Empowering the Culture
A six-week games culture series exploring identity, community, and opportunity through play, storytelling, and technology.
Save the Date
📍 Atlas Cinemas – Shaker Square, Cleveland, OH
🗓️ July 8, 15, 22, 29 (In-Person)
💻 August 5, 12 (Virtual)
Registration details coming soon.
Empowering the Culture will take place across six weeks this summer, beginning in July.
We invite you to mark your calendar now and stay connected as we release more details, including speakers, schedules, and registration.
This is the first major public rollout of the series—more information will be shared in phases.
WHAT THIS IS
Empowering the Culture is a community-centered games culture series produced by INFINITEQUE, designed to explore how gaming connects people, shapes identity, and creates pathways into technology, creativity, and career opportunities. Rooted in Cleveland’s communities, the program is designed to reflect the lived experiences, creativity, and cultural contributions of the people who shape the city.
Hosted in Cleveland’s Shaker Square, the series brings together gamers, creators, educators, and community members in a shared space that blends conversation, competition, and storytelling.
Each week builds on a central idea:
That games culture is not just about play—it is about people.
This page will continue to evolve as new details are released.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Games are one of the most widely shared cultural experiences in the world.
Across generations and communities, people have grown up with games—forming friendships, learning systems, navigating challenges, and building identity along the way.
But too often, these experiences are not recognized as meaningful or connected to real-world opportunity.
Empowering the Culture creates space to:
• recognize games culture as a powerful human experience
• connect gaming to education, careers, and creative pathways
• strengthen community through shared stories
• introduce structure, mentorship, and intention into gaming spaces
This is about more than gaming.
It’s about what gaming reveals, and what it can build.
It creates space for those experiences to be seen, valued, and expanded into new possibilities.
PROGRAM EXPERIENCE + FLOW
Full schedules and session details will be released in the coming weeks.
Each in-person event is designed as a full experience:
🎤 TEQUE KNOW LOGIC Live
Conversations on culture, identity, and lived experience
🧠 GamerGen — Where Stories Emerge
Personal storytelling through games
🎮 NEXUS Gaming League
Structured competitive gaming
🤝 Community Engagement
Open play, connection, and shared experiences
4:00 PM — Doors open
4:30 PM — Live conversation
~6:00 PM — Transition
6:00–8:00 PM:
• Lobby — GamerGen + social gaming
• Theater — NEXUS tournament
WEEKLY THEMES
These themes provide a preview. Speakers and full details coming soon.
Week 1 — Origins of Games Culture & Community
Week 2 — Creativity & Cultural Expression
Week 3 — Gamership, Wellness & Humanity
Week 4 — Career Pathways & the Future of Gaming
Week 5 (Virtual) — Community Leadership & Cultural Impact
Week 6 (Virtual) — Celebration & Community Play
THE PHILOSOPHY
At its core, Empowering the Culture is grounded in a simple idea:
Games culture is about people.
Through GamerGen: Where Stories Emerge, participants explore their own “gamer genealogy” which embodies the experiences, memories, and stories that shaped them.
These stories are not forced.
They emerge.
And in doing so, they reveal something deeper:
That the culture we build around games is a reflection of ourselves.
WHO IT’S FOR
• Youth and young adults (ages 10–25+)
• Families and community members
• Gamers of all levels
• Creators, educators, and mentors
• Anyone interested in culture, storytelling, and technology
PARTNERS
Produced by INFINITEQUE
with support from:
Saint Luke’s Foundation
Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival
In collaboration with:
Atlas Cinemas
Master Collective
Prince Ish
DJ Rell-E-Rell
STAY CONNECTED
Empowering the Culture will take place across six weeks this summer, beginning in July.
We invite you to mark your calendar and stay connected as we release more details—including speakers, schedules, and registration.
This series will be revealed in phases, with new information shared in the weeks ahead.
Stay connected so you don’t miss what’s next.
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