Join us in celebration of
Black PRIDE
Black JOY
Black EXCELLENCE

August 19, 2023
11 am — 7 pm
Alton Baker Park
Eugene, Oregon

2023 Theme: Lifting as We Rise

Come join us!

Youth and Elders are free
Adult ticket $15 donation, no one of Afro descent turned away for lack of funds
Kids eat free (17 and under)
You can show up and buy a ticket at the event
Help support us by buying a ticket now

Local Black Excellence

The Black Cultural Festival is a day for people of Afro descent, our families, and close friends to join together in celebration of our vibrant culture and community. It is an event created for us by us, and supported by organizations, companies, and people like you – who want to aid in unifying and uplifting our local Black community.

Please join us on August 19, 2023, 11am – 7pm.
Gates open at 10am

Please consider financially supporting this event by donating money, products or services , or sponsoring.

If you are a black business, artist or organization and you wish to have a booth or table at this event to showcase your product or services visit our Vendors Page.

The Festival is a production of
The Black Cultural Initiative

To cultivate a healthy and connected Black community in Eugene and beyond by creating welcoming spaces that attract Black people,
while also centering and celebrating our culture.

2023 Festival Countdown

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“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”

~June Jordan

“You need not carry the heavy, hollow burden of racism any longer.”

~Jesse Williams

“In the world you know, there’s a million boys and girls who are young, gifted and black, and that’s a fact.”

~a Nina Simone song, from Lorraine Hansberry’s play

“Give light, and people will find the way.”

~Ella Baker

“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.”

~James Baldwin

“To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.”

~Jane Elliott

“Healing is a practice. It’s not a one-time thing.”

~Marnita Schroedl

“I love my people. And I love all people.”

~Black Elder

“Turn your wound into wisdom.”

~Oprah Winfrey

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

~Malcolm X

“Healing is not just about what we experience in the present, it’s also about how we understand the past, how we name our histories and frame the times in which we live.”

~Susan Raffo

“Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you.”

~Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah

“Sometimes you have to raise a little hell to get some heaven.”

~Joe Madison

“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

~Fannie Lou Hamer

“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

~Audre Lorde

“Healing must be collective.”

~William Oliver

“The triumph can’t be had without the struggle.”

~Wilma Rudolph

“I love being Black! Racism and white supremacy is what it is. I still love being Black.”

~Kokayi Nosakhere

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Healing isn’t fully healing if it doesn’t in some way connect the individual to the community.”

~Susan Raffo

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

~Rosa Parks

Join us in celebration of
Black PRIDE
Black JOY
Black EXCELLENCE

August 19, 2023
11 am — 7 pm
Alton Baker Park
Eugene, Oregon

2023 Theme: Lifting as We Rise

Come join us!

Local Black Excellence

To cultivate a healthy and connected Black community in Eugene and beyond by creating welcoming spaces that attract Black people,
while also centering and celebrating our culture.

PREMIER SPONSOR

TIER 3 SPONSORS

TIER 2 SPONSORS

TIER 1 SPONSORS

ANGEL DONORS

PARTNERS

SPECIALS THANKS TO

PRODUCED BY BLACK CULTURAL INITIATIVE

Join us in celebration ofBlack PRIDE Black JOY Black EXCELLENCE

August 19, 202311 am — 7 pmAlton Baker ParkEugene, Oregon

2023 Theme: Lifting as We Rise

Come join us!

Local Black Excellence

To cultivate a healthy and connected Black community in Eugene and beyond by creating welcoming spaces that attract Black people,while also centering and celebrating our culture.

PREMIER SPONSOR

TIER 3 SPONSORS

TIER 2 SPONSORS

TIER 1 SPONSORS

ANGEL DONORS

PARTNERS

SPECIALS THANKS TO

PRODUCED BY BLACK CULTURAL INITIATIVE

Join us in celebration of
Black PRIDE
Black JOY
Black EXCELLENCE

August 19, 2023
11 am — 7 pm
Alton Baker Park
Eugene, Oregon

To cultivate a healthy and connected Black community in Eugene and beyond by creating welcoming spaces that attract Black people,
while also centering and celebrating our culture.