Inspired by her luminous career as a poet, writer, educator, activist and voice of the Black Arts Movement, #UrbanConsulate is honored to welcome legend NIKKI GIOVANNI home to #Cincinnati for a nanofestival celebrating the power of Black joy, liberation and expression for the week of #Juneteenth.

The evening will feature:
✨ A conversation with Nikki Giovanni, moderated by Naimah Bilal (@naimahlah1)
✨ Film Screening & Dialogue with Gee Horton (@gee_horton) and Shay Nartker (@shaynartker)
✨ Cincinnati & Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Yalie Saweda Kamara (@yaliesaweda)
✨ Music by DJ Arie (@dj__arie)
✨ Produced by The Lex Nycole Brand (@lex_nycole)
✨ Video & Photography by Afrochine (@afrochine)
✨ Hosted by Naimah Bilal and Tim Barr, Jr. (@timb_jr)
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“Urban Consulate Cincinnati is thrilled to welcome Nikki Giovanni back home,” says Bilal. “Dr. Giovanni’s work has powerful resonance with and an enduring impact on Black expression and art — elevating and inspiring this vast space going back generations and long into the future. We could think of no better way to anchor this Juneteenth celebration than with Dr. Giovanni and the enduring liberatory power of her written and spoken word.”
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See you there ✨
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