A History of Gary, IN | Jan. 17 at 7 p.m.
Samuel Love, a social and civic practice artist based in Gary, will present a selection of readings, historical and contemporary, that speak to an Alternative History of the Steel City.
With poems and songs, excerpts from speeches, articles, and short stories, set to a visual background of historical and contemporary photographs, Love offers a history not of what could or should have been, but one that exists alongside, behind, above, and within the simple stereotypes that persist around Gary, Indiana.
Samuel Love is the editor of The Gary Anthology (Belt, 2020) and the producer of two short films, Calumet: The Region’s River (2021) and Grown In Gary (2024), for Indiana Humanities. He is the fourth generation of his family to live in Gary, a family that arrived in 1911.
$15 per person, light refreshments will be served.