7th Annual Colorado Dashiki Festival

COLORADO DASHIKI FEST 2023 (AUG 12TH : 3PM-9.30PM)

In 2023, CACC is organizing a special event - Colorado Dashiki Festival at the Levitt Pavilion in Denver. The festival is going to be one of a kind in Colorado. It is going to be completely free and accessible to all ages. It will feature musical performances from several trending African artists as well as African food, fashion and art.

The Dashiki Festival is an African event that has been celebrated consecutively for 7 years now in Colorado. It is a dynamic cultural event designed in a way that celebrates all aspects of African heritage. Dashiki Festival usually features African music, cultural performances, African food, and arts with the highlight of an African fashion show . Everyone comes dressed in African attire and wearing African jewelry and prints. People spend hours enjoying African music, eating delicious African delicacies, exploring vendor stands and interacting with and meeting new people. The night ends with a fashion contest, where people get to display their unique African attires and win awards for best dressed dashiki Queen of the year.

The Dashiki Festival has garnered an attendance of approximately 3000 attendees from various parts of Colorado and neighboring states. It has typically been a paid event with an age restriction of over 21. From 2023, CACC intends to make the Dashiki Festival more accessible to the entire Colorado community. The festival is going to be entirely FREE and FAMILY-FRIENDLY. People of all ages, races, genders will be able to attend, regardless of their financial conditions, religious, nationality and political views or physical disabilities. By doing this, we hope to attract people from all over Colorado to come, celebrate and learn more about our culture.

The festival is going to be the most vibrant and entertaining festival Colorado has witnessed. There will be several performances from some of our local artists, dances and other renowned African artists of this generation. There will also be a variety of food, art and business vendor stands at the festival. We will have a variety of food from various African vendors, African art and fashion vendors and also many interesting stands for small businesses.

It will be held on the 12th of August, 2023 at the Levitt Pavilion in Denver.

The goal of the festival is to celebrate African people and their culture while increasing awareness about our culture and fostering unity, integration, diversity and inclusion between different communities in Colorado. The festival is also going to serve as a means of empowerment for our community demographics and businesses in Colorado