Go Green Griot Plaza Opening

Join IMAN staff, community residents, and special guests for the celebratory grand opening of Englewood's newest outdoor creative hub! 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.

Get a first-hand look at the new space during our honorary ribbon cutting event, featuring Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, IMAN staff and leaders, Dj Ca$h Era and performing artists Senite, Kayem, and Englewood's own Heavy Crownz and more.

The celebration will include food, interactive family friendly activities, storytelling, a community drum circle, poems to go from Everyone's Type.

Opening | 2:00pm CT

Program commencing | 3:00pm CT. Early arrival is highly recommended.

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.

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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.