Brooklyn FAM's 4th annual flagship festival embraces its year-long theme of home, identity, and belonging across puppet theater, music, dance, dance workshops, spoken word, craft stations, a collaborative public art project, children's author visits, and a panel discussion.

Culturally aligned food from Brooklyn favorites Antojitos, Ix, and HAAM are available for purchase (vegetarian and vegan options available).

The program:

On the mainstage
11am — Emmanuel Elpenord, Owl Loves Angeline puppet theater
12pm — Spoken word by Stephanie Pacheco, 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate
12:20pm — Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater performance and workshop for all ages
1:15pm — Unveiling of Coming Home, BKFAM's year-long public art project
1:30pm — Panel discussion moderated by Josue Perea of AfroLatino Forum
2:15pm — Afro Dominicano, an 8-piece band
3pm — La Manga, Cumbia and Bullerengue
3:45pm — Nanm: A Robenson Mathurin Dance Company performance and workshop for all ages

On the lawns
12:15-1pm — Story time with children's authors Areli Morales, Stephanie Seales, Fabienne Doucet. Books available for purchase from Cafe con Libros.
1-1:20pm — Book signing

Art-making
11am-5pm Mexican and Guatemalan crafts with Alfa Onofre, Laura Alvarado, Andrea Del Cid
11am-5pm — Little Free Library public art project with Yolande Delius