Summer 2024 Events
Skidmore College鈥檚 Juneteenth Celebration!
Join us Saturday, June 22, from noon to 3 pm, for a family-friendly event featuring freedom- and Juneteenth-themed arts and crafts, storytelling for children, food, and live performances! Also buy from regional Black-owned businesses and check out books from Skidmore鈥檚 Lucy Scribner Library pop-up.
This event is co-sponsored by American Studies, Black Studies, History, Intergroup Relations, International Affairs, Music, Political Science, Sociology, Theater, the Tang Teaching Museum, and the President鈥檚 Office.
Schedule
The day includes ongoing activities and timed events, both inside and outside the
Museum.
Noon to 3 pm
Craft-making activities organized by the Tang Education team: help create a community wall hanging made of paper chains and weave decorative bowls with yarn.
Vendors: Women with Voices LLC (clothing), Beautiful Things (hand crafted products), Blooms by Marie (flowers), Kim Vincent Harris (comic books), Marcus Kwame Anderson (illustrations and comics)
Musical Performances
Noon-12:45 pm: Welcome and Neo-soul music performance by Adrian Emanuel
12:45-1 pm: Hip-hop dance performance by Prodigal B
1-2 pm: Congolese dance and drumming workshop by Nkoula Badila and Angel Lau
2-3 pm: Gospel performance by the Heavenly Echoes Gospel Band
Storytelling
Children鈥檚 books read by Skidmore faculty and staff
Noon: Juneteenth: A Picture Book for Kids Celebrating Black Joy by Van G. Garrett
12:15 pm: Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem by Sojourner Kincaid Rolle
12:30 pm: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
12:45 pm: Jayden鈥檚 Impossible Garden by Me虂lina Mangal
1 pm: Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
1:15 pm: The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi
1:30 pm: The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones
1:45 pm: The Me I Choose to Be by Natasha Anastacia Tarp
2 pm: Opal Lee and What it Means to Be Free by Alice Faye Duncan
2:15 pm: The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
2:30 pm: Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie
2:45 pm: The Day You Begin by Jaqueline Woodson