The African American Leadership Project (AALP) will close out this year's 2nd Anniversary observance of the Katrina disaster with its "Hands Around the Dome Ceremony". The AALP developed the HADC to symbolize "healing from the suffering and losses, and affirmation of the future." The program consists of rituals, prayers, brief speeches, cultural events, reflections, music and song, and reading a partial roll of the deceased. To close the program, participants form a powerful and dramatic hand to hand human circle around the Dome as each person calls out and names their loss.