Maelstrom Collaborative Arts

🔥🎠🔥needs we say more? ! come be community with us in celebrating the lunar year of the fire horse!

time to melt thru some bad vibes! know that MCA is here and we want YOU here! come to kick back or why not karaoke with no chill and sing your heart out ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

This weekend is our long waited two-night Saturnalia fundraiser December 12th + 13th!✨️

Night one is Bucket Brigade featuring performances from .pdf and

Night Two is Welcome to Midnight w/ Jasmine A Golphin! A late night talk show recorded in front of live MCA audience featuring performances by and special call-in guests and !

Both nights start with a 6:30 reception, show at 7:30p and both nights will feature an artist raffle and cathartic pinatas brought to us by

Tickets are $10 -$20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. Tickets at door + in bio!

And if you do have more to give, consider some of our sponsorship opportunities, spearheaded by

However you show your support, we can't wait to celebrate this year of unending unpredicted times like we always do - with a fantastic showcase of weird and wonderful art✨

Hey there friend! 👋🏾✨

Remember when we were hit by a car and told y'all we'll be putting on a Saturnalia about it? Well here are the official fliers for our two night event!!

The dates have moved to December 12th and 13th but the artistic bacchanal remains the same!

Night one is Bucket Brigade featuring performances from .pdf and

Night Two is Late Night w/ Jasmine A Golphin featuring performances by and special call-in guest AND MORE!

Both nights start with a 6:30 reception, show at 7:30p and both nights will feature an artist raffle and cathartic pinatas brought to us by

Tickets are $10 -$20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.

And if you do have more to give, consider some of our sponsorship opportunities, spearheaded by

However you show your support, we can't wait to celebrate this year of unending unpredicted times like we always do - with a fantastic showcase of weird and wonderful art✨

So we were hit by a car last night 🫠
More updates to come once we hear back from our insurance...

MCA's celebration of the interdisciplinary arts Bricolage is back this weekend Sept 18 -20 7:30p!

Meet one of our Bricolage pairings Amelia Casino & olula negre✨

- Amelia is a Cleveland artist. Her creative skills allowed her to look at the environmental subtleness in her work and cultural awareness that are in her own customs, while diversifying herself in the city.

The focus of the various textures is to demonstrate a story, persistence and dialogue within her artwork and what holds a particular dialogue that portrays through her style and technique. Along the cultural background of her Puerto Rican roots.

Her work is influenced through forms, various vibrant palettes that tells a story. The artwork she puts together is one that as time progresses and portrays her style as a mixed media artist.


- A grandchild of twin migrations fleeing the effects of US imperialism in the American South and Puerto Rico, experimental sound artist and activist, olula negre, is a cellist, improviser, composer, and visual artist whose work is rooted in their Black American and Latine heritage, queerness and their interests in speculative fiction/storytelling, folk music, labor movements, and
cosmic workings.

olula is a co-curator of AfriClassical Futures, a quarterly music and conversation series at Elastic Arts in Chicago that features Black diasporic musicians working in, around, or influenced by classical traditions.

olula is one half of ¡Bananaquit! an electro-acoustic duo with bassist Torstein Johansen

See what Amelia and olula have cooked up starting this Thursday at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts!

MCA's celebration of the interdisciplinary arts Bricolage is back next weekend Sept 18 -20 7:30p

Meet one of our Bricolage pairings Jaden Mills & Julian Otis ✨

- Jaden is a 2025 graduate from Berea-Midpark High School and The Academy at The Cleveland Institute of Music. He regularly plays with Suburban Symphony, The Cleveland Philharmonic, and subs with Mansfield Symphony. In his free time, Jaden likes to take long walks around his local lake, bake different sweet treats, and watch comedy movies. Jaden doesn’t have a set school for the 26-27 school year but regularly studies with faculty from The Cleveland Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, The Curtis Institute of Music, and Rice University. .millss

- Julian Terrell Otis is a vocalist dedicated to the advancement of Black music in America, spanning genres from creative music and jazz, to contemporary classical. His work explores the limitless possibilities of his instrument’s expressive capacity through song, improvisation, and theater. Known for bringing fresh perspective, nuance, and “high drama” to the contemporary music world, the integration of performance “live art” elements is of particular interest to him. Otis’s experiences have led him to create the male soloist role in George E. Lewis’ chamber opera, Afterword, on both domestic and international stages. In exploring the life and work of Julius Eastman, Otis has performed his solo work, Prelude for the Holy Presence of Joan of Arc. He revived Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King at the inaugural Bang on a Can All Star’s Loud Weekend, and is devising works focusing on improvisation, electronics, and movement. All the Pretty Flowers is his first recording project of improvised music and poetry. Committed to community empowerment, he led an improvised jam for South Side Chicago communities called Self Care = Resistance! And curates the AfriClassical Futures series at Elastic Arts in Chicago’s Logan Square/Avondale neighborhood.

See what Jaden and Julian have cooked up next week at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts!