Honoring Juneteenth

Sun Jun 19, 2022
11:00am to 7:00pm ET
Age: All ages
Price: Free
Location:
Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum honors Juneteenth with a full day of activities celebrating self-expression, community, and Black liberation and creativity.

Throughout the day, families can join family programming partners Cool Culture and Culture Connected for drop-in art-making, a reading corner, a sound bath with Rena Anakwe, book giveaways, an Afrocentric dance workshop with Tiffany Barett, and more in the outdoor space behind the Museum.

Conclude the afternoon, or get your night started, with Brown Sugar Bounce, a celebration of Blackness and soulful music in its purest form featuring music by ClassicNewWave.

RSVPs are requested.

Schedule of events:

11am: Good Company Bike Club’s Freedom Ride kickoff (Plaza)

11am–2pm: Family fun with Cool Culture and Culture Connected, featuring art-making and community-mapping activities, children’s book giveaway and reading corner, and a scavenger hunt (Sculpture Garden; rain location: Education Studios)

12:30–1:15pm: Sound bath for families with Rena Anakwe (Sculpture Garden; rain location: Education Gallery)

1–2pm: Kemetic breathwork and meditation for liberation with Maya Eberhart and Steven Rousseau (Portico, 3rd Floor; rain location: Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor)

2–3pm: Poetry readings with the Breathing Space (Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor)

2–3pm: Afrocentric Dances through the Ages with Tiffany Barett (Sculpture Garden; rain location: Education Gallery)

2:30–6pm: All-ages book giveaway with House of Speakeasy Books (Sculpture Garden; rain location: Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor)

3–7pm: Brown Sugar Bounce featuring music by ClassicNewWave and community portraits with Souls in Focus (Sculpture Garden)

** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.