Speak Up: Tell Your Story!

May 10 · 6:30pm - 7:30pm

In-person

21C Museum Hotel Louisville
700 West Main Street
Louisville, KY, 40202, US

Kehinde Wiley (American). Morpheus, 2008. Oil on canvas. ©Kehinde Wiley

Join the ACLU of Kentucky at 21c Museum Hotel Louisville for an evening of exploring civil liberties through the eyes of youth. Young leaders from the community will share their personal journey of political power through spoken word and storytelling. Come and learn how youth are Speaking Up in Louisville.

We encourage you to arrive early or stay after the program to view the newest exhibition at 21c Louisville, “Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation.” Addressing how discrimination and injustice have shaped both identity and its artistic representation, the artists featured in Dress Up, Speak Up reimagine, restage, and re-perform iconographic imagery from Renaissance painting to present-day media to expose gaps in both art and history, and to confront the legacy of embedded experience.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP here.

Image: Kehinde Wiley (American). Morpheus, 2008. Oil on canvas. ©Kehinde Wiley

Agenda

6:30pm-7:30pm

This story-sharing event is a chance for youth to examine problems in our community by sharing their stories of violation, or use, of their rights. The event is free. Light refreshments will be served.