For Afro-Brazilian brotherhoods, called irmandades, the feast of their patron is the main annual event. It is the most conspicuous moment of confraternal life, marked with the greatest mobilization and public visibility for the brotherhood. During the colonial period, black brotherhoods rivaled each other as well as their white counterparts, taking this competition to the streets in the form of colorful displays, music, and dances. According to a contemporary account, they often surpassed “the whites in everything, going to great lengths to outdo everyone.” Behind these rivalries lay the desire for distinction in colonial society. The patron's feast was also a unique opportunity to entice new members and even secure the benevolence of colonial elites and civil and ecclesiastical authorities, which could guarantee “strong supporters in the defense of their interests.” However, confraternal celebrations had other aspects, as they constituted the spaces for dance, music, and feasting least likely to attract the interference of colonial authorities. The coronation of the king and queen were the central component of the festivities, giving visibility to the most complex political dimensions of Afro-Brazilians’ relations with the slavocratic establishment. In this chapter, I argue that the festivities organized by eighteenth-century Afro-Bahian brotherhoods reveal, and at the same time, constitute privileged spaces of confraternal life, economic relations, and conflict and governance within the brotherhoods.