3 Creatives ••• 3 Different Spiritual Backgrounds ••• One Soulful Evening ✨
This wasn’t just a conversation… it was an experience. 😌
A reminder that spirituality is not separate from our daily lives — it lives in our creativity, our choices, our discipline and how we show up for one another.
We explored what it means to: • Make creative decisions in everyday life • Be well-trained in our craft so we can expand and express • See the divinity in ourselves and in others • Let creativity move through us, not just from us
From dance as prayer 💃🏽… to presence as practice 🧘🏾 … to living in conversation with something greater ✨…
Thank you to everyone who came, shared, listened and felt.
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“For the Soulful” - a conversation about faith and creativity ✨🎵🎨
Join us tomorrow evening at 81C where we’ll be wrestling with the question:
“Where does creativity come from — and what happens when we trust it?” 👀
Because sometimes the most powerful creations begin with a single question. ✨
⏱️Tuesday, Mar 17 at 6:30PM
📍@81cvi . St, Thomas
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✨ Meet Kalyn Fahie - our final panelist ✨
Advocate • Author • Empowerment Coach
Kalyn Fahie is an internationally recognized leader whose work is rooted in faith, resilience, and purposeful action. With nearly two decades of experience transforming lives and organizations, she has dedicated her career to helping women move from surviving to thriving.
As the founder of Sisters Acquiring Financial Empowerment (SAFE) and the founding Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Kalyn’s work shows how vision, faith, and strategy can come together to create real change.
Through her S.O.F.T. Life Coaching experience and her book The Dreams and Visions Goal-Setting Workbook, Kalyn helps women turn inspiration into structured action — building lives and futures rooted in purpose.
At Cocktails & Conversations: For the Soulful, she’ll share how faith, clarity of vision, and intentional planning can transform inspiration into real-world impact. ✨
📍 March 17 | 6:30 PM | @81cvi
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✨ Meet our next panelist • Lady Gang ✨
Musician • Producer • Sonic storyteller
Lady Gang (Jen Korte) is a visionary artist whose work explores the powerful connection between creativity, ancestry, and spiritual expression. After nearly two decades fronting the award-winning Denver band Jen Korte & The Loss, her solo project has evolved into a genre-bending journey where loop pedal, electric guitar, Caribbean and Latin rhythms, and powerhouse vocals collide.
Her move to the Virgin Islands — and a deeper exploration of her Puerto Rican heritage — opened a new chapter in her artistry, grounding her music in lineage, culture, and memory.
For Lady Gang, music is more than entertainment — it’s medicine. As she often says, “the song is the offering and the dance is the prayer.”
At Cocktails & Conversations: For the Soulful, she’ll share how ancestry, travel, and spiritual intuition shape her creative process — and how artists learn to listen deeply to the inspiration moving through them. ✨
📍 March 17 | 6:30 PM | @81cvi
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✨ Meet our first panelist: Malachi Thomas ✨
Public Servant • Musician • Lukumí priest • Community Advocate
Malachi’s work is guided by Traditional African spiritual philosophy and a deep belief that creativity, service, and spiritual calling are deeply connected.
A graduate of Oberlin College with a degree in Africana Studies, he spent years teaching in Louisiana before returning home to serve the Virgin Islands community.
Rooted in African spiritual traditions and influenced by Black Power and nationalist thought, Malachi sees creativity and leadership as acts of collective responsibility. His philosophy reminds us that what we create should uplift the whole.
At Cocktails & Conversations: For the Soulful ✨, Malachi will help us explore what it means to create with intention, alignment, and reverence for the source.
📍 March 17 | 6:30 PM | 81C
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Cocktails & Conversations is back! 🎉🔥
Season 3 kicks off next Tuesday with a soulful conversation exploring creativity — the mysterious space where inspiration, faith, and calling meet. ✨
✨ Where does creativity come from?
✨ What if creativity isn’t something you invent — but something you receive?
Join us Tuesday March 17th at @81cvi as our spirited host Tricia Homer sits down with three thoughtful panelists from different spiritual traditions. 🎤
See you next week! 👌🏾
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✨ What a finale ✨
Our Cocktails & Conversations season finale had another full house, filled with laughter, vision, and the creative energy that fuels the VI Renaissance. 🔥
From beauty and wellness pros to artists and entrepreneurs, we celebrated the people shaping how Virgin Islanders see themselves and each other. 🌱✨
Much love to our dynamic event leads Tricia Homer (@speakleadchange )& Eric Grims (@grimsy ) 🌟, to our grounding guide Trevonne Homer(@askahomer ) 🌱 our host 81C (@81cvi ), and to our pop up features — Glambox VI (@glamboxvi_ )✨, Sugar & Silk VI 🥘, Nikki Henna 🧡
We’re taking a short break and coming back even bigger in January! Until then, keep building the VI creative economy — one conversation, one collaboration and one breakthrough at a time. 🥂
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🖼️ • Joan “Entes” Jiménez Suero
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✨ Meet Dr. Jessica Wilson ✨
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Jessica Wilson to our next Cocktails & Conversations — a physician and wellness innovator blending clinical expertise with a deep commitment to educating and uplifting others. 🌱💫
From hospital care to medical missions across the Caribbean and beyond, Dr. Wilson has shown what it means to serve diverse communities with excellence and heart. Through Affirm Medical Spa, she’s redefining beauty and wellness as pathways to empowerment right here in the VI.
Come through on Oct 15 to hear her story!
Add your voice to the conversation and be part of the movement. 🥂🎤
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✨ Meet Shary Cruz ✨ A decade of artistry, transformation, and empowerment. Shary’s makeup work uplifts and celebrates her clients while her mixed media art expands the story even further. 🌟
A Puerto Rican artist raised in St. Thomas, Shary has spent the past decade building a career across bridal, commercial, editorial, and theatrical makeup, working with major brands like Disney Cruise Lines, The Travel Channel, and Lands’ End. 🔥
Her artistry has been featured in Caribbean Posh, Potent Magazine, and The Daily News, where her 31 Days of Makeup challenge showcased over 100 film, TV, and pop culture transformations. ✨
She’s bringing that same creative spirit to our next Cocktails & Conversations — showing how beauty and wellness can become pathways to self-expression and confidence right here in the VI. 💄🎨
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✨ Meet Linda Bailey ✨ From master nail tech to multi-business entrepreneur, Linda has spent more than two decades weaving self-care, healthy living and entrepreneurship into everyday life for Virgin Islanders.
Her Annual Health, Hair & Beauty Expo now draws international attention while uplifting local talent and educating the community on wellness and self-image. 🌱
Linda’s journey embodies the VI Renaissance — showing how vision, faith and hard work can create spaces where Virgin Islanders look good, feel good and thrive. We can’t wait for you to hear her story at this month’s Cocktails & Conversations! 🥂
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✨ For the Glow Makers ✨
Our last Cocktails & Conversations of the season is here — and it’s all about the people shaping how Virgin Islanders see themselves, care for their bodies, and express who they are. 🌱
From medical spa innovators to wellness entrepreneurs and creative self-care spaces, we’re celebrating beauty and health as pathways to empowerment. ✨
Join us on Oct 15 for an evening of bold vision, real conversations, and community connection. Bring your ideas, your perspective, and your voice — because transformation starts with conversation. 🥂
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✨ For the Torchbearers ✨ — What a night 🌟
From powerful stories to bold visions, last Wednesday’s Cocktails & Conversations was all about the people shaping the next generation. 🌱
Our panelists know from experience what kids truly need: safe spaces, chances to perform, compete and receive honest feedback. And they’re not just talking about it, they’re taking action! The energy in the room made it clear that the seeds of new opportunities are being planted. 🌟
We were honored to share space with Jairay Petty, Jeune Provost, and Joseph Limeburner — and with all of you who showed up, spoke up and kept the energy high. 🍹✨
Together, we’re proving there’s more than enough for our youth and we’re building it right here, together, in community, one conversation at a time.
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See y’all next time 😊
SAVE THE DATE • Wed Oct 15
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