Uncle Bobbie’s X Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts – Black Joy Workshop

Joy Is Your Birthright!

We are thrilled to welcome author, and NAACP Image Award winner, Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts for an intimate, hands-on workshop experience around reclaiming BLACK JOY.

So many of us are looking for ways to reclaim JOY in light of the challenges and chaos of this moment in our country. It’s incredibly important that we are intentional with, as Tracey says, “writing joy into our days.” Through this micro-workshop Tracey will walk us through some of the exercises in the Black Joy Playbook and host a discussion on how we might embrace our joy as an act of resistance, yes, but also as a way to heal.

All tickets come with a copy of The Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight

Also, attendees will be able to have an exclusive shopping discount while in the store!

We look forward to seeing you at this needed event!

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About the book:

Reclaim your joy with this beautifully designed and thoughtful playbook from the author of the NAACP Image Award winner Black Joy.

We have an ancestral mandate to hold not just the pain and trauma of our experiences as Black people, but to hold the joy and love and peace that is also ours.

Joy is a weapon, not only for resistance, but also a means for healing—a powerful tool that is all-encompassing and necessary. Black Joy Playbook helps you mine your memories to discover what joy looks and feels like to you and then guides you to re-create it in your present-day life.

Divided into themes of joy in the body, breath, tears, laughter, and every day, each of the thirty entries includes the following:

• a short inspiration
• questions for reflection
• a meditation
• space for contemplation
• suggestions for how to choose joy

It’s time to chase joy and cultivate it from the inside out!

About the author:

Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts is a writer, thought-leader, and host of the podcast HeARTtalk with Tracey Michae’l, known for exploring the intersection of culture, identity, and spirituality. As a “literary midwife,” she has authored 25 books, including bestsellers and collaborations with notable figures like Tabitha Brown, Yusef Salaam, and Rickey Smiley. Her groundbreaking work includes contributing to You Are Your Best Thing (2021) and publishing Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration (2022), which won the NAACP Image Award. Tracey also authored Then They Came for Mine: Healing from the Trauma of Racial Violence, which won the 2023 Wilbur Award. Her recent release, The Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight, launched in October 2024. A prominent voice in race, social justice, and faith, Tracey has spoken nationally and written for major publications such as Oprah Daily, Essence Magazine, and The Washington Post.

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Doors open at 6pm

Each ticket comes with a copy of The Black Joy Playbook.

All sales are final.

Seating is General Admission.

Children older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.