AfroPortals Pop-Up Activation: “Truth Tellers” with Nedra Williams and The Embodiment Project
Liberation Park, Oakland | Saturday, July 5 | 12–5 PM
Join us on Saturday, August 2, at Liberation Park for our next AfroPortals activation. In the Cosmos Portal, Havana-born, Bay Area-based photographer Diamela Cutiño will share her powerful images that capture the pulse of Black life across the diaspora.
In the Gold Portal from 1–3 PM, we welcome Omnira Institute’s singing group Awon Ohun Omnira for an intercontinental exchange with Johannesburg titled Freedom Songs. Through music, Omnira preserves and extends sacred knowledge and spiritual traditions from West Africa to the Americas, nurturing Black emotional and mental wellness through culture and song.
Come gather with us for a day of art, conversation, and cultural connection rooted in freedom and community.
This event is free and open to the community. All are welcome to come witness, engage, and be in conversation.
Diamela Cutiño is a photographer from Havana, Cuba, now based in the Bay Area. Her work captures the spirit of movement in all its forms—social, political, spiritual, and physical—and documents Black culture across the diaspora, from Lukumi religious ceremonies and Hip Hop in Cuba to the everyday stories of AfroAmerican womxn in the U.S.
Omnira Institute is dedicated to preserving and extending the threads of sacred knowledge, music, and practices from West Africa to the Americas. Through projects like Awon Ohun Omnira, Omnira supports the emotional and mental health of Black communities by demonstrating the living cultural links that survived enslavement and reaffirming connections to West African spiritual traditions.