Kwanzaa Unity Celebration ~ California State Capitol

9th Annual
California Kwanzaa Ag Expo

The energy of our Kwanzaa Season is a ripe holiday message of hope, for a world in turmoil. Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association will utilize our collective positive energy to celebrate a good harvest season in 2007, inclusive of ongoing 2007 Farm Bill negotiations.

Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of the Kwanzaa Holiday in 1966, gives us authentic words of creation through his unique spirit on the official Kwanzaa Website. Tiamoyo and Dr. Karenga continue to be an example of doing good works as a global example to "establish agriculture as the foundation of culture" and "giving back to our creator the first fruits of our harvest."

California Kwanzaa Ag Expo is a spiritual, festive, joyous celebration of the oneness and goodness of life. The Kwanzaa Holiday celebrates the ‘first fruit of our harvest season.” The Nguzo Saba, or seven principles” is our living social practice utilizing the best of our traditional cultures for a focused contribution to the forward flow of humanity. Our “California Grown” holiday season of Kwanzaa is a time of remembering, reassessing, recommitting, rewarding and rejoicing, where everyone is invited to learn about our ancient way of living, manifest in this day and age.

We will feature exhibits and workshops that demonstrate technologies and strategies that help communities provide for themselves healthy, green, just and affordable food security. We collaborate with and support extended community networks throughout the America’s, Caribbean Union, African Union, European Union and Asia nations. Together, we can facilitate raising family farm productivity in environmentally sustainable ways that sustain global agribusiness partnerships with the United States Department of Agriculture.

Leading edge agricultural technologies will be demonstrated to problem solve our unique issues that focus on food safety, conservation, distance learning, sacred science, all while preparing for “first time” opportunities from a U.S. Food and Farm Bill.

2007 California Kwanzaa Ag Expo will outreach toward regional career opportunities, job creation and the Census of Agriculture in the vast California food, fuel, forestry, fiber and finance industries. We will challenge all participants to expand a collective vision of unity and demonstrate the spirit of Maat throughout the 2007 Kwanzaa season and beyond.

California State Capitol Kwanzaa Celebration
Room 126 ~ Noon ~ 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Free Registration and Preferred Seating Suggested

Kwanzaa Healthy Soul Food Karamu
Saba ~ Brick House Art Studios
A Taste of Africa ~ Visual Art, World Beat, High Fashion and the Spoken Word
3:00 p.m. ~ Midnight
2837 36th Street @ Broadway ~ Historic Oak Park District
$7.00 Suggested Donation