Summer Cookout featuring Growing Concerns Poetry Collective
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, July 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
Art, music, poetry, food, drink, and conversation at the Smart Museum of Art.
Join us for a festive summer evening featuring an outdoor musical performance by Growing Concerns Poetry Collective and a series of site-specific poetry readings within our special exhibition ‘Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground.’
About Growing Concerns
Growing Concerns Poetry Collective fuses lyrical, narrative, and hip-hop poetry with original music and soundscape to create spoken word performance that is greater than the sum of its parts. The group’s deeply personal work explores the nature of identity, love, community, and social responsibility, though a fresh and contemporary lens. The collective has performed throughout Chicago including at Steppenwolf Theatre, the MCA, and for WBEZ. Growing Concerns released its inaugural album We Here: Thank You For Noticing in August 2017, and its first book Five Fifths with Candor Arts in January 2018.
Growing Concerns is comprised of poet and rapper Mykele Deville, poet and actor McKenzie Chinn, and visual artist and musician Jeffrey Michael Austin.
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