Project Tunnel Vision is hosting our second community-wide meal for greater Hartford families. In addition to a wholesome catered meal, there will be storytelling, music and visual arts performances centered on the ways in which African diasporic communities retain their distinct cultural, ethnic and/or religious identities, just in time for Black History month now—sales end February 13! Please check back in the coming weeks for more information about the event. For questions, please contact Michelle at Project Tunnel Vision via email at projtunnelvision@gmail.com.

Event Agenda:

Intro: African drumming, African inspired songs of redemption
Indigenous Land Acknowledgement by Darlene Kascak (Schaghticoke Tribal Nation), Education Director, The Institute for American Indian Studies Museum and Research Center
Welcome and Introductions by Michelle Louise Bicking, Co-host
Lead Speaker: Jay Kemp, Youth Educator/Motivational Speaker
Interfaith benediction by Baba Shawn Robinson (Yoruba Ifa tradition) and Reverend Erica Thompson (Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford)
Communal Meal
Dance Performance – Brass City Bomba
Reflection on Communal Interdependence by Maria del Carmen, SoulCare Love, LLC
Goodbyes and Closing Thoughts
Outro: Sound Healing Exercise by Maria del Carmen, SoulCare Love, LLC

Singers/Musicians:

Brass City Bomba

New Haven African Arts Alliance

Catering provided by:

Pending

This event is made possible through the generosity of the following sponsors:

The Connecticut Museum of History and Culture

The Institute for American Indian Studies Museum and Research Center

New England Grassroots Environmental Fund

Costo, Old Lyme