Kwanzaa Celebration From a Revolutionary Perspective

3940 Broadway,New York NY 10032

26 December, 2021

Description

This is a Grassroot Communal Celebration honoring the Pan African principles of unity represented in Kwanzaa Celebration created 1965. Kwanzaa Celebration From a Revolutionary Perspective- Hosted by The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, H.O.L.L.A! How Our Lives Link Altogether!, New York City Community Survival Programs. This is a Grassroot Communal Celebration honoring the Pan African principles of unity represented in Kwanzaa Celebration created 1965. Honoring Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz’s Pan African principles of unity and the people’s fight for Black Liberation, this event will honor and welcome our collective Black, Brown and Indigenous, our elders, differently abled, incarcerated and formally incarcerated family, undocumented family, community leaders, queer folks, as well as our sacred feminity and masculinity, and youth together to share food, ancestry, music, dance, struggle, and share testimonies with each other to build new and deeper culture, relationships, strategies, and analysis needed to continue the struggle, the fight and love needed to heal and bring peace to the WAR. COVID-19 Updates and Requirments: In accordance with NYC guidelines, we require all attendees to wear a mask, and provide ID along with proof of vaccination, or ID along with proof of a negative COVID test from the last 48 hours. The Shabazz Center is a cultural and educational institution that harnesses the legacies of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz to incubate social, racial, and global justice movements. Our physical space memorializes Malcolm X’s humanitarian efforts and martyrdom, and embodies the educational vision of Dr Betty Shabazz. The Shabazz Center partner with community organizers and educators, and facilitate cultural activations meant to catalyze the next generation of leaders in the movement for global racial equity and justice. How Our Lives Link Altogether! (H.OL.L.A!) is committed to working for a world where young people from historically oppressed communities are engaged in movements of resistance. We see our work as a movement building, as a process of developing hope and spirit. Our work is intersectionally bound to other movements around the world. We focus on youth who do not have access to mainstream services/institutions and seek to support them in their process of healing and leadership development while working with them to transform their communities through community youth organizing. Our current focus is to co-create a youth-led organization centered on grassroots community youth organizing,  Huaman and Healing justice pedagogy, and analysis. Our focus is to provide the space and resources to support the leadership development, healing, and liberation of marginalized urban youth of color and their communities.  H.O.L.L.A!’s Healing Justice Movement Album’s development comes from a real community need. A real healing need. A real artistic need to bring wellness back to our spirits, hearts, minds, relationships, and blocks. We are creating this album to earn resources, to share our wisdom, and report back to our communities. This album is to heal our communities and ourselves. This album is a form of our pedagogy to show people that we will stand up with/for them, show systems of oppression that healing is happening & will continue. This album uplift the ways young leaders from the hood are taking care of themselves and the community by showcasing our talents (Y.O.C). This album is one way to continue growing our relationship with each other and other organizing families in applying our Human to Healing Justice healing centered community organizing.  Healing Justice Movement Album Analysis and Praxis  After co-creating and sitting in over 50 Healing Justice circles with youth of color and service providers of youth of color. As well collecting experiences and wisdom from analyzing over 500 youth assessments/surveys (about youth relationships to systems and community) and evaluations (to capture how our Healing Justice circle contributed healing) taken during our Healing Justice Circles... contextualized by the many reflections - as individuals and, as a collective. H.O.L.L.A! is now ready to share our collective findings and truths, to further uplift what we mean by creating and living out a praxis of every day healing, transformation and growing. One-way Y.O.C plans to share the lessons from our movement praxis is with our Healing inspired album that is written, and co produced by H.O.L.L.A!’s Youth Organizing Collective for urban youth, communities of color, and their peoples.  Healing Justice Movement Album Purpose and Spirit  The Healing Justice Movement Album is H.O.L.L.A!’s Youth Organizing Collective public report back to communities from over 3 years of Healing Justice Movement organizing, circle work, and analysis. From this process Y.O.C has developed 19 learned lesson/elements/values from our organizing praxis to guide the tracks and energy of the album. The 19 elements were intentional created for guidance and accountability in our process creating healing-centered music for movement building and healing. These elements below represent the energies, lessons and experiences we shared with each other over the last 3 years of getting to know each other, while building our youth-led movement that centers healing. You can read more about 19 elements here.   19   Elements:   Healing Justice is an Everyday Praxis    Touching Trauma   Her and History    Gain & Loss    Human Justice (CSI)    Pedagogy   Grassroots Leadership and Praxis    Healing-Centered Youth Organizing    Youth-Led Leadership   Courage    Analysis of Structural Violence    Challenges we face doing this work “CSI”   Intergenerational and Intersectional Connectivity    Our Collective and Individual Experiences of    Healing    Deep Relationship Building   Building and (Re) connecting Black Love   Vulnerabilities    Connecting and Learning from the Land