Juneteenth 2021: NYC Events Roundup

New York City NY

16 June, 2021

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NEW YORK CITY — Juneteenth, set to become a federal holiday after the Senate passed a bill Tuesday, will offer bountiful in-person and virtual events in New York City this year to mark the oldest, nationally celebrated commemoration marking the end of slavery on June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas. Below is a list of Juneteenth events to support Black joy, excellence and love, Black-owned businesses and organizations and Black culture. Scroll to the bottom of the list for virtual events, and revisit this page for more events and updates. Share more events with the reporter at [email protected]. Manhattan Juneteenth Freedom Fest NYC: Block Party What: Juneteenth Freedom Fest NYC will have its grand finale on Saturday with a family-friendly block party complete with music, food, vendors, live performances, tournament-style games and trivia games with prizes. For the kids, there will be ice cream, balloons, face painting, bouncy houses and more. Free to attend.When: Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. Where: 129th in Harlem, between 7th and 8th avenues Juneteenth in the Park What: GoodVibesInThePark has crafted a specially curated event featuring live DJ, guest speakers, guided meditation, demonstrations and a Juneteenth exhibition booth. When: Saturday from noon to 7 p.m.Where: St. Nicholas Park at West 135th Street lawn Celebrating Juneteenth What: An outdoor gathering with libation, exhibition honoring African American and Indigenous history in the Lower East Side, readings by community members, art projects and performances by Sky Manna Band and Bobby Bryan.When: Saturday from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.Where: M'Finda Kalunga Garden, 165 Forsyth St #133 Black Joy Is Revolutionary: A Strategy For Black Lives Juneteenth Celebration What: An outdoor celebration to promote Black excellence and joy. Features music by DJ Complete and DJ Active and vendors. Organized by Strategy for Black Lives.When: Saturday from noon to 10 p.m.Where: Riverbank State Park Juneteenth March NYC What: A solidarity march in the form of a 5K walk/run. NYC-based run crews and community groups in fellowship. The event will cover Highbridge, Jackie Robinson, St. Nicholas and Morningside parks from The Heights to Harlem. Immediately following the 5K, the event is hosting the Marching Cobras, and collaborating with community groups passionate about health and wellness. Free to attend.When: Saturday from noon to 6 p.m.Where: Highbridge Park, Edgecombe and 168th Street Brooklyn 12th Annual Juneteenth NY What: This year, the one-day event has turned into a three-day summit that starts Friday with professionals and residents talking about health and wellness. On Saturday, there will be a hybrid virtual and in-person festival. On Sunday, you can attend an event highlighting aspiring youth entrepreneurs at a Juneteenth Pomp. Free to attend (Eventbrite tickets here).When: Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (online kickoff)Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Herbert Von King Park, 670 Lafayette Ave.)Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Bed-Stuy Restoration, 1368 Fulton St.)Where: Online and various locations Juneteenth Weekend What: A three-day event filled with music, performances, food and Black joy. Friday will have a community service event. Saturday will see a massive cookout. On Sunday, throw your quads on for a night of skating.When: Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.Saturday from noon to 6 p.m.Sunday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Where: Various locations in Prospect Park Juneteenth Jamboree: 2-Day Event What: Pop-up shops, live performances, after-parties and networking events.When: Friday from 5 p.m. to 4 a.m. Saturday from 5 p.m. to TBAWhere: Now And Then NYC, 290 Meserole St. 651 ARTS' Juneteenth Celebration: (RE)VISION What: A weekend of film screenings that center on the theme of futurism in the spirit of moving forward in the ongoing fight for equality and justice in a post-pandemic world. The celebration include live "silent" film screenings (headsets to be provided) held outdoors.When: Friday at 8 p.m. (waitlist only)Saturday at 8 p.m. Where: The Plaza, 300 Ashland Place in Downtown Brooklyn Joyteenth: A Celebration of Freedom What: Celebrate freedom & Black joy with a march and festival including celebrity appearances, special guests, live performances, music and more. Free beverages and food. Presented by Freedom March NYC, Afropunk, Justice League NYC and others.When: Saturday starting at noon Where: Meet at Brooklyn Museum for march. Meet at Long Meadow, Prospect Park for festival. SUPER SÁBADO | Celebrate Afro Caribbean Joy + ResilienceWhat: In celebration of Afro-Caribbean joy and resilience, join us for our first in-person Super Sabado, featuring roller-skating presented by Butter Roll; an art-making workshop for families inspired by ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21 ; and live music by DJ's Ultraviolet, Nina Vicious, and Bembona. Skate rentals will be provided by Skaterobics on a first come, first serve basis. In collaboration with El Puente and Hope Community Garden. (RSVP on Eventbrite here)When: Saturday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.Where: Hope Gardens Community Center, 422 Central Avenue Juneteenth Father's Day Biker's BashWhat: Featuring NYC's largest bike show, live music and small business pop-up. Free to attend. When: Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.Where: Marcy Plaza, corner of Fulton Street and Marcy Avenue Brooklyn Museum: Honoring Juneteenth What: Come together on the museum steps to hear music and remarks by local community leaders before Good Company Bike Club kicks off its Freedom Ride, a daylong tour of historic Brooklyn locations and landmarks relevant to the Black community, including stops at Black-owned restaurants to rest and replenish. In the evening, enjoy live music, food provided by Black Chef Movement, and mindfulness at sunset with Meditating for Black Lives, which uses the principles and practices of various meditation traditions to support community efforts to heal oppression. All day long, stop by to share what honoring Juneteenth means to you and participate in community portraits by Brooklyn photography collective Souls in Focus. Free to attend, and no tickets needed.When: Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.Where: Brooklyn Museum Plaza (outdoors) Brooklyn Library: Brooklyn Resists What: An outdoor exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History. Brooklyn Resists tells the stories of Black Brooklynites and how they have responded to systemic racial injustice, rising up against those systems, and how the protest movement of the present ties to the generations of activists and leaders who came before. When: Starting Saturday, June 19, through late SeptemberWhere: On the corners of Pierrepont and Clinton streets The Big Black Kickback Juneteenth 2021 NYCWhat: Enjoy a Black business bazaar, big Black grad and field day.When: Saturday from noon to 8 p.m.Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3 Juneteenth Extravaganza: The Roller Wave What: To all the skaters, dancers and food lovers, celebrate freedom together with an outdoor pop-up roller disco party. Skate rentals available on-site. Advance tickets are $10, not including fees. Door tickets are $20, not including fees (Eventbrite tickets here).When: Saturday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.Where: Lincoln Terrace Park, 299 Buffalo Ave. Coalition for Educational Justice: Juneteenth Celebration What: Join CEJ for a day of celebration, learning, fellowship and political action. This event will have learning stations to learn more about the mayoral candidates, school integration, police-free schools, culturally responsive education and how to influence the city budget. Free to attend.When: Saturday at noonWhere: Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, corner of Centre and Chambers streets Bronx Juneteenth Family Day What: Family-friendly event with performances, yoga, Zumba, face painting, arts and crafts. Complimentary refreshments and snacks.When: Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.Where: Pelham Bay Park, Stadium Avenue Juneteenth Drag Queen Story Hour with Harmonica Sunbeam What: Join Harmonica Sunbeam for Drag Queen Story Hour celebrating Juneteenth, as part of Boogie Down Storytime, hosted by Boogie Down Books. Stories and songs for kids of all ages. This program is presented by Drag Queen Story Hour NYC.When: Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Where: María Sola Community Greenspace, East 134th Avenue and Lincoln Avenue Queens 1st Annual Juneteenth Celebration What: Activities include live DJ, dancers, singers, open mic, luxury car show, video games and more. Vendors will be selling candles, cupcakes, jewelry and more. Tickets are $20, not including fees.When: Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. Where: Saint Albans Park, 169 St. Merrick Blvd. Juneteenth in Queens 2021 What: A community event with Black creativity, Black business, Black love, Black wealth, Black networking, Black opportunity, Black excellence and Black joy. Free to attend.When: Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Where: Roy Wilkins Park, Merrick Boulevard Staten Island Juneteenth Freedom Festival What: Over 50 Staten Island-based organizations will come together to celebrate Juneteenth. Programming includes areas focused on health and environment, economy and entrepreneurship, arts performances and art making, children and family, youth and teens, history and community. Come enjoy community, local food and local market vendors. Free to attend.When: Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace Juneteenth at the Staten Island Museum What: Join historian Debbie-Ann Paige and the Staten Island Museum in a celebration of Juneteenth. Learn about how the Staten Island African American Heritage Tour can bring Staten Island's Black History right to your fingertips. Take a curator-led tour of Women of the Nation Arise! and learn from the stories of Drusilla Poole and Florence Spearing Randolph about how Black suffragists claimed space in the fight for women's right to vote.When: Saturday Staten Island African American Heritage Tour Introduction at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.Exhibition tours at 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.Where: Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A Juneteenth Celebrations at Alice Austen House What: Outdoor performances by Pamela Sneed, andriniki mattis, OJ in The Yams and Chanese Elifé. With MC Jahtiek Long. Free to attend.When: Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Alice Austen House, 2 Hylan Blvd. and 777 Front St. Online Virtual Village Juneteenth Teach-In What: Join One Hundred Black Men in partnership with MOWER for a Juneteenth Teach-In. This conference is a time for assessment, self-improvement and for planning the future around Juneteenth and the history behind slavery. Speakers include Jamal Joseph, actor, activist, filmmaker, Columbia University professor and co-founder and Artistic Director of IMPACT — a Harlem-based youth theater company; and Michele Jones-Galvin, community service leader, descendant of Harriet Tubman and co-author of "Beyond the Underground: Aunt Harriet, Moses of Her People."When: Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Where: Online Live with Carnegie Hall: Juneteenth Celebration What: The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. leads this celebration — along with Tamara Tunie and special guests Wayne Brady, Martin Luther King III and Annette Gordon-Reed — to recognize the importance of this historic day and to acknowledge the long road still ahead. In addition to music, dance and commentary, the evening also recognizes contributions made by prominent African Americans today: Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Robert F. Smith, businessman and chairman of Carnegie Hall's Board of Trustees; and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.When: Saturday at 7:30 p.m.Where: Online