The third edition of the AWA Niagara Festival, presented by the African Women Acting organization, will be held Aug. 26 and 27 at Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON.
The festival celebrates African cultural heritage and special guest artists and 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. This year’s festival will also include an all-ages zone that will include drum circle activities, face painting, afrobeat dancing, and more fun activities. This year’s event includes:
Aug. 26
African Drum Circle | Mohammed Diaby, Khadim Mbegue
Afrobeat Music/Dance | DJ Moussa
Alternative/Contemporary Music | J.A.S.
Native Artist | Esther Jane Willow
R&B | Kyla Wheeler
R&B/Soul Music | Shake Street (Rob Leclerc)
Afrobeat | Exclusive Connection ft. Tolu
Aug. 27
African Drum Circle | Mohammed Diaby, Khadim Mbegue
Afrobeat Music/Dance | DJ Moussa
Native Artist | Esther Jane Willow
Alternative/Contemporary Music | J.A.S.
Choral Music | Miniscule
Arabic Music | Tabiba
AfroJazz Music | Waleed Kush & Razab Dareer
Bollywood Music and Dance | KL Company
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 festival. Our priority as AWA is focused on women but we as well collaborate with the counterparts from other gender and ethnic groups.
The AWA Niagara Festival 2023 will take place on Saturday, Aug. 26 and Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023 from 2 p.m. – 10 p.m. each day at 116 Queenston St., Queenston, Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON. Get tickets HERE, and get more information from the festival website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
