the beginnings of SoulLyric...

Kirei Na's birthday was just a few days before the New Year, providing the perfect opportunity for a Pangea's Garden gathering. And what started out as an Open Mic event, quickly became a night of intimate and passionate verse, setting the tone for events in the future.

I've included a few captures of the event along with one spoken words musings brought to us by ButtahFly. You can see more captures, another video and some paparazzi-style shots PangeasGarden.com's newly founded blog.

This was the Garden's first public event and we have planned another for Wednesday Jan 27 (THIS WEEK); thus marking one of the several endeavors we will be embarking on in 2010.

Another of the changes is that this will be the last full entry of the blog here. From now on it will continue at PangeasGarden.com and we hope you will continue to follow us there.

And in the coming months we will reach beyond our home in Atlanta to other cities and towns asking them to join us in the Garden. And if you haven't joined us, yet, we reach out to you now and ask you to sign up with us here.

Many blessing to you.

-Vincent

You are invited...

This our first public get-together and we hope you can make it out. One the EarthSistas in the Garden will be celebrating her birthday and we are asking anyone who wants to do so, to get on the mic as part of the party. We are supposed to be creating some captures and maybe some moving pictures as well so it should be pretty exciting.

Marlo, the EarthSistas Model Coordinator is one of the key folks involved in organizing the event but there are others involved as well. She is the contact for questions as well as letting us know if you want to be on the mic and you contact her at 678.643.1205.

For more details about the event check here. It on Wednesday, Dec 30 (the day before New Years Eve) and I hope to see you there

-Vincent

We have been busy!!!!

So it seemed like the right time to relax a little and have our very first offline gathering...

A bunch of us checking out the our creations on the web!

Every time I meet with someone about the Project there's never more than 4 people in room. Even though there have been so many who have expressed interests, provided provocative commentary, striking images and beautiful poetry, still we've always congregated in small groups here and there...

Tamara Natalie Madden - Artist and Photographer

Shay - A Potential EarthSista for the Garden

Clockwise from top left - Marlo-PG's Model Coordinator, Tamara, Grace-Photographer and Painter, PrettyBlak-EarthSista in the Garden

Its my fault really. I am a shy person by nature (even though nobody believes it) and this started out as me wanting to create images and share thoughts on women of colour and their natural beauty. I like to talk a lot (which is why nobody thinks I am shy) so I really enjoyed finding out other thoughts, visions and perceptions on the subject. And while I know nearly everyone who has contributed thought and vision to the Project, it was still very exciting having so many of us in the same room.

Thrasher - Animator and Model, we tossed around a few ideas about an upcoming project in the Garden

Coco - an Upcoming EarthSista in the Garden

LeiCole - Poet and Editorial Contributor

I hope to do it again soon. I hope we can host or sponsor events that exalt Afrocentric beauty and sensuality offline the same we do it online: in the form celebration. I hope we get the chance to participate in offline events all over the country. Most of all, I hope we get the chance to have as much fun together offline as we do online.

John Washington Jr & friend - John is a talented photographer who provided his studio for the event

L-to-R: LeiCole, Nobella and Amber, tossing around ideas

Ernest McClendon, cartoonist working on a project for the Garden

Nobella and Amber

Andre and Omar-RepJA in the House!

Great fun was had by all!

Personally, I'd love to meet each and every one of you.

Peace.

-Vincent