Yemanja Arts Festival 2023

BrasArte Presents:
18th Annual
Yemanjá Arts Festival


Saturday February 11, 2022
Doors 7pm Show 8pm


BrasArte @
1901 San Pablo Ave
Berkeley


Sunday February 12, 2022
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.

Yemanja Arts Festival 2022

Yemanja Arts Festival 2021

YEMANJA ARTS FESTIVAL 2020

Saturday, February 1 (Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St, San Francisco)
Sunday, February 2 (Casa de Cultura, Berkeley)

YEMANJA ARTS FESTIVAL 2019

Saturday, February 9 (at Casa de Cultura, Berkeley)
 ADMISSIONS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT FOR BERKELEY

Sunday, February 10 (at Dance Mission, San Francisco)
ADMISSIONS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT FOR SAN FRANCISCO

Yemanja Arts Festival 2018

Yemanja Arts Festival 2017

 BrasArte presents this unique two-night performing arts festival celebrating the spirit of Yemanjá, the African deity that honors the essential, beautiful and sometimes-dangerous nature of water. Inspired by the original Yemanjá Festival celebrated in Bahia, Brazil, the Yemanjá Arts Festival will bring together celebrated artists and dancers from across the Bay Area and Los Angeles, interpreters of traditional and modern art forms from the African diaspora (Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States) that pay homage to Yemanjá/Iemanjá/Yemoja/Yemayá through their respective folkloric and spiritual traditions.

Made possible in part by: Alliance for California Traditional Arts, Lakeshore Foundation & Berkeley Civic Arts

Past Yemanja Arts Festivals

Celebrate Black History Month with our immensely popular tribute to the goddess of salt water ~ mother of all
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Help BrasArte present 
the annual 
Yemanja Arts Festival in 2016 with a donation today! 

February 27 & 28, 2016

Your contribution will help present two nights of live dance and music in homage to Yemanja, the goddess of the ocean.

2013 Yemanjá  ARTS FESTIVAL Photos by © Zeze Cole