Cafe Society: A Common Ground Event

Please join us on Friday, July 30th from 5-7pm for Café Society, a Common Ground conversation about accessibility, inclusion, and community life.

Meet at Invigorate Gallery, 6500 Hough Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

5pm - Reception & Neighborhood walks | 6pm - Common Ground conversation

Light refreshments provided. All are welcome!

The Cleveland Foundation’s Common Ground initiative is a celebration of community-led conversation. The foundation and its community partners build this event each year to showcase the many Greater Clevelanders who want to bring people together in a unique way to build community.

This Common Ground event is inspired by Café Society. In 1938, Barney Josephson created the Café Society nightclub in New York City to showcase African American talent and to be an American version of the political cabarets he had seen in Europe. Cafe Society was the first racially integrated night club in the United States. Advertised as The Wrong Place for the Right People, Café Society welcomed everyone.

Café Society is hosted by Invigorate Gallery, Barrier-free Cleveland, Jikoo Smart Park Network, and Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, in partnership with Chateau Hough, League Park, the Heritage Baseball Museum, and Maximum Accessible Housing of Ohio.

Invigorate Gallery, 6500 Hough Avenue, Cleveland

Registration is requested. REGISTER HERE

The event will be held outdoors. For more information and to discuss accessibility needs, please email barrierfreecle@kent.edu or call the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative at 216.357.3426.