28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion
2018-08-18 16:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | VA
ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY PRESENTS
28th ANNUAL DOWN HOME FAMILY REUNION,
A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK LIFE
RICHMOND, VA • The 28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion explores a full spectrum of music, dance, stories, food, shopping and enrichment in this weekend Celebration of African American Folklife. Elegba Folklore Society, Richmond’s Cultural Ambassador, presents this cultural arts festival that takes attendees on a journey of heritage and folklore from West Africa into the Americas.
On Saturday, August 18, the 28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion‘s
Family Festival will happen, 4:00 – 11:00 p.m., at Abner Clay Park, Belvidere and West Leigh Streets, downtown in Historic Jackson Ward. Elegba Folklore Society invites Virginians and visitors to this event designed to link West African and African American cultural traditions and to demonstrate ways these practices have influenced the American South.
The 28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion is presented by the Elegba Folklore Society, Inc., Richmond’s Cultural Ambassador and sponsored by the City of Richmond, Dominion, Wells Fargo, Upscale Magazine, The AfroAtlantic Theologies & Treaties Institute, Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities,

Historic Jackson Ward Association and partial support from CultureWorks’ Arts & Cultural Funding Consortium – Richmond, Henrico.
