The Seven Sips of Kwanzaa: A Community Tasting and Art Experience
November 21 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
The Seven Sips of Kwanzaa: A Community Tasting and Art Experience
November 21 • 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m.
Jamestown Settlement
Join us for a sensory journey through the seven principles of Kwanzaa (Nguzo Saba) in two 90-minute sessions, at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on November 21 at Jamestown Settlement.
Each session is included with museum admission and features seven drinks or desserts representing the principles of Kwanzaa.
Each of the seven stations feature a reflection card about a Kwanzaa principle and a guiding question for small-group discussions as well as a visual storytelling element from “Once Upon a Kwanzaa.”
In small groups, participants can discuss the guiding question along with how they practice or aspire to bring the Kwanzaa principle into their everyday activities. Each group is invited to build an art collage that depicts visions of communal repair, cultural knowledge, and creative resistance, drawn from their personal backgrounds. Smaller art pieces also can be crafted on cardboard squares to emphasize elements of the larger canvas and principle.
Participants are welcome to bring a gift that embodies one of the seven principles as part of a Zawadi (gift) exchange. Similar to the Indigenous tradition of Paatch-ah (also referred to as potlatch), the gift exchange is rooted in the tradition of wealth-sharing and valuing generosity. Ziwadi offerings can be brand new, gently used, or handmade with love. Used books, homegrown plants and seeds, collages, sketches, paintings, knitwear, patchwork, crochet items, beadwork, jewelry and other creative pieces are all welcome. MORE INFO
Sidney McCall
Sidney Rose McCall is a Ph.D. candidate in history studying slavery, abolition, and the ecological histories and freedom-making practices of Black towns across the American South and beyond. A member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and the Legacy League, Sidney’s ethos is deeply informed by the good work (and good trouble) of Black women, ranging from birthworkers and gardeners to educators and abolitionists. During the pandemic, she expanded her love of public history by working with the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. which preserve and protect Historic Eatonville, Florida, the oldest known incorporated Black municipality in the United States and the hometown of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” She serves as a junior member of the academic committee for the ZORA! Festival of the Arts and Humanities. Sidney has a deep passion for community building and bringing folks across culture and color lines together by centering history as a reimagined space of knowledge-sharing, collaborative storytelling and creativity.
