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Back To Angola Festival 2022
October 21, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Oaktree Community Outreach is hosting the annual Back to Angola Festival a 3-day event, in partnership with Reflections of Manatee. The venue is the Manatee Mineral Spring Park of Bradenton’s River walk. The event is a public humanities program and community festival that celebrates, pays homage to, and disseminates the story of the Black Seminole settlement “Angola,” its history, its inhabitants, and the resilience of its descendants. The theme for the 2022 festival is “The Power of Place,” exploring how Angola remains important in the present.
Angola represents the 1770s-1821 maroon settlement by the Manatee River, a history excavated over the last fifteen years as a community-based public research project that connected local residents of Bradenton and descendants on Andros Island, The Bahamas.
Historians will share their findings with the general public, and community leaders and descendants of Angola will share the rich influence and impact of the Angola heritage today. The Festival will feature panel discussions by scholars, demonstrations of traditions of basket weaving and wood carving, audience participation activities, food offerings, music (including Junkanoo) and art displays by descendants of Angola from The Bahamas.
This program is funded in part through a Florida Humanities Community Project Grant in partnership with Oaktree Community Outreach.
Event Details
Event Date/time:
October 21, 2022 @ 4:00 pm -
October 21, 2022 @ 8:00 pm
