Juneteenth Celebration: Envisioning A New Future

Presented by Kaiser Permanente

Monday, June 19 | 11 am to 4 pm

Celebrate Juneteenth this year with a FREE day 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 sharing your memories in our Time Capsule Video Booth. Join us as we salute Maryland high school student 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 examine 19th century Black freedom fighters reimagining 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 Juneteenth refreshments in Slemmers Alley.

Highlight Tours of exhibition galleries will be provided.