Afro Folk Vinyl Dinner Party - Community Program

If there ain't food, drink, & music, it ain't a celebration. Black Banjo Reclamation Project is a creative eco-system that curates musical, cultural and land-based healing opportunities for Black, Afro-Diasporic communities to work with the banjo as a tool for reclaiming ancestral wisdom & crafting Afro-futures. couchdate is a Black & Brown owned, Oakland based Hifi Bar & Community Space. Together with Chef Christian Washington of Comfort Collective, we are so proud to offer a night of exactly that - food, drink & music.



couchdate will be spinning vinyl records that show the diverse sounds of the African Diaspora, everything from Rhiannon Giddens, to African funk, to Candomble music. 



Christian Washington is a co-founder of the Comfort Collective, a collaboration of Black tastemakers with similar tales of long lineages of Black women with southern roots who held them up in the kitchen who became the foundation of inspiration through…