Yemanjá – Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil

Yemanjá: Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil is a documentary film about the role of women as ritual leaders, environmental justice activists and healers in the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé.  On October 27, at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the film will be screened with a panel discussion following featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Alice Walker (who narrates the film); Donna Roberts, the filmmaker; and our own Rachel Elizabeth Harding, historian of Afro-Atlantic religions and Candomblé initiate.

For more information and to register, click here.

And here below is the trailer for the film.