Saturday, August 26 & Sunday, August 27, 2023
From 2:00pm – 10:00pm
116 Queenston Street, Queenston, Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON
An AWA supporter and benefactor who prefers to remain anonymous is sponsoring tickets to the AWA Festival. Get your free tickets, First come First served!
The 3rd edition of the AWA Niagara Festival 2023, presented by the African Women Acting (AWA) organization, celebrates African Cultural Heritage and special guest artists. The annual festival presents talented, hard-working, resilient artists, who demonstrate tremendous effort in pursuing their artistic visions and careers.
The festival offers a full day, family-friendly program, with an action-packed schedule including professionally curated arts and crafts exhibitions, interactive African Djembe drumming workshops for all ages, dance, music, delicious authentic African and Canadian food, and vendors, all in one stunning site in celebration of the best of African and Canadian Music, artisans, and vendors.
New for 2023: ALL AGES ZONE that will include drum circle activities, face painting, afrobeat dancing, and more fun activities.
| Time | Activity / Artist | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 PM | Gates Open | Concessions open, vendors, and activity sign-up available |
| 2:00 PM | African Drum Circle | Facilitated by Mohammed Diaby and Khadim Mbegue |
| 3:00 PM | Family Drum Circle | All family experience facilitated by Mohammed Diaby and Khadim Mbegue |
| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | DJ Moussa | Afrobeat Dance |
| 5:00 PM | J.A.S | Alternative / Contemporary Music |
| 6:00 PM | Esther Jane Willow & Scott Langill | Native Artist |
| 6:40 PM | Kyla Wheeler | RnB |
| 7:00 PM | Shake Street (Rob Leclerc) | 5 Piece Band (RnB / Soul) |
| 8:00 PM | Exclusive Connection ft Tolu | Afrobeat |
| 9:00 PM | Mohammed Diaby | African Drumming |
| Time | Activity / Artist | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 PM | Gates Open | Concessions open, vendors, and activity sign-up available |
| 2:00 PM | Gospel Outreach & Drum Circle | Facilitated by Mohammed Diaby and Khadim Mbegue |
| 3:00 PM | African Drum Circle | Facilitated by Mohammed Diaby and Khadim Mbegue |
| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | DJ Moussa | Afrobeat Dance |
| 5:00 PM | Esther Jane Willow | Native Artist |
| 5:25 PM | J.A.S | Alternative / Contemporary Folk Music |
| 5:50 PM | Miniscule Choir | Choral Music |
| 6:30 PM | Tabiba | Arabic Music |
| 7:40 PM | Waleed Kush ft Razan Dareer | AfroJazz |
| 8:40 PM | KL Company | Bollywood Music and Dance |
#AWAFESTIVAL2023 #AWAFESTTORONTO #AWAFESTIVALTORONTO
ABOUT AFRICAN WOMEN ACTING (AWA)
AWA is a pan-African not-for-profit organization geared towards promoting women’s issues, empowering, mentoring, coaching, presenting, and promoting upcoming and mid-career women artists of African heritage. AWA also works to increase the public understanding and appreciation of African traditional and contemporary arts through artistic production like music, spoken word, digital media art, visual arts, movie screening and the AWA Festival. Our priority as AWA is focused on women but we as well collaborate with the counterparts from other gender and ethnic groups.
ABOUT RIVERBRINK ART MUSEUM
RIVERBRINK is a fine art museum open to the public since 1983. The art museum hosts exhibitions of historical and contemporary art, supports artistic development through artist workshops, and public education in the arts through public lectures and talks. Other public amenities include a library, a gift shop and extensive grounds.
For participation, partnerships, sponsorship, or other inquiries please email: info@africanwomenacting.org
For media inquiries, please contact:
Eric Alper
Publicist | Music Commentator | Shameless Idealist
Phone: 647-971-3742
Email: Eric@ThatEricAlper.com
Website: www.ThatEricAlper.com
