Omnira Insitute has a standing choir that appears in its annual cycle of events that runs from February to November. Its repertoire includes a series of chants sung in Yoruba and songs from the African American observation known as the Ring Shout. OI performs at Black History Month events in the Bay Area (since 2009); hosts a Juneteenth event and an annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival (since 2014). To help soothe community pain over the killings of black and brown people by the police, OI’s choir supports observances of those deaths at the invitation of surviving family members. The annual cycle culminates with the African American Day of the Ancestors. Held on Nov. 1, the observation parallels the Latino Dia Day Los Muertos. It takes place at the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland where the mass grave holding victims of the Jonestown massacre of 1978 are buried. Both started in 2016. OI is also often invited to bring the choir to cultural events in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley. Added to the cycle in 2023 are periodic appearances to engage with another growing part of the African American community- farming. We were invited to participate in the preparation for harvest at Digging Deep Farm in Union City in August 2023 and will be appearing at Earthseed Farm in Sonoma County in May 2024. The Freedom Farmers’ Market, a part of the California African American Farmers’ Association has also invited us to come to their opening event and agrees to come sell their wares at the Black-Eyed Pea Festival in September.