Kwanzaa
Sunday, Dec 27 | 3:00 PM
Celebrating Love Respect and Community
3pm – 6 Free
Light Refreshments servedThe Seven Principles (Nguzo Saba) of Kwanzaa are:
• Umoja (oo-MOH-jah): Unity Success starts with Unity. Unity of family, community, nation and race.
• Kujichagulia (koo-jee-chah-goo-LEE-ah): Self-Determination To be responsible for ourselves. To create your own destiny.
• Ujima (oo-JEE-mah): Collective work and responsibility To build and maintain your community together. To work together to help one another within your community.
• Ujamaa (oo-jah-MAH): Collective economics To build, maintain, and support our own stores, establishments, and businesses.
• Nia (NEE-ah): Purpose To restore African American people to their traditional greatness. To be responsible to Those Who Came Before (our ancestors) and to Those Who Will Follow (our descendants).
• Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah): Creativity Using creativity and imagination to make your communities better than what you inherited.
• Imani (ee-MAH-nee): Faith Believing in our people, our families, our educators, our leaders, and the righteousness of the African American.
• Umoja (oo-MOH-jah): Unity Success starts with Unity. Unity of family, community, nation and race.
• Kujichagulia (koo-jee-chah-goo-LEE-ah): Self-Determination To be responsible for ourselves. To create your own destiny.
• Ujima (oo-JEE-mah): Collective work and responsibility To build and maintain your community together. To work together to help one another within your community.
• Ujamaa (oo-jah-MAH): Collective economics To build, maintain, and support our own stores, establishments, and businesses.
• Nia (NEE-ah): Purpose To restore African American people to their traditional greatness. To be responsible to Those Who Came Before (our ancestors) and to Those Who Will Follow (our descendants).
• Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah): Creativity Using creativity and imagination to make your communities better than what you inherited.
• Imani (ee-MAH-nee): Faith Believing in our people, our families, our educators, our leaders, and the righteousness of the African American.
Music, Dance, Poetry and Storytelling and candle lighting ceremony