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# Myrtle Avenue Plaza Kicks Off Summer
- URL: https://bklyner.com/myrtle-avenue-plaza-kicks-off-summer/
- Published: 2018-06-22T21:29:27.000Z
- Updated: 2018-06-22T22:07:57.000Z
- Author: Nathan Haselby
- Tags: clinton hill, Events, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, summer, Emily Weidenhof, Matthew Geller, Move On Myrtle, myrtle avenue plaza, #wp

CLINTON HILL – While celebrating the summer solstice with [Make Music New York](http://www.makemusicny.org/?ref=bklyner.com) Thursday, Clinton Hill officially opened the [new Myrtle Avenue Plaza](/myrtle-avenue-plaza-debuts-this-thursday-with-free-public-events-all-summer/) and began the three-month [Move On Myrtle series](http://myrtleavenue.org/summer/?ref=bklyner.com). Locals can look forward to free fitness programs, music performances, and kids’ activities scheduled on the plaza through September.

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Move On Myrtle ribbon-cutting (Photo: Nathan Haselby)

The busy schedule of performances on Thursday began at noon with a strong sun overhead. In the afternoon New York hip hop artist [Squala Orphan](https://www.facebook.com/squala.orphan), joined onstage by the very young Hetep, sang about a time for change and the trial of [Mumia Abu-Jamal](http://www.freemumia.com/?ref=bklyner.com). During a brief pause he introduced his young protégé who is learning the elements of hip-hop from the artist in an after-school program in the Bronx.

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Squala Orphan with a young collaborator and student of rhyme, Hetep (Photo: Nathan Haselby)

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Artist Matthew Geller’s “I Ought To” (Photo: Nathan Haselby)

The performance was a fitting segue to the opening ceremony with its emphasis on the future of this community. As speaker Emily Weidenhof of DOT put it, “It’s people who transform streets into plazas and it’s plazas that transform people into communities.”