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The waters remember. From Africa, to Cuba, to New York City.

Violines Para Ochún brings the sound of the sacred home.

A production gathering generations of musicians, dancers, and tradition bearers. One night honoring 50 years of Sacred Traditions at CCCADI, directed by master percussionist Louis Bauzó.

Drop a 🦚 for Ochún in the comments and we’ll send you the link for Earlybird Tickets, available through the end of August! Use discount code “OSUN15” now.

🗓️ October 25th
⏰ 3pm
📍 Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture (450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY)
🎟️ Earlybird Tickets through the end of August- Link On Bio
👀 Stay tuned for details by @cccadi

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CCCADI is proud to announce the opening of “Jab, J’ouvert, Revelry & Resistance”, our milestone 50th Anniversary Year exhibition curated by @knowyourcaribbean !!!

Rooted in Afro-Caribbean histories, “Jab, J’ouvert, Revelry & Resistance” explores Carnival as a living representation of resistance, identity, and collective memory.

Through layered environments that merge sound, texture, archival material, contemporary art, and interactive elements, visitors are invited to experience Carnival as a living, embodied language that moves through the body, memory, and time.

GALLERY HOURS:
🗓️ Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
⏰ 3PM - 9PM
📍 CCCADI Firehouse (120 E 125th St.)
🎉 Special ticketed events once a month

🙏🏽This is a very special year for us and in the spirit of carrying a 50 year Legacy of Justice, Joy & Resistance into the Future, we are counting on the community that has helped us build this legacy to invest in fueling the next chapter of CCCADI. taken in Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute by @cccadi

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50 years ago, a vision was born in a Bronx home. Today, CCCADI stands as one of the longest-running Black-led cultural institutions in the country — a living bridge across the African diaspora.

We’re launching our 50 for 50 Fund — and we need our community to carry it with us.

$50 for 50 years of justice, joy, and resistance.

💛 Donate. Attend. Volunteer.
Comment “50” and we’ll send you the link directly.

🔗 Link in bio → cccadi.org/donate50

#CCCADI50 #50for50 #AfriDiaspora #EastHarlem #AfriCarnaval BlackCulturalInstitutions CaribbeanDiaspora CarryTheLegacy by @cccadi

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We have a Carnival Exhibition in New York! Celebrating so much of what we love about Carnival! Yes Know Your Caribbean is proud to have partnered with one of the greatest Caribbean institutes of all time - @cccadi for our exhibition - Jab, J’ouvert, Revelry and RESISTANCE!

A 2 floor exhibition featuring artists from across our region - from Haiti, from Trinidad and Tobago, from Guadeloupe, pieces from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Dominica, Saint Lucia and mooooore!

If you are in NYC come down to see YOURSELF in our Carnival Exhibition! by @cccadi

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Fifty years of centering African Diasporic culture, community, and sacred traditions! Celebrate CCCADI’s 50th anniversary with Violines Para Ochún, a musical and spiritual production tracing connections from Africa to Cuba to New York City.
Under the musical direction of Louis Bauzó, an intergenerational cast of musicians, dancers, and practitioners honors the elders who sustained these traditions and the generations carrying them forward. The production also revisits CCCADI’s Oshun Festival series of the 1980s and ’90s.

🎟️ CCCADI.org, HostosCenter.org
📅 Sunday, October 25, 2026 🕒 3 PM 📍 Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, Main Theater 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451

#ochun #iyalorde #cccadi #oshun #nycplays by @cccadi

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Oshun ✨Patroness of the arts. Bestower of love and compassion.

We stepped into the archive to find these writings on Ochún within CCCADI’s collection of Caribe magazines.

The first text comes from the 1980 African Diaspora Edition, part of a segment titled “Afro-Brazilians Re-Emerging”.

The second features a poem by Barbara Ann Teer from the 1981 World Conference on Orisha Special Report issue. Decades later, her words still flow like honey and river water. 🍯

Now we’re gathering to honor Ochún, and we want you there. Expect beauty, community, and a night you’ll carry with you.

Get your Violines Para Ochún tickets now via the link on our bio, or drop some 🍯 in the comments and we’ll send you the direct link!

🗓️ Sunday, October 25, 2026
⏰ 3PM
📍 Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
🎤 Co-presented with @hostoscenter & @ccnyartscenter taken in Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute by @cccadi

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🎻🌻 Rehearsals for Violines Para Ochún are underway, and we can’t wait for you to experience this unique musical and spiritual journey from Africa, to Cuba, to New York City.

Musical Director and master percussionist Louis Bauzó has gathered an exceptional, intergenerational group of musicians and dancers (some of which you see here during our first rehearsal) to help CCCADI carry 50 years of intentional work with the Sacred Traditions of the African Diaspora into the future.

Throw a ticket emoji 🎟️ in the comments and we will DM you the link to tickets. Space is limited and tickets are beginning to run low!

Violines Para Ochún
🗓️ Sunday, October 25, 2026
⏰ 3PM
📍 Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
🎤 Co-presented with @hostoscenter & @ccnyartscenter taken in Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute by @cccadi

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CCCADI is proud to uplift this event in honor of #HispanicHeritageMonth hosted by our neighbors at @MuseumofCityNY

How can a neighborhood restaurant become a place for change?

Join us at @museumofcityny on Wednesday, October 14, at 6:30 pm for a closer look at Latinx food workers and activism in Raise Your Voice: New York Activism.

Curator Sarah Seidman joins professor Alexandra Délano Alonso and artist and activist Marco Saavedra of the Bronx’s La Morada restaurant to explore food, mutual aid, and community organizing.

🎟️ Free! Space is limited, so registration is recommended via MCNY’s site

🌙 Part of MCNY’s Free Late-Night Wednesdays. Explore the galleries until 9 pm.

#foodworkers #Activism @thenycalliance #NYC latinx @manhattancb11 @ManhattanBP #TheHeartofNY taken in Museum of the City of New York by @cccadi

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October 1991 in New York City. While the rest of the country was gearing up for the pageantry of the Columbus 500th anniversary, a different commemoration was assembling itself across Harlem, Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.

The Expressions ‘91 Festival, titled …And Then Columbus, asked a deceptively simple question that would be carried through concert halls and conference rooms: discovered by whom?

In this special performance by the groups Forces of Nature and Pura Fé, they are representing the historical unification of enslaved Africans and Indigenous people of America. This presentation filled with dance and song showed how these two cultures came together with several similarities and learned from each other’s differences. These two Indigenous groups found respect for each other’s cultures and when enslaved Africans needed help, American Indigenous people were there to offer support.

The Spirit of Liberation concert at Aaron Davis Hall marked the 200th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, bringing together other groups like Skah Shah, La Troupe Makandal, Ingrediente Panama, and Roots of Brazil. Haiti’s liberation being the only successful slave revolt to found a nation became the festival’s opening argument. Freedom in the Americas was won, not given, and centuries before 1991.

On this Indigenous People’s Day, we want to honor the truth and follow in the footsteps of the scholars who gathered exactly 35 years ago. As our founder Dr. Martha Moreno Vega wrote, “Mechanisms that blur our distinctions and undermine our cultural contributions and rights of ownership can no longer be accepted. Events that celebrate a false history must be replaced by events that speak to historical fact and accuracy.”

Drop a 🫂 in the comments in the name of Black x Native American solidarity, and we will send you the links to the Archival Dispatch and a longer clip of the performance! taken in Aaron Davis Hall by @cccadi

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📍 CCCADI Ilé Oyin (208 E 126th St)
⏰ 12PM-5PM
🍲 Refreshments Provided
🎟️ FREE, Just pull up by @cccadi

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Tomorrow we finally gather! Sou Sou! Saturdays returns with Heat, Marronage & Liberation, co-presented with artist @lizaniacruz and her Adobe Creative Residency at MoMA!

We’re honored to have our friend @rasupreme joining us as a late addition to what will be a rich panel conversation. See the schedule for the day below!

🗓️ Saturday October 10, 2026
⏰ 12pm-5pm
📍 CCCADI Ilé Oyin 208 East 126th Street
👟 Come dressed comfortably and ready to build heat through movement!
🎟️ RSVP via Link in Bio

Flow for the Day:

12:00-1:00pm - Revisit and reimagine the role of the mosquito as a character in folktales that links West Africa to the Caribbean with storyteller Malika Lee Whitney

1:00-2:00pm - Through collective art making, Lizania Cruz will map our stories and practices, exploring the use of ecology as a tool of healing

2:00-3:00pm - Break (light refreshments provided)

3:00-4:00pm - Luis Rincon Alba, Djassi Johnson, and Rasu Jilani - In a panel discussion about heat, marronage and liberation through plant knowledge and carnival characters such as Dame Lorraine and Jonkonnu.

4:00-5:00pm - We close the day with a Fete that facilitates the embodiment of heat as a tool for individual and collective liberation.

“If you want to go fast, you go alone. If you want to go far, you go together”. taken in Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute by @cccadi

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Dig deeper into the meaning of the House of a Thousand Machete's with Ani Brutus, the interdisciplinary visual artist behind the wall art of Fiona Compton's installation 🖌️🌬️

Ani shares how repurposing the words of the oppressors can transform into collective empowerment to rise against them. She reminds us that despite the power they had over us with their words, we have the power to persevere dancing to the drum.

Introducing NEW Fall 2026 Gallery Hours:
✨ Tuesdays & Thursdays: 12pm - 6pm
✨ Wednesdays: 12pm - 8pm taken in Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute by @cccadi

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