

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: PREVIEWS: For The Love Of Liberation
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 27 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm – Sun, 28 Dec, 2025 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: For the Love of Liberation stories from the street corner, a tribute to the Black Renaissance, in Chicago’s “Black Belt” community.About this EventFor the Love of Liberation is a collection of stories from the Streetcorner Storyteller.Biography /DescriptionCalvin J Worthen is the Streetcorner Storyteller in this performance of For the Love of Liberation, Meet up at the corner to hear Mr Worthen tell The stories of a Goat Herder and His Goat, The King and the Skat, and Crabs In A Barrel. For the Love of Liberation is a tribute to the Black Renaissance, the name given to the surge of artistic expression, community organizing and social activity in Chicago’s “Black Belt” community. Due to redlining, Black owned storefronts and house store porches became the place to “hear tell a tale” giving birth to the Streetcorner Storytellers. In the 1930s, the “Black Belt” existed as a narrow 40- block-long corridor running along both sides of State Street on Chicago’s South Side overcrowded chain of neighborhoods. It was an unexplainable phenomena, something you had to experience in person, and in this performance, Calvin J Worthen brings us all back to the corner.Born in a redlined area on the Southside of Chicago where the corner was as The Last Poets said, “Our testimony to freedom”. This performance honors the long list of Streetcorner Storytellers known and unknown. Storylines reinforce our schemas and in Chicago, we wanted freedom, freedom from oppressors both systematically and institutionally. Telling stories provided a way for us to experience freedom amongst kinfolk. With fear and injustice, this art form was destroyed by white supremacy, Jim Crow, and gentrification. This art form of public gatherings generated a frequency that materialized our freedom, hopes, pains, and dreams. By the early 1980’s, the “Broken Windows” policing practices that targeted minor offenses like loitering, made it illegal for Black people to hold on to this sacred communal practice. It was an unexplainable phenomena, something you had to experience in person in this performance, Calvin J Worthen brings us all back to the corner.NOTES FROM THE ARTISTYou are invited to preview For the Love of Liberation. Please consider joining me for a night of inspiration, and encouragement in our times of constant consternations. This will give you an opportunity to be the first to see this performance. I finished with the Phoenix Theatre Company's Looking Over The President's Shoulder two weeks ago so I am extremely excited to share this original performance with the Valley.No recording of this performance will be allowed to honor the sacred tradition of experiencing the story live and in-person. Runtime 50 minutesTalkback with Q &amp; A is ticketed. Audience will be able to engage with artist and learn more about artist performances in 2026.This performance is in the "Community Room" of the Mesa Arts Lofts. 155 S Hibbert Street  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/bc830170-e23d-11f0-820b-e5e04fbe28e9-rimg-w555-h740-dc032e60-gmir.jpg Saturday Show Agenda?: 06:00 PM - 06:30 PMDoors Open?: 06:30 PM - 07:20 PMShow Starts?: 07:30 PM - 08:00 PMArtist TalkbackSunday Show Agenda?: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PMDoors Open?: 03:30 PM - 04:20 PMShow Starts?: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PMTalkback
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/mesa/previews-for-the-love-of-liberation/100001978791745378
- **Event Categories**: art, theatre, literary-art, meetups
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fpreviews-for-the-love-of-liberation-tickets-1978791745378
- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 40, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Mesa
- **state**: AZ
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 155 S Hibbert
- **lat**: 33.4114659
- **long**: -111.8260328
- **full address**: 155 S Hibbert, 155 South Hibbert, Mesa, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 10
- **organizer**: Calvin J Worthen (https://allevents.in/org/calvin-j-worthen/27283064)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 27 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 155 S Hibbert, 155 South Hibbert, Mesa, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 0 up to 40 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Calvin J Worthen
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, theatre, literary-art, meetups
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about PREVIEWS: For The Love Of Liberation ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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