Kwanzaa Occasions in New York 2022
Kwanzaa, the African American and Pan-African vacation celebrating African tradition, heritage and unity, begins on Dec. 26. Have fun the vacation with these occasions throughout New York!
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Manhattan
Kwanzaa at CMOM
Youngsters’s Museum of Manhattan, 212 W. 83rd St., Higher West Aspect
December 26-29, Monday-Thursday, 10am-5pm
All ages
$16; $13 customer with disabilities and seniors 65 and older; free for youngsters youthful than 1
Study and rejoice collectively the seven rules of Kwanzaa at CMOM! Yearly households, and communities come collectively to honor the ancestors and rejoice African and African American tradition.
The vacation is seven days and centered round seven rules often known as the Nguzo Saba; Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-determination), Ujima (Collective work and duty), Ujamaa (Cooperative economics), Nia (Goal), Kuumba (Creativity), and Imani (Religion).
Every day, CMOM invitations you to ponder on these rules and the way every one makes us higher as we transfer into the subsequent 12 months.
The sixteenth Annual Kwanzaa Celebration
Harlem Moms Saves, 306a West 128th Avenue, Morningside Heights
Tuesday, December 27, 1:30-3pm and three:30-5pm
All ages
Free
Deliver your loved ones out to Have fun Kwanzaa with a presentation of The 7 Principals by Smart Islam Allah. There will even be refreshments, music, arts & crafts & items for everybody.
Kwanzaa: A Regeneration Celebration
Apollo Theater, 253 W. a hundred and twenty fifth St., Harlem
Friday, December 30, 7:30pm
All ages
Tickets begin at $25
This highly effective night of intergenerational festivities permits audiences to rejoice the season with moments of unity, self-determination, sharing, and giving again to native communities.
Be part of us for a joyous celebration of Kwanzaa by way of dance, music and spoken phrase and honoring the rules of Kwanzaa – household, neighborhood, and tradition.
Kwanzaa: A Regeneration Celebration options Forces of Nature Dance Theater beneath the management of critically acclaimed choreographer Abdel Salaam and hosted by actress, Stephanie Berry.
The electrifying night consists of particular visitor jazz vocalist Pauline Jean and the younger performers of the Harlem Youngsters’s Zone/Forces of Nature Youth Academy of Dance and Wellness. Be there for a strong night of music, percussion, and trendy and African dance.
Bronx
Kwanzaa Bracelets for Teenagers
Eastchester Library, 1385 East Gun Hill Street, Bronx
Thursday, December 22, 4-5pm
Ages 13-18
Free
Superior registration required
Be part of YA employees to commemorate Kwanzaa by making bracelets with constructive messages.
Brooklyn
Have fun Kwanzaa
Brooklyn Youngsters’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave., Crown Heights
December 26-30, Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm
All ages
$13; $12 grandparent; free for infants youthful than 1 12 months
Have fun Kwanzaa with 5 days of stay music, dance demonstrations, spoken-word displays, art-making, meals, and extra!
AIU Presents: third Annual Kwanzaa Extravaganza
Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 317 Clermont Avenue, Navy Hill
Monday, December 26, 2-6pm
All ages
Tickets beginning at $12
Have fun tradition and custom with meals, items, giveaways, music, performances, dancers, drums, and a number of unity and love.
Kwanzaa Celebration
Prince Joshua Avitto Group Heart, 876 Schenck Avenue, East New York
December 27-31, Tuesday-Friday. 6pm; Saturday, 5pm
All ages
Free
Have fun the 7 rules of Kwanzaa with audio system, dancers, singers, poetry, and pop up retailers.
Marine Park Alliance Competition of Lights: Kwanzaa
Carmine Carro Group Heart in Marine Park, 3000 Fillmore Ave., Marine Park
Wednesday, December 28, 5-7pm
All ages
Free
Deliver the household out for Kwanzaa, a New 12 months’s celebration of African American neighborhood values, and light-weight an accompanying kinara.
Queens
sixth Annual Kwanzaa Celebration
Roy Wilkins Recreation Heart, 177-01 Baisley Blvd., Jamaica
Friday, December 30, 7pm
All ages
Donations recommended upon RSVP
Superior Registration Required
Have fun Kwanzaa with the lighting of the Kinara, rejoice the Your Queens Inc boys mentorship program and see a vogue Present by the Queens of Your Queens. Plus, distributors, music, temper, and extra!
NEUTEKRAKER SUITE: The Preview
Amazura, 91-12 144th Place, Jamaica
Thursday, December 29, 7pm
All ages
$25
LIFE Camp’s Neutekraker Suite is a piece in progress that makes use of Tchaikovsky’s historic soundtrack enhanced by up to date sounds and the affect of George Balanchine’s storytelling to inform a narrative of an African American household from Jamaica Estates and the true that means of Kwanzaa.
Lengthy Island
stART (Story + Artwork): ‘My First Kwanzaa’ by Karen Katz
Lengthy Island Youngsters’s Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, Backyard Metropolis
Thursday, December 22, 11:30am-12pm
Ages 3-5
$4 or $3 members plus $15 admission, free admission for members
Deliver your little ones for a studying “My First Kwanzaa” by Karen Katz. The identify Kwanzaa means “first fruits” and relies round harvest celebrations traced again to historical African civilizations. Put together for this 12 months’s vacation by making a craft kinara and a candleholder for seven candles used within the celebration of Kwanzaa.
Village of Hempstead Kwanzaa Celebration
Kennedy Memorial Park, 335 Greenwich St., Hempstead
Tuesday, December 27, 6-7:30pm
All ages
Free
Collect collectively to rejoice Kwanzaa with local people members and management.
Have fun Kwanzaa
Lengthy Island Youngsters’s Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, Backyard Metropolis
Tuesday, December 27, 1pm
All ages
Included with $15 admission, free admission for members
Be part of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and LICM to discover this distinctive vacation that celebrates African-American tradition. Get hands-on and be taught concerning the wealthy traditions and the that means behind Kwanzaa, and make your individual crafts to affix within the festive enjoyable!
Westchester
Kwanzaa Craft Desk
Warner Library, 121 N Broadway, Tarrytown
Tuesday, December 27, 2-4:30pm
Ages 0-8 years
Free
Create one thing particular in honor of Kwanzaa.
Thomas H. Slater Heart Kwanzaa Celebration
Thomas H. Slater Heart, 2 Fisher Court docket, White Plains
Wednesday, December 28, 2-5pm
All ages
Free
Come collectively to rejoice Kwanzaa with the lighting of the Kinara, the honoring of ancestors, leisure, and refreshments.
Bergen
KUUMBA ‘The Energy of Black Creators’
JFK Leisure Heart, 211 W Kinney St., Newark
Saturday, December 31, 12-4pm
All ages
Free
Deliver the household to this particular FREE Kwanzaa Celebration.
The occasion will function sounds by DJ Kwame, Kwanzaa Ceremony Led by Queen Mom Imakhu, Vocal Efficiency by Aurway, Interactive STEAM Actions, African Drumming & Dance, Free Zawadi (Items) *whereas provides final, and free Harvest Produce Packing containers for the primary 100 households sponsored by City Ag Cooperative.
