Brown Sugar Poetry Night

The Wellness Takeover and Starasia invite you to a night where poetry meets community in one of Manhattan's most beloved spaces. The Grae Wellness Lounge — the only Black-owned business on 5th Avenue to stand strong for over five years — is the perfect home for a night like this. When did you fall in love with hip-hop?

That's the question Brown Sugar asked us. But if you really sit with it — it's asking something deeper. It's asking when you first felt seen. When something told the truth about who you were before you had the words for it.