2021-22 Kwanzaa featuring San Francisco
Kwanzaa Celebrations
As Kwanzaa is a 7-day holiday with 7 principles. It is why the Kinara holds 7 symbolic candles. Candle colors are taken from a flag created by Marcus Garvey. A central black candle is flanked by three red candles and three green candles. The black candle is lit on the first night of Kwanzaa. An additional candle is lit on each succeeding night until all seven candles are burning.
December 26 Umoja = Unity
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race
December 27 Kujichagulia = Self-Determination
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
December 28 Ujima = Collective Work and Responsibility
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
December 29 Ujamaa = Cooperative Economics
To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
December 30 Nia = Purpose
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
December 31 Kuumba = Creativity
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
January 01 Imani = Faith
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and the victory of our struggle.
INTERNATIONAL
Paris Kwanzaa
Annual celebration sponsored by the Association Pan Africaine; http://www.kwanzaa-apck.com
DOMESTIC
Atlanta Kwanzaa
West End Performing Arts Center, 945 Ralph D Abernathy Blvd; Atlanta; 404-525-1212
First African Church at 5197 Salem Road; Lithonia; 770-981-2601
Apex Museum at 135 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta; https://www.apexmuseum.org
Afrikan Djeli Cultural Arts Center, 840 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd SW; Atlanta; http://www.djeliculturalarts.com
Shrine of the Black Madonna at 946 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd SW; Atlanta; http://www.shrinebookstore.com
Baltimore Kwanzaa
Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture at 830 East Pratt Street; Baltimore; https://www.africanamericanculture.org
Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, http://www.artbma.org
Chesapeake Children’s Museum, 25 Silopanna Road, Annapolis; https:// www.theccm.org
Birmingham Kwanzaa
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, 520 Sixteenth Street N., Birmingham; https://www.bcri.org
Boston Kwanzaa
Museum of Afro American History at 46 Joy Street; https://www.afroammuseum.org
Charleston Kwanzaa
Sponsored by Charleston Lowcountry Kwanzaa Planning Committee; https://ww.charleston.net
Charlotte Kwanzaa
Afro American Cultural Center at 401 North Myers Street, Charlotte; https://www.aacc-charlotte.org/calendar.htm
Chicago Kwanzaa
DuSable Museum of African American History at 740 East 56th Place in Washington Park; https://www.dusablemuseum.org
Kwanzaa Celebration with Pamela Clemons at 2401 E 100th Street, Chicago
Cincinnati Kwanzaa
Lindner YMCA at 1425 Linn Street, Cincinnati; 513-641-4955
Asili Museum& Institute at 2621 Victory Parkway, 513-742-2808
Northern Kentucky University, Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 859-572-6684
Cleveland Kwanzaa
Karamu House at 2355 East 89th Street, Cleveland; http://www.karamu.com
Dallas Kwanzaa
South Dallas Cultural Center at 3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas; http://www.dallasculture.org/southDallasCulturalCenter.cfm
Detroit Kwanzaa
Wright Museum of African American History at 315 East Warren Ave, Detroit; http://maah-detroit.org/events_programs/events.html
Ujamaa Associates at 243 West Congress, Suite 350; http://www.ujamaaassociates.com
Durham Kwanzaa
Hayti Heritage Center at 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham; http://www.hayti.org
Herbert C. Young Community Center at 101 Wilkinson Avenue, Cary; http://www.townofcary.org/depts/prdept/facilities/hycchome.htm
Fort Lauderdale Kwanzaa
Bass Park at 2750 NW 19th Street, Ft Lauderdale; http://ci.ftlaud.fl.us/press_releases/2008/112408petula_holidayhappenings.htm
Greensboro Kwanzaa
East White Oak Community Center at 1801 10th Street, Greensboro; http://www.triadculturalarts.org/events.html
Hayes-Taylor YMCA at 1101 East Market Street, Greensboro; http://www.gsokwanzaacollective.org
Houston Kwanzaa
SHAPE Community Center at 3815 Live Oak, Houston; https://www.shape.org
Children’s Museum of Houston at 1500 Binz, Houston; https://www.cmhouston.org
Jackson Kwanzaa
Medgar Evers Community Center at 3159 Edwards Ave, Jackson; 601-960-1741
Jacksonville Kwanzaa
Ritz Theater and Lavilla Museum at 829 Davis Street, Jacksonville; https://www.ritzlavilla.org
Jacksonville Beach Elementary School at 315 South 10th Street, Jacksonville Beach; 904-563-5324
Kansas City Kwanzaa
American Jazz Museum at 1616 East 18th Street, Kansas City; https://www.americanjazzmuseum.com
Las Vegas Kwanzaa
West Las Vegas Library Theatre at 951 West Lake Mead Blvd, Las Vegas; 702-647-2117
Los Angeles Kwanzaa
California African American Museum at 600 State Drive in Exposition Park, Los Angeles; https://www.caamuseum.org
Annual festival in Leimert Park Village at 4300 Degnan Blvd, Los Angeles
Memphis Kwanzaa
African and African American Studies department 101 Wilder Tower at University of Memphis; https://www.memphis.edu
Miami Kwanzaa
Barry University in the Landon Events Room, 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores; 305-899-3961
Joseph Caleb Auditorium at 5400 NW 22nd Avenue, Miami; https://www.miamidade.gov/parks/parks/caleb_auditorium.asp
Milwaukee Kwanzaa
Milwaukee Public Library various locations; https://www.mpl.org
New York City Kwanzaa
Apollo Theater; 253 West 125th Street; https://www.apollotheater.org
Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, Central Park; http://www.centralparknyc.org
American Museum of Natural History Museum at Central Park West and 79th Street, New York City; http://www.amnh.org/programs/specials/kwanzaa
Newark Kwanzaa
Newark Museum at 49 Washington Street, Newark; https://www.newarkmuseum.org
Oakland Kwanzaa
Oakland Marriott Convention Center at 1001 Broadway, Oakland; https://www.kwanzaagiftshow.com
Philadelphia Kwanzaa
African American Museum 7th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia; https://www.aampmuseum.org
Phoenix Kwanzaa
Home and Garden Expo Center, 1710 East Washington Street, Phoenix; 602-999-8889
Portland Kwanzaa
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave, Portland; https://www.ifcc-arts.org
Richmond Kwanzaa
Elegba Folklore Society, 101 East Broad Street, Richmond;https://www.elegbafolkloresociety.org/efs_festivals.html
St. Louis Kwanzaa
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd, St. Louis;https://www.mobot.org
San Diego Kwanzaa
World Beat Cultural Center, Balboa Park at 2100 Park Blvd, San Diego;https://www.worldbeatcenter.org
San Francisco Kwanzaa
Various locations in San Francisco; https://www.kwanzaasanfrancisco.com
Savannah Kwanzaa
Savannah State University at 3219 College Street, Savannah; https://www.savstate.edu
Seattle Kwanzaa
Winterfest celebration held at Seattle Center, Seattle; https://www.seattlecenter.com
Washington, DC Kwanzaa
Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture; Washington DC; https://www.si.edu
Winston-Salem Kwanzaa
Delta Arts Center, Urban League, Arts Council Theatre and various churches; https://www.triadculturalarts.org
Keanzaa 2022