HND Sponsorship
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 and in 2004 our 2nd Annual was held at Nubian Village Academy, Richmond Virginia’s premier African Centered School.
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.
Our marketing program has strengthened each year with a wider and wider range being reached through print, web and radio media. Happily Natural Day appeals to the mainstream because natural hair care & spoken word poetry is “trendy” today , however, by saturating Happily Natural Day with artists & scholars who are about the mission of social change through not only their words but through their works, deeds, and actions we present natural hair & spoken word through a lens undistorted by commercialism & capitalism. At our festivals you find aficionados of spoken word, specialists in natural hair care, activists, organic farmers, spiritual teachers, students, children, entrepreneurs, politicians, musicians, visual artists, from as far north as New York City and as far south as Miami. Each year our attendance has grown, from 2003 reaching close to 300 patrons at the Black History Museum & Cultural Center to close to 600 in 2004 at Nubian Village Academy. Our flyers & posters have reached walls of restaurants, black owned bookstores & culture shops in Richmond, Tidewater, DC, and Baltimore and the response from these areas have been tremendous.
With your support we can reach an even wider audience, your financial, in-kind, and volunteer contributions will allow us the opportunity to finance even greater print, radio & web promotions for Happily Natural Day, secure lodging & transportation for lecturers and artists, allow for a larger festival space through the use of outdoor tents for vendors & provide staging plus sound equipment for musicians to perform during the day. Through the spirit of our ancestors that fought to raise our consciousness and free our bodies, minds and souls we use Happily Natural Day to reach & bridge the gaps in the black community and invite those who feel the spirit of the ancestors calling, to join the movement to reclaim, reawaken, and resurrect the collective greatness of Afrikan people worldwide.
If you are interested in supporting Happily Natural Day by being a sponsor, please contact us, every dime you contribute goes to enhancing the festival. We will be happy to send you more information if required. Donations to Happily Natural Day are tax-deductible. Please make checks payable to UNIA-ACL.
HAPPILY NATURAL DAY SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
PLATINUM $1,000
GOLD $500
SILVER $250
For More Information please email: hndsupport at gmail.com
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