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For the third consecutive year, hundreds of women of color will convene in Brooklyn, New York, to celebrate their hair and heritage at CurlFest this Saturday. The annual one-day festival was launched in 2014 by the Curly Girl Collective, an experiential marketing group that specializes in multicultural beauty, as a way to empower women with naturally kinky or curly hair.
During the event, attendees will have an opportunity to hear from beauty experts, bloggers, and social influencers as well as shop for beauty products, fashion, jewelry, and accessories. They can also participate in fun games and a dance-off.
Last year, attendees traveled from around the world—even from as far as Brazil and France—to join in on the festivities at the 2016 CurlFest, which Black Enterprise’s Raven Davis described as a remarkable experience of “curls and kinks galore.” Davis also spoke to one of the founders of Curly Girl Collective, Charisse Higgins, about the growth of her business and CurlFest, which is now recognized as the largest natural beauty festival in the world.
Since the beginning of the Curly Girl Collective movement in 2011 the five co-founders have gone from curating small events and panels for women with natural hair to launching CurlFest in 2014 which has quadrupled in the number of attendees, clients and sponsors.
Charisse believes what makes Curly Girl Collective and CurlFest different is “the sense of community that is created through the movement. Prior to the very first CurlFest in 2014, the co-founders planned to “reach more people—connect more people to the brands and bloggers they love and have fun celebrating natural beauty.”
The fun begins this Saturday, July 15 at noon at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. For more information, visit www.curlygirlcollective.com.
For the third consecutive year, hundreds of women of color will convene in Brooklyn, New York, to celebrate their hair and heritage at CurlFest this Saturday. The annual one-day festival was launched in 2014 by the Curly Girl Collective, an experiential marketing group that specializes in multicultural beauty, as a way to empower women with naturally kinky or curly hair.
During the event, attendees will have an opportunity to hear from beauty experts, bloggers, and social influencers as well as shop for beauty products, fashion, jewelry, and accessories. They can also participate in fun games and a dance-off.
Last year, attendees traveled from around the world—even from as far as Brazil and France—to join in on the festivities at the 2016 CurlFest, which Black Enterprise’s Raven Davis described as a remarkable experience of “curls and kinks galore.” Davis also spoke to one of the founders of Curly Girl Collective, Charisse Higgins, about the growth of her business and CurlFest, which is now recognized as the largest natural beauty festival in the world.
Since the beginning of the Curly Girl Collective movement in 2011 the five co-founders have gone from curating small events and panels for women with natural hair to launching CurlFest in 2014 which has quadrupled in the number of attendees, clients and sponsors.
Charisse believes what makes Curly Girl Collective and CurlFest different is “the sense of community that is created through the movement. Prior to the very first CurlFest in 2014, the co-founders planned to “reach more people—connect more people to the brands and bloggers they love and have fun celebrating natural beauty.”
The fun begins this Saturday, July 15 at noon at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. For more information, visit www.curlygirlcollective.com.
If you’re an African American filmmaker with an original documentary idea, then don’t miss this opportunity to sign up for the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Feature Documentary Competition. Select films entered into the competition will have their movie idea developed and produced by ABFF Films Division and Lightbox, a media company that has produced several acclaimed documentaries, including ESPN’s Fantastic Lies and LA 92, which is based on the 1992 L.A. riots following the acquittal of the police officers in the Rodney King beating case.
“We are honored to be partnering with the ABFF to encourage further diversity in the documentary genre.” said Lightbox co-founders Jonathan Chinn and Simon Chinn in a statement. “The documentary community has a rich tradition of embracing creative voices from a wide array of demographics and perspectives, but there is clearly more work for us to do to support African-American and filmmakers from minority communities who want to express themselves through the powerful medium of documentary story telling.”
The inaugural Feature Documentary Competition, which is being sponsored by National Geographic and 21st Century Fox, is part of a larger initiative created by ABFF and Lightbox to promote diversity in documentary films.
According to ABFFVentures.com, the submission guidelines and eligibility rules are as follows:
- Open to African American documentary filmmakers and others interested in exploring non-fiction stories and themes that speak directly to the African-American experience.
- Filmmakers must complete and submit the official entry form, downloadable from www.abffventures.com/films, along with the following two items which complete a single “proposal.”
- a 1-3 page documentary feature film treatment (.pdf file). Written treatments are to clearly articulate the narrative and creative ambition of the documentary.
- a 2-5 minute “proof of concept reel” (in the form of a standard digital video file, protected by a password). The reel must clearly demonstrate the proposed feature documentary in any manner the applicant feels is relevant. Proof of concept reel may include original or 3rd party footage for the purposes of illustrating the story, themes and style of the proposed documentary
- Filmmakers may submit up to three (3) proposals each.
- All film proposals must be wholly originated by the applicant and cannot have received any funding prior to submission.
- Filmmakers must submit proposals to docs@abffventures.com by no later than July 30, 2017.
- Three semi-finalists will be selected, followed by one winner who will receive the opportunity to enter into a development deal with ABFF Films and Lightbox (Fall 2017).
For full details, visit www.abffventures.com/films/. The deadline for entry is July 30.
(Photo courtesy of ABFF)Writer: Robert Venditti / Artist: Ethan Van Sciver / DC Comics
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps is turning into that biweekly book that plays with my emotions every week. Robert Venditti has built up so much character development and mythos on a house of cards and he seems to be having a blast pulling the bottom out and watching it all fall down. This book has been mostly good but it is about to get serious.
Issue #24 sees the tension between the Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps coming to an irreversible head. There’s no coming back from this point and Venditti lets all of this drama unfold like a cartoon snowball down the hill that’s just going to run over everything eventually. I haven’t really even cared for the Soranik storyline that much but the explosive payoff was well worth it. The idea that there’s a little bit of Sinestro in Soranik no matter what she does or how high her morals are is a wonderfully psychotic little concept to play with. The suspense of whether or not John Stewart will be able to maintain the ethical standard he’s established in the face of turmoil and chaos is immensely intriguing. This is the kind of conflict that is the true test of a leader, so I’m excited to see how he comes out on the other side.
Ethan Van Sciver didn’t do such a horrible job this week, but honestly, his artwork clears that bar by just not being a complete train wreck. Still, it wasn’t as good as last week’s complete departure from his usual misshapen Isle of Dr. Moreau characters. Even with that in mind, it’s nice that there some degree of consistency involved in the visuals from week to week lately.
Bottom Line: Venditti is still killing it, y’all. This is the kind of tension the Green Lantern books had been missing for a while. I’m excited to see how this leads up to the upcoming New Gods storyline.
8 Disappointed Tomar-Re Faces out of 10
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Marvel Comics releases teaser trailer for their GENERATIONS series – coming this August. More information and the trailer below courtesy of their press release.
Marvel Releases New GENERATIONS TEASER TRAILER!
This August, prepare for Marvel’s GENERATIONS!
New York, NY—July 13, 2017—In a flash, the Marvel heroes are offered a gift: to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who came before them! Today, Marvel is excited to release a GENERATIONS TEASER TRAILER!
The stories of GENERATIONS begin at the Vanishing Point where time has no meaning, and these epic tales offer fans a direct bridge and prelude into the senses-shattering Marvel Legacy, as the challenges and revelations of GENERATIONS will alter the destinies of our heroes moving forward in a dramatic fashion!
Be there for the can’t-miss 10-issue weekly series beginning this August! To find a comic shop near you, visit www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook.
To find a comic shop near you, visit www.comicshoplocator.com
or simply chat with some of your favorite heroes with Marvel’s chatbot accessible through Twitter and Facebook
About Marvel Entertainment
Marvel, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy-five years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing.
For more information visit marvel.com.
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