Introducing this year’s theme…
Moving Love Through the Body!
2023 Season
Zumba Instructor Guillermo Ruiz at the Inaugural Washington Heights Womanist Festival
The Washington heights Womanist Arts Festival is the reflection of a community back at itself.
It is the continued tradition of Black women calling forth their kin to bandage wounds in collective spirit. This Festival is harnessing the dopeness of our local artists as a site for shared healing through song, movement, truth telling and the act of breaking bread.
Inspired by the wisdom of Alice Walker’s ‘In Search of Our Mothers Garden’, the core of our intent is an expression of care. Healing through the performing arts, soul-care and food as remedy and connection, highlighting the magic of Uptown NYC.
Following a joyous and cathartic inaugural festival, our intention in 2023 is to serve our Uptown community with not only the Festival in the fall, but also four seasonal dinners centered around the solstice and equinox gathering neighbors North and South of the GW Bridge and East and West of Broadway!
“To be a Womanist is… To care about the nourishing, futurity, and wellbeing of every person. ”
Inaugural Washington Heights Womanist Arts Festival, Fall 2022
“The theme of our inaugural year was ‘Artist as Healer’ with the intention to bridge every Body to liberation inspired and led by the example of Back and Afro-Latinx women.”
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Please check out Julissa Nuñez’ musing on ‘A Womanist Perspective on Food & Pleasure’ and how gathering and breaking bread is a necessary and liberatory act.
Also, ‘What had Happened was…’: a reflection on our inaugural Festival.
Photo Credit: Julissa Nuñez
