Brooklyn Museum Hosts Major Kwanzaa Celebration

Brooklyn Children's Museum features New York City's largest family Kwanzaa celebration with art and music.

The Brooklyn Children's Museum in crown Heights is celebrating the beginning of Kwanzaa withCrown a five-day community festival that will emphasize the heritage of the African Americans by offering real art and music experiences. The annual festival held with the collaboration of the Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation takes place on Dec. 26-30 and is one of the biggest family-oriented Kwanzaa festivals in NYC.

The ceremony is a traditional and educational event; the 18-year-old event incorporates the use of art and music in order to demonstrate the seven callings of Kwanzaa, which are referred to as Nguzo Saba. Tourists are involved in Afrobeat, dancehall, and soca dancing classes; djembe drumming classes; cultural processions; and a participatory concert incorporating African diasporic performance forms.

In the ensuing discussion of the leadership of the museums, it has been highlighted that art and music in the museum served to enhance bonds between a community and the transmission of the cultural practices to the new generations. The programming is participatory and families are encouraged to learn based on movement, rhythm, and creative expression.

Besides performances, practical activities related to it would be development of unity cups, candle-lighting rituals, cookie design, personified sensory exploration, etc. The festival has been taught to celebrate a certain history, creativity, and shared responsibility by the city officials and leaders within the culture.

General museum admission covers all the events, so the celebration is available and helps to emphasize the value of art and music as means of cultural contact and building a community.