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A Visual Gesture

Summer Art Workshop by Aleathia Brown

August 29 , 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

The Children’s Art Carnival 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York

Theme: A Visual Gesture

Audience: Adults, Seniors Tickets: $48.50 A Line, bold, colorful, and Moving can be Art. Join this art-making workshop on a special coated paper. Participants will create their masterpieces with acrylic paint accompanied by a vibrant Music playlist.

This session will be guided by a Master Teaching Artist, Aleathia Brown of Aleathia’s.

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MOMA African Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched an exhibition honoring Black artists and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance.

Use your NYC ID to get free admission and lower priced guest tickets, but make sure you visit. They need to know we care!

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Happy Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa celebrates what its founder, Maulana Karenga, called the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba (originally Nguzu Saba—the seven principles of blackness). Karenga said “is a communitarian African philosophy,” consisting of what Karenga called “the best of African thought and practice in constant exchange with the world.” These seven principles comprise Kawaida, a Swahili term for tradition and reason. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles.

  • Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
  • Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
  • Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems, and to solve them together.
  • Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
  • Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
  • Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
  • Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

Kwanzaa symbols include a decorative mat on which other symbols are placed, corn and other crops, a candle holder with seven candles, called a Kinara, a communal cup for pouring libations, gifts, a poster of the seven principles, and a black, red, and green flag. The symbols were designed to convey the seven principles.