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WHAT KINDA WELLNESS YOU BRINGING TO THE TABLE? (Said loudly with love 🫶🏾) Another June 30th of free healing pon di way! On a tuesdayyy. Who said we can’t get no healing on a weekday? We outside with some fireeeeeeeeeeeeee performances from local favorites (can’t wait to announce them) but we need moor than sound healing. We got the free eats and drink (fiyhh) but we need moor than that good soul food healing. What kinda wellness you bringing to the pot? We are open for all kinda flavors and specialties. Reach out & let us know what you have in mind. So far we got some herbal things going on, some art, & Crystal action. Maybe some tribal face painting, lil tarot reading, some reiki, idk there’s so many options. A chance to get connected to a range of different community folks. See y’all soon

Slide 1: THE FUNCTION, we about to be snappin!🫰🏾 Slide 2: THE JUNCTION that made it happen‼️ The Black Indian Experience is a FREE Private backyard vibe we are introducing this Spring/ Summer, creating moments & memories w/ local artist (poets, musicians, dancers, visual artist) & commUNITY. *** bleacher seating available but feel free to bring a personal chair or blankets for cozy ground seating*** The first Installment of the season is celebrating a newly released POETRY TAPE (available on SoundCloud) entitled “Black Garden” featuring @rafael__arturo__ @azeb____ @alulahussen @foxvisualz @itsyah2x @messagefrommessi @connflique & @inmybagsharepublic ‼️ Big Up yaself @rafael__arturo__ for curating & producing this super textured project, highlighting some of the flowers that came out of the Black Garden & their experiences blooming into blossom through traumatic & awesome times in the neighborHOOD Coming through???

🌱✨ NATURE’S PROMISE ✨🌱 A full day of community, healing, creativity, and giving back to the earth that continues to carry us. Pull Up Poetry x Sol Inspired are inviting you to gather with us for a beautiful day at Moakley Park as we prepare for this year’s Oshun Fest 🌊☀️ This isn’t just an event… it’s a reminder that healing can look like: -cleaning the spaces we share -planting something with intention -speaking your truth and staying grounded -gathering with community It’s also National Love a Tree Day so we may even hug a tree or 2… 🌿 PARK CLEAN-UP 9:30AM–11:30AM in partnership with @sbeaccion 🌸 FLOWER PLANTING 12PM–3PM $5 planting kits available “Plant a seed & watch it bloom.” 🎤 OPEN MIC PICNIC 3PM–7PM Bring yourself, your blanket, your people, your poems, or your songs.” 📍Moakley Park 450 Old Colony Ave, South Boston, MA Saturday, May 16, 2026 Donations help support Oshun Fest programming, artists, healing activities, and community experiences all summer long 💛 Cash Donations Accepted Venmo: @solinspiredopenmic CashApp: $pulluppoetryboston PLEASE RSVP USING LINK IN BIO!!! See you soon!

If you are looking for something to do this Sunday come join us to hear some music and poetry, paint some pots, and plant some seeds. Perfect way to celebrate spring and Mommies

So recently there was a tape released called “Black Garden” 🪴, two of the poets on the tape co-facilitate @pulluppoetry and help out with @solinspiredopenmic have offered/curated a space for “Black Garden” to be heard live. This is what creative community looks like! So on May 17th, there will be an opportunity for folks who listened to the tape or for folks who enjoy live poetry readings to come into the shared space and experience some original pieces from the tape and then some. MAY 17TH 🗓️ 3PM - 8PM

We need hands on deck…🌊🌻✨ The Oshun Performance Arts & Healing Festival isn’t just an event… it’s a living, breathing experience of community, art, and collective healing. And it takes a village to bring that energy to life. We’re looking for volunteers to help us flow, build, guide, and ground the space on the day of the fest 🌊💛 If you love community, creativity, and being part of something meaningful—this is your moment to step in. Come be a part of the magic behind the scenes. Come feel the energy up close. Come help us create a space where we all heal together. Tap in. Fill out the form in bio & see you soon!!! 📸: @sky788

🌊🌻 The Oshun Fest is coming in hot like a summer’s breeze & if you were there last year, then you already know what that feels like. If you weren’t … this is your chance to be part of what makes it what it is. We’re looking for people who care about community. The ones who don’t only show up for the vibes but help build them as well. The street team is how we’re going to move this thing through the city. Flyers, word of mouth, real conversations, real energy. But this is not just about getting people there. It’s about being part of something that heals, uplifts, and boosts the energy of the community. If that sounds like you, tap in. Form in bio. Let’s create yet another unforgettable moment! 💛🌊 📸: @sky788

PICK UP THE PHONE! The sun is calling… and so are we. By we, I mean community! We’re curating something sacred, vibrant, and unforgettable for the 2nd Annual Oshun Performance Arts & Healing Festival 💛 If you’re a vendor with something to offer whether it’s art, food, healing, creations, or culture; this is your space to be seen, to be felt, to be poured into. This isn’t just a festival… it’s energy, it’s alignment, it’s community in motion. Pull up. Show up. Pour in. August 15, 2026 Carson Beach – Mother’s Rest (Dorchester) ✨ Vendors: Tap in & fill out the form in @pulluppoetry bio Let’s build something beautiful together. 📸: @sky788 #OshunFest #PullUpPoetry #SolInspiredOpenMic #HealingFestival #SummerInBoston

Booming & Blooming 🌻 Join us on May 3rd for a beautiful night of community, creativity and fun 💕 I will be offering a Live Tea Bar of intuitively made blends as well as my own blends. Including Divine Sereinitea, Divine Feminine and Divine Immunitea. There are some amazing talented features, a great DJ and an open mic! I’m looking forward to seeing and sharing space with y’all. Tickets can be found in @solinspiredopenmic links through Partiful! 🦋

Love & light family✨We made it to a new spring. The true new year w/ another season for you to spring into the new you. S🌞L Inspired! This installment, we have sacred divine energy to welcome in new life Introducing theMKeffect, representing our author feature! Marcella Kelley, known as theMKeffect, is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and performer whose work blends sensuality, retro-glam aesthetics, and visual storytelling. She moves between the page, the lens, and the stage, creating experiences that explore identity, desire, and transformation Marcella muses for students and artists at Cambridge Center for Adult Education, MassArt, and other creative institutions, translating the human form into visual and emotional narratives. Her poetry collections, M O O D, RelationSHIT, and S.A.D. weave words, ritual, and raw emotion into immersive experiences that linger long after the page is closed Celebrated for her signature “page-toss” performance, Marcella channels theatricality, sensuality, and bold self-expression into each live reading. Her work moves fluidly across mediums, inviting audiences to witness intimacy, vulnerability, and transformative presence in every frame, stanza, and gesture Representing our local mic hosts, our second feature is an international trailblazer❤️‍🔥Amanda Shea is a three-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist. Shea is an artist, performer, educator, artivist, filmmaker, producer, host, and curator. She founded Free Verse, an open mic series and cultural platform committed to amplifying radical imagination through art, truth-telling, and collective liberation. Her work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Globe, TEDX, TEDXRoxbury, Netflix, Prime Video, BBC News, GBH, and much more. Shea is the curator and host of GBH OUTSPOKEN SATURDAYS. Shea is the recipient of The Boston Foundation LAB Grant 2024. She is the Arts & Culture Director at 617PEAK and is an educator at various Boston Public Schools. Shea will be releasing her first book, “Pieces of Shea,” in 2026. Amanda’s work examines her personal life experiences, social justice issues, and healing through trauma, utilizing art as a tool Soon Come

Last year? We turned the beach into a whole healing sanctuary in honor of Oshun 🌊✨ Drums & music in the air, good vibes flowing like the wind, chilling with friends, family, & strangers felt like peace… Even the sunset hit different when the whole community was in alignment! 🌕🫶🏽✨ & if you know… you KNOW. This year we’re running it back! Bigger energy, deeper healing, same love & vibes 💛 THINK: Water + sun on your skin Music you can feel in your chest Performances that actually say something Community that pours INTO you, not out of you August 15, 2026 12–7PM Carson Beach (Mother’s Rest) SAVE THE DATE. Bring your people. Bring your spirit cuz we’re outside!!! 🌺 📸: @sky788

Celebrate the season, a new year, new life, as we BOOM & BLOOM w/ nature🌞✨ We will be🎨painting plastic or terracotta🪴pots & planting🌱some freshly sprouted seeds for you to nurture as you grow together OR create a custom Mother’s Day gift that grows with your love for Momma🎁 Feature performances from the musically gifted Kori E. & the poetic paradigm shifter Ora💞. Soulful sounds provided by Ikebana!🔊 But this IS an open mic🎙️so we care to hear what you all have to share. A Sunday to look forward to indeed‼️ Tickets can be paid for using the Partiful link in bio (@solinspiredopenmic ) or Zelle & Apply Pay via the phone number 8572176325. Make sure to includes your name in the memo so your payment is connected with your RSVP. (ONLY 15 SPOTS AVAILABLE so please only RSVP going if your ticket is PAID. RSVP as “maybe” if you plan on coming but haven’t purchased your ticket yet. THE FIRST 15 FOLKS TO PAY FOR TICKET HAVE PRIORITY so remember to grab your ticket before or asap after you RSVP) Until then, enjoy the sunshine☀️& stay divine -MessageFromMessi