Black Brown + Breathing at Poetic Platforms

6721 South Kedzie Avenue,Chicago IL 60629

26 June, 2021

Description

Join Black Brown + Breathing at Poetic Platforms for a day of celebration, art, and community healing. Black Brown + Breathing (BBB) is a space to gather, breathe, cry, pray, and celebrate in community. BBB hosts healing-centered activations at sites of resistance, protest, and collective trauma throughout Chicago. Through these spaces, we come together to reclaim them as our own, to share in one another’s healing, and to spread awareness of ongoing injustices. BBB activations center Black and Brown voices, breath, and celebration. All are invited to help us do so. On Saturday, June 26, Black Brown + Breathing will host an activation at Marquette Park as a part of Open Architecture Chicago’s Poetic Platforms series. Stay after the activation to enjoy community art workshops, live installations, and performances. What we will do: Community dialogue on the historical significance of Marquette ParkMeditation & movementLive sound healing What to bring: MaskWaterYoga matYour grief, joy, and gratitudeThe people, objects, and practices that help you breathe easierLocation & Accessibility The activation will take place behind the field house at Marquette Park, located at 6721 S. Kedzie Ave. A free parking lot is located at the field house entrance. The activation is a short walk from the parking lot to the back of the field house, along a flat and paved pathway. OAC Chicago's Poetic Platforms is a series of community pop-ups, mindfully and intentionally hosted in underutilized spaces and interstitial parks, setting the stage for poetry, song, and artistic reimagining of community spaces. Follow @oacchicago on Instagram to learn more.