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Art Showcase & Open Mic @THP South

Loving Black Women's Body

Celebrate women artists at this interactive demo of poetry, visual art and music.

Join us for a day filled with empowerment, self-love, and community. Let's embrace our curves, our skin, our hair - everything that makes us uniquely us.

This is a safe space to share stories, uplift each other, and celebrate the strength and resilience of Black women. Come as you are, ready to love and be loved. 

This event will be facilitated by Milani Pelley, one of the City of Berkeley's art grant recipients. 

'For her city-funded project, Milani Pelley, a mother, poet and educator who was born and raised in South Berkeley, held a series of 17 informal interviews with Black girls and women, which she calls “curious conversations,” and is turning her findings into a “literary arts love letter” about Black women, their bodies and female blood. 

A mentee of Berkeley poet laureate Aya de León, who now facilitates literary arts workshops at Berkeley public schools, Pelley uses her poetry as historical documentation and self-expression. She plans to give a public presentation of her work at 2:30 p.m. April 12 at the Berkeley Public Library’s Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch.

The event, titled Loving Black Women’s Body Showcase, aims to encourage self-love and inclusion, and will feature her poetry, artwork compiled from an open call for art (on the theme of loving black women’s bodies) and an open mic.'

-Iris Kwok, Berkeleyside, February 3, 2025

Please come ready to engage in conversation and showcase your talent at the even's open mic. 

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