To bring joy and hope to our young people, we hold a free community events focused on art, activism and healing, bringing our community together with food, music, dancing and give-aways. We partner with Black and BIPOC vendors and entrepreneurs to invest in our economic development and integrate local healers and organizations like Irreducible Grace. Check out videos and photos!
Upcoming events
Join Love First for a free community dinner and youth-led presentation hosted by the Legal Rights Center covering the school to prison pipeline, youth rights in schools, and legal rights and expungements. Register here!
Past events
June Revive & Thrive Training and Community Dinner
June 6 | Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
Watch a video reel from the event!
May Community Dinner & Conversation
May 19 | Indigenous Roots
April Community Dinner
April 12 | Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
Watch a video reel from the event!
February Community Dinner
February 18 | Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
MLK Day Community Dinner
Jan 14, 2024 | Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center
In honor of MLK Day, Love First hosted a Community Dinner with free food, fellowship and a showing of the biopic “Rustin.” Following the film, we had a discussion about the film and how to organize with our youth facilitated by civil rights leader and youth advocate, Chauntyll Allen.
