One of Canada’s longest-running Black History Month celebration is back for the entire month of February.
The 29th KUUMBA festival kicked off Thursday night at the Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto ahead of a jam-packed opening weekend featuring art, dance, film and poetry featuring Black artists and Black-centred work. Kuumba, appropriately, is Swahili for “creativity.”
The theme for the festival this year is voice, said curator Arinola Olowoporoku. “Celebrating Black voice and also examining how we speak, to whom we speak, who is listening when we speak and how we’re being heard.”
Arinola Olowoporoku is curator and festival lead for this year’s KUUMBA festival.
