Peace beloveds! Greetings from Olori and Yetunde! How are you?
We pray you are caring for yourself and your beloveds energetically and materially.
We are SO EXCITED about how New World Haven is shaping up and would like to share some updates with you! 🥰🥰🥰
We’ve recently pitched Portal X and New World Haven twice and are gearing up for a third pitch with many more to come, anywhere we can get a microphone.
Portal X and its solution framework are already changing the world. I’m uber grateful and uber proud that I get to do such meaningful work, and in front of my daughter no less 🥰
We won third place alongside Powell Mental Health at the recent Noire Exposé in New Haven hosted by the Black Business Alliance
Thank you to all of you who have housed and fed and loved on us 💙
Thank you to our team for being in the trenches as we figure it all out 🥰🥰🥰 So so very grateful for each and everyone of you and I look forward to living in the New World with you who love us deeply 🥰
What is the New World? How do we get there? What is the intersection with Spirituality & Technology? Community? What does hyper-localized digital storytelling mean for how communities will shape in our imminent future?
How can you ensure your Spiritual safety and security? Your material safety, and that of those you love as the world turns all the ways?
This is all what Portal X seeks to explore, understand and create. Through an intersection of Spirituality, technology, storytelling and data-driven social experiences, we’ll be exploring the most joyful paths to collective Liberation.
New World Haven is an activation of the teaching methods of our Ancestors, who always embedded secret knowledge, critical lessons and historical data into stories.
Through New World Haven, we’ll hide the obvious in plain sight: how to tap into your genius, how to start and run a business, how to cultivate healthy, loving, bonded families, communities. How to grow our intergenerational wealth, and much more, with your support.
This project is made possible by the Mellon Foundation and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, who have provided funding for the first 12 weeks of narrative installments. We intend to continue the project beyond the February closing of the Mellon Foundation’s funding for this project.
By you taking advantage of the services of our consulting company–NOIR Labs, Co, you help ensure the continual growth of this powerful narrative of Black Liberation through Black Genius. NOIR Labs on Portal X offers software development services, tech and data strategy, Strategic Storytelling and more.
Founded in New Haven, incubated at Yale and in Brooklyn before that, NOIR Labs has deep roots in New Haven and we are committed to doing our part to help make this city successful in its efforts to uplift and empower Black and Brown youth unconditionally.
Calling on all community elders who were active in the 60s and 70s or who know those stories. Sit with us and teach us what you know and what you dream of for New Haven.
We are looking forward to a few gatherings over the next several months, and will share more details in coming days. The New World Haven website is under construction at newworldhaven.org
For now we are in urgent need of Visual Design talent. We will work with those who are eager to learn and have the ‘eye’
If you’re experienced and have a portfolio, we’d love to see anything you’ve done that you feel matches our aesthetic—at any level.
It could be sketches, digital illustration, typography. We particularly want to invite any high school students who are passionate about building strong Black communities in New Haven. We will train.
We have some budget and are open to creative and intentional means of exchange in the spirit of Ubuntu.
Likewise if you need our services and are not able to invest in our pricing structure, we will work with you to explore a fair mutual exchange.
Value is created far beyond the dollar.
Much love and please text us if you’d love to support New World Haven,
Olori Lolade Siyonbola
Yetunde Olowosoyo
+15736737946
team@noirlabs.org
