SACRED BLACK LOUNGE EXPERIENCE.

The Black Sacred Lounge Experience is a curated event series and community space for Black folks navigating queerness, belonging, and spirituality.

R.E.S.T IN THE CITY PILGRIMAGE

R.E.S.T. in the City is a pilgrimage and practice lab for leaders learning to embody liberation through place, body, memory, and community. Guided by Dr. Spencer-Helms’s doctoral work in Social Transformation, the program draws on the R.E.S.T. Mixtape framework—an original curriculum designed to support an interethnic, interfaith, intergenerational container for embodied, place-based liberation practice in place, and across difference.

Sub:Culture Fellows Program

The Sub:Culture Fellowship is a paid cultural production fellowship through Black Modern Mystic Media. Fellows complete a seven-city pilgrimage in partnership with The Clearing Online, supported by online courses, coaching, cultural immersion, and cohort-based formation. The program culminates in a showcase and certification event where donors, partners, friends, loved ones, and community members witness the fellows’ creative, spiritual, and public leadership in real time.

Three women wearing beige hoodies with the logo 'SUB.CULTURE' stand by a lake on a clear, sunny day, smiling and talking.
A table covered with black cloth displaying various handmade clay sculptures, each placed on a white note card with handwritten labels and questions.

BLACK SCIENCE LABS

Black Science Labs are contemporary Hush Harbors—intentional, fugitive spaces where Black people come together to experiment with freer ways of being. Through ritual, play, somatic practice, artmaking, and collective care, the Labs interrupt inherited colonial “prediction loops” that teach black bodies who is safe, holy, and fully human.

Four people in a dining room with large windows, sitting around a round table with a vase of orange and yellow flowers, looking at various items, including a wrapped gift, snacks, and colorful cloths.
Seven people smiling, gathered around a table for a group selfie indoors, with a kitchen and refrigerator in the background.