Created in 2015, Open Circle LLC is a cultural activities center based in Brevard County. Its purpose is to introduce and share ways and ideas which will lead to the "re-connection" of members of the African diaspora to the motherland, allowing them to thrive.
Its mission is achieved through on-going study, research, instructor and artist invitation, workshops, projects and performance. For more information, visit facebook.com/welcometotheopencircle.
KWANZAA
Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:
- Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
- Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
- Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
- Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
- Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
- Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
- Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Kwanzaa celebratory symbols include a mat (Mkeka) on which other symbols are placed: a Kinara (candle holder), Mishumaa Saba (seven candles), mazao (crops), Muhindi (corn), a Kikombe cha Umoja (unity cup) for commemorating and giving shukrani (thanks) to African Ancestors, and Zawadi (gifts).
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Gibson Center - 835 Sycamore Street, Titusville, FL 32780
Open Circle LLC is a cultural activities center based in Brevard County, FL
December 5, 2018
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