Yemanja 2023 ~ Saturday, February 11th Performance
BrasArte Presents:
18th Annual
Yemanjá Arts Festival
Saturday February 11, 2023
Doors 7pm Show 8pm
BrasArte @
1901 San Pablo Ave
Berkeley
Sunday February 12, 2023
Doors 6pm Show 7pm
Dance Mission Theater @
3316 24th St
San Francisco
Festival Artists:
Aguas Doce Dance
Arenas Dance Company
Damasceno Dance Collective
Ginga Brasil
Luciano Xavier
Rosangela Silvestre
Guest Choreographers:
Elisio Pitta & Rosangela Silvestre
Afro Brazilian Food
For more information, please email brasarteberkeley@gmail.com
Tickets available at www.brasarte.com
A unique two-night performing arts festival celebrating the spirit of Yemanjá: the Yoruban deity/orixá that represents the ancient, essential, and beautiful nature of water. Inspired by the original Festa de Yemanjá celebrated in Bahia, Brazil, and the resilience of African spiritual practices across the americas, the Yemanjá Arts Festival brings together master artists and young faces from across the Bay Area, Brazil and Cuba. Diverse interpreters of traditional and modern art forms from the African diaspora that pay homage to Yemanjá/Iemanjá/Yemoja/Yemayá through their respective popular folkloric, contemporary and spiritual traditions.
This year in special tribute to our late founder Conceicão Damasceno. May we continue to uphold and expand upon her dedication to Afro Brazilian arts culture.