Individuals on the Kwanzaa 2022 celebration on the Brooklyn Kids’s Museum.
Photograph by Winston Williams/Brooklyn Kids’s Museum
Brooklyn Kids’s Museum (BCM) invitations households and group members to honor the spirit of Kwanzaa at New York Metropolis’s most distinguished household Kwanzaa celebration in partnership with Brooklyn’s personal Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Basis.
BCM stated on Thursday that the seventeenth Annual Celebration takes place from Thursday, Dec. 26 via Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, from 10 a.m. to five p.m., bringing “the colourful traditions, highly effective rules, and joyous spirit of Kwanzaa to life for all ages.”
“Have a good time Kwanzaa presents a wealthy mix of each day candle-lighting ceremonies, cultural performances, and hands-on workshops that interact guests within the seven rules of Kwanzaa, the Nguzo Saba, emphasizing unity, self-determination, collective work, and creativity,“ BCM stated.
Atiba T. Edwards, BCM’s Vincentian-born president and chief govt officer, stated: “This yr, we have fun the theme ‘Our Kids Enlighten the Neighborhood,‘ reminding us that Kwanzaa isn’t solely a time to replicate on the values that uplift our group but additionally a second to heart the voices and abilities of our youth.
“As we mark our seventeenth yr as New York Metropolis’s largest and longest-running household Kwanzaa celebration, we’ll see our younger individuals embody the rules of Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Willpower), and Ujima (Collective Work and Duty) via their artistic expressions and management,“ he added.
BCU stated every day will provide attendees one thing distinctive, together with each day candle-lighting rituals led by Chinua Baraka Payne and the dynamic Asase Yaa Youth Ensemble, awe-inspiring performances with Kudo NYC and FIYAA (Forces of Nature Unimaginable Youth Arts Alliance), and immersive dance and drumming workshops.
BCM stated households may discover graffiti-inspired paintings in ColorLab and dive into hands-on experiences that spotlight the cultural depth and fantastic thing about Kwanzaa.
The Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Basis is a non-profit group with a mission “to enlighten, uplift and immerse the group in all issues clever of Africa – in full – in America.”
The Basis stated it’s “the controlling entity of a broad vary of arts and cultural providers that comprise two main applications, the Asase Yaa Faculty of the Arts and the Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater.”
Below the auspices of the Faculty of the Arts, the Basis additionally sponsors an annual Kids’s Summer time Artwork Camp. It has a thriving Arts Outreach Instructional Program serving private and non-private colleges all through New York’s 5 boroughs.
It’s one of many few Black-owned and African cultural arts organizations in Brooklyn, and its principals embody Kofi Osei Williams, chief govt director; Rubie Inez Williams, director of operations; and Yao Ababio, founder and inventive director of the African American Dance Theater.
Impressed by the borough’s vitality and variety, BCM stated it “creates experiences that ignite curiosity, have fun id, and domesticate joyful studying.”
Based in 1899 because the world’s first youngsters’s museum, BCM prides itself on being New York Metropolis’s most important cultural establishment, designed particularly for households.
Proudly primarily based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, BCM stated it serves 300,000 youngsters and caregivers yearly with displays and applications grounded in visible arts, music and efficiency, pure science, and world cultures.
