Afropunk Festival is an annual outdoor-music festival that occurs in Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn. This year, the festival was Saturday, August 26th and Sunday August 27th. Afropunk is an all out celebration that hosts a wide range of musical artists, food trucks, live art, and markets with an array black-owned businesses. Afropunk did not only celebrate life but it inspired people to become involved with its Activism row which featured different non-profit organizations and initiatives to get people involved with their community and the world.

There was so much that Afropunk had to offer and the spirit of freedom and expression was apparent in the fashion of the festival revelers.

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Musical highlights included SZA who rocked the red stage with highlights from her album CTRL.

Solange’s set was also the epitome of class with an ethereal quality to her performance and newcomers like Leikeli47 rocked the stage. Sunday, popular DJ’s like Sango, Kitty Kash and Kaytranada got the crowd pumped with their beats and mixes.

Amazing food trucks lined up and my favorite was definitely CoolHaus Ice cream where I had the chicken and waffles flavour.

Notable marketplace businesses were Cee Cee’s Closet and The Wrap Life where you could purchase Ankara pieces and specifically head wraps with matching chokers.

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Comment down below if you were at Afropunk Fest and your favorite part about festivals!

All around and encompassing the festival were hair exhibits from all of your favorite brands which included Shea moisture, Iman Cosmetics, Tropic Isle Living, Crème of Naure, Mielle Organics, ORS Olive Oil, Phyto Specific, Clairol, Alikay Naturals, Jamaican Black Castor Oil, DeNatural, Palmers, Curls and much more.

Along with exhibits, there were great food trucks with an array of options that included delicacies from Jamaica, Nigeria, and Mexico. In the center of Curl Fest there were dance-offs and the DJ pumped music for the crown. It was an all out celebration of life, beauty, and art.

The celebration definitely encompassed and even surpassed the mission of the curly girl collective, which is to create innovative experiences that harness the energy of the natural hair movement. The inspirational bosses that inspired the Curly Girl Collective movement include media maven Charisse who is the External Relations Specialist, Melody who is the design guru and Creative Director, Tracy who is the Marketing Consultant, Simone who is the Service Systems Analyst and Gia who is the Creative Marketer. It only took an idea and the collaboration of women putting their skill sets together and uplifting each other to create a movement.

What change can you inspire in the world by just embracing your passion and using your skills? What will be your impact and your movement? I think that more women should work with each other and uplift each other and this can only inspire more magic in the world. Collectively, the end product is apparent and we see the vision of this movement. However, what kind of trials are you willing to persevere through to make your own movement?