OFFICIAL BEAUCOUP HOODOO FEST 2025 SCHED

Welcome to BEAUCOUP HOODOO FEST! Join us for our official OPENING CEREMONY for DAY 1 of the 2ND ANNUAL BEAUCOUP HOODOO FEST. 

For over 300 years people of African origin have called New Orleans home and have created a culture that is abundant & beautiful. This two hour tour will show you the French Quarter and a small part of Treme from the view of African people.

This tour is as colorful as the creole cottages & shotgun homes that line the streets of Treme. This walking tour of the oldest African American neighborhood in the nation explores the legacy of this culturally rich area. You will discover in this tour the roots of Jazz, Storyville, Black Mardi Gras Indians and visit some of the most cultural significant sites in New Orleans.

Studio Be was a vacant warehouse which was transformed into 35, 000 square feet of beautiful and inspiring black art created by Brandan “BMike” Odums as his first solo show as an artist.

My discussion is about which words to Use and How To utilize & absorb them in your worship journey, regardless of your chosen religious and/or spiritual practice. This will include a Q & A. This discussion is particularly great for those who are interested in learning from and connecting with elders. Mama M'Tam initiated as a priest of Osun in 1979 and is a member of one of the oldest African-American Lucumi houses in the United States of America.

In this conversation, Kat Niami will be talking with Charlotte Dueer James about her practice working with ritual and Sacred Earth Medicines to reach expanded states of consciousness.  In this expanded state we have the opportunity to travel deep within our roots to meet our ancestors, our spirit guides, and our true guiding Source.  We will touch on how one can incorporate these practices into our lives as modern beings, as well as how to safely engage with these practices.  

*TBA: Rapeh Ceremony will be offered in the evening.

We will talk about the businëngë maroons, these communities built from several cultures and
traditions of West Africa.

They are Afro-descendants from South America. Precisely in Suriname and french-Guiana,
countries where direct descendants of Africans maintain the languages, religions and
lifestyles similar to West African communities like Akan people .

● How were these Afro-descendant communities able to keep ancestral knowledge
and how to transmit it today, in a way of life where we must resist assimilation and in
which we are made to believe that our customs, our gods, our spirits, our ancestors
don’t have a place to exist ?
● What is the place of the Maroons in a contemporary society today, their connections
with Africa as well as spirituality?
● What is winti ? I would talk about my personal experiences in the spirituality of the
Maroons.

For Beaucoup Hoodoo, Fiona will be presenting a conversation about MAMI WATA and the POWER of the Divine Feminine of the Sacred Waters. 

Moon Lodge is a ceremony to honor and celebrate our wombs through body literacy and ancestral insight. 

"Red Tents" are spaces intentionally co-created for us to share, connect and authentically be. They are spaces for women to share their stories, rest and gain strength from being together and supporting one another. *When I say women I include those of both cisgender and transgender experience, non-binary trans femme, intersex and gender-expansive people.

Body literacy is listening, learning, and understanding your body through focusing on your menstrual cycle, to measure your overall health. To gain ancestral insight is to look to the wisdom and tap into the ways of your ancestors. 

This session will offer:

• an intimate circle to safely talk about your relationship with your menstrual cycle and intentions to reconnect to your womb through ancestral insight.
• support to learn your body’s natural rhythms and find natural solutions for cycle issues. 

We created this extracurricular excursion for the foodies! Get a taste of BLACK New Orleans cuisine featuring award winning chefs and brunch with a beat.

TOUR STOPS:
Compere Lapin with James Beard Chef Nina Compton for appetizers and drinks.
Followed by Elysian Bar for drinks.

PLEASE be prepared to spend up to $100. Cash form of payment at the restaurants are preferable as one of the restaurants doesn't split checks.

Sponsored by the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI).

Are you so busy with your daily lives that you don't have time for yourself?  Come explore:  Why spiritual practice is important?  Why is it important to remember our ancestors?  What are some strategies for self-care?  How do you make time for yourself in your busy life?
 

Black women’s bodies are sites of wealth, wellness, and abundance. In this interactive workshop, join Erin Trent Johnson, founder of BlackMamaBody, for an exploration of the lineage of Black women’s spiritual, ecological, and embodied healing practice.

We are in a time of divine feminine revolution. The earth is raging from the abuses of colonial extraction and capitalist exploitation. These same systems have stolen African bodies, labor, land, and resources for centuries. Yet, we know how to do more than just survive. We have life-systems of repair, rebellion, and spiritual resources within our bodies that are aligned with spirit. We make a way out of no way. In this session, we will explore the liberatory possibility of connecting with our body's gut feelings, intuition and sensorial inner knowing. Trusting in our source of creation allows us to manifest health from our inherent worth and our core values.

Black women’s bodies are divine ecosystems within social systems. We be knowin’! Our bodies are sites of viral imagination. We be sharin’! In the face of terror, we have created ways to open roads and imagine pathways to freedom. When we trust our inner wealth, worthiness, and wisdom, we can practice everyday colonial rebellion. We have the radical possibility to see the unseen to heal the wounds of body-mind-spirit. Our healing is communal alchemy that has the power to transmute forces of destruction. When our bodies heal, all bodies and the earth can thrive.

Using the lens of spiritual somatic activism, we will explore the ways African-descended women have always had the tools for our collective wellness, ecological health, and liberation.

In this session, we will explore various ways that African-descended women’s earth-honoring, spiritual liberatory practice including ATRs, ADRs, Hoodoo, Astrology, divination, and African cosmologies of care and deep root medicine.

Erin will guide us through somatic practices that allow us to regulate our nervous systems and tap into our inner source of power. We will then visit the crossroads of the gut-brain axis to metabolize generational wounding, elevate conscious awareness of survival and trauma responses, and discover the digestive system powers of discernment, choice, and free will that can support collective healing, liberation, and transformation.

ABP is an interactive Q&A session where hosts Brooke Sanders and The Hungry Medium will field questions from the audience on topics such as ancestor veneration, connecting to intuition and reflections on navigating this journey through the lens of a Black spiritualist. All questions welcome!

DANCING SPIRITS: An Embodied Vodou Offering Through Movement & Ritual
Dancing Spirits Movement Sessions are designed to uplift, inspire & inform, while intersecting Wellness (Haitian Folkloric Dance) + Spirituality (Haitian Vodou) collectively. 

WORKSHOP #1 "BENEATH THE WATERS"

Yeye Teish will discuss the role of the elder in the cultures of the African Diaspora generally and within the spiritual tradition specifically. We will discuss the rite of passage into elderhood with guidelines for the elders, the youth, and the community in general.

The Different Paths of ATRS, How to Find a Qualified OG and How to Not Get Got.

 Why Do We Turn to Astrology? Since the beginning of time, humans have been on a quest to better understand our existence and make meaning of our lives. This talk will focus on the significance of astrology today and why so many are engaged with this connection between the sky and life on earth.  I'll provide an overview of the hows and whys astrology has come to mean so much to all of us.

A practical workshop where participants will create Ori Vision boards based on destiny, sacred alchemy, and individual spiritual goals.

MATERIALS:
Magazines
Scissors
Glue sticks
Favorite pen or marker

A look into my journey from a spiritual practitioner to an Akan priest in America. This discussion delves into my introduction to the Akan tradition, spiritual training, and obligations as a practicing traditional healer.

Are you ready to deepen your relationship with your ancestors
through meditation? Are you looking to understand clearly your
purpose in this lifetime from an indigenous African view? Look no
further, this workshop is rooted in the origin wisdom of the Dagara
Tradition in Burkina Faso to understand elemental medicine: fire,
water, mineral, earth and nature. We will also connect to Tenbalu and
Tingan through ritual. As brought to us by world-renowned author,
teacher, diviner; initiated Dagara Elder Malidoma Patrice Somé.

Learn how to second line and perfect your FOOT WORK game with NOLA's favorite darling, SECOND LINE SHORTY!

In this class we will discuss creating a yearly prosperity altar and my recommendations for ways to keep prosperity work going through the entire year for oneself and/or one's family. We will discuss the ideal location of the altar, how to construct a prosperity plate, a powerful psalm we can use for this work, and how to batch work so that it's easy to always keep work going for ourselves.

Are you on the road to healing and empowerment through immersion in Afrikan-centered spiritual practices? If so, then you know that one of the most important parts of discovery is honoring your ancestors. However, besides the daily important rituals and customary ceremonies, what does this work look like? This workshop will discuss the need for aligning our African traditional spiritual practices with pan-Afrikan based work. Iyalosha Sister Kemba shares with us her unique experiences in being raised in the Yoruba Lukumi religion as well as, a cultural revolutionary community, and the significance of both. She will share some unique insights and tools on Afrikan spirituality coupled with Afrikan liberation education, as we forge forward on this journey for uplifting ourselves and our Afrikan people.

This workshop will be centered in how to raise your kids and family in African spiritual traditions and how that journey will change the trajectory of your ancestors AND descendants.

The Different Paths of ATRS, How to Find a Qualified OG and How to Not Get Got.

Iya Michelle will go into depth about how to best activate your guides and protections by sitting at the white table, what to do at your boveda and communicate with spirit through powerful prayer.

Take your power back by honoring your energy and unique gifts with the self-awareness tool of Human Design. This workshop will be an empowering session learning about the pillars in Human Design. We will discuss a practical grounded way to work with your Profile, Energy Types, and Non-Self themes more.

( *Human Design is a self-awareness tool that helps you understand how your energy operates. It provides insights into our unique personality traits, decision-making processes, and how we interact with the world around us. )*

It will be my pleasure to introduce you or invite you to take a deeper look into Human Design a system that returns the power to us and removes conditioning.

This workshop will center the most
important spiritual tool in your arsenal: YOU!
We will explore the intersections between
the Yoruba concept of Ori and the more recent
concept of Human Design and outline
practical ways to implement your ori's unique
strategies for success.

This workshop will focus on exposing the
intersections of Africanisms and Christianity,
demonstrating that Hoodoo, Vodou and other
Black spiritual practices and Christianity are first
cousins, and how White Supremacy was the first
liar to begin with.

The why and the way you Breathe, Move, & Dance matters. We start there, then marry the two: Orisha and You.

Start with breathing gently. Start with compassion. Acknowledge your body. There are generations in there who brought you to this moment. You matter in this moment. You have to matter. The why and the way you Breathe, Move, & Dance matters. We start there, then marry the two: Orisha and you.

This year 2023 is dedicated to Yemaya + Oshun.

Activities: Breathing with Orisha, Dance as Cleansing/Ceremony, Orisha Songs, Musicology of the Anya/Drum.

Nana Sula will share chants rituals and teachings
that honor the African Mothers Nana Buruku,
Yemaya, Mami Wata, Oshun, Oya, Obba & Yaa
Asantewaa.

Tarot for Black Folks is a workshop focusing on identifying nuances and symbolism in tarot, and building narratives with the cards. This class is for all experience levels. 

The ancestors live within us and we are all coded with their memories,
experiences, triumphs, traumas, gifts & powers. In this workshop we
will lean into our innate abilities to intuit information from the Spirit
realm and work with our energetic fields to grant access to our most
elevated ancestral bloodlines to awaken within us and activate gifts &
abilities that we can tap into to thrive in this lifetime. Guests are
welcome to bring a journal to note discoveries and a deck to divine on
further information.

Join us for our Official BEAUCOUP HOODOO FEST 2023 WELCOME SOIREE! Come DRESSEDT and ready to have a GRANDIOSE time!