BlackLuvFest 2006 Mayors Art Award Finalist's Blurbs
About me: The Black L.U.V. Festival is held every 3rd sunday in september @ 4th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Banneker City, WDC & next up 9.21.08 www.blackluvfest.info
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Who I'd like to meet: In 1997, The Black L.U.V. (love, unity & vision) Festival was established by artists in the historic U street community who continue to be dedicated to social change. This FREE one-day multi-cultural outdoor event, dedicated to upliftment, has used the cultural arts as a vehicle to inform and enlighten communities of the Nation’s Capital. The Black L.U.V. (love, unity & vision) Festival informs and enlightens communities on social injustice, gentrification, healthcare and educational issues that disproportionately affect poor people in general and black people in particular in our communities and neighborhoods.
Over 13 musicians, 6 poets, and 6 community activist grace the main stage along with food vendors and community organizations on this spectacular day of unity. For the past 6 years national featured artists have included: Black Sheep, Yahzarah, Fertile Ground, and Urban Ave 31 featuring Jive Recording Artist Raheem DeVaughn. Several institutions and social organizations commit to the L.U.V. festival’s message of upliftment, empowerment and world community awareness and outreach: Max Robinson Aids Clinic/Whitman Walker, Us Helping Us, American Diabetes Association, Ummah Endowment Fund, Black Men Coalition, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers, Men on the Move, and Common Sense for Drug Policy.
Through The Black L.U.V. Festival's prominent coverage and recognition has come from various respected media: Washington City Paper, Afro-American, National Public Radio, WPFW 89.3 FM/Pacifica, DCTV and Rolling Out Magazine. This coverage will continue with the 2005 Black L.U.V. Festival with radio, print and Public Access television.
Why Sundays? The Black L.U.V. Festival embraces the institution of Sunday being a day for family. Meridian Hill Park (known as Malcolm X Park) is chosen to best exemplify a natural gathering of people of different cultures and ethnic backgrounds continuously.
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K. Fatimah here... OK, ok yeah I know I am very late! Ky there has been a world wind of changes and experiences but I am still Here! You have to see Amira'Ayesha Cleaver! Peace & Love~
Asante sana for the add, stay strong y'all, & also always remember our Freedom Fighters subsisting in the dungeons of this system so that together we can free all PP's, POW's and exiles!
There are seven principles that comprise Kawaida, a Swahili term for tradition and reason. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one such principle. Today’s Kwanzaa Principle is
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together. Think about this today…and share with others. Thank you~ Devoya
MEDITATION FOR UJIMA (Sent to me from my friend Rick)
"I am here, and my breath/our breaths/must thunder across this land/arousing new breaths, new life/new people, who will live in peace and honor." (Sonia Sanchez)
First off I want to say thanks so much for having this type of event - powerful stuff! I want to be the first to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY because we share the same birthday, WOW! And since the Festival is also on my birthday, you KNOW I will be there to show my love and support.
Stay well, and if you can, come and celebrate my birthday with me at Caribbean RIDDIMZ next Thursday at the Sky Club, Zanzibar!!
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