About Us
Our History
In FACT, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 in Willingboro, New Jersey with a mission to preserve and perpetuate folklife traditions and to use these traditions to sustain communities and affect social change. The Board is led by Women and the organization is primarily focused on serving communities of the African/African American diaspora. We welcome volunteers and always seek to uplift community voice through folk art, culture and tradition.
Our Programs
Community centered, our programs include workshops in such traditions as quilting, African Drumming and Dance, dollmaking, hip hop, the blues, storytelling, line dancing, hair wrapping, soap making, Latin dance and traditional healing arts. We curate Black Doll exhibitions, produce festivals including the Annual Willingboro Kwanzaa Festival with partnering community organizations.x Our newly initiated Youth Storytelling Group will be performing at the Willingboro Kwanzaa Festival this year. As a cultural sustainability organization we also take oral histories and document culture.
PROJECTS
COMMUNITY ON THE LINE: Community Collections Project
COMMUNITY ON THE LINE: Community Collections Project
COMMUNITY ON THE LINE: Community Collections Project
In FACT partnered with Queen Nur LLC to document the R&B/Soul Line Dance Community in the Philadelphia, New Jersey Delaware Tri- State Area as part of the Widening the Path Project for the Library of Congress.
Over 900 files make up the collection. The Collection will be celebrated at the Library of Congress on Feburary 27, 2025 with a
In FACT partnered with Queen Nur LLC to document the R&B/Soul Line Dance Community in the Philadelphia, New Jersey Delaware Tri- State Area as part of the Widening the Path Project for the Library of Congress.
Over 900 files make up the collection. The Collection will be celebrated at the Library of Congress on Feburary 27, 2025 with a Soul Line Dance Party in Jefferson Hall.
More Information to come....
Made Possible by theAmerican Folklife Center at the LIbrary of Congress and New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
TALE OF TWO TASTES
COMMUNITY ON THE LINE: Community Collections Project
COMMUNITY ON THE LINE: Community Collections Project
TALE OF TWO TASTE
Is a cultural food event that will has your taste buds poppin', music hoppin', and culture non-stoppin as we explore the food cultures of two African Diasporic foodways and cultures.
This event is annual and the next event will be announced in 2025
Our Past cultural featured food artisans included:
2022
Nole JN Baptiste
TALE OF TWO TASTE
Is a cultural food event that will has your taste buds poppin', music hoppin', and culture non-stoppin as we explore the food cultures of two African Diasporic foodways and cultures.
This event is annual and the next event will be announced in 2025
Our Past cultural featured food artisans included:
2022
Nole JN Baptiste of Sa Pi Bon LLC in Philadelphia and Sammed Okyne of Kings & Queens Liberian Cuisine, Philadelphia
2023
Nana Kittoe, Ghanian Foodways and Eefphee's Nigerian Cuisinefrom Eephee's Kitchen in Voorhees
2024
Sherma Joyce - Trinidad and Adanech Asghedom owner of Ada's Gojjo Ethiopian Restaurant in Ashbury ParK
Music is curated by Dwight James
MADE POSSIBLE BY:
Burlington County Board of Commissioner
from a grant by the New Jersey Council of the Arts
WILLINGBORO ANNUAL KWANZAA FESTIVAL
COMMUNITY ON THE LINE: Community Collections Project
WILLINGBORO ANNUAL KWANZAA FESTIVAL
The Annual Willingboro Festival will be held at the John F. Kennedy Center, in Willingboro NJ on December 31, 2024, 11:00-3:00, filled with performances, workshops, candle lighting ceremony, AN African Marketplace and a Karamu (feast).
FREE BUT REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Featured Performances include:
Zawadi African Dance and
The Annual Willingboro Festival will be held at the John F. Kennedy Center, in Willingboro NJ on December 31, 2024, 11:00-3:00, filled with performances, workshops, candle lighting ceremony, AN African Marketplace and a Karamu (feast).
FREE BUT REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Featured Performances include:
Zawadi African Dance and Drum
International Soul Steps Dance Company
In FACT Youth Group
African American Inventors' Workshop
Line Dancing with Kenny J
and more....
HOSTED BY THE WILLINGBORO KWANZAA COLLECTIVE:
African American Inventors Museum, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (Pi Mu Omega Chapter), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (Rancocas Valley Alumnae Chapter), I am Kenny J Productions, In FACT, Inc., Jack and Jill of America, Burlington CountyThe Underground Railroad of Burlington County, and the Willingboro and Vicinity NAACP.
MADE POSSIBLE BY:
Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders from a grant by the New Jersey Council of the Arts and the Willingboro Recreation & Parks Department.
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