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.
Read MorePlease 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.
Read MoreA RESPONSIVE PANEL - OUR DIASPORIC COMMUNITY’S ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY TO ONE ANOTHER WHEN TRAVELING AND EXCHANGING EXPERIENCES.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreCCCADI’S DEAR PROGRAM IS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAB For artists and cultural workers of African descent
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreA multi-generational dialogue which centers the collective wisdom of the Lucumi community in the U.S. in response to this annual tradition.
Read More@jonathanriveranyc , founder of Brooklyn Coquito @brooklyncoquito takes us on an exploration of how this drink has been a cultural conduit for family traditions and Boricua identity. Join him as he visits prominent coquito makers and asks the timely question everyone asks about coquito, “¿Quien lo hizo?”(“Who made it?”)
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