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🌍 YOUTH SHOWCASE — YOUNG VOICES, BOLD STORIES! 🥁🎤✨

The next generation has something to SAY — and we’re giving them the stage! 🔥

Join us at the Black Storytellers Alliance Festival for our Youth Showcase, an afternoon celebrating the creativity, culture, rhythm, stories, and voices of our young people.

🌟 Featuring guest youth performances by:

🥁 WE WIN Umoja Drummers
🎤 Brotha Ra The Yogini @jco1e_
🌍 WE WIN Institute @wewininstitute27
🥁 Heart and Soul Drum Academy @heartandsouldrumacademy
🔥 Duniya Drum Youth Drummers @duniyamn
🎶 The Amazing Charles @cfdobelitdo
✨ AND MORE!

But we’re not done building the lineup!

📣 YOUNG PERFORMERS WANTED!

Do you know a young person who tells stories, sings, dances, drums, performs poetry, makes music, or has another talent they’re ready to share?

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM THEM! 🙌🏾

📅 Sunday, October 11, 2026
⏰ Youth Showcase: 2:30–4:30 PM
📍 WE WIN Institute New Building
2801 S Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55405

Come celebrate our young people — and help us remind them that their stories matter, their gifts matter, and their voices deserve to be heard. ❤️🖤💚

👉🏾 Interested in performing? Sign up today!

#BlackStorytellersAlliance #YouthShowcase #YoungPerformersWanted #BlackStorytelling #YouthVoices BlackYouth AfricanDrumming Storytelling MinneapolisEvents TwinCitiesEvents YouthArts Community Culture BlackArts NextGeneration taken in WE WIN Institute, Inc. by @thatgem_

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7 days ago

A few clips from our set last night 🩵 it was such an honor to be able to perform at Crooners Supperclub! I got to chop it up with some dope people before AND after the show 🫶🏾 S/O to @brotha_ase it’s an honor growing along side you and watching you expand, I loved hearing you sing and I’m looking forward to more 💪🏾✨ S/O to the band, thank yall for curating a beautiful vibe & experience ( at practice and at the show ) and for making it a safe space to just be 🤞🏾& S/O to @jazicality such a beautiful soul AND light 🥹 make sure yall go pre order “Her” 🤞🏾 by @thatgem_

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7 days ago

MINNEAPOLIS, WE OUTSIDE! 🔥

I’m excited to announce that Mariama Imani & I will be opening for the incredible Jazicality at Crooners! 🎶✨

And y’all know me for the drum… 🪘 but this time, I’LL BE SINGING TOO! 🎤👀

Come experience a night of R&B, soul, rhythm, and beautiful energy with us. We’d love to see our people in the building showing love and supporting! ❤️‍🔥

📍 Crooners Supper Club
🎶 Twin Cities R&B Night Vol. 3
🎤 Jazicality
✨ Opening: Brotha Asé & Mariama Imani

Come early, catch our set, and stay for an amazing night of music!

#BrothaAse #MariamaImani #Jazicality #Crooners #TwinCitiesRnB MinneapolisMusic MinnesotaMusic RnB LiveMusic TwinCitiesMusic taken in Crooners Supper Club and Showroom by @thatgem_

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12 days ago

Come celebrate storytelling, rhythm, culture, and community at the Black Storytelling Festival! 🗣🏾📖🎶

📅 Sunday, October 11, 2026
⏰ 11 AM–5 PM
📍 WeWin Institute’s New Building
2801 Wyzeta Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55405

🌟 EVENT SCHEDULE 🌟
🕚 11 AM — Elder Showcase
🕛 12–2 PM — Workshops
🕝 2:30–4:30 PM — Youth Showcase

And YESSSS, I’ll be there leading a storytelling workshop! 🗣🏾✨

Come hang out, get creative, share some stories, and have some FUN with this Northside griot😌🖤 Whether you’re a natural storyteller or you swear you “don’t know how to tell a story” — come anyway! 😂

There’s something special about gathering across generations and making space for our voices, our memories, our humor, and our culture.

Bring yourself. Bring your stories. Bring somebody you love. 🖤

I can’t wait to see y’all there! ✨

#BlackStorytellingFestival #BlackStories #BlackStorytelling #MinneapolisEvents #NorthsideMinneapolis MinneapolisArts BlackArts Community Storytelling TwinCitiesEvents by @thatgem_

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19 days ago

Wrapping up the first week of 3rd grade 🥹💚 please be good to him 💕 by @thatgem_

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a month ago

REMINDER: We have another show coming up 9/25 at @croonersmn 6-7:30pm (Ticket Link In Bio)🔥

@brotha_ase and @thatgem_ will be opening up the night so get ready for a beautiful night of R&B music!!

We also just finished putting all of the pieces of the EP together and will be sending it off for mixing and mastering 🥳 Stay tuned for EP and Single announcements!
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#minnesotamusic #minneapolismusic #musiciansofig #musiciansshowcase #indieband by @thatgem_

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a month ago

Juneteenth! ✨

honoring Juneteenth IN THE TRADITION join Black Storytellers Alliance for an evening of storytelling, music, culture, and community.

📅 June 19
🕕 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Loppet Foundation, Minneapolis

Plus, enjoy a free book giveaway from We Win Institute!

Come celebrate freedom, heritage, and the stories that connect us all.

@thatgem_
@danielle.daniel.77
@brotha_ase
And more!!

Nothing is more important than our stories.

#Juneteenth #BlackStorytellersAlliance #Storytelling #Community Minneapolis AfricanDrumming Culture taken in The Loppet Foundation by @thatgem_

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4 months ago

ThatGem x Car Flows (Ep.11) Out now on YouTube!

ThatGem blesses us with her presence again for another episode of Car Flows. We met up at Lakeview Terrace Park to film some more magic 🪄

Ride and flow with the bros!

Song: “Gravity”

#carflows #thatgem #meltingpixels #minneapolis #music taken in Lakeview Terrace Park by @thatgem_

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4 months ago

ThatGem x Car Flows (Ep.11) Out now on YouTube!

ThatGem blesses us with her presence again for another episode of Car Flows. We met up at Lakeview Terrace Park to film some more magic 🪄

Ride and flow with the bros!

#carflows #thatgem #meltingpixels #minneapolis #music taken in Lakeview Terrace Park by @thatgem_

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4 months ago

ThatGem x Car Flows (Ep.11) Out now on YouTube!

ThatGem blesses us with her presence again for another episode of Car Flows. We met up at Lakeview Terrace Park to film some more magic 🪄

Ride and flow with the bros!

#carflows #thatgem #meltingpixels #minneapolis #music taken in Lakeview Terrace Park by @thatgem_

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4 months ago

ThatGem x Car Flows (Ep.11) Out now on YouTube!

ThatGem blesses us with her presence again for another episode of Car Flows. We met up at Lakeview Terrace Park to film some more magic 🪄

Ride and flow with the bros!

#carflows #thatgem #meltingpixels #minneapolis #music taken in Lakeview Terrace Park by @thatgem_

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4 months ago

ThatGem x Car Flows (Ep.11) Out now on YouTube!

ThatGem blesses us with her presence again for another episode of Car Flows. We met up at Lakeview Terrace Park to film some more magic 🪄

Ride and flow with the bros!

#carflows #thatgem #meltingpixels #minneapolis #music taken in Lakeview Terrace Park by @thatgem_

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4 months ago