2nd Annual Juneteenth

Description

• This year’s Juneteenth will feature a combination of education, entertainment, and giving back. A community event raising cognizance of "Freedom day" aka Juneteenth.
• We will have:
  • Live Jazz, Blues, DJ playing soulful music. Resource tables with a local therapist, yoga specialist, breath-work experts, and other community organizations that provide much-needed services.
  • Soul food for the entire community to enjoy, all food will be served with the intention to feed the community and create a space to connect, learn, and most importantly celebrate.
  • To tie the event together it is paramount to have a philanthropy aspect, thus this year we will have a clothing drive and food drive. The food drive will benefit the NDSU Food Pantry and the clothing drive will benefit Youthworks NDs "We’ve Got You Covered" back to the school clothing drive.
  • This family-friendly event will be packed with art for kids to play with, a local artist from the FM area doing live art as well as displaying art they’ve done this year, and an installation that showcases the various components of Juneteenth (archives, indigenous and Black liberation, memorial wall).
• With the passing of SB 2322 declaring Juneteenth a state holiday in North Dakota. The ultimate goal of this year's Juneteenth is “Umoja” which means unity in Swahili. I want to dismantle the idea that Juneteenth is a Holiday for Black people, I want people from all walks of life to experience Freedom Day, and to walk away feeling a part of the community in which they occupy.