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Geometric red triangle symbol beside a single vertical slash against black space. This symbol represents Trans Learn Tings as transition, rupture, self-definition, nonlinear becoming, and frameworks for learning beyond imposed systems.
Bright green spiral snail with textured shell and soft glowing body resting against a pale background. This symbol represents Mbegu ya Ardhi, “Seed of the Earth” in Swahili, as the Bespokecurry blog space for slow growth, grounded learning, observation, embodied writing, and ideas unfolding over time through lived experience.
Yellow and red octopus with curling arms and textured detail. This symbol represents About Kiing Curry through intelligence, multiplicity, self-awareness, creative reach, and many forms moving from one body.
Bright green and deep red crab with raised claws and wide stance floating against black space. This symbol represents The Lab as sideways thinking, testing systems, experimentation, structural disruption, and unconventional pathways of knowledge.
Deep maroon fish with green and coral red markings, facing forward like a small signal moving through water. This symbol represents The Knewsletter as recurring messages, updates, and living transmissions from the Bespokecurry cosmos.
Flowing water lines beside a dark radiant starburst with grounding bar beneath it in earthy brown and green tones. This symbol represents Fungi Tings as layered ingestion, underground transformation, decomposition, fungal intelligence, and deep internal processing beneath the surface.
Small multicolored fish moving together in layered schools across open space. This symbol represents The Tings as interconnected categories, moving parts, collective knowledge systems, and many small ideas traveling together through the Bespokecurry waters.
Three deep red African masks grouped closely together with carved facial markings and elongated forms. This symbol represents the Bespokecurry Cosmos as multiplicity, ancestral signal, layered identities, collective memory, and interconnected creative worlds.
Three flowing wave lines in layered blue and green gradients floating against black space. This symbol represents the Six Waters and The Wata(ring) Whole as movement, emotional drift, embodiment, atmospheric flow, and interconnected states of being across the Bespokecurry cosmos.
Small green and deep red sea snail-like organism with a large eye and soft rounded body. This symbol represents The Exploration as wandering, adaptive learning, curiosity, experimentation, and movement through unknown waters.
Blue and green shell-slug form with ridged texture and a soft glowing outline. This symbol represents the Embodiment Diagram as structure, sensation, regulation, and inner movement held inside the body.
Circular afro-like form paired with flowing water lines in magenta, green, and violet tones. This symbol represents the Afroscape Field Guide as embodied Black knowledge, Afro theory, hair and body systems, texture, atmosphere, and living archives of the self.
Bright orange cephalopod with curling tentacles and glowing blue edges floating against black space. This symbol represents Litm(us) and Black Beauty School as transformation through chemistry, fluid identity, Black beauty knowledge, body experimentation, texture, color theory, and the constant reshaping of self through creative practice and embodiment.
Three flowing wave lines beside a radiant starburst symbol in purple and blue gradients. This symbol represents Six Waters Cannabis Field Notes as ingestion, altered sensing, embodiment, atmospheric expansion, and cannabis moving through the waters of the body.
Flowing water lines beside a radiant starburst partially surrounded by a soft blue cloud form. This symbol represents the Terpene Index as aromatic atmosphere, sensory mapping, vapor, plant chemistry, and environmental mood systems moving through the body.
Multicolored school of small fish moving together in layered rows. This symbol represents the Members Area through collective movement, shared direction, community rhythm, and many bodies traveling through the same current.

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Circular bracelet made of glowing multicolored cowrie shells and translucent beads arranged in a continuous loop. The bracelet represents adornment, material culture, ancestral connection, object-based storytelling, and wearable archives within Bead & Cowrie.
Green and red jellyfish with long trailing tendrils and a glowing outline. This symbol represents the Wata(ring) W(hole) through flow, depth, unseen systems, drift, sting, and water memory.
Deep red seahorse with curled tail and textured body floating in open space. This symbol represents the Bespokebook Portfolio as curated creative work, intentional display, archival storytelling, and carefully held artistic worlds.
Claymation-style Black scuba diver with bright orange curls floating underwater in colorful diving gear with bubbles rising beside them. This symbol represents the Bespokecurry Cosmos paid subscription space as deep exploration, immersive learning, protected creative worlds, and guided movement through the layered waters of embodiment, theory, art, and transformation.
Deep maroon and chocolate stingray with a long tail and glowing gold texture. This symbol represents BlaxkCurry Productions through grounded movement, quiet power, deep knowledge, and gliding creative force
Deep maroon and chocolate stingray with a long tail and glowing gold texture. This symbol represents BlaxkCurry Productions through grounded movement, quiet power, deep knowledge, and gliding creative force

Bespokecurry Cosmos Summer Gatherings 2026 | Sacred Threads, Pride & Afro Futures

Updated: Jun 6

WE OUTSIDE - SUMMA 26


Bespokecurry Cosmos Summer Gatherings 2026 | Sacred Threads, Pride & Afro Futures

Heavy claymation Bespokecurry Cosmos logo featuring a blue ceremonial bowl filled with plantain, mushrooms, cannabis leaves, cowrie shells, and beadwork, framed by large pink lips and rooted into the earth below. Behind the bowl sits a carved calabash water vessel shown in cross-section, revealing deep indigo water swirling inside. A small Afrofuturist archive port is embedded into the vessel’s surface, suggesting memory, knowledge, and connection. The word “COSMOS” curves along the upper right side in bright bubble lettering, while “BESPOKECURRY” stretches across the bottom in pink and blue. The composition combines food, water, technology, storytelling, roots, and ancestral memory within a vibrant Afro-surreal claymation aesthetic.
Summer is filling the bowl. New workshops. New field guides. New essays. New adornments. New conversations. Afro hair. Jewelry. Cannabis field notes. Trans Learn Tings. Hom(e)ies. Afroscape. Black Beauty School. Sacred Threads. The Bespokecurry Cosmos has always been a place where seemingly unrelated things sit beside one another until a larger pattern begins to emerge. This summer is an invitation to follow those connections, gather what nourishes you, and carry a few new tools home. The offerings are growing. The archive is expanding. The cosmos keeps unfolding.

This summer, the Bespokecurry Cosmos continues its journey as a traveling Black beauty cosmology node — bringing adornment, listening, ritual, conversation, and community into shared space through two upcoming gatherings in Ohio.

Part mobile beauty-school altar, part sensory lab, part living archive, the Cosmos explores Afro hair, Black queer beauty, ritual technologies, memory, and liberated futures through Bead & Cowrie, conversation, and embodied practice.



Colorful Afrofuturist popup flyer for Bespokecurry Cosmos featuring a hand holding bead and cowrie adornments surrounded by sacred geometry, beauty symbols, archive language, and community-centered text about Black beauty, ritual, and transformation.
Through Bead & Cowrie, adornment, storytelling, ritual technologies, and community conversation, we explore how Afro beauty practices carry memory, survival, innovation, and future-making all at once.
Sacred Threads festival flyer featuring a Black dancer midair surrounded by Pan-African colors and bold typography promoting a community-centered drum and dance culture festival in Cleveland.

DJAPO SACRED THREADS FESTIVAL

June 13–14, 2026

Cleveland Heights & Cleveland, Ohio


Join Kiing Curry and the Bespokecurry Cosmos for a weekend exploring Afro hair, adornment, memory, community, and living culture through conversation, making, and hands-on learning.


SATURDAY, JUNE 13

Pivot Center


Visit the Bead + Cowrie pop-up featuring handmade adornment, jewelry, field guide materials, and opportunities to explore the Bespokecurry Cosmos.


AFRO ABCs: SACRED THREADS & PERSONAL ALTARS

Cleveland Public Theatre

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM


Before the dance, the body is prepared.


This community conversation explores the relationships between Afro hair, adornment, dance, memory, and culture through storytelling, reflection, and altar-building.

Participants will create a personal hanging altar to take home, write a love letter to hair, body, culture, or community, and explore how preparation itself can become ritual.

Part Afro ABCs.Part Sacred Threads.Part Litm(us).


A conversation about how culture lives in bodies, hair, adornment, movement, memory, and community.


SUNDAY, JUNE 14

BEAD + COWRIE POP-UP + SACRED ADORNMENT STUDIO

Pivot Center

12:00 PM – 4:00 PM


Drop-In Community Studio


If Saturday explores preparation, Sunday explores practice.


Throughout the afternoon, visitors can shop the Bead + Cowrie pop-up, create hair charms, loc and braid adornments, portable altar keychains, and other memory objects using beads, cowries, charms, copper wire, and connection systems.


Participants can also engage Afro ABCs, Black Beauty School, and Afro hair embodiment practices through Afro hair mannequins, demonstrations, field guide materials, and community conversation.


Drop in anytime.

Stay as long as you’d like.

No experience necessary.

Come make.

Come learn.

Come explore.

Come share stories.

Come create something that travels with you long after the festival ends.



At Djapo Cultural Arts Institute’s 17th Annual Sacred Threads Festival, Bespokecurry Cosmos will host intimate conversations and listening-centered moments around Afro hair, plant medicine, beauty knowledge, body memory, and adornment as cultural technology.


This gathering centers living culture — not as nostalgia, but as practice, relationship, and future-making.



Afrofuturist Bespokecurry Cosmos flyer for Lorain County Pride featuring a large ear adorned with colorful beads and cowrie shells surrounded by queer beauty symbols, sacred geometry, archive language, and community-centered text about adornment, listening, ritual, and Black queer beauty.
The Bespokecurry Cosmos travels this summer through Sacred Threads Festival, Lorain County Pride, and Durham, North Carolina with Black beauty pop-ups, adornment practices, Afro hair conversations, ritual technologies, and liberated futures.
Lorain County Pride 2026 schedule flyer featuring rainbow-colored text and event listings for a SafeZone workshop, drag show, and community Pride event in Oberlin, Ohio.

At Lorain County Pride, the Cosmos returns through Bead + Cowrie, a Black queer beauty pop-up focused on adornment, ritual, joy, and community gathering.

Visitors are invited to bead, listen, reflect, and engage Black queer beauty beyond performance — as archive, transformation, and possibility.

Across both events, the invitation remains the same:

We travel.
We listen.
We adorn.
We build together.


Looking Ahead: Durham, North Carolina


In mid July, the Bespokecurry Cosmos will be traveling to Durham, North Carolina to hang with the Hom(e)ie Jasmine for a week of exploration, listening, and connection.


I’m currently looking to connect with artists, organizers, beauty workers, herbalists, cultural spaces, educators, community builders, and collaborators interested in conversations around Afro hair, Black beauty, ritual technologies, adornment, sensory memory, and liberated futures.


If the work resonates, move with depth, intention and care.


Bespokecurry Cosmos Summer Gatherings 2026 | Sacred Threads, Pride & Afro Futures


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