#Standing4BlackGirls Music and Poetry Festival

The #Standing4BlackGirls Music and Poetry concert festival will feature original multi-genre music and spoken word performances by Black female-identifying and queer artists. Headlined by internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter-guitarist Malina Moye, the event will raise awareness about disproportionate gender-based violence experienced by Black women and girls in L.A. County and beyond, while providing powerful testimony to the lived experiences and creativity of local and national Black women artists, musicians, and BIPOC community allies. This event is sponsored by the Women's Leadership Project, a Black feminist mentoring, advocacy and civic engagement organization based in Los Angeles, in partnership with Black Skeptics Los Angeles.

Featured musicians include Mystical Joyride, Naomi Wilson, Sonja Rene, Tamia Elliott, AYEL, Javen Lara, Ella Faye, the Maurock Music Academy, the WLP tribe, Ife Jie and DJ Killa Hutch.

This all ages event is sponsored by Black Skeptics Los Angeles and is partly made possible by a grant from the Culver City Cultural Affairs Commission. Free parking is available at the Glorya Kaufman Center.

Doors open at 3pm. This all ages event is free and open to the public. Suggested donations can be made via Humanitx or https://womensleadershipla.org/donate/

Concert schedule:

Opening Block

• 3:00 PM -- Doors Open

• 4:30 PM – Opening reception welcome and spinning by DJ Killa Hutch (indoor theater)

Performances – Block 1 (theater)

• 5:00 PM – Mystical Joyride band

• 5:25 PM – Ella, Javen, Tamia and AYEL

• 5:50 PM – Maurock Music Academy youth

• 6:15 PM – Naomi Renae Wilson

Intermission

• 6:40 PM – Intermission Begins

• 6:55 PM – Intermission Ends

Performances – Block 2 (theater)

• 7:00 PM – WLP students 

• 7:10 PM -- Sikivu Hutchinson and Maurock 

• 7:20 PM -- Jessica Robinson (spoken word)

• 7:30 PM – Ife Jie 

• 7:40 PM – Sonja Marie 

• 7:50 PM – Transition Break

• 8:00 PM – Malina Moye

• 8:20 PM -- Closing #Standing4BlackGirls WLP tribe