PRESS RELEASE

The first GirlTrek: Arkansas event is being held inclusive of our urban community and every woman and girl within the entire state of Arkansas, is welcome.  This Health Symposium and Outdoor Expo wellness walk-centric experience is a co-branded multicultural affair for Arkansas the entire community can join. 

This Symposium Expo scheduled for Sep 23-24, 2022 at Hempstead Hall UA-Hope Campus (2500 South Main, Hope) facility with state-of-the-art main theater, break out workrooms, wellness trail-walk, pavilion, Grand opening will take place at 12:00 p.m.. With exhibitors, we will host a question and answer panel with an award ceremony and evening benefit concert.

GirlTrek is a National Movement of 1. 8 Million Black women, now walking toward healing and liberation, as a life-saving sisterhood.  GirlTrek is a global movement of Black women leveraging the historic legacy of walking and the power of self-care as a pathway to heal and improve our lives. We believe walking 30 minutes a day is a radical act of self-love and the root of a cultural revolution. #GirlTrek

We of the SouthWest SisSTARs of Hope, Arkansas Committee extend an invitation to you to be a part of and promote our upcoming GirlTrek National Regional State experience.

This venue will afford all who attend to participate in hearing the GirlTrek National Speakers share the 2035 Agenda for women and girls, on September 23, 2022. All planned with you in mind so that solutions may surface and we gain dialogue and to digest and stride toward accomplishment toward better health outcomes after hearing Strategic Goals, Mission and Vision of GirlTrek.  

On Saturday the 24th of September, we will ask questions during the panel discussion, and we will host and award "Golden Shoelaces," for those that completed walking 21 days along and will read City and State Proclamations, before the donation-focused matching benefit evening concert. 

We look forward to hearing from distinguished community speakers, such as Executive First Lady Barbra Pitts, Orange Baptist, Honorable Mayoress Veronica Smith-Creer of El Dorado and Andrea Brown, M. Roseanne, and M. Bandy and A. Lacount to note a few. 

We will start the program promptly at 12 p.m. We have a lineup of dynamic and outstanding facilitators who are excited to speak to the GirlTrek Arkansas 2022.

The focus on the health symposiums workrooms will be recorded. Your participation is your consent to be recorded on video or in photography. * No Balloons are allowed in the Hempstead Hall.

This event is a treasure chest of educational information and resources for the community and community partners.

Please respond and reserve your availability.

The Benefit Concert, flyer below, will take place in the Hempstead Hall Performance and Event Venue, on Saturday September 24th with artist and speaker Angela L. Bryant.

Thanks in advance, share the news, and we hope you will continue to join us as planned at the end of Sep 2022. 

All are welcome to attend near & far (this is an in-person event). Please share this information with your circle of influence and peers. I look forward to meeting you all in person for this audacious two days.

Spread the word, see the flyer, please alert others as mentioned. We can promote wellness through walking and greater knowledge of outdoor education.