Merchants on 52nd Street, between Walnut and Spruce, will set up booths and tents to showcase artists, jewelry-making workshops, and authors on Saturday, Aug. 17.
The festival will take place between Walnut and Spruce Streets on Saturday, Aug. 17, from noon to 7 p.m.
In addition to traditional block party events for children, this extended block party will feature African art, workshops on how to make jewelry andmusical instruments, a fashion show, guest speakers, live musical performances — including hip-hop, jazz and soul — and a virtual reality game by Rahim said he and his siblings began working in the store before they were 8 or 9, and among the first jobs they had was to package incense into wrappers.
Because ACAF sells products representing several countries of the African Diaspora, Rahim said it was intentional to plan the Community Art Day for Aug. 17, the birthday of Jamaican-born Black activist Yvonne Blake, owner of Hakim’s, which her father, Dawud Abdel Hakim, founded in 1959, can remember when 52nd Street was thriving and known as “The Strip” or the Main Street of West Philly.
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