About this Event
Soulful Saturdays: Love & Connection Edition
Produced by Shaping FreedomⓇ x Art Soirée
Where love meets possibility—and Baltimore meets its most powerful version of itself.
Soulful Saturdays: Love & Connection Edition is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Lisane Basquiat’s Shaping Freedom® and Baltimore’s Art Soirée, two creative forces known for transforming spaces into living, breathing experiences of joy, authenticity, and human connection. For one night only, we’re bringing San Diego’s beloved Soulful Saturdays to Baltimore—reimagined with Art Soirée’s signature artistic fire, cultural texture, and communal heartbeat.
This immersive event invites everyone to discover connection in all its forms — whether you’re single, newly in love, in a long-time relationship, part of a situationship, feeling like “it’s complicated,” or romantically curious.
Through interactive vignettes and playful social experiments, this night is designed to expand the way we love and the way we relate. If you are looking for a spark, a friend, a moment of clarity, or a deeper conversation with your partner, come to explore the magic that happens when we show up open, curious, and willing to be seen.
Art Soirée’s Ainsley Burrows and Shaping Freedom’s Lisane Basquiat will be your MCs for the evening. Adding to the magic, Baltimore’s own DJ Tanz will soundtrack the night and lead us into a full dance vibe to close out the evening.
This is Baltimore at its best: vibrant, loving, curious, creative, and ready for something new.
Come see what love can do—on a Soulful Saturdays you’ll never forget.
About Your Hosts:
Art Soirée: Founded by Laurielle Noel and Ainsley Burrows, Art Soirée is dedicated to celebrating and advancing the transformative impact of Baltimore artists—both locally and on the world stage. It curates exclusive gatherings designed for artists, art enthusiasts, and arts leaders to come together for evenings of fellowship, inspiration, and merriment. Its mission is to foster powerful artistic connections and provide a vibrant platform where creativity is experienced firsthand and elevated to its highest potential. The organization has been recognized with a mayor’s proclamation for its instrumental impact on the local arts community.
Shaping Freedom®: Founded by Lisane Basquiat, Shaping Freedom® specializes in generational healing - helping individuals and organizations recognize inherited patterns from family-of-origin, interrupts them through proven transformation systems, and intentionally shape healthier legacies in both their personal lives and professional leadership. Soulful Saturdays is one of Shaping Freedom’s signature events, designed to cultivate and celebrate diverse communities of people who are building new generational wealth – and having fun – together.
Collaboration Story:
Soulful Saturdays going on the road for the first time comes from a natural alignment between Shaping Freedom® and Art Soirée—two organizations rooted in connection, culture, and the art of bringing people together.
The relationship between Ainsley Burrows, Laurielle Noel, and Lisane Basquiat began through family, and then grew into a creative bond grounded in shared values and conversations about healing, expression, creativity, authenticity, and art.
Ainsley later joined Lisane as her first podcast guest on Shaping Freedom® with Lisane Basquiat, and that conversation helped define the tone of the show. His voice is known for cutting through noise with honesty and heart, and that exchange helped clarify how closely the two brands align. Their follow-up conversation years later only reaffirmed how the alignment between Art Soirée’s mission and Shaping Freedom’s focus on healing, self-awareness, and community.
This collaboration is rooted in the way the respective founders approach their work—with intention, with cultural awareness, and with a commitment to bringing people into experiences that move them.
Lisane bringing this event to Baltimore with Art Soirée seems a natural step. Two creative lanes partnering to create a Soulful Saturdays gathering – centered on connection, culture, play, with a soulful energy that invites people to be present and open.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:
Baltimore Beat
Create Baltimore
The Mill on North
WNADA (West North Avenue Development Authority | Economic Development Authority)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Mill on North, 2636 West North Avenue, Baltimore, United States
USD 23.18 to USD 44.52
