Atlanta Greek Picnic Celebrates 20th Anniversary This Year

Atlanta Greek Picnic is back this year and will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Hosted at Morris Brown College, it is scheduled to take place June 25-30.

The event will feature performances from Brie, Noochie, Dominae, Swift and Fast Life artists Yungstaz. It will also feature the “AGP Cares Corner,” a space where attendees will have access to free mental health discussions with licensed therapists.

The step show, which is one of the pillars of the AGP, was canceled this year, organization announced on June 11. Rickey Smiley was originally scheduled to host the event, while Juvenile was scheduled to perform.

AGP attracts more than 25,000 people each year and generates approximately $3.5 million, according to And landscape.

Tiwa Williams, president and founder of AGP, said her motivation for organizing the event was to “advance a highly educated and extremely influential audience with networking, unity, a unique and fun experience once a year ”, according to Andscape.

Although AGP hosts celebrations, the organization also hosts an annual networking event and community service, which Williams said are “a defining part of our weekend to be able to give back to our community and leave it better than it was.” that we found it.” The organization has also sponsored entrepreneurial events in the past, such as Plug ATL’s pitch competition.

Williams started the AGP in 2004 after being inspired by the Kappa Luau in Tallahassee, Florida, which he said was the largest gathering of Greeks in the South at the time. Between 200 and 300 people attended the inaugural AGP event. Attendance increased and in 2009 it attracted around 3,000 people.

“The truth is that before I enrolled at my alma mater, Georgia Southwestern State University, I had no knowledge of what black Greek culture was,” Williams told Andscape. “It was very intriguing for a young Nigerian of British descent who had just moved to America from an all-boys Catholic boarding school in Bath, England, to see that these students were part of a huge organization apparently in Greek letters with decades of history. on a college campus in southern Georgia.

His interest in Greek life grew, and Williams eventually joined Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.

“Kappa challenged me to be a better person, a better student, a better leader and a better citizen of the world,” he said. “Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. were not only the coolest, sweetest, most successful brothers in existence, but they uplifted everyone, including the other fraternities, and to me that meant a lot. “