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...
Continue ReadingIyalorixá Valnizia de Ayrá and Dr. Rachel E. Harding will be among the presenters at a conference in New York City hosted by the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and the City University of New York, September 23, 2017. TRADE/ITION...
Continue ReadingOn September 28, the campus of Spelman College welcomes Iyalorixá Valnizia de Ayrá for an extended informal conversation about the Afro-Brazilian ritual tradition Candomblé, the divine feminine, Afro-Brazilian healing practices and women’s spir...
Continue ReadingAcross the African diaspora, how do textile arts, memory, and spirituality interweave? How do black women’s quilt- and lace-making traditions serve as ritual practices connecting folk religion and cultural identity? “Textures of the Diaspora”...
Continue ReadingThe eldest among us carry deep wisdom of experience with them – this is especially true of the most senior women in our communities of African descent who have often borne unique burdens in their labors on earth. Because they have seen before us, some...
Continue ReadingA panel and demonstration of quilting, lacework and porcupine quillwork with master artisans and religious leaders In Black and Indigenous communities in the Americas, women create objects of beauty and utility that are often connected to ritual/spiritual...
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