Karamu Stages New Multi-Media Production About the Election of Carl Stokes

Sat 6/10 @ 3PM & 7PM

As the year-long celebration of the lives of the influential Stokes Brothers, Louis and Carl, continues, Karamu is of course getting into the act.

Local poet/writer/arts advocate Daniel Gray-Kontar has penned a theatrical piece called Believe in Cleveland, which draws on song, dance, poetry and multi-media, using newspaper reports and video as well as fictionalized accounts to tell the story of Carl Stokes’ election in 1967 as the first black mayor of a major U.S. city. Karamu’s executive director Tony F. Sias directs.

It takes place at the Karamu House Jelliffe Theatre. It’s free but reservations are required. Go to karamuhouse.org.

Cleveland, OH 44106

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