Past The Name 24 7 Inc., a New York Metropolis-based nonprofit group that focuses on supporting the folks and populations of the Caribbean Diaspora, will on Friday, Sept. 12, host an progressive and culturally immersive occasion to empower members of the neighborhood by their therapeutic journey.
Trinidadian-born founder and president Ozzie Stewart informed Caribbean Life on Tuesday, Sept. 9, that the group will host the epic occasion to assist heal abuse by artwork, movie, music, and delicacies.
The occasion will happen from 5:30 to eight:30 p.m. at 1 Vanderbilt Ave., twenty first ground, forty second Road, close to Grand Central, in midtown Manhattan.
Stewart stated the gathering will characteristic creatives from the worlds of artwork, music, movie, and wellness professionals.
She stated the artwork and works of Hollis King, Sherwin Banfield, and Alicia Aberdeen-Jones shall be on show, specializing in abuse and therapeutic.
Stewart stated filmmakers Asha Lovelace and Elspeth Duncan will highlight the therapeutic facet.
She stated metal drummer and pannist Earl Brooks, Jr., and Trinidadian-born singer/songwriter, GRAMMY and Black Canadian Award-winner Anslem Douglas, will even contribute to the occasion’s theme.
Stewart stated featured audio system embrace Consulate Common of Trinidad and Tobago J. Andre Laveau; Dr. Tulsa Knox, licensed psychologist/psychological well being practitioner; Edvardo Archer, govt therapist and household therapist; Dr. Farley Cleghorn, internationally recognized well being diplomat and award-winning epidemiologist; and different highly effective, distinguished voices.
Stewart stated Past The Name 24 7 companions with “The Laborious Points” phase of the On The Name Podcast Community Expertise to deal with uplifting the neighborhood whereas realizing that individuals want neighborhood and a protected house.
“This is our name to motion by Past The Name 24 7,” she stated. “By this community-minded group, the nonprofit speaks to the world at massive, in addition to the current deal with the Trinidadian populations dwelling exterior their homeland.
Stewart additionally stated she is engaged on “opening up conversations with the Caribbean Basin.”
With premier sponsorship from TD Financial institution, FWBK, and different neighborhood help, Stewart stated she hopes to create “an area wrapped across the energy of the Caribbean neighborhood, whereas making room for engagement on the very tough international conversations of abuse – whether or not home or sexual.
“It was actually essential to carry male voices into these conversations as a result of so usually the talks occur with solely ladies,” she added. “We knew we would have liked to broaden the viewers and the interplay.”
Stewart stated the occasion goals “to boost funds for grassroots organizations and their multi-tiered and multifaceted endeavors.
“These platforms help those that have suffered by and are surviving the very issues that Past The Name 24 7 addresses with ardour and objective,” she stated.
Stewart stated Past the Name 24 7 is the advocacy arm of a four-tiered mission that features the podcast, “coping with all the things from homelessness to trafficking, habit, substance use and abuse, animal welfare and local weather change.”
She stated that is accomplished together with the Trini Nook, which is direct neighborhood outreach and donates to “the troopers doing the arduous work on the streets.”
Stewart, who owned a profitable endeavor within the coronary heart of Instances Sq., stated she makes use of each a part of her inventive and entrepreneurial being to be “a vessel” for the folks she loves, stating, “That’s everybody.”
“People have stated that my desires are too huge,” she stated. “I say that that is about service to humanity, and I am grateful to have the ability to do my half.”
For extra info, electronic mail Stewart at beyondthecall23@gmail.com.
