Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

Join us on Saturdays to explore the art and ideas of our time through special activities.

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1:30pm Reception

2:30pm Program

How much do you know about July 23, 1968–a critical night in Cleveland history– and what followed? Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X delivered important, galvanizing speeches from the same pulpit in Cleveland? 

Join the author and learn how these events provide the basis for his 2018 book, Ballots & Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerilla Warfare in 1968, which examines the revolutionary calls for addressing racism through guerrilla warfare in America’s streets.

Please join us for a multi-media performance by artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman, whose video Figuration B (2017), was presented in February as part of the Double Takes exhibition program. This dynamic performance includes the choreography of sound, video, and a poetic reading by Huffman that explore how images and video from popular media shape and alter our world. Like much of his work Confessional Poetry incisively re-frames images and sound from a variety of film and television media to explore an implicit and at times confounding image based language.