ImageNation / Sol Cinema Cafe and educator April Mojica present the first annual VIRTUAL KWANZAA: A 7-DAY CELEBRATION. Virtual Kwanzaa, is an online celebration of the week-long Kwanzaa holiday. Guests can join on zoom or watch on FaceBook Live. Our goal is to encourage people/families to participate in the daily ritual of Kwanzaa for all 7 days. The following is a rundown of the daily program:
7:00 PM Music
7:03 PM Welcome/Candle Lighting
7:07 PM Libation (Presentation, Ancestor Recognition and Calling of Names)
7:08 PM Children’s Time
7:15 PM Featured Presentation of the day
7:20 PM Live Testimonials from the online audience
Topic: Virtual Kwanzaa: A 7-day Celebration
Time: Dec 26, 2020 to Jan 1, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.
Daily: https://us02web.zoom.us/
Kwanzaa (/ˈkwɑːn.zə/) is an annual celebration of African-American culture that is held from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually held on the 6th day.[1] It was created by Dr. Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of Africa, including West and Southeast Africa. Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966. The 7 principles of Kwanzaa are:
- Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
- Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create 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 always do 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 hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.