Kwanzaa Opening Celebration with Mama Ayo (at Anacostia Community Museum)

Thu Dec 26, 2024
12:00pm to 2:00pm ET
Age: All Ages
Price: Free
Location:
Anacostia Community Museum
202-633-4844
1901 Fort Place Southeast, Washington, DC, 20020
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Storyteller and griot Mama Ayo opens the week-long celebration with a traditional candle-lighting ceremony, pouring of the libation paying homage to ancestors, and sharing on the history of Kwanzaa. Topics include the first principle of Kwanzaa, Umoja (unity), and the importance of unity in families and communities.

Enjoy performances by the Taratibu Youth Association, which provides a transformative experience through the performing arts, for youth of the African diaspora. Taratibu's vision is to cultivate socially responsible change agents healing and transforming people of the Pan-African community, seven generations forward and backward.

Registration is requested.

Visitors can view the entire week of Kwanzaa events here.

** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.