Pull up a chair beside one of New Orleans' most beloved spiritual elders for an intimate conversation with Manbo Asogwe Sallie Ann Glassman.
Initiated in Port-au-Prince in 1995, Sallie is the artist of The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, author of Vodou Visions, proprietress of the Island of Salvation Botanica inside the New Orleans Healing Center, and a co-founder of New Orleans International Vodou Day — the annual procession-and-symposium consciously modeled on Benin's Vodun Days. For nearly fifty years she has led La Source Ancienne Ounfò and presided over the city's most public Vodou observances, from the St. John's Eve head-washing on Bayou St. John to the Fèt Gede each November. Christian Day sits down with her for a wide-ranging conversation about the lwa, the work, and the new chapter she is helping to write for Vodou in New Orleans.
Christian and Sallie will explore:
Come ready to listen, and to be reminded that Vodou is not the dark, curse-fille