Happily Natural Day is an African Heritage festival committed to cultural awareness, holisitic health and social change. Happily Natural promotes the natural beauty of African people. Our festival features workshops, lectures, music and merchants with one of a kind products from around the globe. Our mission is to raise consciousness in the African community.Patrons of the Richmond Noir Market will have the opportunity to participate in a weekly market featuring arts, crafts, plus health and body care products in addition to fresh produce from local organic farms. Educational opportunities will be made available to patrons in the areas of holistic health and small business administration to encourage optimum physical and fiscal health in the community. Businesses will be provided the opportunity to promote their products & services on a weekly basis via exhibitor booths at affordable, accessible rates. Businesses may also become sponsors and take advantage of print, radio, web and television advertising opportunities used to market Richmond Noir Market; while simultaneously raising awareness and educating the community of the importance of holistic health, entrepreneurship & economic empowerment. Read More About Happily Natural CSA
Happily Natural Day: August 13-15, 2010 and August 27-29, 2010
Happily Natural is now entering it’s 7th year. Since 2003 we have promoted natural hair, social change, cultural awareness and holistic health. We can’t wait to see you this summer!
Love of Blackness is a revolutionary action
Happily Natural Day is an event that promotes love and pride in being of African descent. Festival attendees can participate in workshops, lectures, shop in our african marketplace for one of a kind art, jewelry, body and haircare products & edutain themselves through the socially conscious messages delivered by artists from around the globe.
Happily Natural is also looking for high quality exhibits for it’s annual celebration taking place this August.
The People Are looking for natural hair & skin products, original fashion & accessories, DVDs & books, arts & crafts, wellness products, financial planning, community based organizations, alternative health practitioners, healthy food choices & more at this event. The Black Dollar is the foundation for the betterment of our communities. African Americans spend $744 billion dollars annually yet most of that amount is spent with ethnic groups other than our own. As a result, we remain dependent while European & Asian owned businesses profit daily from our pathology.
Vending at HND is a great way to promote your business, network and make a profit all at one time.
Happily Natural Purpose
The purpose of Happily Natural Day is to raise black awareness and cultivate unity & solidarity within the African community. Our goal is accomplished by using spoken word poetry & music along with lectures & workshops to transmit uplifting, educational, and socially conscious messages to the masses at large. Our festivals are always pro-community, and we have stayed true to course in supporting black institutions at each of our former & future celebrations. In 2003, our premiere was held at The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia.
Happily Natural Day’s thematic and overall marketing aspect is targeted to the natural hair care industry & the conscious community of which we reach a target audience of African men & women ages 18 to 55. The utilization of natural hair care as a thematic has a multi-faceted benefit. First it opens a dialogue on one of the ever-present distresses caused by Post Traumatic Slave Disorder (PTSD) the inferiority complex as identified by psychologist Kenneth Clark and remarked on by Afrikan scholar warriors throughout history such as Marcus Garvey, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Assata Shakur, and Llaila Afrika. Secondly, it allows the conscious community to inter-relate across regional divides, socioeconomic divides, ideological and age divides for the sole purpose of upliftment in a way that is innovative and ever-expansive in methods of application. Fusing music & lectures together we have taken two aspects of Afrikan culture that have always served as means to transmit information from the griots & kemetic priests of our ancestry to the Last Poets & Dr. John Henrik Clarke now, the spoken word has always served as a timeless method to re-iterate where we as a people should be going and what we should be doing to further progress in our community both inwardly and externally.
Vendors May Register Online by Following These Simple Steps
Step 1:Download and Complete the Vendor Application
Step 2:Complete the Form & Mail in Your Application
Step 3:Submit Your Payment Via Paypal
Your Financial Support Makes This Possible
Contribution amount: $10000$5000$2500$500
- Select Contribution Type:
- Vendor Registration Sponsorship Donate
- Please Select An One:
- $150.00: HND RVA 1 Day $250.00: 2 Day Discount $150.00: HND ATL $300.00: RVA Food Vending $125.00: ATL Food Vending
- Contribution Amount: $
- Happily Natural Day Fees
- Vendor Registration
- Happily Natural Sponsorship
Ann
I live in the atlanta area and plan to attend the event. I am not a stylist, but I am natural and wanted to know if u are in need of volunteers? If so, I am available on that saturday. Please email me with your response.
If you wish to volunteer, click on the following link for more information:
http://happilynaturalday.com/
Please supply information as to where this event will be held, can’t find it ANYWHERE!!
For information on where each event will be held, here is the following:
The Atlanta, Georgia Event will be held between August 13-15, 2010.
The Richmond, Virgina Event will be held between August 27-29, 2010.
For more information, especially on the Richmond Noir Market Event, click on the following link:
http://happilynaturalday.com/
Hope that helps.