With support from the California Arts Council, BlackFemaleProject will present the third annual Black Women’s Roots Festival. This program, including an in-person festival and a free video livestream, will showcase a diverse and multigenerational array of talent from emerging to veteran artists in blues, gospel, country, and roots music and including instrumentalists, vocalists, and poets, and will center Black women roots artists whose culture is threatened by gentrification.
BlackFemaleProject uplifts the voices of Black women, affirms our experiences, and offers insights for achieving self-defined success in the workplace and beyond. BlackFemaleProject uses digital media and in-person events to bring Black women together— across generation and industry—to engage in sisterhood, resource and knowledge sharing, inspiration, healing, and growth, all focused on improving career experiences for Black women and improving the overall well being of workplaces. We envision a world in which Black women can show up and be celebrated as their full selves without any negative consequence. BlackFemaleProject hosts a weekly podcast documenting Black women’s experience in the workplace and in the arts; produces the annual Black Women’s Roots Festival, a community festival celebrating the historical and cultural contributions of living and departed Black women artists in blues, jazz, country, roots, and gospel music; produces an annual free 10-week youth arts intensive with classes in vocal and instrumental music; hosts panel discussions and workshops on navigating racism and sexism in the workplace and the arts; conducts a diverse and consistent social media campaign to promote Black women in the workplace and the arts; hosts virtual training sessions for Black women leaders in the workplace and the arts; produces arts workshops and intensives for youth; and hosts film events, festivals, and social events promoting the contributions of Black women.

