FandangObon is an annual festival founded by legendary choreography, musician, and activist Nobuko Miyamoto and Chicano musician and activist Quetzal Flores. The festival receconnects Japanese, Mexican, African, and Sufi Muslim American communities around traditions of circle dance, music, and caring for the land. These communities have always intersected here in Little Tokyo.
FandangObon
Receconnecting Japanese, Mexican, African, and Sufi Muslim American communities around traditions of circle dance, music, and caring for the land
Nobuko Miyamoto + Quetzal Flores
Little Tokyo
Nobuko Miyamoto + Quetzal Flores
Little Tokyo
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Murase: FandangObon 2015 at JACCC Plaza.
Opening procession for FandangObon 2018 with Little Tokyo’s historic grapefruit tree puppets by Beth Peterson, Nancy Uyemura, and Jennifer Racusin.
FandangObon 2017 with an altar created by master altarista Ofelia Esparza and her family.