The City of West Hollywood celebrates Black History Month with several events held throughout the month. Black History Month recognizes, celebrates, and honors the rich and diverse history and important contributions and achievements of African Americans, and is observed annually during the month of February.
On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, at 7:30 p.m., join Still Bisexual for a virtual Black LGBTQ Wellness Event, Sacred Space. This event begins with a liberating, guided meditation from Dr. Falami – a Holistic Human Development Strategist, Womanist, and poet – and will be followed by a guided motivational yoga practice with Samora. This virtual event will fuse motivational affirmations with specific yoga sequences to stimulate positive thinking, push physical limitations, and release emotional blockages. The event will take virtually and is free. Register in advance of the event at https://tinyurl.com/sacredspaceweho.
On Saturday, February 19, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., visit the Black Women Lead Pop-Up Market in Plummer Park. This free, open-air event will feature Black vendors, panelists, and performers, providing the community with the opportunity to celebrate Black History Month in West Hollywood. This event will take place at the Plummer Park lawn, located at 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard. In the interest of public health, this event may be moved to a virtual space if it is deemed necessary by public health officials. Attendees are advised to be fully vaccinated, wear face masks, and maintain physical distancing whenever possible. Any changes of event updates will be provided on the City’s website calendar at www.weho.org/calendar.
Additional programming during the month of February includes:
- The City of West Hollywood Moving Image Media Art (MIMA) program worldwide debut of BLACK.ECO, a film from director and choreographer Shauna Davis. The film will be displayed for ten-and-a-half minutes at the top of every hour on the Netflix Invisible Frame billboard, located at 8743 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip beginning Wednesday, February 2, 2022. Shauna Davis’ original film BLACK.ECO is a multidimensional Afrofuturist journey through space and time. Using movement and positivity as battering rams to destroy tired oppressive tropes, Davis spreads magical light and reveals the exquisite hope of abundance. By subverting Black existential narratives, Davis resets racist fictions with images that should be within the cultural lexicon (intimate, happy, unremarkable moments in Black lives), but aren’t. Pulsating through these stories are images of love, history, and connection; demonstrating the powerful gravitational pull that joy creates.
- The City of West Hollywood free Human Rights Speakers Series virtual panel discussion: My Name is Pauli Murray: Exploring Race and Gender Equity. Join a conversation around race, gender equity, and gender identity in Participant and Amazon’s new documentary My Name is Pauli Murray. A pioneering attorney, social justice activist, and priest, Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray shaped landmark litigation – and consciousness – around race and gender equity. The virtual panel discussion will be livestreamed on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 6 p.m. Registration is requested via Eventbrite: https://hrss-2022feb15.eventbrite.com. For details and more information, visit www.weho.org/hrss. A URL link to the livestream will be sent to those who register.
For information, please contact City of West Hollywood Community Programs Coordinator Moya Márquez at mmarquez@weho.org or (323) 848-6574. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.
The City of West Hollywood remains in a declared local emergency in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. West Hollywood City Hall is open for in-person transactions by appointment; to make an appointment, visit www.weho.org/appointments. City Hall services remain accessible by phone at (323) 848-6400 and via the City’s website at www.weho.org. City of West Hollywood coronavirus information is available at www.weho.org/coronavirus.
Nobody cares, quit wasting our money.
Let’s see, the city can have in person programming for black history month but can’t for the Holocaust Remembrance. Guess it pays to have your wife as a Counciltwit.
Why do you care? Worry about Florida and your Nazi rallies.
He’s upset that weho did not acknowledge Holocaust Remembrance Day. Can you not comprehend that?
Weho did acknowledge Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Can you not comprehend that?
I own property in the city which gives me a right to comment you old green haired queen troll. Now go polish that pearl necklace you purchased yesterday.
You don’t live here. Worry about all the nazi rallies in your own state. Why are nazis so attracted to Florida?
Dude you need to tone down your rhetoric.
How does yoga celebrate and honor the triumphs and struggles of Africa Americans throughout U.S. history? Black History Month is a time to recognize the contributions of African Americans to U.S. history. There are countless of African Americans who have made an impact in history that all of us could learn more about. West Hollywood missed an opportunity by allowing this yoga event to happen.
Perfect illustration of Black History Month Lite. The seriousity of the subject matter seems far beyond the consciousness of Ms. Shyne, Ms Ashlei and Ms. Morton who simply see an immediate vehicle for their self aggrandizement . Ms. Morton’s Black Women Lead appears to have been a cc of a greater movement and no longer has an IG or website while claiming to be a 501c3. Hmmmmmm.
Seems like the self aggrandizement may reach beyond BWL to the various BLM statewide organizations and their leaders. Developing story and not a pretty one.
Shyne, Horvath and Erickson can celebrate Black History Month without masks on. The new John Hopkins report said the shut down was a total Fauci fiasco and ruined businesses in WEHO. Our lives have been controlled by a collection of dreadful loathsome political hacks like White Laundry Newsome and the local hacks in the County of Los Angeles and right here in West Hollywood. Like having the totally incompetent Lindsay Horvath as Mayor. A gender studies major!
Celebrating black history month in WeHo, “the segregated City”.
Wow you’ve managed to make this all about you- a white man.
Tired of playing the victim yet?
People declining vaccines or who can’t be for medical or religious reasons are overwhelmingly working poor, black, Latino, & young people. Ad hominem suits weak minds.
Black History Month is not about your anti-vaxx agenda.
It’s not about your mandate cult obsession either.
That’s it? This is basically a bunch of college campus support groups. In Inglewood, they’re hosting an entrepreneur expo, which sounds so much more useful than these events – we need more Black owned businesses.
Hasn’t it been black history month for two years? Enough already. Native Americans deserve this kind of respect and what do they get… a day?
They get a month also. Stop being ignorant.
Don’t let this angry city hall employee bully you Bob.