Wednesday, April 24, 2024 7pm to 8:30pm
About this Event
701 Warren Wilson Rd Swannanoa NC 28778
The Queer Resource Center and the WIDE Office are teaming up to bring the award-winning documentaryΒ Black Rainbow LoveΒ to campus.Β Black Rainbow LoveΒ unmutes and amplifies the voices of the Black LGBTQ+ community for everyone to hear, learn, and grow from. You'll laugh out loud, silently relate, outwardly embrace, and inwardly feel empowered and encouraged by their truths, lives, and stories. Our shared stories can save souls!Β In addition to the documentary screening, we are hostingΒ Angela Harvey (writer, producer, and director of Black Rainbow Love) for the entire day, including a lunchtime panel discussion.
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From her website: "Angela Harvey grew up in Cleveland, Ohio but currently resides in Wake Forest, NC. She is no stranger to being in front of and behind the camera and is usually holding a microphone. Ms. Harvey, a proud and never closeted lesbian is a motivational speaker, counselor, and a self-identified GROWTHologist; helping GROWING folks GROW up. Angela has empowered others via radio; Conversations with Angie Harvey, produced several personal GROWTH videos: Keeping It Real Series, and facilitated hundreds of personal GROWTH workshops, presentations, retreats and keynotes with 60+ organizations, companies, and colleges. On her journey to becoming a storyteller and encouraging others to share their stories she has been privileged to hear some of the greatest romantic love, self love, familial love, platonic love, community love, and spiritual love stories from individuals and couples from around the world. Black Rainbow Love isnβt the first time Angela has created a platform for stories of the Black LGBTQ+ community to be heard; however it is her first time directing and producing a film that creatively compileS them."
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Check out the Black Rainbow Love documentaryΒ websiteΒ for more information, and/or contact Brianna Elise Martin ([email protected]) or JoGo ([email protected]).
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This event is open to everyone!