This past Saturday I celebrated my birthday at The Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia, PA, "a memoir museum, which honors the stories, experiences, and history of Colored Girls." I first visited the private-home-turned-museum last year. It was such an awesome, affirming, and restorative experience, that I knew I had to bring people back with me! My family and friends travelled from DC, Massachusetts, and New Jersey to attend, and everyone was happy they did!
We were treated to a Salon Styled-Guided tour of the current installation, Urgent Care, by the awesome Executive Director and Founder Vashti DuBois. "Urgent Care is A Public Art Performance ----which cast the colored girl simultaneously as first responder and patient."
One of the many poignant things Vashti said during the tour was that everyone tells the Colored Girl to "stay woke", but she believes Colored Girls need to go to sleep and rest up for battle/life. It's so fitting that this week The Colored Girls Museum's Facebook page posted an article about "Lullaby," a beautiful song by the artist TASHA, that both captures Vashti's sentiments, and that could be a perfect soundtrack for Urgent Care. Take a listen, then get yourself to the museum for some healing and love. You may even spot a copy of I Know I Can! somewhere in the museum! ~ Veronica N. Chapman
We were treated to a Salon Styled-Guided tour of the current installation, Urgent Care, by the awesome Executive Director and Founder Vashti DuBois. "Urgent Care is A Public Art Performance ----which cast the colored girl simultaneously as first responder and patient."
One of the many poignant things Vashti said during the tour was that everyone tells the Colored Girl to "stay woke", but she believes Colored Girls need to go to sleep and rest up for battle/life. It's so fitting that this week The Colored Girls Museum's Facebook page posted an article about "Lullaby," a beautiful song by the artist TASHA, that both captures Vashti's sentiments, and that could be a perfect soundtrack for Urgent Care. Take a listen, then get yourself to the museum for some healing and love. You may even spot a copy of I Know I Can! somewhere in the museum! ~ Veronica N. Chapman
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