Events

Culture, Community & Liberation: A Juneteenth Celebration is a one-day arts festival celebrating Black history, freedom, and togetherness with poetry, music, and more, featuring Cleveland playwright Dr. Mary E. Weems, Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman, hip hop group Muamin Collective, singer CHIMI, and more! Literary Cleveland has partnered with ThirdSpace Action Lab to present Culture, Community & Liberation: A Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 22, 2024. This is the first year that LIT CLE and TSAL have come together to provide exciting, accessible community programming for Juneteenth, our country’s second Independence Day. Attendees can come and celebrate culture, community, and liberation with poetry, music, and more! Since 2022, Literary Cleveland and ThirdSpace Action Lab have been collaborating to expand literary and storytelling programs into a broader and more diverse area of Cleveland neighborhoods and celebrate Black Excellence in Northeast Ohio and beyond. The organizations have begun a tradition of holding a Toni Morrison Community Reading together, honoring the birthday of the iconic Ohio author, every February 18th at TSAL and have offered a co-listed Toni Morrison reading course in the summer of 2023. This new Juneteenth event is an expansion of their continuing partnership and a pilot for a program they hope to continue offering every June, […]