DECEMBER

For 25 years, the most positive holidays ever, where you can spend your MONEY where it COUNTS You are invited to attend:

25TH ANNIVERSARY MARKETPLACE FESTIVAL & HEALTH FAIR
(formerly African American Holiday Expo)

SAT, DEC 20, 2008 (ONE BIG DAY ONLY)
11 A.M. - 5 P.M. REEVES CENTER
14TH & U STS, N.W

• 2 floors, 60 merchants, artists, health providers & youthpreneurs with AFFORDABLE, UNIQUE GIFTSFood Court with Carribbean, Vegetarian & Raw Food
• Inner-attainment featuring Ayo Handy- Kendi, Englishman, Liani Mataka, Mustory, Hip Hop Education & a Reunion Open Mike (all day, every half-hour SHOUT-OUTS if you've ever been a part of our 25 years)
• Fashion Show Holiday / Cultural Movies Ngoma Party with Malcolm X Dancers & Drummers & Community Awards
• Free Health Screenings and Massages available. DESTRESS with Tai Chi, Yoga, Everybody Dance. Raw food demo.
• WPFW Personalities & Silent Auction
• Free & Open to the public Receive door prize for donations (sug. $5) . Support YEP (Youth Entrepreneur Project for Crime & Violence Prevention. Also, donate usable Laptops)
• Call 202-667-2577 or www.AfricanAmericanHolidays.org Partners: ANC 1-B, Washington Informer & WPFW (add WPFW Logo, if possible)

MARKETPLACE FESTIVAL (formerly the African American Holiday Expo) Downloads : MarketPlace Flye/Poster r(PDF) MarketPlace Program Schedule (PDF) MarketPlace Vendor Application (PDF) MarketPlace Vendor Setup Instructions (PDF) Pay Vending Fees Online MARKETPLACE FESTIVAL NEWS 40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF KWANZAA PROMOTES ITS HEALTH BENEFITS

 

• JANUARY
  MARTIN LUTHER KING PEACE WEEK AND DAY OF REMEMBERANCE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME/VIOLENCE,
  

• FEBRUARY

  BLACK HISTORY MONTH (Check www.aaha-info.org/HolidayExpoOnLine
  February 1 - 28:
  

• BLACK LOVE DAY - February 13th, a national commemorative wholyday of celebration, reconciliation, atonement and love for and and within the Black community, demonstrating 5 specific acts ( of love, towards the Creator, for Self, for the Family, the Community and the Black Race, founded by Sister Ayo Handy Kendi in 1993.

• 15th BLACK LOVE RELATIONSHIP CEREMONY

  MARCH

  INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY HEALING FAIR
  

  APRIL

  Monday, April 16th, D. C. Emancipation Day Commemorating the first enslaved who were give freedom by the Emancipation Proclamation, April 16, 1863, Historical Seminars week prior, Wreath Laying at Lincoln Park, Pennsylvania Avenue Parade - DOE

• MAY

  Ancestor Honor Day Honoring
  all who have died for freedom, justice, civil or equal rights as an alternative to Memorial Day, founded in 1996 by Ayo Handy Kendi. Commemorate with Ancestral Alters, Libations, Day of Remembrance

• JUNE

  Juneteenth Music Festival, Civil War Memorial, 10th & Vermont Ave, N.W. Commemorating the date, June 19, 1865, when the notification of The Emancipation Proclamation was delivered to the enslaved in Galveston, Texas, 2 ½ years after the proclamation was written. AAHA in coalition with Head Roc, the D. C. Juneteenth Music Coalition, D. C. Statehood Green Party. Music, Poetry, Speakers

• JULY

  July 4th, Fourth of U-Lie Commemoration founded by Ayo Handy Kendi to focus attention on alternative programs, activities and civil actions to stand up for Justice.

• AUGUST