Osun Fest

5309 Martin Luther King Boulevard,Houston TX 77021

23 April, 2022

Description

The 11th Annual Osun Festival & River Ceremony is sacred gathering that's filled with spiritual love & healing for attendees to experience! 11th Annual Osun Festival & River CeremonyOsun River CeremonyTime: 7am - 10am Where: TBD The sunrise river ceremony brings collective spiritual love and realignment of vibrational energy for those attending. Prayers, songs, and cleansing of the head with Osun’s waters generate powerful, protective love as Osun embraces the participants. Participants make offerings to Osun, so everyone should bring gifts such as oranges, flowers, champagne, cinnamon, money and prayers. Osun Love PartyTime: 7pm - 12am Where: Shrine of The Black Madonna Houston; 5309 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Houston, Tx 77021 The Love Party is open to vendors, poets, dancers, artists, singers, and musicians sharing Osun’s Love! Come dressed to enjoy a sensual and loving evening! About Isis BrantleyIsis Brantley is bringing her Osun Festival & River Ceremony to Houston this year. Over the past ten years she has produced this event annually in Dallas, her hometown. Known internationally as a matriarch of the natural hair industry, she is a braider to stars such as her friend Erykah Badu, author, guest speaker, social entrepreneur, and mother to five very successful children. In 1997 Isis was arrested and jailed in Dallas for braiding without a “permission slip” from the State. She fought the state for 20 years, winning her federal lawsuit against Texas in 2015, which soon led to a change in the law, removing hair braiding from all licensing requirements. Her win made a way for hundreds of Black women and men to start their own businesses. Isis started her braiding business, Naturally Isis, in 1980, and has been continuously in business since. During her legal battle she also founded the Institute of Ancestral Braiding (IOAB), the only school offering certifications. IOAB has trained hundreds of young women in the ancestral art of braiding, giving them the opportunity to become entrepreneurs. Today she travels the nation advocating for natural hair rights and sharing ancestral wisdom. Visit Her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naturallyisis/ Visit Her Website: https://www.naturallyisis.com/