Nurturing Women. Nurturing Communities.A Fragrance-Free Event

Wellness + Art + Vision (WAV) is a fragrance-free, culturally rooted, multigenerational creative healing space designed intentionally for Black communities in Oregon.

✨In May we're celebrating Nurturing Women, while affirming our dreams and nurturing our communities, our healing, imagination, future-building, and Black Joy.✨

This is not just an art event.
This is a breathable, affirming space where Black bodies, stories, dreams, creativity, and Black Joy are welcomed and honored.

Whether you are:

• A creative seeking inspiration
• An elder carrying wisdom
• A young visionary building your future
• A family longing for safe, affirming space
• Or someone simply needing room to breathe

WAV is for you.

• Guided creative visioning activities
• Multigenerational art experiences
• Reflection, poetry and storytelling
• Community connection
• Intentional fragrance-free environment
• Space to imagine healing futures rooted in Black Joy — together

No artistic experience is required — just come as you are, create in your own way or just join us to BE and connect with community.

To ensure accessibility for community members with asthma, chemical sensitivities, and invisible disabilities, this is a low-to-no fragrance event. We kindly ask all participants to refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes, strong essential oils, or heavily scented products.

Breath is sacred. Access is love.

This event is generously sponsored by , whose mission centers culturally affirming mental health and wellness programming for Oregon’s Black/African American and Spanish-speaking communities.

Facilitated by , Founder of Poetically Inspiring Change, Coach, Author, Poet & Educator. Angela brings nearly four decades of experience in education, community leadership, and culturally grounded healing work. Her approach weaves creativity, Legacy-building, embodied wellness, and Black Joy.

Co-facilitated by Sunshine Dixon, a well-known Portland-born-and-raised Artist, whose work you will see in Portland Museums, galleries and hanging in Portland homes and who's book is available in the Portland Library. As a Creative Strategist, Sunshine’s work centers culture, creativity, and community visioning, helping participants translate imagination into expression grounded in Black Joy.

Together, they curate spaces that are intentional, liberating, healing-centered, and rooted in Black Joy.

Because healing is communal.
Because art is resistance.
Because vision is strategy.
Because Black Joy is medicine.

WAV is an invitation to gather, create, reflect, and build toward collective wellness — together, in breath, in beauty, and in Black Joy.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

16 NE Killingsworth St, 16 Northeast Killingsworth Street, Portland, United States

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