Juneteenth Celebration: Envisioning A New Future
FREE ADMISSION | Monday, June 19 | 11 am to 4 pm

Celebrate Juneteenth this year at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum looking towards the future. Visitors can learn about the origins of Juneteenth while enjoying a musical performance by the Baltimore Symphony Musicians, the Benny Russell Big Band and actor Keith Snipes. Commemorate the holiday by creating a time capsule and sharing your memories in our Time Capsule Video Booth. Join us saluting Maryland high school students artists and their works in the Black Futures, Black Imagining HS Juried Art Show with an artist talk by Afro -Futurist Manifesto exhibition artist Monica Ikegwu. Then examined 19th century Black freedom fighters reimaging a free Black society with scholars Dr. Daniel J. Broyld of University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Dr.Angela Tate of National Museum of African American History & Culture. Enjoy some Juneteenth refreshments in Slemmers Alley. Highlight Tours of exhibition galleries will be provided.This Program is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.