Light the path home is a candlelight commemoration and goodwill event design to unite the Diaspora, Africans, and those who support reunification and a symbolic demonstration of hope faith, and love! Lighting the path from the Americas to Africa can help heal the pain and separation wrought by the Forced passing of millions through the ‘doors of no return’. Our hope is that there will be lights on those very Shores and at those very doors in the evening of June 19 to spiritually cap off Juneteenth celebrations. Light the path home from dusk on Juneteenth until the jubilant light of the next free day from wherever you are in the world. This is a ‘Beyond Year of Return’ Initiative that everyone can participate in, and share with brothers and sisters all over the world, please join in! Light a candle in the evening on Juneteenth and let it shine through the night into the jubilant light of freedom! Host a candlelight event in the evening on Juneteenth at or after dusk or sunset. Keep a guiding light burning from dusk until dawn; it does not have to be a real candle or even a candle at all! Help us spread the word, the more lights the better!

For its first year, 651 ARTS’ Juneteenth Celebration: (RE)VISION will highlight films that look through the lens of futurism and movement to illuminate stories about the Black perspective and the Black experience in America told through a hybrid presentation that explores what it means to be Black and how to imagine a way forward together.

Headlining the film screening will be the short film WATA, along with the regional premiere of Charles O. Anderson’s (RE)current Unrest, an encore presentation of 651’s world premiere of Marjani Forté-Saunders’ Memoirs of a…Unicorn: BLUEPRINT, and the world premiere of the provocative Cyborg Heaven, an exploration of the Black urban movement through House Ballroom culture and hip hop. Juneteenth Celebration (Re)VISION is sponsored by Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.

Original Chicago Blues All-Stars Revue with special guest Ugochi & A.S.E.

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Juneteenth commemorates our nation’s true independence—the day when all members of the newly reunited nation were finally declared free after the American Civil War. More than 400 years after the first enslaved African people were brought to the North American colonies, the fight for equality continues. Our Annual Juneteenth Celebration will be held on Saturday, June 19, 2019 at 7:30pm.

The Juneteenth program will be presented by Healing Nations Foundation in collaboration with Carnegie Hall.

Juneteenth Night Light Bike Ride!!

At this Music themed Bike riding event, we are looking for participants to come and explore Houston on Bikes while vibing to a music playlist featuring artist who liberate, celebrate, and uplift the black culture. 

Riders will experience a slow cruise around the city streets on our Brand New Dutch Bikes equipped with LED Lights as we travel to one of our select destinations such as Discovery Green,  Midtown, or The Museum District. The playlist will be provided by the Tour Guide as we bike around town.

A time of celebration that acknowledges the end of slavery in the U.S. and the fortitude of African Americans, and educates the general population about the significance of this day. This event contributes to the Lehigh Valley's objective of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community where all its citizens can thrive.

Wynton Marsalis’s name looms large in the world of jazz, and for good reason—the GRAMMY® -winning trumpeter, composer, and bandleader has helped shepherd the cultural institution of jazz into a new millennium. Under his direction, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the resident orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center, performs a vast repertoire: from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. For this unique performance, the world-renowned orchestra’s performance will explore freedom and may include tunes by Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ted Nash, and Charles Mingus.

Since the orchestra’s founding in 1988, the group’s performances have been leaving its global audiences inspired and uplifted with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis’s vast, innovative body of original work over the past decade demonstrates the orchestra composers’ and arrangers’ thematic ambitions, distinctive musical personalities, and unprecedented range.

Beloved, hilarious, handsome stand-up comedian and TV Writer, Jordan Temple (Marvelous Mr. Maisel, Atlanta) celebrates Juneteenth by bringing up his favorite stand-up comedian friends and sharing his obsession with the well-known scammer and black history icon, Dr. Malachi Love Robinson. Featuring comedians Janelle James (Netflix, Black Monday), Nore Davis (2 Dope Queens, Succession), and more! Henny not included.

Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day – is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. Bask in Freedom! Join us as we celebrate Juneteenth with a special commission and live performance by Ray Winder and her intrepid band of musical creators, whose jazz meets hip-hop meets R&B sound is sure to move both body and mind. This family-friendly live performance is FREE and will include a specially commissioned piece by Ray Winder and her band that celebrates Juneteenth and the fearless expression of Black freedom. Come, bask in your freedom!

A special Juneteenth concert featuring the new band Crown Jules, with special opening guests local Kittery historian Bob Sheppard, and the Seacoast West African Dancers and Drummers.

Celebrate Juneteenth in Harlem with a free, outdoor screening of Summer of Soul presented by Target in association with Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage, NYC Parks’ Historic Harlem Parks, and JazzMobile. The special advance screening will be followed by live performances at The Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park featuring Questlove and surprise guests. Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, highlights the story of the momentous 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, featuring never-before-seen footage from the massive concert series that was – until now – virtually eliminated from the history books. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was met with rave reviews, taking home both the grand jury prize and the audience award. SUMMER OF SOUL will stream on Hulu in conjunction with Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective; Searchlight Pictures will release it theatrically on July 2, 2021.

As part of Make Music New York, a live, FREE musical celebration happening on the streets of New York City every year, Joe’s Pub presents A Juneteenth Celebration. The event features live performances by Celisse, Ché Buford and mal sounds, and the Juneteenth Legacy Project.

Juneteenth is an annual event, where we bring community members together to celebrate the freedom of enslaved African Americans in the United States. Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas were informed of their freedom and immediately danced in the streets. Today we honor our ancestors and celebrate our freedom, showcasing black joy and culture in Santa Barbara, California. Our community event also honors local black artists, performers, and organizations as well as providing free food, dancing, and singing. View our virtual archive from our 2020 Juneteenth Celebration.

As more institutions begin recognizing Juneteenth as a national holiday, it is important to uplift and name the Black joy, resistance, and expression that have always been at the core of this jubilant celebration. From June 7 to 19, SCG invites members and the community to a two-week journey highlighting ten Los Angeles-based Black musicians, cultural workers, and dancers. 

Register now to receive daily videos showcasing artists and their stories accompanied by guided questions for self-reflection and meditation. Join us to pause, re-connect, and honor this sacred day.

Join for an outdoor jazz concert celebrating Juneteenth with Tulivu's Seasoned Elegance.

The unique vocal stylist Tulivu Donna Cumberbatch grew up in the Brooklyn jazz scene, the daughter of baritone saxophonist Harold Cumberbatch. A formidable bandleader and a renowned featured vocalist in settings from the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Kronos Quartet to the groups of John Hicks and Andy Bey, she has, in the words of the late, great Randy Weston, “. . . beautiful phrasing and the spirit of our ancestors in her sound past present and future.” With Rod Williams, piano; Rachiim Ausar-Sahu, bass; Mark Johnson, drums. 

Presented in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America, with partial support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

What is the groove? How do you find it? And how important is it in self-expression? In Dance Within Your Dance, choreographer Tatiana Desardouin invites the audience to connect with the techniques, rhythms, and essence of hip-hop and house dance styles. Not just a simple aesthetic, “the groove” is the soul of street and club dance. A coalescing of community, fashion, training, introspection, liberation, and individual journeys, in this pop-up performance Passion Fruit, explores how the groove can be a road map to social justice through the physical expression of Black culture.

Conceived and curated by the award-winning poet and artist Carl Hancock Rux, I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me is an experiential site-specific event celebrating the Juneteenth emancipation holiday. Move across the Lincoln Center campus and experience the performance unfolding around you in multiple distinct parts—ending with a seated concert. The evening begins at Hearst Plaza with a musical introduction featuring vocalists Nona Hendryx, Marcelle Lashley and Kimberly Nichole performing original music by Vernon Reid and Nona Hendryx, with lyrics by Lynn Nottage. The performers wear paper dress creations crafted by designer Dianne Smith while standing in the Paul Milstein Pool, symbolizing the river journey taken by abolitionist Harriet Tubman while leading enslaved Americans to freedom.

Artist Shaun Leonardo, in collaboration with community members, leads a series of interactive activities throughout the day in You walk…, in honor of Juneteenth.

Intersectional Voices Collective are throwing the 2nd annual the Juneteenth Jubilee in Harlem, a protest and rally celebrating Black creativity, liberation, and love! The entire event will take place outside The Africa Center on 110th st and 5th avenue.

Since 1989, Project Success Coalition has planned and implemented the statewide celebration to help bring all our cities and residents together in a united coalition to commemorate Juneteenth and its historical significance.

Ogden became the city for our main holiday event yet we continue to hold events in Salt Lake City and County and most recently Utah State University and South Salt Lake City. The economic impact, as well as general community impact, has been tremendous as thousands of festival-goers, artists, organizations, businesses and faith communities have helped keep the celebration alive to promote diversity, inclusion, and cultural understanding!

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CELEBRATING 62 YEARS OF ART

Established in 1958, the Fulton Art Fair (FAF) annually exhibits fine visual art of both renowned and emerging artists from the USA, Africa & the Caribbean. Fulton Art Fair was for the exhibition, promotion, and publication of the fine and performing arts in the City & State of New York, consisting primarily of artists of African American descent; the stimulation and encouragement of community interest in the field of fine and performing arts, the development and achievement of creativity as an expression of the community's status and heritage. 

The date and location of this edition of Take Two are very special, as we will be hosting the event in a private barn with an outdoor space in Kingston, New York, on Juneteenth. The barn is very close to the birthplace of the abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and former slave Sojourner Truth. Suffice to say, this event will be honoring Black and African American freedom and achievements.

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This Juneteenth, The Blacksmiths and Wide Awakes are collaborating to bring another year of celebration of Black joy, liberation & resilience to Downtown Brooklyn! Together with partners across New York’s cultural sector, Juneteenth Jubilee 2021 will feature roving live music, themed open-air art installations, and more, all centering radical creativity, love and the pursuit of freedom across the Black Diaspora. 

 Among the central elements of the event is the unveiling of a new mural from artist Helina Metaferia’s “By Way of Revolution” series, Headdress 21, on the site of MoCADA’s soon-to-be-opened sculpture garden, at 48 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn. The "By Way of Revolution" series collages activist histories from civil rights generations as crowns on modern day Black women activists, drawing attention to the often overlooked labor of Black women within care politics and social justice. Headdress 21 features multidisciplinary artist and Wide Awake Wildcat Ebony Brown, and is one of a pair of Metaferia’s murals organized for the Not a Monolith project by ArtBridge, Facebook Open Arts, and We The Culture. 

 In conjunction with Helina Metaferia’s new mural, nine Black women artists will provide public temporary artworks throughout Downtown Brooklyn on Juneteenth from 12pm to 6pm as part of an Art Walk. Sites include Fort Greene Park’s monument, BRIC, and Two Trees Management’s Plaza at 300 Ashland Place in coordination with Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Artists Damali Abrams, Elvira Clayton, Ayanna Dozier, Dillon Gardner, Adama Delphine Fawundu, NIC Kay, Jodi Lynn Kee Chow, Jasmine Murrell, and Tiffany Smith will develop new site-specific performances, installations, and participatory experiences. An Augmented Reality version of Helina Metaferia’s art will be accessible through a QR code near the Fort Greene monument, courtesy of a partnership with Membit, Inc. 

 The event begins with performances at 12pm-2pm at The Lay Out, a community event in Fort Greene Park near the monument. The Blacksmiths WE INSIST! band will be led by renowned vocalist Candice Hoyes and composer and multi-instrumentalist Mimi Jones with support from Jazz Coalition. The Wide Awakes Mobil Soup Kitchen will be stationed on the Myrtle Avenue side of the park facing the Whitman Homes. Meals and other food resources will be provided to the community in partnership with Project EATS, One Love Community Fridge, A Little Piece of Light, and Peaches Hot House in collaboration with the WAMSK.