The 34th Annual African Festival of the Arts returns Sept. 1-4, Labor Day weekend, to Chicago's historic Washington Park in the heart of the South Side's Museum District. The city's largest celebration of global black culture re-emerges, following a two-year hiatus due to the covid pandemic, under the theme "Back to Culture. Back to Tradition!" Experience Africa's art, sights, tastes, sounds, and spirituality in a - safe and gated - replicated African village!