Afrolistic Healing Arts Festival

The Afrolistic Black Healing Arts Festival is a celebration and exploration of Black arts, resilience, and holistic well-being. This annual event aims to create a safe, empowering space where the Black community can unite in solidarity to reconnect with our roots, nurture our mental and physical health, by fostering a sense of unity through art and music.

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Attend thought-provoking panels exploring the connection between healing & the arts and how it connects to our Black and African traditions. Led by experienced Black therapists and healing artists.

Experience powerful performances by Black poets, dancers, and musicians, celebrating the vibrant cultural expressions that define the Black experience while offering space for us to heal and process trauma in community.

Invocation

Nekia Wright

Panel Discussion

Exploring healing through the arts in Black tradition and connection to our ancestral practice. Will close with ancestral song.

Yanée Ferrari (Moderator)

Yanée is a devotee of the earth, spirit, and social transformation. Rooted in the Yoruba tradition of Isese and informed by her work in the healing arts, she blends ancestral wisdom, plant spirit medicine, and energy work to foster healing and liberation.

Wanda Ravernell (Panelist)

Tobaji Stewart (Panelist)

Wanda Ravernell and Tobaji Stewart lead the Omnira Institute which began its work in 2009. Its annual cycle of events is called “Roots of Faith, Roots of Freedom,”

Aza Marie (Performer)

This artist is a producer, musician and songwriter from San Francisco. She is developing her niche and focusing on growth.

Nekia(sound bath intermission)

Earth Tone Alchemy (Family Performance)
Africa Williams- Muhammad is a Mom, holistic healer with over 25 years of experience in therapeutic bodywork, sound healing, and wellness education.

Her daughter, Sehaylah Muhammad, age 8, is a natural musician who has been playing the recorder since infancy. With a growing love for the guitar and a nurturing spirit, Sehaylah brings music, joy, and compassion into every space she enters

Mr. JQuick, Africa’s father and Sehaylah’s grandfather, is a lifelong musician and visual artist. With deep roots in rhythm and creativity, he is now stepping into the world of sound healing, exploring how music can be a force for wellness, connection, and transformation.

Ladi Rev (Poetry)

LadiRevolutionary (LadiRev) is an educator, poet, and healer from Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA. She is passionate about community, education, and healing.

Soul Brotha 9 (Poetry)

Nekia Wright introduces SoundWellness App

Closing Performance

Folawole (Dance)

Folawole is a dancer , farmer and wellness worker dedicated to the spiritual stewardship and material thriving of the black diaspora.

Tiffany Austin (Singer)

Tiffany Austin is a vocalist, educator and Berkeley Law Juris Doctor. Most recently, she co-founded Wyldflowr Arts, a new venue in Oakland.

Opening Sound Bath

Kim Randolph

Kim began her journey as a sound healer four years ago at New Mission Yoga in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood offering yoga nidra, guided imagery; and seated meditation accompanied by Tibetan bowls and intuitively inspired improvised music on the 10-string lyre for deep relaxation. A multi-instrumentalist, Kim also plays improvised music on a variety of folk flutes, hand pan, mbira, and hand percussion.

Community Dreaming

Crystal Mason

Crystal Mason is an artist, cultural worker, and community strategist rooted in Black, queer, fat, feminist, and liberatory traditions.

Greg Pong (Poetry)

Greg Pond was born in Brooklyn to Panamanian parents, has written five books of poetry and is a member of Revolutionary Poets Brigade. He hosts 3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown, facilitates Poetically Speaking - a weekly conference-call program for seniors, and has curated events for Queer Rebels.

Sound Bath

7000 Coils

7000COILS is an independent record label and creative sanctuary dedicated to sonic experimentation, radical wellness, and the liberation of sound. 7000COILS is a portal for artists pushing the boundaries of music, frequency, and ancestral connection.

B Dukes As an intuitive sound weaver, DJ, instrumentalist, vocalist and producer, Blu Moon creates electronic journeys channeled by Spirit while exploring trance states and spirit filled heart music. Sharing the intersections of Black electronic music from across the African diaspora. Experimenting with sound originated from experiencing and playing as a source of ritual, of praise and direct connection with God.

Ms. Momos, Tabitha Joy, Folawole & Nekia Wright (Performance) with media created by Beatrice Alexander. Closing with improv jam with 7000 Coils, Crystal, & Greg

Ms. Momos blends gospel, jazz, and R&B, captivating audiences with her rich, soulful tone and seamless genre transitions. Whether solo or in ensembles, her performances showcase emotional depth, adaptability, and powerful musical expression.

Solbutta aka Tabitha Truu Joy (she/her) is a singer, song-builder, and facilitator building community through self improvement, exploration, collaborative spaces and musical liberation.

Nekia: Sound Wellness App Preview

Closing Performance

Ms. White, First Lady of Frisco

Totiana White, also known as MS. WHITE 1ST LADY OF FRISCO, is a proud native of San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point. A performer since the age of five, she has spent the past 16 years honing her craft as a songwriter, artist, and creative visionary.

Photographers and Videographer

Marcella Sanchez is a Black, Queer photographer based in San Francisco, whose work explores themes of identity, visibility, and storytelling.

Trayvon "Tray" Smith (he/him) is a San Francisco native with a deep passion for fashion, art, photography, and community building. A strong advocate for Black and queer visibility, he believes in using his talents to uplift others, ensuring their stories are told and their voices are heard.

Tha Don 15 plus years of photography and videography experience.

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