Events
Connection is important.
Take a moment to browse through Chesapeake Conjure Society events, and relevant local events.
Conjure Local: A Convo on Hoodoo in the Chesapeake
Conjure Local: A Convo on Hoodoo in the Chesapeake
Community Event - Brewer Hill Cemetery Tour with Historic Annapolis
Brewer Hill Cemetery Tour with Historic Annapolis
Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025
Location: Brewer Hill Cemetery, 802 West Street, Annapolis, MD 21401
Time: 1:00 pm (EDT) - 2:00 pm (EDT)
Join us for a guided walking tour of Brewer Hill Cemetery in honor of Emancipation Day.
Maryland Emancipation Day is observed on November 1st to commemorate the abolition of slavery in Maryland through a new state constitution on November 1, 1864. Learn the origins of this historic African American burial site. Hear stories of those interred here including military veterans, activists and local luminaries. Learn about current preservation and documentation projects at the Cemetery today and how you can get involved!
The proceeds from this tour will be donated to Brewer Hill Cemetery.
Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather, as the tour is held rain or shine. The tour route is approximately 1/2 mile long and includes elevation changes and uneven walking surfaces.
Recommended for ages 13+. Advance registration required; space is limited.
All Saints Day
All Saints Day, The Hoodoo Way
The Chesapeake Conjure Society popularized All Saints’ Day as a national Hoodoo holiday, In lineage of the syncretized All Saints’ Day traditions of Black folks in Louisiana and Annapolis, Maryland.
All Saints Day, The Hoodoo Way with CCS is the longest-running, unapologetically Hoodoo All Saints celebration around. We’ve been keeping it true to the spirit, all the way Hoodoo, all the way ours. All Saints Day, The Hoodoo Way guide that has inspired others to start this tradition in their area, this inspires us to keep going!
All Saints’ Day is a time for work, and nourishment.
All Saints’ Day (the Hoodoo way) is not about putting on a show or creating a spectacle. It is real work. Real important, real honest work. It may look beautiful when you see it from the right perspective, but it is also about rolling up your sleeves and putting your heart into it.
From the mundane acts of cleaning the cemetery, to the moments of giving offerings, dancing, and communing, it takes genuine effort and dedication.
Part of the journey of Hoodoo is helping people unlearn the fear they’ve been taught, not just of their own tradition, but of their ability to participate in it fully, with their whole body. Even when the mind “knows” this work isn’t something to fear, that ol colonial anxiety can still rise up in the body when it’s present in an overtly Hoodoo physical space , whispering doubts when entering spaces where the work is being done, telling the person that they don’t belong, that they’re out of their realm.
These spaces are to give tangible experience to push back on those anxieties. These gatherings are opportunities for people to step out and put what they’ve learned to the test in a supportive environment - to see how it fits in the world beyond some of the niche spaces in which they learned.
People may lament about “events,” but how valuable is it to be physically present in spaces that will help you to discover how these teachings can be part of everyday life, and to feel the benefit of community standing beside you as you do?
It’s a chance to be with others who carry the same ancestral way. A chance to witness community in a tradition that has so often been hidden. A chance to touch, to see, to hear, to feel people who understand, and to smell the earth and sacred place. The senses that can’t be replicated.
All Saints’ Day with the Chesapeake Conjure Society requires work, yes. But it is work made lighter when done with love.
You may find that it brings you a kind of joy you didn’t know you needed, and we will be glad to have shared that with you.
Bring 9 Pennies
Cover your head in white
Bring an offering
Wear a mask
Bring a word
Be ready to work!
You will be supported in learning how to be a living spiritual steward of a cemetery.
Come through, bring your offerings, and join us at Mount Auburn - the biggest historically Black cemetery in Maryland.
Please join the Chesapeake Conjure Society as we wrap up the annual celebration of #hoodooheritagemonth by venerating our honored dead. Sunday, November 1, 2025 4pm - 7pm EST at Mt. Auburn Cemetery here in Baltimore.
An Excavation of Being: Digging for Story within the Fragments,
In The Style of our SELF || SISTORIES x Mariah M. is proud to present An Excavation of Being: Digging for Story in the Fragments, facilitated by Hess Love.
About this workshop: Archaeologists don’t start with answers, they start with fragments. This workshop invites you to do the same. Through writing, we’ll learn how to hold what’s been buried, broken, or left behind, and still make meaning. We’ll look at “the story behind that” and excavate the pieces of ourselves like sacred sites: layered, interrupted, worthy of being carefully uncovered.
About the steward, Hess Love: Hess is a hoodoo-mother-poet, playwright, ethnographer, Master Naturalist, Watershed Steward, Woodlands Steward, & apprentice hunter who carries Afro-Chesapeake tradition at the heart of my work. The expanse of their work rekindles a deep sense of being & creativity. It allows their rootedness -as a keeper of the AfroChesapeake experience- to serve as a model.
They use the medicine of wonder & tenderness toward the suppressed, the fragmented, and the unknown, and encourage others to reclaim their stories, commit to wisdom, reintegrate themselves into the wild, and learn how to become a symbiont with their ancestors, adored ones, and the more-than-human world. Hess' work moves between whimsy and solemnity, contemplating the present world alongside the layered realities of the past, future, and now.
In community and creative ventures, Hess is the founder of the Chesapeake Conjure Society (the first Hoodoo Society). I hold a Master of Arts in Playwriting, & a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. I’m also a Black burial ground advocate, ritualist, writer, an independent scholar, folklorist with a concentration on Hoodoo & Black Atlantic Religion in the Chesapeake Bay region, and Curator of Black Americana Religion & Spirituality (Folk Belief) for African American Folklorist Mag This workshop is part of In The Style of Liberation 2025 cultural programming block housed at SISTORIES Literary.
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CczS5sCqRy-ivzr_RanE_g#/registration
All Saints Day: The Hoodoo Way at Mount Auburn
All Saints Day: The Hoodoo Way
Sunday, November 3, 2024, from 3 PM to 6 PM
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Baltimore
With each passing year, this event brings more community into the fold. We welcome you, and once welcomed, there are agreements:
Agreements:
Come with respect for others and how they exist in their bodies. No ageism, ableism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, or any words, behaviors, or actions that would deny someone the ability to feel comfortable, seen, and upheld as a whole and worthy person.
Enter any space we create as peacefully as you can. By doing so, you help set the intentions for the day.
This is a sacred time and space for Black people.
Temper your expectations. There will be altar building, prayer, and ritual, but there will not be space for individual readings, mediumship, or personal instruction.
Participation is expected from everyone present. This is not a show or spectacle; it is a community event. We will create ways for you to participate according to your abilities and needs, but everyone is expected to contribute to the spirit of the gathering.
What to Bring:
Offerings such as food, fruit, candy, water, liquor, or flowers. Please ensure offerings are prepared as you would consume them.
Remove all foil, plastic wrap, sticky labels, tags, and cigarette filters/tips before bringing them. If it cannot degrade without ecological disruption, be prepared to take it away.
Bring a song, a poem, a story, a fact, and a desire to be in community.
Wear white. If you do not have an all-white outfit, please wear a white top and cover your head with white fabric or a white hat.
Bring nine pennies for entry.
We hope you will join us in honoring this sacred day.
This release form MUST be completed before participation: https://form.jotform.com/242808877560064
For more information about this event, visit hoodoosociety.com/events.
To learn more about All Saints Day, visit hoodoosociety.com/allsaints for the original All Saints Day guide, the Hoodoo way.
South Carolina - ALL SAINTS' DAY: DOWN BY THA RIVER
All Saint’s Day: Down by tha river
Feeling a way about the waters lately.
C'mon Hoodoos, lay down your burdens and move your body. A moment of remembrance and connection. In the spirit of Twerk in the Trees (thank you Iya Toya Smith for your blessing 🙏🏿), come shake sum with me 🤸🏿♀️ bring your own nourishment.
Memory of Ghosts: On Black Being and Conjure in The Chesapeake
Taking place in-person at Lucille Clifton House, join Hess Love and Juju Bae (author of The Book of Juju) in conversation about Conjure in the Chesapeake. A book signing will follow.
Baltimore History & HOOD HIKE
Walk with us through Baltimore, a city of deep spiritual history that refuses to die (and where Chesapeake Conjure Society is headquartered).
Baltimore is a place where love and injustice wrestle on every corner, where we confront all that we were, all that we are, and all that we could be, layered over all that's happened, and all that is happening.
On this hood hike, we are diving into the spirit of the streets, where abandoned buildings, open lots, and stubborn plants tell stories of resilience, where housing, people, security, and place are not just “issues” but part of our shared struggle. Baltimore moves, remembers, and dreams, and during this Hood Hike we will walk part of its stories together.
Many thanks to Nneka of Fight Blight Bmore for being the one to steward folks through the depth of it all.
Important info: October 20th, 2024 12-2 PM Hood Hike will start at 703 N Fremont Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217 at noon SHARP!
Distance: 2 miles on city pavement (comfortable shoes encouraged, bring water, wear masks). •
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccs-baltimore-history-and-hood-hike-tickets-1039299913017?utm-campaign=social&utm-
Writing in the Hoodoo Tradition: Book Talk with Phillip B. Williams, author of "OURS"
After four years since the workshops, Writing in the Hoodoo Tradition returns - this time as a book talk!
On Monday, October 14th, at 7 PM ET, we gather to witness the power of words, magic, and survival. Phillip B. Williams brings us OURS, a novel that does not flinch and confronts the history of slavery with the fierce resilience of Black Conjure.
In OURS, Saint, a conjure woman, doesn’t just free the enslaved; she builds a town, a sanctuary for the freed, protected by magic. A story of liberation, community, and survival, OURS is a declaration of what it means to reclaim power.
Williams, also the author of the poetry collections Mutiny, a 2022 American Book Award winner, and Thief in the Interior, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, will be in conversation with Hess Love, Julia Mallory, and Amanzi Arnett, exploring the themes of Hoodoo, freedom, and the sacredness of storytelling.
Toya R. Smith a writer, priestess, and conjure woman, will moderate this profoundly transformative discussion, where writing becomes ritual, resistance, and revival.
This is not just a talk. This is a return to ourselves. You do not want to miss this.
Register here.
Unlocking Your Ancestors: An honest Hoodoo Heritage Month discussion about Ancestral relationships and reverence for Hoodoo practitioners of all levels.
Welcome to Unlocking Your Ancestors!
Join Emanuel Basnight of Bless the Roads on Saturday, October 12, 2024, at 7:00 PM EDT for an illuminating online discussion about Black American ancestral spirits and Hoodoo.
During this discussion, we'll hear from Mina "Mama Rue" Wilson of Mama Rue's Head & Hand, Hess Love of The Chesapeake Conjure Society, and Yayi Joyce of Hoodoo Healing talk about the importance of ancestral veneration for Black Americans and its role in Hoodoo. Whether you're just starting out or have been a practitioner for years, this is a great discussion to attend during Hoodoo Heritage Month.
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with the broader Hoodoo community. Register now and come ready to learn how to unlock your Ancestral relationships and Hoodoo practice!
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unlocking-your-ancestors-tickets-1031345551307?aff=oddtdtcreator
Black Queer Canopy Therapy - Local Event
Join the Rooted Collective for our next Black Queer Canopy walk: Black Pride Edition! Meet us at Lake Roland - Nature Center for a walk, community building and meditation.
Access information: We will walk the red trail to the blue trail which is approximately 2.5 miles. Trails are dirt with some rocks and roots. We generally gather for about 2 hours.
Make sure to bring comfortable clothing, walking shoes and water!
Check out the trail map for more information: https://www.lakeroland.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/LakeRolandTrailMapSept.2023.pdf
Mojo Workin: Hoodoo As Refuge and Response in Unjust Times
*This is an online event based in Central Time
Please join the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and the Religious Studies at University of Wisconsin Madison program for a Zoom presentation entitled, "Mojo Workin: Hoodoo As Refuge and Response in Unjust Times" offered by practitioner Hess Love.
October 10, 2024
11:30am-12:45pm CENTRAL via Zoom
Zoom Meeting ID: 647 226 7598
Passcode: 500897
Hoodoo is more than ritual; it's a sacred refuge, a way of grounding ourselves in a world that feels unsteady and unjust.
Drawing on the insights of Mojo Workin' by Katrina Hazzard-Donald, this talk delves into Hoodoo's deep roots as a practice of resistance and reclamation. It invites us to return to the land, to the wisdom of our ancestors, and to the spiritual traditions that have always sustained us.
Hess Love is a Cultural Worker from Annapolis, Maryland. Their name honors Hester, the last woman in their family enslaved in the U.S., who was born, loved, enslaved, freed, and buried in Annapolis.
Hester's legacy inspires Hess's work in advocacy, afro-ecology, and archival preservation. They are a hoodoo-mother-poet, Delmarva woodlands steward, and master naturalist.
Juneteenth Sunrise Soiree
5TH ANNUAL SUNRISE SOIREE TO COMMEMORATE
JUNETEENTH
Wednesday, June 19. 2024
at Sunrise (5:30 am)
920 S Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231
Bring Your Family Dress to Express
Offerings for the Ancestors Encouraged
Instruments Welcomed
Sponsored by:
More than a Fraction Foundation
Offerings Can Include: Liquor, Candy, Tobacco, Fruit, etc...
For More Information Text: Linnea Holt at 443-845-1709
Join organizers from "More Than a Fraction Foundation", "Fight Blight Bmore", and "CCS" etc for our 5th annual Sunrise Soiree honoring of our collective Ancestors Juneteenth morning. Bring your best intentions, offerings, prayers, your gifts, your stories, and your song to express your gratitude. We welcome offerings of opened fruit, cut flowers, and tobacco, but please no glass, plastic, or paper. Let's come together to show our love and respect for the earth and our Ancestors.
We’ve Always Banked on Survival: The History of Hoodoo and Climate Resilience
We’ve Always Banked on Survival: The History of Hoodoo and Climate Resilience
Hess Love will start with the origins of Hoodoo during the era of chattel slavery, highlighting its significance as a means of protection, empowerment, and survival for marginalized communities. Hoodoo practitioners integrated botanical medicine, weather observation, more-than-human mythos, and elemental forces into their practices to build livelihoods that honored place-based intangible heritage. Hoodoo was born as a cultural, social, material, and spiritual medicine to adapt to various forms of climate disaster that occurred as a result of colonialism and colonial human trafficking. This talk will center the importance of earth reverence and collective action within Hoodoo, showcasing how shared knowledge and traditions continue to foster resilience and uncover injustices in the face of environmental and social harms.
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All Saints Day
Please join the Chesapeake Conjure Society as we join together in observance of "All Saints Day". This is a Holyday for the Hoodoo, to celebrate our beloved Ancestors. Program will include:
Opening of the Gates
Clean up of the perimeter of the cemetery
Libations and Prayer
Altar Building
History of Mt. Auburn, the importance of preserving Black Cemeteries and Burial traditions
Ring Shout, singing, dancing
We would love to congregate with you.
Bring your positive energy, prayers and names to call, Wear white or clean up gear, cover your head, and bring 9 pennies. See you at 6pm!
*This is a masked event.
Kunta Kinte Festival
33rd Annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival
Saturday, October 28TH | 10am - 7PM
Susan Campbell park @
Annapolis City Dock
RAIN OR SHINE!
About Kunta Kinte
Kunta Kinte was one of 98 enslaved people brought to Annapolis, Maryland aboard the ship Lord Ligonier in 1767, and despite many years in bondage, he never lost his connection to his African heritage. Kunta Kinte's experience symbolizes the struggle of all ethnic groups to preserve their cultural heritage.
The Heritage Tale
According to the book Roots, on the day of the birth of Kunta Kinte in 1750, in Gambia, West Africa, his grandmother Yaisa, laughed with joy as she witnessed the birth and special blessings of the firstborn boy of her son Omoro and his wife, Binta. Eight days later, during the naming ceremonies, the Alimamo prayed over the infant, entreating Allah to grant him long life, success in bringing credit and pride and many children to his family, to his village, to his tribe -- and finally, the strength and the spirit to deserve and to bring honor to the name he was about to receive.
In his writings, author Alex Haley, depicts the scene so vividly that one can imagine being in the very spot on that eventful day. One seems a part of the history of an African family whose distinguished lineage is being recited as far back as two hundred years, as the Arafan (the village Griot) lists the names of the Maurentanian forefathers of whom Kunta's Grandfather and namesake Kairaba Kunta Kinte, had often told himself. The names were great and many for the Mandinka tribes's holy man. And this distinguished lineage and the oral history continue today through their descendants of the present, the author himself, his brother George, former state senator from Kansas and their youngest brother, Julius.
Roots, the saga of an American Family, is a documentary dedicated to the Haley's family Griot, their grandmother, Cynthia Haley who told the stories of her ancestry to her grandchildren, among whom was Alex Haley. He listened intently and, after many years of research and journeys in search of the facts, was able to produce, in writing, substantiation of that oral history. His grandmothers's recountings of the family history perpetuated it in the minds of her children, who in turn passed it on to the minds of men all over the world, for all times. She created the symbol for all Africans of black American families, and thus she helped all of us to know, as the author pointed out "...who we are."
The Kinte Distinguished Lineage
Gambia, West Africa, 1750 Birth of Kunta Kinte, grandson of Kairaba Kunta Kinte, the holy man of the Mandinkas of Juffure; son of Omoro; father of Kizzy; grandfather of Chicken George; great-grandfather of Tom Murray; great,great-grandfather of Cynthia Murray; great,great,great-grandfather of Bertha Haley; great,great,great,great-grandfather of Alex, George and Julius Haley.
Current Connection to The Gambia
The International Kunta Kinteh Festival is a 10-day festival held in early July annually in The Gambia. It features the International Kunta Kinteh Day celebration - a carnival and parade of cultural troupes and masquerades; Juffureh Roots Festival - a heritage and cultural bonanza of the Mandinka warrior Rites of Passage; Gala Dinner - a commemoration and Diaspora Return Home speeches, presentations, performances of masquerades, and cultural dances, along with dinner with the business and diaspora community; and an Investment Forum Hosted by the Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry and The Gambia Import and Export Agency.
Learn more HERE
Temporality, Time Jumping and the Space Time Continuum
Temporality, Time Jumping and the Space Time Continuum of Black Oral History
Black concepts of time have never been linear and this shows even more in our use and engagement of public history and oral history. In this talk, I will analyze the concept of sankofa, time jumping and time collapse through the use of oral history and archival research. Through the concept of time jumping and time collapse, I hope to illustrate how the design of oral history projects can support narrators, interviewers and listeners to experience history from an embodied perspective that engages the senses and creates a wrap around experience through voice, frequency, sound and memory.
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Hoodoo in Reflection: a conversation with James Stewart and Hess Love
An intimate conversation on hoodoo heritage between James Stewart and Hess Love.
Brought to you by Black Joy Reckon
In honor of Hoodoo Heritage Month, we’re linking up with conjuror and root worker James Stewart aka the Conjure Cleaner and Hess Love, co-founder of the Chesapeake Conjure Society, for an event that will deepen your connection to your ancestors – and your inner magic. Conversation moderated by Black Joy reporter Danielle Buckingham.
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Nourishing Communion: An AfroChesapeake Feast In The Culinary Lineage of James Hemings
NOURISHING COMMUNION: AN AFROCHESAPEAKE FEAST IN THE CULINARY LINEAGE OF JAMES HEMINGS
Brought to you by Chesapeake Conjure Society
In collaboration with Our Time Kitchen and Chef+ Food Historian Maynard McMillan of Nafasi Catering we bring to you a one-of-a-kind Black culinary experience situated in Baltimore, Maryland supporting two Black owned businesses.
Chef Maynard will lead us in a discussion and hands-on culinary workshop on the history of Afro-Chesapeake cuisine, along with resident historians of the Chesapeake Conjure Society.
We will be cooking and communing together in the culinary lineage of James Hemings (progenitor of American Macaroni & Cheese).
We will hold ceremony, fellowship, and space for learning before we sit-down to a family style meal in a heated outdoor space.
Seasonal, locally sourced food + elevated food preparation.
13 spaces available at $140 per person.
Tickets are offered at cost (meaning that Chesapeake Conjure Society does not make a profit from this event, costs are split between venue, chef & staff, food, and beverages. Chesapeake Conjure Society members also pay the same price.) to support local Black owned businesses that hire community members.
No Spaces will be Held. First Come, First Served.
"Sit at my table, eat and you will know me" -African Proverb
"Fighting Old Nep
The Foodways of Enslaved Afro-Marylanders
1634-1864
Author: Michael Twitty"
Come sit at our table.
Sunday October 22nd 11 am - 3 pm, Our Time Kitchen; 117 W. 24th Street Baltimore, MD
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The Archives' Memory Bank: Community Preservation Day
Community Preservation Day
Maryland State Archives Event
Please help us create a community Memory Bank of our shared heritage! The Maryland State Archives is excited to announce that we will be hosting our second Community Preservation Day on October 21st from 10:00am to 2:00pm in Windsor Mill, MD.
We invite members of the local community to preserve their documents, photos, and letters through digital imaging.
Archivists will work with community members to describe and scan their items, so that they may take home their original materials in free archival storage containers and receive the resulting digital copies as well. We ask that the participants also share digital copies of their items with the Archives in order to collaboratively create a permanent electronic collection that allows everyone to see themselves in the Archives.
The Archives will include these images in a publicly-accessible digital series within its Special Collections to document and share community history.
Pre-registration is required, so that staff and scanning equipment will be available for all our participants. Space is limited, so we request that guests sign up early and inform us if they need to cancel so that we can accommodate anyone on the waiting list.
Sign up HERE
Hoodoo is Black Culture: Ancestor Veneration in the Everyday
Hoodoo is Black Culture: Ancestor Veneration in the Everyday
Priestess and conjurewoman Toya Smith will trace the everyday cultural aspects of African Americans, exploring how those aspects are influenced by traditional African cultures brought over by ancestors. She will discuss how those aspects of culture are, in fact, ancestor veneration and a maintained belief in and participation in an African-based spirituality. Her talk will cover the Black church, Black music, tradition, and superstition.
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Catching The God Body: Finding Belonging By Excavating Hoodoo Saints
Catching The God Body: Finding Belonging By Excavating Hoodoo Saints
A generative conversation that will explore divinity, belonging, and perfectionism in the current iteration of the Hoodoo tradition. This Wednesday Night Study explores what Zora Neale Hurston called “god-making” and what that has meant for the last 100 years of Hoodoo. The Wednesday Night Study will center Zora Neale Hurston’s elevation into Hoodoo Sainthood, while offering encouragement for the audience to see their imperfections as pathways to understanding their own divinity and sense of rootedness.
About Our Guest Wisdom Teacher, Hess Love:
Hess Love is a hoodoo-mother-poet based in the Chesapeake Bay Area. Their work centers ancestral reverence, memory, place making, love, rage, and ethnoecology. Hess is a heritage preservationist and environmental researcher by trade. They are also the co-founder of the Chesapeake Conjure Society, and a social writer whose work has been featured in books, online publications, newspapers and print magazines.
Get tickets HERE
Black Food, Black Futures Festival
Black Food, Black Futures Festival
Friday, 06 October 2023 to Saturday, 07 October 2023 at 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Celebrate Black food culture and participate in free activities in this two-day festival. Eat, learn, share!
Join us for the upcoming free Black Food, Black Futures Festival celebrating Black food culture, raising awareness about food insecurity in Prince George's County, and highlighting solutions! This two-day festival is hosted by the African American Studies Institute (AASI) with OurSpace World Inc. and funded by the Prince George's Community Partnership Grant.
Black Food, Black Futures Festival will have a variety of activities, including:
Food trucks.
Panel discussions.
Workshops.
Cooking demos.
Live music.
Food giveaways.
Also featured will be an array of Black farmers and gardeners as vendors, instructors, and herbalists. Attendees are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food donation that will be distributed to Capital Area Food Bank partners and the PGCC Cares Owl Market.
Sign up HERE
Black Food, Black Futures Festival
Black Food, Black Futures Festival
Friday, 06 October 2023 to Saturday, 07 October 2023 at 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Celebrate Black food culture and participate in free activities in this two-day festival. Eat, learn, share!
Join us for the upcoming free Black Food, Black Futures Festival celebrating Black food culture, raising awareness about food insecurity in Prince George's County, and highlighting solutions! This two-day festival is hosted by the African American Studies Institute (AASI) with OurSpace World Inc. and funded by the Prince George's Community Partnership Grant.
Black Food, Black Futures Festival will have a variety of activities, including:
Food trucks.
Panel discussions.
Workshops.
Cooking demos.
Live music.
Food giveaways.
Also featured will be an array of Black farmers and gardeners as vendors, instructors, and herbalists. Attendees are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food donation that will be distributed to Capital Area Food Bank partners and the PGCC Cares Owl Market.
Sign up HERE
Garden Party (Community Event)
“Interested in learning about gardening? Got some earth wisdom to share? Wanna deepen your relationship to land? Join us at Rooted's Garden Party!
An evolution of our Black Queer Canopy Walks, the Garden Party is a visioning session for Black Queer and Trans folks to vibe, build community, commune with the land, and do collective gardening/farming together!
Rain or Shine
Ample Parking
Snacks Provided (vegan and gluten free options available)
Bring Masks (bathroom is indoors and masks are required indoors)
Accessible Entrance to Garden (side of the house, across grass but no steps)
Three Cute and Active Pups (may say hello)”
Juneteenth Sunrise Soiree
Every June 19th at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, we support Linnea Holt, and a local Orisha community, for a sunrise soiree and Ringshout to celebrate Juneteenth.
This year’s Junteenth Event will take place Monday, June 19th at 5:30 am
901 S Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21231
Black Queer Canopy
Black Queer Canopy Therapeutic Nature Walk
This event is in person.
This event is hosted by a local community organization: Rooted Collective.
“Over the course of 2 hours, we’ll do some embodiment practice, a walking meditation and community building
Logistics:
November 12th 1pm
Lake Roland 1000 Lakeside Drive
2 hour walk
Rain or shine
To walk into the trail
Mostly flat, city trail, partial canopy cover
Stuff to bring: Shoes that might get a little muddy, water, snacks you might need, weather-based protection (rain, sun, etc.) (Rain or Shine - dress appropriately), a stone or personal item for a short healing ritual”
African American Ring Shout Workshop
SAVE THE DATE
Chesapeake Conjure Society and Masala Soul Project will be hosting a virtual Ring Shout Workshop.
Come learn the history of the Ring Shout along with traditional movement. We will be led by Tamara LaDonna Williams of Moving Spirits Inc.
http://www.movingspirits.org/tamara-s-story.html
Then, if you are in the Baltimore area please join us on Juneteenth to perform this ancestral ritual and practice.
Because this is a Black sacred and spiritual tradition this is a Black only event. It is important we reclaim our ancestral practices and hold them sacred
Sign up here to learn more information
Chief Organizer of this event: Alexis
Graphics and playlist: Mango
Mojo Twerkin
This event is hosted by our dear friends at The Conjure Creative
Ring the alarm! We been through this too long! But I’ll be damned if I see the state take another of our own!
Spiritual warfare has been running rampant against our people through state violence, neoliberalism, celebrity activism, imperialism, and so many things. Niggas are righteously tired, numb, and rage-filled, and yet still holdin on. The beautiful thing is we have so much history and memory in our blood from our revolutionary ancestors and Mojo Twerkin will be a space to awaken and align our shared power. Come through next Saturday, May 8th, from 5-8PM EST to learn, conspire, create, divine, pray, twerk, and everything in between…..to freedom!
Mojo Twerkin was birthed in 2019 as an activation space for political education and healing work through the exploration of our ancestor’s usage of Hoodoo to fight the fuck back and free our people. I’m reviving this space with the hopes to continue mobilizing Black queer and trans organizers into spiritual revolution, healing, transformation, and collective liberation. So I’m callin all da Hoodoo hawties and spiritual goons forth to join me next wkd - ya’ll been knowing it’s time to work! It’s time to combine our forces for our collective good! Strap on that machete and high john and let’s get to it
Space is limited and Black only obviously RSVP at: bit.ly/mojotwerkin
Writing In the Hoodoo Tradition: Poetry and Petitions
this is an online event
Writing in the Hoodoo Tradition: Poetry and Petitions, Manifestation through Poetry and Short Stories.
About this Event
Writing in the Hoodoo Tradition: Poetry and Petitions, Manifestation through Poetry and Short Stories.
In this workshop we explore the relationship between poetry and petitions. Manifestation and world building takes form in both written and spoke language, as well as visualization. We will be utilizing our senses to write out the world and stories that we want to see. And learning the power of the pen through microstories. There will be ritual and writing prompts.
Learn more: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-in-the-hoodoo-tradition-poetry-and-petitions-tickets-122237336163
Hoodoo 101 w/ Juju Bae
this is an online event
this event is facilitated by dear friend Juju Bae, on the Catland Books platform
“An intro course breaking down the very basics of Hoodoo as a historical, developed religious tradition of the Black American South.
About this Event
In this 101- level course, Juju (hoodoo practitioner and conjure woman) will break down the very basics in understanding Hoodoo as a historical and developed religion and tradition that bloomed in the Black American South. We will uncover some common misconceptions about Hoodoo, discuss its fundamental beginnings, and asses the impacts that Africa, slavery, the bible, and marketeers have had on modern day Hoodoo.”
learn more: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hoodoo-101-w-juju-bae-tickets-124687376299?aff=erellivmlt
Past Events Archive
All Saints Day,
The Hoodoo Way:
A Hoodoo Celebration of the Dead
@ Mount Auburn Cemetery, Baltimore
- November 5th 2023
Documentarian/Photo Credit to Sima Lee of Black Lens Photos
AfroChesapeake Community Meal
@ Our Time Kitchen
- October 22nd 2023
Documentarian/Photo Credit to Sima Lee of Black Lens Photos
Rootwork 101 Teach Out -
Green Cloth Plant Swap
@ Whitelock Farm
- September 3rd 2022
Juneteenth Sunrise Soiree
June 19th 2021
Baltimore Inner Harbor
All Saints Day, The Hoodoo Way
November 2020
Mt Auburn Cemetery
Documentarian/Photo Credit:
Sima Lee of Black Lens Photos and Media
#SAYHERNAME Hoodoo Memoriam:
Ancestral Elevation for Black Womxn and Girls Killed by Systemic Misogynoir -
June 7, 2020 - Charles Street
Photos contributed by members, community, and Sima Lee of Blk Lens Photography
