Events

Artists, performers, vendors and volunteers are invited to participate in The 6th Annual African Village Festival.

This unique arts festival is a family-friendly event offering Live Performances, Visual Art Exhibitions, and a Studio Live Space with exciting art workshops, Community art projects, Drum Circles, Traditional African Ceremonies, as well as an great Artist / Vendor marketplace.

Urban Cultural Arts Foundation (UCAF) presentsr its 6th Annual African Village Arts Festival Saturday, August 18th from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM at Old Central Community House, 1251 Bryden Road, Columbus 43205, next to Kwanzaa Playground and across the William H. Thomas Art Gallery.

This year AVAF spectacle emphasis Columbus bicentennial – 200Columbus – and will illuminate our past, present and future. The festival is sponsored in parts by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, Chase Bank and 200Columbus

“Charles Tolliver is a truly great innovative artist, one of Diz’s (Gillespie) freshest and most skilled progeny in all aspects, compositionally, orchestration, and conducting,” to quote poet and author Amiri Baraka.

Tolliver and his sixteen piece Big Band will be performing for the first time in Brooklyn at this extraordinary benefit for Sistas’ Place. The concert will feature the music of John Coltrane's Africa Brass. Tolliver's Big Band will feature in the rhythm section: George Cables, Devin Starks, Jason Brown; saxophones: Bill Saxton, Marcus Strickland, Howard Johnson, Bruce Williams, Todd Bashon; trumpets: Chris Albert, Freddie Hendrix, David Weiss; Trombones: Jason Jackson, Michael Dease, Stafford Hunter, and Aaron Johnson.

Don't miss this very special event to be held at 966 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. Sets are 8 & 10 pm. For more information call Sistas’ Place at (718) 398-1766.

EXTENDED OFFER!
Due to the overwhelming response to the Perfect Pitch Contest. We have extended the uploading of videos to Friday, August 31, 2012. This is the last and final date. The Perfect Pitch Contest is schedule to happen in September 2012. If you want to register for this contest. You must open up a page on the site. Upload your 60 second or less video and put your executive summary on your blog page. To be consider as a contestants. http://perfectpitchcontest.com/

Join us in the informational packed event. Gain an abundance of marketing knowledge to take your next marketing campaign to the next level.

You will hear from Experts with more than 20 years combined experience in the marketing field.

Get your tickets and invite your friends. You want to share this with a fellow entrepreneur.

Networking | Education | Marketing Hot Seats | Hors d’oeuvres and | Membership Registration | Powerful Networking

This historical conference event is designed to strategically leverage direct interaction with the more than 100 government and business delegates from Botswana who represent more than ten industry sectors including Health, Real Estate, Education, Banking and Finance, Diamond Mining, Transport, Non-Bank Financial Services, Innovation, and Tourism. Representatives at the highest levels of government and private companies including the Ministers of Trade and Industry and the Chief Executive Officers and Managing Directors of several private organizations are confirmed attendees.

Source:
GlobalAtlanta | 659 Auburn Avenue | Suite 119 | Atlanta | GA | 30312

DAY 3!

10,000 IN PRIZES!
Guest judges for the Perfect Pitch Contest include:
Leonard E. Burnett Jr. , Co-CEO & Group Publisher, Uptown Media Group & Vibe Lifestyle Network and Wendi Caplan-Carroll, Constant Contact Regional Dev Dir, NY Metro.

Have you upload your 30 second to 1 minute business pitch and Executive Summary? It's not to late to enter the contest.

Go to: http://perfectpitchcontest.com/

To buy tickets click on the link for NSN Members.  For non NSN members please click on the link below:  http://tinyurl.com/cwzbo3a

National Sales Network Annual Gala - June 21, 2012

The NSN Mission:
Is to meet the professional and developmental needs of African-American sales and sales management professionals.

PARTNERS:
ADP
Johnson & Johnson
Medtronic
NBC Universal
Pitney & Bowes
State Farm Insurance
United Health Group

Join us for an evening of joy, celebration and reflection toasting
Tony Bates, former General Manager of Pacifica WBAI Radio.

Food by Organic Soul Café


Vegetarian Dinner                $15
Wild Alaskan Salmon                $20
Drink with dinner free: Spearmint, Tangerine, Peppermint Water or a
glass of wine

Music: Tony on the Guitar, others invited for open mike jam session.
Dancing into the night. Let us, the 99% together, toast Tony for bringing Occupy Wall Street to WBAI Community Radio.

RSVP 212-677-1863

Adrian Hawkins, President, NSN, NJ/NY Chapter cordially invites you ...

Topic: Thu 6/14 @ 7pm - NSN "Become a Member" Webinar - $20 Gift Card to 1st 20 Non-Member NJ/NY Chapter Participants !!!
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Meeting Number: 732 897 030
Meeting Password: chapteroftheyear

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To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!)
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1. Go to https://freetrial.webex.com/freetrial/j.php?ED=191715477&UID=1088755992&PW=NNzk0ZmI1ZjU5&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D 
2. If requested, enter your name and email address.
3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: chapteroftheyear
4. Click "Join".
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link:
https://freetrial.webex.com/freetrial/j.php?ED=191715477&UID=1088755

MBE Venture Weekend™ is a 2.5 day experience giving entrepreneurs, mentors, and technical service providers an atmosphere to freely and purposefully collaborate to create, build, and launch startups. 

This intense, 53 hour event challenges entrepreneurs to develop their ideas for innovative products and services and to build and launch a viable business startup.  Entrepreneurs emerge from the process with a fine-tuned, defensible business strategy, keenly focused, and empowered to pursue their venture.

Join us for this unique experience.

Marketing Mogul seminars series is here. If you are a business owner who wants help creating a powerful marketing strategy, or improve the one you have. Then Derrick M. Guest,winner of the 2011 British Airways Face of Opportunity and the 2011 Charles B. Benenson Project Enterprise Entrepreneur of the Year, of Griot's Roll Film Production wants to help you.  In having a successful marketing strategy Griot's Roll has been able to grow its business. Now we want to help you to grow yours. 

Marketing Mogul workshops:

The Bronx: Workshops are Sold Out.
Sign up for Brooklyn Workshop.

Brooklyn
Rsvp now space is limited:
For more information contact:
Phone: 347-823-5700 ext.25,
E-mail: dale_charles@prattarea.org website: www.prattarea.org (Fee $15.00)

Wednesday, May 30th
Wednesday,June 6th
Wednesday,June 13 th
Wednesday, June 20 th
4 Part Seminar Series 

Who Should Attend: Entrepreneurs looking to improve or create a marketing strategy. 

What You Will Learn: Branding, analytic marketing techniq

Greetings Everyone,

I have been nominated for the BLACK STREET's 1st Annual Awards Ceremony: "Black Celebration". Please circulate the link on your FB page to vote for me. All that is required is simply a click on my name Eula M. Young on the poll. Voters can vote once every single day. Please vote for me every day! Please my picture in our album on our Facebook page! The voting process ends August 13th, 2012!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT, BLESSINGS ~Eula~

Poll link(s) are:
http://blackcelebrationawards.wordpress.com/businesss-nominees/

the purpose of this workshop is to assist individuals who are suffering frompersonal loss and grief by helping them uderstand the five stages of grief while offering them solutions that will assist in emotional healing.

log onto  http://upandcomingtoday.com/After_The_Storm_DKOM.html

for more details:

Thanks and Be Blessed!

              ~Author T. B. Williams

Monroe College Annex will be hosting a panel discuss for business owners and entrepreneurs in celebration of Bronx Week and Internet Week

Among the panelist:                                                                                                   Johanna Espinosa, JDis a faculty member of Monroe College and the Executive Director of Monroe College Small Business Development Center

Derrick M. Guest, CEOGriot's Roll Film Production & Services Inc., a video marketing company.  2011 Charles B. Benenson Project Enterprise Entrepreneur of the Year and the 2011 British Airways Face of Opportunity. 

Tyreek Moore, Founder                                                                                           Absolutions IT, LLC an information technology consulting firm dedicated to providing incredible solutions and customer service to public and private sector clients.

Gluseppe Turitto, Web Application                                                                         Architect,

Dr. Seshatms Maatnefert-Naturopath

Founder of “You Are Harmony” & “Celebration of The Total Woman”

presents at Historic Event

Dr. Seshatms has been a leading Wellness Consultant & Practitioner for The Queen Afua Wellness Institute Community since 1998. She has been invited to this historic event to present and speak. She presents in the first half as one of the Teachers in the Woman Heal Thyself Training and as a Specialist in Harmony Wellness where she will offer her trainings-"Celebration of The Total Woman" and "Harmony Body Talk" in the new City of Wellness University.

MAN HEAL THYSELF FAMILY

HEALING DAY

NEW BOOK RELEASE By Queen Afua : MAN HEAL THYSELF 

HOSTED BY BROTHER ALI THE GREAT & KEYNOTE PRESENTER: QUEEN AFUA

MAN HEAL THYSELF PRESENTERS:

WANIQUE SHABAZZ (C.O.W. UNIVERSITY KEYNOTE), SUPA NOVA SLOM, LLYOD STRAYHORN, BOB LAW, KATRIEL WISE, JESSE BROWN, HERU UR NEKHET, OSAYANDE ANGAZA, CHRIS KAZI ROLLE

WOMAN HEAL THYSELF PRESENTERS:
DR. BERNADETTE SHERIDAN, DR. ABUT SESHATMS, DIANNA PHAR,

This intense, 53 hour event challenges entrepreneurs to develop their ideas for innovative products and services and to build and launch a viable business startup.  Entrepreneurs emerge from the process with a fine-tuned, defensible business strategy, keenly focused, and empowered to pursue their venture.

MBE Venture Weekend™ is for aspiring entrepreneurs who have an idea for a new business and want to develop their business plans, raise capital, and launch a micro business enterprise. Existing small business owners who want to improve their business and raise capital will also benefit from completing the weekend.