Roc-A-Natural

OUR COMMUNITY & CULTURAL EVENTS UPLIFTING

The Kwanzaa Principles

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Umoja-Unity

 

What Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc has done to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race, we've brought together diverse cultures on the Northshore of Staten Island through our Fall Freedom Festival 2025 at Tappen Park-Stapleton in collaboration with NYC Parks and again in upcoming October 2026.  This family fun day includes DJ music,  Haunted walkthrough, Urban Pumpkin Patch, Pumpkin Painting, Kids Zone sponsored by NYC Parks Playmobile, local entertainment, Vendors and more!

 

Kujichagulia-Self-Determination

 

Our foundation continues to define, name, create and speak for ourselves through the telling of our history and educating the youth and overall Northshore community by the Staten Island Freedom Players historic reenactment 

and celebration of Freedom Day.  This includes our living history parade at the Juneteenth Freedom Parade & Festival 2025 at Tappen Park-Stapleton and again in June 2026.

 

Ujima-Collective Work and Responsibility

 

Roc-A-Natural unceasingly demonstrates collective work and responsibility, building and maintaining our community together. We make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and we solve them together through TappenTeers at Work Park Clean-up and Horticulture at Tappen Park in the spring, summer and fall to support the beautification and revitalization of Tappen Park-Stapleton and overall uplift the diverse Northshore community through arts and cultural events. 

 

Ujamaa-Cooperative Economics

 

Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc continues to provide opportunities for local entrepreneurs and small businesses to share their unique products and services, practicing cooperative economics - helping to building and maintaining their own businesses and to profit from them together at events such as Arts In The Park at Tappen Park 2025 and again in May 2026, Juneteenth Freedom Parade & Festival at Tappen Park, since 2021 and including this upcoming year, The Fall Freedom Festival at Tappen Park, and our Kwanzaa Celebration! Unity In The Community at Central Family Life Center, 2026. Details will be announced throughout year.

 

Nia-Purpose

 

Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc continues to demonstrate purpose - to make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness through the annual  Kwanzaa Celebration! Unity In The Community at the Central Family Life Center, 59 Wright Street, Staten Island, NY 10304, enabling  powerful, authentic, educational, and entertaining experiences that will connect attendees to the heart of African and diaspora cultures. Let's rise higher as individuals, families, and communities through the principle of Nia (Purpose) and explore the 7 Kwanzaa Principle Values together. 

 

Kuumba-Creativity

 

Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc is dedicated to doing always as much as we can, in the way that we can through the TappenTeers at Work Park Clean-up and Horticulture at Tappen Park during the spring, summer and fall to support the beautification and revitalization of Tappen Park-Stapleton.  In order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it, we continue to uplift the diverse Northshore community through arts and cultural events such as Arts In The Park at Tappen Park 2025 and up next in May 2026; Juneteenth Freedom Parade & Festival at Tappen Park 2025 and again in June 2026; Fall Freedom Festival at Tappen Park 2025 and next year in October;  our Kwanzaa Celebration! Unity In The Community at Central Family Life Center 2025 and again in 2026.

 

The Freedom Ball Fundraiser in support of continuing to educate the youth and overall Northshore community about Freedom Day through historical reenactment, our living history freedom parade at the 5th Annual Juneteenth Freedom Parade & Festival at Tappen Park 2025 and again in 2026.

 

Imani-Faith

 

To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle which is also exemplified in the portrayal, of our historical reenactment of Juneteenth.  Our ancestors, those who came before us, struggled to maintain their personal and family beliefs that has carried us through to this day.  This is what we as an organization continue to instill in those and especially our young people who participates in our events.

 

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" is a famous verse from Hebrews 11:1.

 

Consider donating to Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc via Zelle, ran@rocanatural.com or check made out to Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc. 

 

Contact Dorcas Meyers at rocanaturalculturalfoundation@gmail.com. 

 

Dorcas Meyers
President
Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc
www.rocanatural.com/cultural-foundation