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Style – Music – Culture
A Party Celebrating Us
The President’s Black & Bold Party is a celebration of our culture, a convening of proud people, and a style statement set to the music of DJ KB at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center.
Come together, dance, dress your best, and start the holiday season!
Enjoy Teenie Harris and James Van Der Zee style photo backdrops to capture your memories of the night.
FEATURING DJ KB
Guest Chef in the CAFÉ with Food for Sale
Cash Bar
Open Galleries
POP UP Coffee Bar by Café Ase
Special Holiday Market with Select vendors
NAACP, 100 Black Men, PWN, Greenwood Plan, State Farm-Kim DeHonney Wilson
This is a 21+ event.
Tickets: $35 in advance, $40 at the door
Style theme: Black and/or Bold colors, Black and white Teenie Harris fashion photos, the stylish men and women of Les Sapeurs of the Congo (the Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant People), African fabrics, the Harlem Renaissance
Pittsburgh style sources: Knotzland Bowties, Janis B. et Al. Millinery, Fashion Africana
Special thanks to Black & Bold Party hosts: Thomas Agnew, Emmai Alaquiva, Terri Bell, Nisha Blackwell, Barata Bey, Demeatria Boccella, Brian Burley, Ondrea Burton, Tenel Dorsey, Kathy Fitzgerald, Ola Jackson, AJ Jefferson, KiKi B. Jones, Jase Jones, Tyi-Sanna Jones, Fife Myers, Debbie Norrell, K Chase Patterson, Claudy Pierre, Clyde Pickett, Kendra Ross, Howard Russell, Brenda Tate, Phillip “DJ Big Phill” Thompson, Deryck Tines, Al Valentine, Felicity Williams