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The annual three-day 1Love Festival comes to Winston-Salem June 26-28, 2025, honoring the richness of African Diasporic culture through music, art, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
The festival honors transformative storytelling as an embodied form of sacred artistic proclamation, rooted in culture and creative expression to re-story and reclaim personal and collective narratives.
1Love Festival Events
Re-storying And Recovering: Coded Competencies
This 3-day free immersive Culture Conversation Series features coded competencies in Theology, Faith, and Wellness in African American communities. It explores re-storying, which draws on body, art, music, and words to counter distorted narratives, nurture wholeness, and promote healing. The series will be held from 8:30am – 4:30pm at the SG Atkins Enterprise Center, 1922 S MLK Jr Drive, Winston-Salem. Following is the schedule:
- June 26 – The Power Of Narrative – Guided by Dr David Brawley
- June 27 – Storyteller As Public Mystic – Guided by Rev Stephen Lewis
- June 28 – Restorying Is Creative Coding – Guided by Dr Melva Sampson
For more information and to register for the free Cultural Conversation Series, visit the website of 1Love Festival.
Music Performances
1Love Festival at The Ramkat celebrates its 5th Anniversary with a performance by Chelsey Green and the Green Project on June 28, 2025.
Chelsey Green brings her violin, viola, and rich, soulful vocals to her passionate, electrifying, genre-defying performance. Her ensemble, Chelsey Green and the Green Project tear down stereotypes of what classic string instruments can do. They fuse traditional techniques with popular favorites and original songs across R&B, Pop, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Alternative, Hip Hop, Gospel, and more.
Along with a long list of impressive accomplishments, Dr. Chelsey Green, a passionate educator and advocate for music education and equity in the arts, as well as a cultural leader, made history as the first Black woman and youngest person ever elected as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Recording Academy® marking two historical milestones in the organization’s 68-year history.
DJSK will also be performing at The Ramkat on June 28. For over a decade, he has established some of the region’s most successful parties, championed a generation of local artists, and invested heavily in the musical culture in his community. SK was reared in hip-hop, lending a hand in shaping his technically exceptional manner of mixing.
The Ramkat is located at 170 W 9th Street, Winston-Salem – doors for the shows open at 7pm. The show begins at 8pm; for tickets to the performances, see The Ramkat Website.
Visit the 1Love Festival website to learn more about the festival, its mission, and vision.
Celebrate With Music
The Ramkat is one of the places in Winston-Salem to find concerts all year long. Many venues in the area feature a variety of music for every taste throughout the summer and into the fall. See our concert article for information.
Have you attended the 1 Love Festival? Tell us about it in the comments.
