SAKINAH BATES#UNROOT DOLL DAY SPA Events is a venture of 8 year old Sakinah Bates and her business partner Debbie McDonald launched on June 15, 2018. Sakinah after going to the hair salon would start to bring her own dolls with her each time to get tips, tools and strategies for the hair maintenance and hair care for her own dolls. |
FREDERICK DOUGLAS KNOWLES IIA Poet, educator, and activist involved in community education. He is the inaugural Poet laureate for the City of Hartford. His collection of poetry, "BlackRoseCity" was featured at the 2018 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) |
IYABA IBO MANDINGOA painter, sculptor, poet, playwright, actor, singer; work in progress. He has performed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. His recently released collection of poetry titled "Fu You Tongue Heavy Lakka 56" is available on Amazon. |
ALVIN CARTER SR.Abu has been involved with congo drums for over 45 years. His exposure to the music of West and Central Africa, the Caribbean Islands, South America, and the United States, helped to mold a style of drumming he calls Afro-Caribbean |
Hillary Brown
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ANDRE KEITTAndre has been an arts education specialist and storyteller for nearly thirty years and has presented programs at schools, libraries, museums, as well as on radio and television, both regionally and nationally. He holds the BA in English from South Carolina State University. After several years of work at public libraries, and arts organizations, he has established himself as a freelance consultant, delivering storytelling, program planning, and arts education throughout the Northeast, as The Greatheart Griot (gree-o). Find Andre on Facebook, YouTube, or at his website: greatheartgriot.com. |
LAUREN SIMONE PUBLISHINGLauren Simone Publishing (LSP) House, founded in 2016, is a small publishing company birthed by two sisters, Olivia Lauren John and Alyssa Simone John. The John sisters enjoy the arts. They act, model, draw, play musical instruments, and most recently started to co-write and edit books. |
DARYL MOSSBIO COMING |
DARLENE BRANDONMa Peach Productions
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JV HARVEYJV Harvey is an award winning producer and director. Author of an adult novel A Step Into The Rain And also has a few children books penned down. Harvey The Little Brown Duck & Even Dragons Have To Go To Bed. |
OKTOBER BROWN
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JOE YOUNGA native of Connecticut, is a cartoonist, filmmaker, producer and writer. The creator of the Scruples Comic characters and the writer and executive producer of the Diamond Ruff Book and Movie that was distributed internationally.
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