Eat My Words with Kleaver Cruz

Eat My Words with Kleaver Cruz

📅 Date: 2/21/2025
🕕 Time: 6:30pm
📍 Location: Adanne Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY

Join us for a special evening of words, conversation, and community with Kleaver Cruz, NAACP Image Award-nominated author of The Black Joy Project: A Literary and Visual Love Letter to How We Thrive. In this intimate dinner gathering, we will explore the power and meaning of Black joy—what it looks like, how we create it, and how it sustains us.

Through guided prompts, shared reflections, and storytelling, we will remember, reimagine, and build a collective understanding of joy as a radical act of healing. This is more than a conversation—it's a moment to conjure joy, celebrate resilience, and nourish both body and soul.

A lover of words and their meanings across languages, Kleaver Cruz (they/them) is a Black queer writer, educator, and facilitator of The Black Joy Project, a digital and real-world affirmation that Black joy is resistance. Their work spans the African diaspora, using words to craft the stories that were missing when they needed them most.

This evening is an invitation to pause, reflect, and share in the transformative power of Black joy—together.

🍽️ Dinner + Book Included

Come ready to eat, share, and be in community. ✨

Host or Publisher Adanne