One of many Blackest occasions within the southeast is returning for the fifth 12 months in a row, themed throughout durags.
The 2023 Durag Pageant is returning to Charlotte, North Carolina, and is anticipated to have hundreds attend. Topped the “Met Gala of durags,” the competition was began in 2018 by artists Damnit Wesley and Lisa Michelle to ” make Juneteenth essentially the most celebrated vacation on Earth.”
Beginning on June 18, this 12 months’s lineup features a day social gathering, durag exhibit, film evening, and creatives mixer. Individuals will expertise tunes from a few of the greatest DJs, together with DJ B-Man, Micki Blendz, and DJ Beezie Beatz, and the chance to run with the favored Charlotte-based train membership, Mad Miles Membership.
The rollout for the occasion was nothing wanting inventive. The group hosted a durag photograph stroll with photographers Mike Jones, Sir Will, and Marc Cosper to get individuals within the metropolis and surrounding areas overvalued. In a daring public service announcement, Wesley gave quite a few the reason why Black individuals and others must be in attendance this 12 months. “Your favourite meals truck, wing truck, and halal truck finna be there. Bacardi and Patron stated they coming via. The Charlotte Soccer Membership stated they finna run decide up video games within the car parking zone,” Wesley stated.
“Crimson Bull referred to as final month and informed the group we wasn’t partying exhausting sufficient, they wanna give us wings…and go- karts for some purpose. We gotta arcade. We gotta Digital Artwork Exhibition.”
Georgia Black-owned brewery, Hippin Hops Brewery, partnered with the curators for a branded beer that will likely be available through the durag-themed celebration.
Tickets are on sale for some listed occasions, however most are free for everybody.
