleveland’s yesteryear and drive our imagination towards a great future.

Author Brea Baker, hot of the heels of her latest release, Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, will stop by the bookstore to chat with TSAL’s Mordecai Cargill about the impact of land within the Black community. You won’t want to miss these two Yale classmates speak passionately about this topic.

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Literary Cleveland has partnered with ThirdSpace Action Lab to present Culture, Community & Liberation: A Juneteenth Celebration, a one-day arts festival dedicated to Black history, freedom, and togetherness. 

Join us on Saturday, June 22 from noon-4:00pm at ThirdSpace Action Lab (1464 E 105th St, Cleveland OH 44106) for our celebration of culture, community, and liberation with poetry, music, and more!

This program is open to all ages 18 and over. Registration gives all attendees a space in every activity. Participants can attend the whole festival from noon-4pm or attend separate activities if they like.

Program Overview:
The program will begin at noon with a Juneteenth creative writing workshop led by poets JUST C.O.S. (Calil Cage) and Morgan Paige of Poetry Unplugged and The Sparrow's Fortune.

This will be followed by a special intergenerational and multidisciplinary dialogue and Q&A on art, liberation practice, and community building with Dr. Mary E. Weems (author, poet, playwright, and social/cultural foundations scholar) and Tecia D. Wilson-Stone (arts education manager, teaching artist, theater performer, and wellness entrepreneur). These extraordinary "Liberation Artists in Conversation" will talk about the ways Cleveland artists and community members have built on and can continue to build on the freedom won by Black America on June 19, 1865.

Literary Cleveland will then host its second annual Juneteenth Open Mic, following "Liberation Artists in Conversation," hosted by Programming Director Michelle R. Smith and featuring poets Siaara Freeman (Heights Poet Laureate) and Avery LaMar Pope (Karamu Room in the House fellow).

Finally, the festival will end with musical performances by vocalist CHIMI and hip hop group Muamin Collective.

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The Village of Woodmere presents it’s annual Juneteenth celebration featuring food and vendors from the city. If you are interested in vending, please text JUNETEENTH to 33777.

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We're partnering with Young Latino Network to give you an evening of music, comedy, and poetry from our Afro-Latine diaspora.

This event is 21+

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What’s new with Chocolate Cities Cleveland? We’ll give an exciting update to our history project. We’ll also have an open discussion about the March Primary and give you all the information needed to make an informed decision.

In collaboration with Literary Cleveland, this annual event brings together admirers and writers to read her works as well as contribute their personal works to Morrison’s legacy.

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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED

Author Carlo Wolff will chat with ThirdSpace Action Lab Co-Founder Mordecai Cargill about his latest book, Invisible Soul, which chronicles Cleveland’s soul music scene in the mid 1900’s.

Sandra Madison will showcase the life works of her uncle, Robert P. Madison, in this engaging and informative presentation.

Join us for a very special Intergenerational Lunch. We’re ending the year with a potluck style lunch, so bring your best dish for everyone to share!

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