Events
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Going Natural Hair Show 09
The Pursuit of Nappiness exhibit came to close with a spectacular natural hair show that did more than inspire styles for 09. Khamit Kinks: Kemi, Wendy Williams, Anu Prestonia (Salon owner) and Michelle Brooks.
Going-Natural proudly presents
The baddest hairstyles 09 Without doubt, New York is the world’s capital when it comes to Black hair styling. Now there finally is a hair show that matches the grandeur of the industry’s forerunners’ everlasting creativity.
MY Nappy Roots
As part of the exhibition, we feature the award-winning documentary entitled “My Nappy Roots” this Sunday for free. The stylistic feature-length documentary, celebrates the unique journey of Black hair perfectly compliments the natural hair exhibition.Date November 9, time 2:00 PM and best of all it’s Free!
Fabulous Opening
I like to thank everyone for coming out and making openings night such a success. I truly enjoyed every single moment of sharing my pursuit of nappiness in pictures and words with all of you.
A special gathering
For my Nappturality sisters. New York, NY – November 1st to November 30th 2008 A special gathering for my Nappturality sisters. Let’s just watch our progress in pictures in Casa Frela.
Schedule of Events
The Pursuit of Nappiness; Bad Hair at its best! New York, NY – November 1st to November 30th 2008 Date: Sunday November 9Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PMDocumentary: My Nappy Roots (22 mintutes)Cost: free
My 1st Natural Hair Exhibition
The Pursuit of Nappiness; a photo exhibit of “BAD” HairstylesNew York, NY – November 1st to November 30th 2008
Why I take pictures
Like so many daughters of the Diaspora, I had my hair relaxed when I was a teenager. I didn’t know any better than that it was a rite of passage and I was happy to have my Afro straightened.
Baltimore’s Hair Expo
In case you didn’t get a chance to visit you can read all about the expo here.
BAD hair at its Best
The Pursuit of Nappiness Brooklyn added a whole new dimension to my nappy world. Although I was used to my own natural hair at this time in the journey, I was hardly exposed to natural hairstyles. In the Netherlands where I had been living for over ten years even locs were a rarity. So […]
African Festival
A most talented loctician who has his roots in Trinidad developed his own distinguish style with a inimitable who has a head full of beautiful healthy locs himself
Celebrating nappy roots
The turnout for the first Going Natural Lecture at the Casa Frela Gallery was delightfully higher than expected. Latecomers had to take ground seats in the cozy gallery where we gathered around my 17 inch laptop. The screen was much too small for everyone to get a good view but you could hear a pin drop […]
A Black Hair Lecture in Holland
There were no seats left in the room where the documentary 400 years without a comb was shown. Even after adjusting the sound people had difficulty understanding the foreign language but it was clear that most could relate to the images. It was silent, then there was laughing and at times you could see the […]