SPEAKERS & SPECIAL GUESTS
THE POWER OF PURPOSE
Join us on April 26 through April 28. On October 30, 2008, before celebrating her 40th birthday, Cousin Beverly Dampier passed away. Beverly loved flowers and was showered with them at her funeral. In childhood, Cousin Helen made a pinky promise to love and take care of Cousin Beverly no matter what!” On October 1, 2010, President Obama apologized to the Guatemala President for the U.S. Public Health Services role in the Guatemala Syphilis Inoculation Study, and it triggered repressed memories of Cousin Beverly’s death and Helen began writing her documentary, Generational Trauma, An American Family’s Post-Traumatic Love Story. On October 1, 2023, Cousin Helen, CEO of Talk Story, Incorporated launched the #LoveMatters” Movement to obtain justice for the Rosenwald Fund Study and is hosting the 1st Annual Flower Gurlz Inaugural Gala in Newport News VA from April 26-28, 2024, to honor Cousin Beverly on her 55th heavenly birthday (April 27th). The launch of #FamilyLoveMatters is an effort to bring awareness to the Rosenwald Fund Study and help continue the research needed to garner accountability and acknowledgement in more than 10 counties involved in the RFS.
GALA DETAILS
Registration: Feb. 16 - April 15, 2024
Flower Gurl - $280
General - $300
Table of 8 or 10 - $290
Banquet only - $160
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*T-shirt included with ticket
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Flower Gurlz Vendor Expo
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For banquet: Semi-formal/formal “floral” attire (women only) and appropriate men’s attire
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ï‚· Q&A session, comedy performance
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ï‚· Dinner, dancing, musician, a birthday salute to Cousin Beverly
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ï‚· Sunday Gospel breakfast program (jeans and t-shirt)
THINGS TO KNOW
Traveling from out of town?
Nearest Airports
10 best hotels in Newport News
We have a block of rooms reserved at the Newport News Marriott at City Center
Discounted Block rate is from
April 24 -30
*Gala is April 26 - 28*
Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport (10 minutes from hotel)
Norfolk International Airport
(Approx. 30 minutes from hotel)
Flower Gurlz Independent Travel Agencies
Joy Bryan