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Juneteenth Observation
Jun 15, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Friday
June 14 | 6:30 p.m.
Town Hall-Council Chambers
Join us for a performance of Darrel Stover’s “Run on Water,” a family story of emancipation and reunion. It examines the Black experience in coastal North Carolina during the Civil War, as a father searches for his wife and son.
Saturday
June 15 | 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Downtown Park
Reflect and rejoice with us at Cary’s first Juneteenth event, celebrating the commemoration of the end of slavery. We’ve planned special activities for the whole family designed to engage, educate, and connect.
Food Vendors
Corner Boys BBQ
Art Vendors
Black Ball
Ngozi Design Group
Scentsuosity
La Luz Eats
Non-Profits
Freedom Roads/African American Heritage Commission
US Colored Troops/NC Museum of History
NC Black Storytellers
Friends of the Page-Walker Art and History Museum
Schedule
10 a.m. African American Dance Ensemble
Procession to the Stage followed by Performance
10:25 a.m. Shavon Russell Jones – vocalist
10:40 a.m. Welcome, acknowledgements and proclamation
Town Representatives, Juneteenth Committee Members
10:50 a.m. Angela Thorpe
Director of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission
11 a.m. Pleasant Grove Church Music Ministry
11:20 a.m. Willa Brigham and North Carolina Black Storytellers
Spoken Word/Storytelling
11:45 a.m. Caique Vidal/Oxente
Community Band Performance
12:10 p.m. Brent Miller, Friends of the Page-Walker
Conversation: From Slavery to Freedom-Cary’s Regional History
12:20 p.m. US Colored Troop: Legacy and History
Earl Ijames, Curator, NC Museum of History
Malcolm Beech, US Colored Troop Reenactors
12:45 p.m. Poems of Honor and Celebration
Press Play Poetz
1 p.m. Closing performance
Freddy Greene, Saxophone
