The Africa Expo is a fall festival celebrating African culture across the diaspora. It takes place on Saturday, October 30th from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Adult tickets cost $10 on Eventbrite, and anyone 17 or younger can enter for FREE.
The marketplace allows you to shop from black-owned businesses that carry products for, beauty, home décor, art, clothing, and more.
You can try foods from East and West Africa and network with people doing great things locally and around the globe.
This event is outdoors, but masks are required to use indoor facilities such as restrooms.
The event takes place at St. John’s Lutheran Church, located at 1410 Ponce de Leon Ave.
Street parking is available on Oakdale Rd. and around Olmsted Linear Park.
Schedule of events:
- 11:30 AM : Market Opens
- 12:30 PM- Community Dance Workout with Holistic Health Coach, Jenn Wilson
- 1:00 PM- Spoken Word by Poet Patrick Duncan
- 1:30 PM- Panel Discussion “Beyond the Year of the Return :Exploring Deeper Connections with Africa”
- 2:30 PM- Play Pan Afrikan Theatre presents: “Nguzo Babies” led by Ms. Ashley (Kids tent)
- 3:00 PM- Music Performance- Josey Fuller
- 3:30 PM-African Honoring Ceremony for Fonta High and Dee Smith
- 4:00 Music Performance with Nigerian Afro-folk soul singer Tosinger and Bayo Bello
- 4:30 PM- African Drum and Dance with Djoli Kelen Inc
- 5:00 PM- Tyme Flyte Band
- 6:30 PM- Market Closes
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WHEN
Saturday, October 30, 2021
11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WHERE
St. John’s Lutheran Church
1410 Ponce de Leon Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30307
HOW MUCH
Adult tickets $10 via Eventbrite
Youth 17 and under FREE
