AGOA Festival

A Glimpse of Africa provides a platform that brings people together to celebrate, educate, and share the diverse rich African cultures through food, music, dance, fashion, art & crafts, and other community activities. Our annual festival is the largest African Cultural Festival in West Michigan with an attendance of over 4,000 people.

EXPLORE PREVIOUS FESTIVALS

African Cuisine

Experience authentic cuisine from different nations throughout Africa.

Fashion Show

Celebrate Local African and African inspired fashion on the runway.

Entertainment

Spend the day watching our DJ's, Bands, Fashion show, and Interactive Events

Art & Crafts

Booths with local and international artists sharing their crafts.

Children's Activities

Traditional Face painting, Dance Lessons, and Musical activities to involve people of all ages

A Glimpse of Africa Festival 2025

Date:
August 9th -August 10th
Time:
Saturday | 10:30 am - 11:00 pm
Sunday | 10:30 am - 5:30 pm

Find the festival at Calder Plaza:
Calder Plaza, Ottawa Avenue NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

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Explore previous years

2020 Highlights - generalize / remove years / combine

Even with Covid-19 creating new road blocks, we safely celebrated the many cultures of Africa. Even though the event was smaller in scale, the reasons to celebrate were larger!

2019 Highlights

Our monumental first year! For the first time we celebrated and shared the many cultures of Africa with our beloved town of Grand Rapids.

Join us as we look back on previous years' celebrations of culture