DeFremery Park (formerly Bobby Hutton Park, after the martyred Black Panther) is in West Oakland, at 1651 Adeline St., between 16th and 17th streets. For a map and directions, please visit museumca.org/calendar.

Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of key New Left speeches from the 1960s and 70s, presented to examine American democracy by considering today’s political situation in context to that of the 1960s and 70s. Tribe’s intent is to examine and inspire civic dialogue about political and social concerns of our times as we approach the culmination of the presidential election cycle.

Angela Davis’s 1969 speech passionately advocated combining anti-Vietnam War sentiments with social justice causes, emphasizing her points with illustrations of government treatment of the Black Panther Party and the controversial trial of the Chicago 7, which occurred only weeks before.

Creative Time (CT) and the Oakland Museum of California set the stage for the Saturday reenactment with a talk with Tribe and senior curator of art Rene de Guzman, on Friday, August 1, 7:30 p.m. (part of the museum’s First Fridays After Five).

In conjunction with Tribe’s talk, the museum presents a 6:30 p.m. screening of CHICAGO 10, an experimental documentary that combines animation, archival film footage, and audio recordings. Directed by Academy Award-nominated producer and director Brett Morgen, the film recounts the buildup to and unraveling of the Chicago conspiracy trial after the 1968 Democratic National Convention. CHICAGO 10 is presented courtesy of ITVS Community Cinema. The film and the artist talk are both free.

The Port Huron Project is a part of Creative Time’s summer-long public art initiative, Democracy in America: The National Campaign, which includes art commissions around the country and an exhibition and event space in New York (September 21–27, 2008) that explore the state of democracy and civic participation. CT will present Port Huron Project 4: We Are Also Responsible with Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), in LA on July 19, and Port Huron Project 6: Let Another World Be Born in New York City in early September. -- www.museumca.org