About this Event
Join IMAN staff, community residents, and special guest artists as we celebrate Arts for EveryBody through our work to “reimagine the world as it could be,” by centering the historically disinvested neighborhood of Englewood with a mini-festival in the newly developed Go Green Griot Plaza, a previously abandoned lot.
The Go Green Griot Plaza on 63rd & Racine — an outdoor creative hub connected to Englewood's Go Green Community Fresh Market, designed to foster health and wellness through community partnerships, live events, and artistic programming.
This FREE outdoor celebration will feature Vic Mensa, aja monet, John Forté ft. Binta, Omar Offendum, Brittney Carter, the Chicago Bucket Boys, an outdoor skating rink, a communal drumming circle, live music, storytelling, dance, a double-dutch demo, food samples, cooking demonstrations, a community drum circle, live poetry making, artisans, interactive murals and more! Local vendors and a wellness info table by IMAN’s Community Health workers will be on-site to take part in conversation and community.
Schedule
*Early arrival is highly recommended.
Program:
4p | Doors
4:15-5:00p | Drum circle & Double Dutch performance
5p | Prayer/Reflection
5:15p | Bucket Boys
5:30p | Brittney Carter
5:45p | Omar Offendum
6:10p | John Forté ft. Binta
6:35p | aja monet
7:10p | Vic Mensa
The Go Green Griot Plaza was made possible by the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and with the generous support of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. This space was also funded by the American Rescue Plan Act, a part of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Road to Recovery Plan.
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About the Go Green Griot Plaza
The Go Green Griot Plaza will be an outdoor community arts and organizing hub connected to the Go Green Community Fresh Market in Englewood. Alongside helping to create vibrancy and vitality on the important 63rd and Racine node and to drive interest in and traffic to the Market, the Plaza will host artistic performances, health workshops, vendor pop-ups, community forums, cooking demonstrations, and be a space for community cook-outs, art projects and open-mics. The Plaza will be the latest in the series of City of Chicago-supported POP Court venues opening up on once-vacant and abandoned land, and will mark an important milestone in the effort to draw attention and further investment into critical projects like the reopening of the Racine Green Line Station and the Granville T. Woods Regenerator project on the same intersection. The Plaza commemorates the legacy of the griot--the West African storytellers revered for preserving the legacy of their communities--and pays tribute to the power of story to connect, inspire, and drive our collective efforts forward.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1201 W 63rd St, 1201 West 63rd Street, Chicago, United States
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