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2015 Festival of Knowledge: Food, Health & Live Music Fest | Oakland

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Friday, February 20, 2015 - All Day | Cost: FREE

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2015 Festival of Knowledge: Food, Health & Live Music Fest | Oakland

The African American Museum & Library at Oakland is celebrating health and vitality at the Festival of Knowledge that will keep those brain cells lively – learn about growing organic food at home, acquire new cooking skills, and sample healthy foods.

This two-day festival features numerous workshops and special guests, including health professionals, chefs, nutritionists, master composters, beauty experts, body building and exercise gurus, and hip hop dance experts.

All this plus organic raw entertainment including jazz, spoken word, and down home blues artists will perform.

2015 Festival of Knowledge
February 20-21, 2014 | 10 am to 4 pm
African American Museum & Library, 659 14th St, Oakland
FREE

2015 Schedule

Friday, February 20

Main Stage – Museum Gallery

  • 2:00 – 2:30 Mahogany Roots
  • 2:30 – 3:00 Take Your Sister 2 Lunch, Inc.
  • 3:00 – 3:50 Dr. Vera Singleton, ND
  • 3:50 – 4:00 Break
  • 4:00 – 4:30 Tiffany’s Natural Hair Restoration Clinic
  • 4:30 – 5:00 Helping Hands Publishing
  • 5:00 – 6:00 Recording artist Augusta Lee Collins; Spoken word artist Charles Blackwell
  • 6:00 – 6:30 National Marrow Donor Program
  • 6:30 – 7:00 YogaLove and Beloved (feel free to bring your own yoga mat)

Archives Department (Downstairs)

  • 2:00 – 4:00 Body work/Massage Therapy (4-5 pm break)
  • 4:00 – 5:00 Ausar Auset Society – West Coast: Meditation
  • 5:00 – 6:00 Body work/Massage Therapy
  • 6:00 – 7:00 Ausar Auset Society – West Coast: Qigong workshop

Saturday, February 21

Main Stage – Museum Gallery

  • 10:30 – 11:15 Master Chef Roslind DeQuir-Guilder
  • 11:15 – 12:00 Zumba
  • 12:00 – 1:00 YogaLove (feel free to bring your own yoga mat)
  • 12:45 – 1:45 Break
  • 1:45 – 2:45 Filhos de Bimba Capoeira Bay Area
  • 2:45 – 3:30 Farms to Grow, Inc.
  • 3:30 – 4:00 Poet/Artist/Educator Jazz Hudson
  • 4:10 Raffle

Archives Department (Downstairs)

  • 10:30 – 1:00 Body work/Massage Therapy
  • 1:00 – 3:00 Ancestral Healing
  • 3:00 – 4:00 Ausar Auset Society – West Coast

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.


Cost: FREE
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