In collaboration with Ashé Cultural Arts Center, this installment will feature two New Orleans natives exploring Mardi Gras traditions from their respective lenses as culture bearers.
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For our virtual event, we have partnered with The BEAUCOUP HOODOO ATRs Book Club to present a special screening of Voices of the Gods (1985) followed by a Q&A with the Brooklyn-based filmmaker Al Santana, Okomfo Dr. Adwoa Tano, a priest in the Akan tradition and Iya Mandisa Mchawi, Osun Priest and Alásè in the Lucumi tradition. The discussion will be moderated by Iya Shantrelle P. Lewis, founder of ATRs BOOK CLUB and Sango Priest in the Lucumi tradition.
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An ongoing talk series that examines the shared Pan-African experience from a diverse set of Black lenses.
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Annually, CCCADI hosts a panel of Lucumi priests to discuss the year's forecast. You are invited to join us for this Sacred Traditions panel discussion.
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Join writer, vocalist and performance/sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013) alongside Black feminist writer, poet and performance artist Ra Malika Imhotep, author of gossypiin (Red Hen Press, Spring 2022), for our October talk commemorating Black Poetry Day.
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Please join Chief Baba Neil Clarke, Iya Amma McKen, Iya Danys Mora, Artist-Scholar Yesenia Selier, and Moderator Iya Marinieves Alba on June 10, 2021, at 6:30 PM for the next edition of Sacred Traditions where we will be exploring the role of these embodied prayers in Yoruba and Congo religious systems.
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A RESPONSIVE PANEL - OUR DIASPORIC COMMUNITY’S ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY TO ONE ANOTHER WHEN TRAVELING AND EXCHANGING EXPERIENCES.
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This month, we’ll be exploring the importance of food justice with change agents Ysanet Batista, founder of Woke Foods currently living in Ayiti, and Sheryl Durrant, an urban farmer, educator, and food justice advocate.
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This multi-part cultural program – celebrates Brazil’s Black Consciousness Movement through films, discussions and musical performance. The project includes a series of award winning documentary films on African based spiritual traditions, healing, feminine power, violence against women, music and dance in Bahia. Films are in Portuguese with English subtitles. All discussions are in English. Events are scheduled to occur during the months of November, December, February, and March and are to be streamed by CCCADI.
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A multi-generational dialogue which centers the collective wisdom of the Lucumi community in the U.S. in response to this annual tradition.
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