Kwanzaa Program_25

njpac salutes our elders
thanks to our partners
Marcia W. Brown, Esq.
Writer, Teacher, Mentor
The Honorable
Anthony R. Higgins
Attorney, Judge,
son of Newark
for being honored and inducted to
NJPAC’s Council of Elders 2025
360 Fitness Mission, Afrocentric Parties, Aura’s Creative Palette, Creative Stuff, Donna Walker-Kuhne,
Dyani Star, East Orange Silver Steppers, Haze Heffner, Holly Mess Art Studio, JLS Enterprises, LLC,
La Rocque Bey Dance School, Leslie Lucy, Mansa Arts Education, Marcia W. Brown Esq.;
Najah Riker, Newark Alliance, NJPAC African American ERG, NJPAC Membership,
Poet Laureate Mia X and a Sea of Voices, The Unity Project, Unicorn151
kwanzaa family festival & marketplace
kwanzaa
family festival
& marketplace
dec 20 @ 1PM – 7:30PM
Ground Floor
Prudential Hall Lobby Marketplace
Victoria Theater Lobby Marketplace
NICO Kitchen + Bar
Tier 1
Promenade
Marketplace
Tier 2
Chase Room
Community Room
East Wing Hallway
The Parsonnet Room
NICO Kitchen + Bar
East Shadow Box
West Shadow Box
Promenade
Marketplace
Supported by
NJPAC’s Kwanzaa Family Festival and Marketplace is made possible
through the generosity of Leon and Toby Cooperman.

buy tickets at njpac.org
or at the box office
starting at 12PM!
creative expression & principles of kwanzaa
MATUNDA YA KWANZAA Celebration of First Fruits:
These seven Kwanzaa principles remind us to build
community, create together, and commit our lives to
the unifying and embodying the nzugo saba.
UMOJA Unity: To strive for and maintain unity
in the family, community, nation and race.
UJAMAA Cooperative Economics: To build and maintain our
own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them
together. Support the marketplace vendors and performing arts.
NIA Purpose: To make our collective vocation the building
and developing of our community in order to restore
African people to their traditional greatness.
Christmas with Cece Winans
Featuring Angie Winans & Debbie Winans
Fri, Dec 19 @ 8PM & Sat, Dec 20 @ 8PM
KUJICHAGULIA Self Determination: To define ourselves,
name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
UJIMA Collective Work and Responsibility:
To build and maintain our community together and
make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our
problems and to solve them together.
KUUMBA Creativity: To do always as much as we can, in the
way we can in order to leave our community more beautiful
and beneficial than when we inherited it.
IMANI Faith: To believe with all of our heart in our people,
our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and
victory of our struggle.
Chase Room Community Room West Shadow Box East Shadow Box
Victoria Theater
Lobby
Ryan Gallery & Tier 3
Tier 2 Hallway,
Faux Boxes & Corridor
Prudential Hall Lobby
The Parsonnet Room
UMOJA
Unity
UMOJA
Unity
IMANI
Faith
KUJICHAGULIA
Self Determination
KUUMBA
Creativity
KUUMBA
Creativity
UJIMA
Collective Work &
Responsibility
UJAMAA
Cooperative Economics
NIA
Purpose
1PM – 2PM
2PM – 3PM
3PM – 4PM 4PM – 5PM
1:15PM – 2PM
African Dance
with Zawadi African
Dance & Drum, Inc.
2:15PM – 3PM
Jersey Club Dance
with Solo Expression -
Anthony “Solo” Harris
3:15PM – 4PM
African Dance
with Umoja
Dance Company
4:15PM – 5PM
Liturgical
with D.E.W. Ministry
1:15PM – 2PM
Capoeira
with Afro Brazilian Arts
& Education Academy -
Doutora Mestra
Amazonas
2:15PM – 3PM
West African Dance
+ Drumming
with La Rocque Bey
Dance School
3:15PM – 4PM
Salsa
with Smiling David’s
Dance School
4:15PM – 5PM
Soca
with Leslie Lucy
1 – 5PM
Cupcake Arts
and Crafts
with The Cupcake
Carriage
1PM until
supplies last
Vibunzi: Food
Distribution with
Urban Agriculture
Cooperative and
Fallon Ayaan of
STEAM URBAN
1PM – 5PM
Face Painting
with
Mabel Delmar
Afrocentric Parties
Holly Mess Art Studio
Aura’s Creative Palette
Reading and
Creative Activity
with
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority Inc. Beta Alpha
Omega Chapter
Newark Public Library
Reading Partners
Source of Knowledge
1PM – 5PM
Arts & Crafts
with North Jersey Alumnae
Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Essex County Civic Club
The Newark Museum of Art
Trust for Public Land
Mosaic Art Project
with GlassRoots
Mask Making
with Creative Stuff
Kwanzaa Post Card Activity
with Mansa Arts Education
Health Screenings
with RWJBarnabas Health:
Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center
Clara Maass Medical Center
Kwanzaa Inspired
Friendship Bracelets
with Girl Scouts Heart
of New Jersey
1PM – 5PM
Arts & Crafts
with AARP Newark
Word Wall Activity
with Clinton Hill
Community Action
Meet and Greet
Vision Information
Screenings
with Eyes Like Mine, Inc.
My Family Identity
Tree Activity
with Children’s
Kwanzaa Village
Arts Ed Newark
Kebtah: The Earth Center
Marcia W. Brown, Esq.
Newark Alliance
NJPAC Membership
Sadie Nash
Leadership Program
Seven Symbols
of Kwanzaa
Umoja Dance Company
TD Bank
Zawadi African
Dance & Drum, Inc.
1PM
Bantaba: Kwanzaa Opening,
Elders Procession & Welcome
Dr. Akil Khalfani, Eyesha Marable,
Elected Officials, Brother Jerome Hunter
1:15PM
East Orange Silver Steppers
1:25PM
Columbia High School - Infinite Step Team
1:40PM
Jersey Club Showcase featuring
Anthony “Solo” Harris and Team EVO
Unicorn151 and Friends
2:10PM
Pzazz Dance Group of
Smiling David’s Dance School
2:30 PM
A Hip Hop Moment featuring Division X
and Haze Heffner
2:45PM
Premiere Dance Theatre
3:20PM
360 Fitness Mission
3:55PM
Josue Simon
4:10PM
Baba’s Legacy presented by Bill Davis
4:20PM
Dance Showcase: Zawadi African
Dance & Drum, Inc.
5:10PM
Dyani Star
5:20PM
Fashion Show featuring
New Jersey Kids Fashion Week and
Ancient African Formula
1:15PM – 2PM
Drumming Workshop
with Umoja Dance
Company
1:15PM – 2:15PM
Grief Healing Circle
A panel on loss, grief
and mourning, and the
creation of a memorial
heart to add to the
Kwanzaa Memory Wall
with Imagine, A Center for
Coping with Loss
3:15PM – 4PM
African Origin of Zodiac
Signs Panel Discussion
with Kebtah:
The Earth Center
4:15PM – 5:15PM
Kids Animated Film
Screening:
A Rugrats Kwanzaa
with Newark Office of
Film & Television
Department
5PM – 7PM
5PM – 6PM
Show and Share
Multiple organizations
Artist and performance times are subject to change.
Please visit njpac.org/kwanzaa for the most up-to-date schedule.
6:10PM
Newark Poet Laureate Mia X
and a Sea of Voices
6:30PM
Soul Line Dancing with Najah Riker
6:50PM
The Unity Project and D.E.W. Ministries
7:15PM
Newark’s “Brotherhood” Municipal Choir
6:15PM – 7:15PM
A Conversation with
Donna about her new
book: Champions of the
Arts with Donna Walker-
Kuhne and Lauren Craig