2024 Highlights
ODUNDE Side road Competition
The blockbuster ODUNDE Side road Competition fills the streets of Philadelphia’s Graduate Clinic community with droves of distributors and hundreds of festivalgoers on Sunday, June 9, 2024 starting at midday.
Going down round a 15-block radius focused on the intersection of twenty third and South streets, the open-air birthday party is unfastened to wait, with pay-as-you-go meals and refreshments.
The day kicks off at midday with a colourful procession from twenty third & South streets to the Schuylkill River, that includes conventional choices of fruit and vegetation to Oshun, the Yoruba goddess of the river.
The festivities proceed with a packed time table of reside song and dance performances going down on two designated levels.
The meals is a large appeal on the ODUNDE Competition, with various purveyors serving all kinds of African, Caribbean and soul fare.
Greater than 100 distributors promote hand-crafted crafts, clothes, jewellery and extra. Past buying groceries from native distributors, the competition’s African market guarantees unique pieces from Africa, the Caribbean and Brazil.
— Picture by way of S. Ramones for Consult with Philadelphia
The day ends with a must-see efficiency from R&B legends Dru Hill at the major South Side road level.
Extra Occasions
Within the week main as much as the primary match, ODUNDE hosts a number of methods, together with wellness actions, satisfied hours, talks that includes main Black voices in entrepreneurship and trade, and extra.
— Picture by way of S. Ramones for Consult with Philadelphia
Occasions from June 2 to eight, 2024 come with:
Yoga within the Park
Convey your mat: Teacher Steven Westbrook III leads scholars in an open-air yoga magnificence in certainly one of Philly’s maximum iconic inexperienced areas LOVE Park (Sunday, June 2, 2024).
Convo with the CEO: Celebrating Ladies Marketers
Sign up for ODUNDE CEO Oshunbumi Fernandez-West at Outdated Town eating place AMINA for an inspirational dialog with Philly marketers Felicia Wilson of AMINA Hospitality and Dr. Maya and Dr. Kayla Johnstone of FoodChasers Kitchen (Monday, June 3, 2024).
Love Now Mag Summer season Factor Free up Outside Satisfied Hour & Dance Celebration
Have a good time the discharge of Love Now Mag’s latest version — that includes none as opposed to ODUNDE CEO Oshunbumi Fernandez-West at the duvet — at this outside Afrobeats satisfied hour. Tickets are required and come with the summer season factor of the mag (Tuesday, June 4, 2024).
ODUNDE at the Plaza
Desire a sneak peek of what to anticipate at this 12 months’s giant boulevard competition? Forestall by way of the Comcast Plaza throughout your lunch for DIY crafts, reside artwork and a dance efficiency by way of competition performers Kulu Mele (June 5, 2024).
Take a look at the respectable web page for main points and the entire lineup of ODUNDE week programming.
