Event

Yemanja Arts Festival

This unique arts festival celebrates the spirit of Yemanja, the African diety that honors the essential, beautiful and sometimes-dangerous nature of water. Inspired by the original Yemanja Festival celebrated in Bahia, Brazil the Yemanja Arts Festival will bring together celebrated artists and dancers from across California interpreters of art forms from the African diaspora (Brazil, the Caribbean, West Africa and the United States) that pay homage to Yemanja through their respective folkloric and spiritual traditions.

Artistic Director: Conceicao Damasceno
Assistant Artistic Director: Ashlee George
Musical Director: Wagner Santos

Featuring: Damasceno Dance Company, Ashlee George, Arenas Dance Company, Renni Flores, Wagner Santos, Rodson de Jesus, Barboletas Dance Group, Rebecca Kleinman & Ian Faquini, DJ Jose Ruiz.

Bahian Food by Sabor da Bahia

Doors open at 7 pm, Show begins 8 pm
$18 advance, $20 at the door

Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com

Made possible by the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Alliance for California Traditional Arts and the Grousbeck Family Foundation.