Join us in celebration of Black PRIDE Black JOY Black EXCELLENCE
19⏤20 August 2023, Eugene, Oregon

The Black Cultural Festival is an opportunity for people of Afro descent, our families, and close friends to join together in celebration of our vibrant culture and community. It is an event created for us by us, and supported by organizations, companies, and people like you – who want to aid in unifying and uplifting our local Black community.

We encourage you to join us on August 19–20, 2023

If you are interested in financially supporting this event, donating products or services please see our Sponsorship Page.

If you are a black business, artist or organization and you wish to have a booth or table at this event to showcase your product or services visit our Vendors Page.

Black Cultural Festival

Mission

To cultivate a healthy and connected Black community in Eugene and beyond by creating welcoming spaces that attract Black people, while also centering and celebrating our culture.

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“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.”

~James Baldwin

“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”

~June Jordan

“I love being Black! Racism and white supremacy is what it is. I still love being Black.”

~Kokayi Nosakhere

“Healing is not just about what we experience in the present, it’s also about how we understand the past, how we name our histories and frame the times in which we live.”

~Susan Raffo

“Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you.”

~Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah

“Turn your wound into wisdom.”

~Oprah Winfrey

“Healing must be collective.”

~William Oliver

“To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.”

~Jane Elliott

“In the world you know, there’s a million boys and girls who are young, gifted and black, and that’s a fact.”

~a Nina Simone song, from Lorraine Hansberry’s play

“Give light, and people will find the way.”

~Ella Baker

“Healing isn’t fully healing if it doesn’t in some way connect the individual to the community.”

~Susan Raffo

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

~Malcolm X

“The triumph can’t be had without the struggle.”

~Wilma Rudolph

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

~Rosa Parks

“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

~Fannie Lou Hamer

“Sometimes you have to raise a little hell to get some heaven.”

~Joe Madison

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Healing is a practice. It’s not a one-time thing.”

~Marnita Schroedl

“You need not carry the heavy, hollow burden of racism any longer.”

~Jesse Williams

“I love my people. And I love all people.”

~Black Elder

“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

~Audre Lorde

Join us in celebration of Black PRIDE Black JOY Black EXCELLENCE 19⏤20 August 2023, Eugene, Oregon

Join us in celebration of Black PRIDE Black JOY Black EXCELLENCE
19⏤20 August 2023, Eugene, Oregon