From 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 14, the community can come out to the Kinbridge Community Association, at 200 Christopher Dr., for Art from the Heart.
The event was created by Rhythm and Blues Cambridge to support people's mental health by coming together to process what happened over the last few years.
The 'Processing Night' will provide movement therapy and art workshops.
The organizers hope to provide a safe space where people can talk about their emotions, mental health and chat while having fun through, art, music and movement.
"In Jamaican culture when you're grieving, we do something where you play a lot of music and let your feelings out," said Krysanne Mclean, the organizer of the event and one of the founders of Rhythm and Blues.
She mentioned how they wanted to show the community that there are different ways to grieve and let feelings out. Dancing is encouraged, she added.
Rhythm and Blues aims to provide safe spaces to empower, inform and inspire the Black community in the city.
“This year I wanted to focus on mental health and continue that in different forms.”
Mclean knows the pandemic has impacted people's mental health locally and they want to provide events this year where people can feel connected again.
In addition to the unique non-traditional therapies and workshops at the event this evening, there will be face painting, food trucks and door prizes.
The three women who organized the event met during Rythm and Blues' Black Girl Excellence program and wanted to create events where people can come let their feelings out, similar to how they do in their culture, which is generally more celebratory.
One of the organizers, Alannah Decker, is a local visual artist who will be conducting a Paint and Flow Music Healing Workshop.
“Alannah wanted to do art therapy in a different way,” said Mclean about the workshop.
The third organizer of Art from the Heart, Nicole Brown Faulknor, is a registered psychotherapist, child and youth worker, yoga instructor and embodied coach of 'Mama Soul-House Rides.'
Faulknor will be hosting 'yoga soul' a movement therapy and stretch class, combining her passion for mental health with her knowledge of yoga.
“We can always be working on our mental health in different settings,” Mclean said.
The event is free and open to everyone.