Ancestral Gratitude Dinner

is excited to announce its first fundraiser event hosted by Chef Oșunkoya Chavon (the daughter of Charmaine Minniefield), who will take audiences on an culinary Sanfoka (looking back to see forward), in the beautiful Hamilton Howell Home in the King Historic Distract.

The Praise House Project is a community-based initiative which places multimedia, site specific public art installations within communities in order to uphold the African American histories and narratives of the area in an effort to address issues of erasure and systemic inequities. Each Praise House is a small wooden structure with a fully immersive digital projection installation of a Ring Shout, created from archives and/or footage collected from the community in which it resides, with a sound installation emanating from within, inviting gatherings in safe spaces, like praise houses once before.

Recalling freedom, The Praise House Project invites communities to examine history while encouraging historic and cultural preservation as acts of repair within the context of race, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Host or Publisher The Praise House Project Inc.