27th Annual MAAFA Commemoration San Francisco Bay Area

 

Maafa Commemoration Sunday, October 9, 2022
Program
posted on Maafa blog and Facebook.com/maafabayarea

Theme: We are all connected, so we must treat each other right (Richard Howell song)

Drumming

Play singing bowl (Sister Wanda)

6:05-6:10 am gather at Altar and start —Baba Dar will call us to gather with the song: “No More Auction Block” (traditional)

Maafa song (Brother Clint/Yeye Ebun Akanke)

Welcome to 27th Annual Maafa Commemoration. (Within the welcome, define the term Maafa and Black African Holocaust (Desmond/Sister Wanda) (1-2 mins)

Read program out loud (Desmond/Sister Wanda) (30 sec.-1 min.)

After this we just flow from one activity to another.

1. Libations and prayers (Mins. Alicia and Imhotep)

Including Dr. Frances Cress Welsing's -- call and response

2. Yeye Ebun Akanke: Song

3. “The message” – Min. Alicia (5-7 mins)

4. Maafa song – Brother Clint

5. Community Share (10-12 mins) Desmond will facilitate and wipe mic between shares. People can line-up distanced at the standing mic. We can announce when this time comes.

6. “Going up Yonder” song (Baba Dar)

7. “Shake it off” (Shake your body. Shake off whatever you have been carrying that no longer serves our personal or collective higher good (Sister Wanda) 1-3 minutes (Timer needed)

8. Peace and Compassion Meditation (5 mins) Plum Village app (free) (Sister Wanda)

9. Announcements: (Sister Wanda and community (2 mins)

٭ 350 African Ancestors at Golden Gate Park Monumental Reckoning created by Dana King to honor the Ancestors who were brought to Virginia in 1619 and to reflect slavery's legacy and imprint on the Black Woman, the Black Man, the Black African Family in America 400+ years later.

٭Faith Ringgold exhibit at de Young

٭Egyptian exhibit at the deYoung

٭MoAD

٭BAMPFA

Check wandaspicks.com throughout the month

٭It's Mental Health Awareness Month (There is a free virtual conference Wednesday-Friday, this week. Visit wandaspicks.com for link)

٭Oakland is Black Panther History Month. There is an event at Merritt College. Visit wandaspicks.com for the details. It is in person and streamed.

٭OM is going to host an exhibit on Angela Davis -- look for it.

10. Thanks! Sister Wanda:  We are all connected, so we must treat each other right. Be safe, a mask is a small sacrifice for wellness. It is a gesture of compassion; people are still getting sick. Let's treat ourselves better.

Thanks to all organizers especially our new volunteers who built the altar and to Neter Aa Meri who mentored them.

 

11. Lift Every Voice (Baba Dar and community)

12. Quiet meditation with ancestors at the water. Take a flower from the altar. Go talk to your people (ancestors) then listen for their answers (Sister Wanda says this)

Thanks!
MAAFA Planning Committee and Presenters 2022: Min. Alicia Teasley, Yeye Ebun Akanke, Brother Desmond Iman, Sister Neset Teasley; Brother Marcus “Zahir” Blevins, Min. Imhotep Alkebulan, Brother Clint Sockwell, Brother Neter Aa Meri, Wo’se Church (Oakland, Sacramento); Brother Che; Baba Darinxoso Oyamasela,
Sister Wanda Sabir, Maafa San Francisco Bay Area, co-founder, CEO;
Ancestors: Sister Makinya, Brother Tahuti, Sister Hadiah.

 

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