BAM FF Opening Night Procession & A Ritual Offering for the Ancestors

BAM FILM FEST: Opening Night Procession & Ancestor Ceremony

Come join us at this free event as we open BAMFF 2025 and uplift our Ancestors with Omnira Institute and other special guests. All ages welcome.

Omnira Institute preserves and extends the threads of sacred knowledge, music, and practices from West Africa to the Americas. Omnira Institute’s purpose is to support the emotional and mental health of Black people through the recovery and preservation of the roots of African American culture by a) demonstrating the living links to Africa that survived slavery and b) reintroducing and reaffirming the historic and psychic links to West African cultural and spiritual tradition.

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