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Festival of Yoruba Arts is an Annual event created to showcase and celebrate the rich, vibrant and colourful tradition and cultures of the Yorubas through, visual, conceptual and performance Arts mediums of cultural, aesthetic and educational value.

Created in 2010 by Jacqueline Adewunmi, founder and managing Trustee of Festival of Yoruba Arts Trust a registered non-profit charitable organisation, which promotes the advancement of Yoruba Arts and Culture, through its annual open air arts festival.

Held annually in Clissold Park, Hackney, North London, the festival also serves for develop and maintain community cohesion and development in one of Londons most diverse ethnic minority communities, where the Yorubas and their descendants from around the world, work school and are resident.

The Yorubas originally from West Africa are the largest group of Slaves transported during the Slave Trade era to the West Indies and Latin America, where you find a large population of Yoruba descendants from Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Barbados and America.

The influence of Yoruba Arts and Culture over the last 100 years has led to the creation and development of new forms of Music, dance Art and even fashion. These various aspects of their great cultural history is reflected in the various activities presented during the festival.