The Black Candle ~ Kwanzaa 365 Agriculture Workshops

Kwanzaa 365 seeks appropriate collaborative community partners whom demonstrate alignment with our values and beliefs to enhance year round better diet related health outcomes.

Together, we must take full custody of active full participation in local food systems through ownership, production, distribution and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.

We must extend the successful campaign of “Yes, We Can” and focus upon accessing equity in collaboration and partnership building opportunities, embracing the strong heritage tradition of first fruits celebrations, he meaning of Kwanzaa.

We host the official screening of ‘The Black Candle’ to our regional community and highlight our preparation to utilize an amazing new opportunity for inclusion in the global agriculture industry.

“We are expanding community outreach for greater access of Kwanzaa information to our diverse community while we prepare for our unique Kwanzaa holiday season. From a 21st century world view, building upon our historic universal “first fruits’ agriculture legacy, we must celebrate the best of ancient African traditions and embrace “effective modern change” said Khubaka, Michael Harris, Kwanzaa 365 Project Director.

“Kwanzaa is a rapidly growing global holiday grounded in highlighting our cultural heritage specialty crop production necessary for positive health outcomes year round that align well with new opportunities within the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 and our new Urban Agriculture Faith Based Initiative.

We have prepared well and can now demonstrate complete inclusion in the implementation toward a 2030 California Agriculture Vision building upon good public policy. We actualize preparation for success with U.S. President-elect; Barack Obama historical victory. We must mandate and establish real change with an expanded effective role in our nationwide USDA/CBO Partnership. We can embrace a ‘first fruits’ access to significant tax payer investments our ancestors, elders have made without good benefit. We now must reap a ‘plentiful first fruits harvest’ throughout the U.S. Agriculture industry, beginning in our local food system.

Black Agriculture, inclusive of participation in all levels of the food, fiber, fuel, forestry and finance industries, can utilize the signs and symbols of Kwanzaa to offer nationwide job and career opportunities to urban and rural communities toward reestablishing agriculture as the foundation of Black Culture.

Kwanzaa 365, an urban agriculture faith based initiative, returns to the “Garden of Eden” and embraces Proverbs 3:9. All whom say they answer the call from Abraham, and many other diverse cultures, languages and faiths his complete example has influenced, is apart of the Black Candle of Unity.

Join us Sunday throughout December 14, 21, 28, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Wo’se Community Life Center, Broadway and 35th Street, in the Historic Oak Park District, Sacramento, CA. Entrance is free and the entire community is invited to experience the source, sight, sound, soul and spirit of Kwanzaa.

The Holiday of Kwanzaa is celebrated from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, and each of the seven days focuses on a different principle. First celebrated in 1966, Kwanzaa is deeply rooted in the universal culture of celebrating the first fruits harvest.

Our goal is to demonstrate universal values and beliefs shared through Kwanzaa that can highlight a year-round connection to a broader local food system that demonstrates daily behavior that builds upon faith in our creator through action.

We will screen an incredible documentary, the Black Candle, a landmark historical presentation that uses Kwanzaa as a vehicle to explore and celebrate the African-American experience.

Narrated by world renowned poet Maya Angelou and directed by award-winning author and filmmaker M.K. Asante, Jr., The Black Candle is an extraordinary, inspirational story about the struggle and triumph of the Black family, community, and culture.

Filmed across the United States, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean, The Black Candle is a timely illumination on why the seven principles of Kwanzaa (unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith) are so important to the world and especially Black Americans.

The first feature film on Kwanzaa, The Black Candle traces the holiday’s growth out of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s to its present-day reality as a global, pan-African holiday embraced by over 40 million celebrants.

With vivid cinematography and an all star cast that features the best and brightest from the hip-hop and the civil rights generations, The Black Candle is more than a film about a holiday: it’s a celebration of a people!

Community-based performances, local community vendors and “A Taste of the African Diaspora” offers a variety of foods from around the world to complete a family experience of enjoying the sights, sounds, senses, soul of our Kwanzaa 365 Agriculture Workshops.