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Ayo Handy-Kendi's "Juneteenth Freedom Sagas" Celebrates, Heals the Lingering Effects of Enslavement and Brings Attention to Modern Day Liberation Issues”
Experience "Juneteenth Freedom Sagas", a one-woman in-person, story-performance and “breath-shop” which re-enacts the ending of enslavement for American Blacks, during the times of D.C. Emancipation Day, April 16, 1863 and Juneteenth, 1865 and brings us to modern-day liberation issues, such as racism, demand for reparations, prison industrial complex after 13th admendment, and D.C. Statehood.
All performances are FREE, but some require pre-registration at the website LINKS:
June 15 at 3:30 p.m. at the Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival, Locust Shade Drive Triangle, Va. 22172, starting @12noon – 6 p.m. , sponsored by Prince Williams NAACP: SOLD OUT;
June16 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Creative Suitland, 4719 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Md. 20746 part of a 3 day Juneteenth Festival, sponsored by Joe’s Movement Emporium. See the festival schedule link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-matters-a-juneteenth-summit-tickets-904976758847?aff=oddtdtcreator;
June 19 Juneteenth Freedom Day from 6 to 8 p.m, at the Woodrow Wilson House, 2340 “S” Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008, 202-792-5807 Edith Michel, [email protected] or: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/woodrowwilsonhouse/items/555383/calendar/2024/06/?flow=325401&full-items=yes
The “story sagas” for racial and diversity healing, are presented, through the lens of enslaved men, women and those who held them in bondage, woven together by Negro Spirituals, with audience participation”. They were created by Ayo Handy-Kendi, internationally renowned as the Breath Sekou and founder of Black Love Day, Feb. 13th, As a Storyteller/Re-enactor, her. performances have delighted and uplifted countless lives for over 30 years.
Added this year to the “saga” performances, the audience is asked to explore their feelings in a compassionate technique, Handy-Kendi calls “silencing”. Silencing is a contemplative, inner-dialogue in which you meditate briefly on your feelings, honor them by writing them down and on a sub-conscious cellular level, breathe through them for deep release and effective reconciliation of inter-generational and present-day emotional trauma.
After the healing session, the finale encourages a talk-back dialogue about the historical emancipation, portrayals that speaks to current emancipation issues like D.C. Statehood, racism, the prison industrial system impact on men and the effects of enslavement with continued need for “Black Love” as self-care.
Presented by :
African American Holiday Association (AAHA) to preserve culture by creating a trade union of traditional and non-traditional holidays, celebrations and rituals, connecting health with culture, loveology and empowerment for social change and PositivEnergyWorks which enco urages us "to breathe better, to live better"
VIDEO CLIP OF A PREVIOUS PERFORMANCE AT VIRGINIA :
https://youtu.be/YiUfDCdGLgQ?si=rv1pGKvWkThULqXH
PHOTOS OF JUNETEENTH FREEDOM SAGAS (ABOVE)
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR BOOKINGS/MEDIA APPEARANCES
https://www.positivenergyworks.com/up-coming-events.html
SCHEDULE OF IN PERSON PERFORMANCES OR TO PRE-REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE:
https://www.africanamericanholidays.org/cultural-holiday-features.html
[email protected]
202-667-2577
BIO OF AYO HANDY-KENDI
Ayo Handy-Kendi, is the Breath Sekou, a 50+ year master teacher/practitioner of breathing practices, Certified in Transformational Breathing, Reiki, RaSeiki, QiGong, Laughter Yoga, Breathology and Diversity Training, She is the founder of the system, Optimum Life Breathology (OLB) which has certified over 250 Breathologist. Further, she is the founder of Black Love Day, Feb. 13, the Ritual of Reconciliation and African American Holiday Association (AAHA), a non-profit, that connects culture with health. Her company, PositivEnergyWorks (P.E.W.) has breathed with millions in the media, featured on Steve Harvey's Morning Show, Roland Martin's Hour, CNN, and most recently, the Boris P. Henson Foundation, CEO, Taraji P. Henson; the New York Times; and Washington Post. She is a sought-after breath facilitator/diversity trainer; speaker/storyteller/reenactor ; author/playwright; sound healer/compose; degreed counselor/life coach; and community organizer/entrepreneur, who has thrived, not just survived, through many of life's adversities, due to breath training. Breathe to Feel to Heal at http://www.PositivEnergyWorks.com, 202-667-2577
Experience "Juneteenth Freedom Sagas", a one-woman in-person, story-performance and “breath-shop” which re-enacts the ending of enslavement for American Blacks, during the times of D.C. Emancipation Day, April 16, 1863 and Juneteenth, 1865 and brings us to modern-day liberation issues, such as racism, demand for reparations, prison industrial complex after 13th admendment, and D.C. Statehood.
All performances are FREE, but some require pre-registration at the website LINKS:
June 15 at 3:30 p.m. at the Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival, Locust Shade Drive Triangle, Va. 22172, starting @12noon – 6 p.m. , sponsored by Prince Williams NAACP: SOLD OUT;
June16 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Creative Suitland, 4719 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Md. 20746 part of a 3 day Juneteenth Festival, sponsored by Joe’s Movement Emporium. See the festival schedule link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-matters-a-juneteenth-summit-tickets-904976758847?aff=oddtdtcreator;
June 19 Juneteenth Freedom Day from 6 to 8 p.m, at the Woodrow Wilson House, 2340 “S” Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008, 202-792-5807 Edith Michel, [email protected] or: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/woodrowwilsonhouse/items/555383/calendar/2024/06/?flow=325401&full-items=yes
The “story sagas” for racial and diversity healing, are presented, through the lens of enslaved men, women and those who held them in bondage, woven together by Negro Spirituals, with audience participation”. They were created by Ayo Handy-Kendi, internationally renowned as the Breath Sekou and founder of Black Love Day, Feb. 13th, As a Storyteller/Re-enactor, her. performances have delighted and uplifted countless lives for over 30 years.
Added this year to the “saga” performances, the audience is asked to explore their feelings in a compassionate technique, Handy-Kendi calls “silencing”. Silencing is a contemplative, inner-dialogue in which you meditate briefly on your feelings, honor them by writing them down and on a sub-conscious cellular level, breathe through them for deep release and effective reconciliation of inter-generational and present-day emotional trauma.
After the healing session, the finale encourages a talk-back dialogue about the historical emancipation, portrayals that speaks to current emancipation issues like D.C. Statehood, racism, the prison industrial system impact on men and the effects of enslavement with continued need for “Black Love” as self-care.
Presented by :
African American Holiday Association (AAHA) to preserve culture by creating a trade union of traditional and non-traditional holidays, celebrations and rituals, connecting health with culture, loveology and empowerment for social change and PositivEnergyWorks which enco urages us "to breathe better, to live better"
VIDEO CLIP OF A PREVIOUS PERFORMANCE AT VIRGINIA :
https://youtu.be/YiUfDCdGLgQ?si=rv1pGKvWkThULqXH
PHOTOS OF JUNETEENTH FREEDOM SAGAS (ABOVE)
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR BOOKINGS/MEDIA APPEARANCES
https://www.positivenergyworks.com/up-coming-events.html
SCHEDULE OF IN PERSON PERFORMANCES OR TO PRE-REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE:
https://www.africanamericanholidays.org/cultural-holiday-features.html
[email protected]
202-667-2577
BIO OF AYO HANDY-KENDI
Ayo Handy-Kendi, is the Breath Sekou, a 50+ year master teacher/practitioner of breathing practices, Certified in Transformational Breathing, Reiki, RaSeiki, QiGong, Laughter Yoga, Breathology and Diversity Training, She is the founder of the system, Optimum Life Breathology (OLB) which has certified over 250 Breathologist. Further, she is the founder of Black Love Day, Feb. 13, the Ritual of Reconciliation and African American Holiday Association (AAHA), a non-profit, that connects culture with health. Her company, PositivEnergyWorks (P.E.W.) has breathed with millions in the media, featured on Steve Harvey's Morning Show, Roland Martin's Hour, CNN, and most recently, the Boris P. Henson Foundation, CEO, Taraji P. Henson; the New York Times; and Washington Post. She is a sought-after breath facilitator/diversity trainer; speaker/storyteller/reenactor ; author/playwright; sound healer/compose; degreed counselor/life coach; and community organizer/entrepreneur, who has thrived, not just survived, through many of life's adversities, due to breath training. Breathe to Feel to Heal at http://www.PositivEnergyWorks.com, 202-667-2577
ANNUALLY 4TH SUNDAY OF MARCH
For immediate release: March 13, 2024
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Black Marriage Day 2024: Marriage Changes Things”
The eighteenth Annual Black Marriage Day celebration, Sunday, March 24, 2024, with the theme “Marriage Changes Things” will be held in Baltimore, Maryland. Eliza Cooper, director of Thriving Community Collaborative and Ayo Handy-Kendi, founder of African American Holiday Association (AAHA) and the 31st Black Love Day (BLD) are collaborating with Dr Nisa Muhammad, originator of Black Marriage Day and founder Wedded Bliss Foundation, Inc., will host, a free Black Marriage Day program at House of Chiefs, 4603 York Road, Baltimore, Maryland, 21212, owned by Eartha Harris, host of “Tight Knit Family Radio Show, WEAA, FM. To attend please register at: HTTPS://BUYTICKETS.AT/THRIVINGCOMMUNITIESCOLLABORATIVE/1184028
Envisioned by Cooper, a community activist/scholar and workshop leader, this program is the 2nd Black Marriage day event she has hosted in Baltimore, joining activists in hundreds of cities nationwide to highlight the benefits of married life and offer celebrations to strengthen and promote marriage in the D.M.V. Black community. She has organized a panel of marriage and relationship experts, musicians, and couples who have been married for 10- 40+ years.
Another feature, is a presentation by Sekou Mama Ayo Handy-Kendi, fhe founder of Black Love Day, who was recently the subject of a New York Times article and in a production, “Let Love”, by the Taraji P. Henson Foundation, As a certified breathologist she has breathed with millions to encourage Black joy and self-care on radio, t.v. and in print, notably featured on Steve Harvey’s Morning Show, Roland Martin’s News Hour, CNN, and The Washington Post .
Black Marriage Day has been celebrated annually at locally sponsored events hosted by faith-based and community groups annually on the fourth Sunday of March since 2003. Dr. Muhammad said marriage activists in more than 300 cities participated in 2022. Wedded Bliss Foundation and Black Marriage Day activities have been featured nationally in the Washington Post, Black Enterprise, and Essence magazines, on CNN, and more.
"Marriage has always mattered to the Black community, and this celebration lets the world know. We're creating a cultural shift in the Black community to reconsider the benefits of marriage and to show the many couples who understand, “Marriage Changes Things”, Wedded Bliss Foundation Executive Director Dr. Nisa Muhammad said. “Much of what we hear about marriage in the Black community is a blues song about low rates, out-of-wedlock births, escalating divorces, and how somebody did somebody wrong. We are replacing that blues song with a love song of joy because “Marriage Changes Things.”
Cooper in describing the goals of the Baltimore program stated, “ the one thing about marriage, is that we go through many seasons. No matter if we are married with children, recently divorced, blended families, or even grandchildren --all things related to marriage and how it changes things--will be discussed. Commitment, communication and friendship help us weather, our marriage, whatever, comes our way. This is what our program will emphasize with many resources available to assist married couples, those thinking of getting married and staying married” Let's show the world Marriage Changes Things. #BMD2024
#MarriageChangesThings.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/attend-black-marriage-day-event-baltimore-sunday-ayo-handy-kendi-3s1he
GIVE THANKS TO THE SPONSORS OF
THE BLACK MARRIAGE DAY PROGRAM 2024 - BALTIMORE
KWANZAA
FOR THE 2024 KWANZAA CALENDAR OF THE DMV, RESOURCE GUIDE DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL COPIES, AND AAHA PRODUCTS VIEW:
https://www.positivenergyworks.com/up-coming-events.html
https://www.positivenergyworks.com/up-coming-events.html
Black love Day and the Akoma Festival, Feb. 13- 15th
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