“Black Girl Day of Play” takes place in Lansing

Third Annual Black Girl Playday (Image/Grit, Glam and Guts)

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It’s Black Girl Day of Play weekend and Adado Riverfront Park will serve as the vibrant playground this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There are dozens of interactive play stations, performances, games and music, along with local food and vendors.

The weekend, in its third year, aims to “center the joy of Black women and girls and create a safe space for generations of Black women and girls to heal, grow and thrive.”

According to organizers, the space is for all black girls and women, and for all the other people who love and honor them.

“Black Girl Day of Play is an intergenerational and intercultural movement that affirms our authentic identities of womanhood and Blackness,” said founder Cameo King. “It celebrates the layers and ambiguities of Black womanhood.”

Adado Riverfront Park is located at 201 E. Shiawassee Street in Lansing.

Following the day of “unbridled” fun and celebration in Adado Park, a fundraiser will be held this Sunday at 11am at the Courtyard Marriott Lansing Downtown.

Grit, Glam and Guts, a local girls’ organization based in Lansing, is celebrating its 11th anniversary as a movement dedicated to empowering and supporting teenage girls in a safe environment.

The fundraiser is called “Celebrating Black Girl Brilliance.” The keynote speaker is Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, the first chair of the Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University.

Dr. Brown has published two books, Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black GirlhoodAnd Celebrating Black Girlhood: Toward a Feminist Hip-Hop Pedagogy.