Nina Simone Day

QC Family Tree is a community-rooted organization cultivating spaces of belonging, mutual care, and economic resilience by supporting local creatives, entrepreneurs, and neighbors in building a more just and connected Charlotte. QCFT initiatives include cultural programming and business resources through the Rhizome Coalition, Culture Bearer Residency, and Here for Good Business Cooperative.

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Celebrate the legendary Nina Simone with a day filled with music, soul, and activism.

2910 Parkway Avenue

On April 26th, QC Family Tree and Beloved Community Charlotte celebrate Nina Simone with music, ritual, and festivities. As with our other Feast Days, our Nina Simone Day is not a national holiday or a church holiday. This is a festive day unique to QC Family Tree. This is a time of celebrating courage, strength, fierceness, and truth telling. On Nina Simone day, we play Nina’s music.On Nina Simone day, we wear red.On Nina Simone Day, we create armor or talismans for one another and gift it to each other with prayers of protection.On Nina Simone Day, we sing songs and prayers of intercession, truth, and justice.On Nina Simone day, we build a fire and watch the flames flicker as we pray that lies will be burned away by embers of justice and truth. “But what have I got?Let me tell ya what I've gotThat nobody's gonna take awayGot life, I got my life”~Aint Got No - I Got LifeNina Simone…” I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards &amp; my own convictions about what I'm doing. I have to figure out why I'm doing what I'm doing so I can relate to myself better. It is self-actualization &amp; it is a good thing.”-Nina Simone Cosponsored by QC Family Tree and Beloved Community Charlotte

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