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Black Cultural Festival Program

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, 2023 for this amazing family friendly event!

Our program for 2023 is in development. For a taste of what’s to come, check out last year’s program.

Black Cultural Festival Map

MAIN STAGE SCHEDULE

MAIN STAGE

YOUTH ZONE (OPEN 1 – 4)

ARTS & CULTURE

WORKSHOP PAVILION

MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS

FOOD COURT

BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES

We are so grateful that the Black Cultural Festival is supported by our community of sponsors!

TIER 3 SPONSORS

TIER 2 SPONSORS

TIER 1 SPONSORS

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ANGEL DONORS

PARTNERS

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

~June Jordan

“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

“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

~Fannie Lou Hamer

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

~Jesse Williams

“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

“Turn your wound into wisdom.”

~Oprah Winfrey

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

~Kokayi Nosakhere

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

~Malcolm X

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

~Ella Baker

“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

“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

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

~Wilma Rudolph

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

~Black Elder

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

~Jane Elliott

“Healing must be collective.”

~William Oliver

“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

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

~Joe Madison

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

~Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah

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

~James Baldwin

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

~Susan Raffo

Black Cultural Festival

For more information, e-mail us at: info@blackculturalfestival.com

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