"Learn To Love Yourself" is back! That's right -- the event inspired by National Black Theatre founder Dr. Barbara Ann Teer is coming back for its fourth season to our community space under the train tracks.
Get ready for rhythms by D.J. Stormin' Norman, a portraiture booth for you and your crew with photographers Salimah Ali (August 23) and Elliot Jerome Browne, Jr. (August 30), plus silent disco headphones to tune out the noise, and let you love on you.
Dr. Teer held a lifelong commitment to her radical belief that love for “our Black selves” can be a concerted mechanism for liberation and eradicating oppression: “Fall in love with yourself and have a love affair with yourself. You’re the only one who can make yourself happy. You’re the only one who can fulfill your life-long joy, cause nothing can happen to you unless it passes through you," she said.
We're teaming up with the National Black Theatre to host the party on two dates, Saturdays, August 23 and 30, from 2-6 p.m. each weekend. On the final Saturday, we'll be joined by artists from the Grandscale Mural Project for our last paint party of the season!
"Learn To Love Yourself" has been named by Time Out New York as one of the city’s "Best Things to Do." Register for your free tix here.