On the calendar
- Oct 24 – Nov 1Register →
Festival of the Bones
The Nine-Day Elevation and the Center's annual gala. Online, with a Cemetery Sweep in Oakland on Oct 31.
- Dec 19 – 21Details soon
Praise singing · Solstice weekend
Song for the returning light. Online and in person. Details coming to the letters and to Patreon.
- Spring 2027Dates soon
Oshun Festival
The river festival at the spring equinox. Dates to come.
- Summer 2027Early 2027
Isokan: The Blessed Binary
The Shango Festival returns to Guerneville. Registration opens in early 2027. Shango Prayer Ribbons offered in 2026 will be tied at the three trees during the 2027 festival.
Each season has its keepers.
Oshun
Yeye's Orisha. The river, sweetness, and the medicine of love, when the land wakes and the plants begin to speak. Our inaugural festival was held in March 2026.
Shango
Isokan: The Blessed Binary. Seven days of thunder, the drum, the ancestor, and the feast, holding the sacred masculine and feminine in right proportion.
Festival of the Bones
Egungun's festival and the Center's gala. Nine days of feeding the dead, speaking their names, and gathering our supporters around the land.
Olokun & Damballah
The deep and the ancient serpent. Winter is the inward turn of the year, and much of its ceremony is held within the Ile.
Ceremony first.
We fund the Center first so the festivals can stay what they are: ceremony, teaching, and formation. A festival should never depend on how many tickets it sells. Gifts to the Center hold up the year around the festivals, and the festivals return what they raise to the land.
Every festival is held on, or on behalf of, the five sacred acres on Pocket Canyon Creek, on unceded Pomo and Coast Miwok territory.