Bespokecurry Cosmos x Lorain County Pride
Sat, Jun 27
|Oberlin College
Adornment as archive. Adornment as liberation.


Time & Location
Jun 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Oberlin College, 173 W Lorain St, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA
About the event
Bespokecurry Cosmos: Bead + Cowrie is a traveling Black queer beauty cosmology node exploring adornment, listening, memory, ritual, and embodied beauty knowledge through an Afrofuturist lens.
Part mobile beauty-school altar, part sensory lab, part community listening space, the Cosmos invites people into conversations around Afro beauty, queer embodiment, ritual technologies, archive practices, and liberated futures.
At Lorain County Pride, visitors are invited to bead, listen, gather, and engage beauty as something deeper than aesthetics — as memory, transformation, community, and living cultural technology.
Featuring adornment pieces, listening-centered conversation, beauty school energy, sacred objects, and
community interaction, Bead + Cowrie creates a temporary portal into the Bespokecurry Cosmos.



