Thousands of people gathered in Fort Greene Park on Sunday to attend the Soul Summit Music Festival for a day of music, food, fashion and art.
From 3:00pm to 8:00pm, house music could be heard from a block away. A large, diverse crowd donned bright outfits, as many individuals boogied on the dance floor. Dozens of families and friend groups spread out blankets along the edges of the park.
The festival, created by DJs Sadiq Bellamy, Tabu, and Jeff Mendoza in 2002, started as a small dance party. Twenty-plus-years later, the event looks a lot different than it did when it began, but the tight knit feeling of community remained.
Artist and Brooklyn native Francks Deceus has been coming to Soul Summit for 10 years. A stones throw away from his studio, Deceus, like many other local residents, started coming because of the house music. This year he was showing off some of his work and handing out flyers for an upcoming gallery show to the crowd passing by.
“It's just an organic vibe, and it's a creative space,” he said. “The weather's beautiful; you couldn’t ask for more really.”
