Join Maine Inside Out and community partners for an evening of original performance art, community dialogue and collective action. This is the first part of a 2 day celebration of Juneteenth - come back to Congress Square Park on Saturday 6/19 1-5pm for community dialogue and active art making! Friday night features:

The Weeping City is an original Maine Inside Out (MIO) play created in 2009 following a fatal police shooting in Portland, Maine. Young people in the community came to Maine Inside Out with a request to create theater specifically to initiate dialogue about police violence. On May 25, 2021 MIO artists performed The Weeping City to remember and honor George Floyd and call our community to action to end state sanctioned violence and systemic racism.

June 18th is the second performance of this 2021 version that has been adapted and revised by one of the original creators of The Weeping City, Nancy Valmond-Bell, with the MIO Models for Community Change team and the MIO Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) affinity group.

Performed by members of the MIO community : Adan Abdi, Ali Ali, Donkell Bolton, Noah Bragg, Joseph Jackson, Tyler Jackson, Bashir Matan, Mouamed Mouamed and Stacy Perez with drumming accompaniment by Namory Keita.

Play process co facilitated by Stacy Perez and Chiara Liberatore.