Week of Events
Music is My Church
MUSIC IS MY CHURCH! Whether in major or minor modes, Powerful healing energy always abodes. 🥷🎶♎️ MUSIC 🎶 🎶🎶 is a universal language that requires no translation. MUSIC provides energetic healing through its tones, vibrations and rhythms. I am a social worker social therapeutics practitioner performance coach and psychotherapist. Social therapeutics is not only my ... Read more
Art with your Cuppa
Raquell Holmes has selected paintings, photos and drawings from the art collection of LeVell Holmes, her father, who collected engaging, eclectic art from around the world, with a focus on Black culture. The select pieces will be on display at Johnny’s Java, Cotati CA, throughout the festival. Take your picture with one of the art ... Read more
Monday, June 17, 2024
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 19, 2024 -Freedom Festival: Opening Conversation
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June 19, 2024 -What do beer and freedom have in common?
Freedom Festival: Opening Conversation
What does it look like to collectively reflect on our journeys to freedom and independence, Juneteenth to Independence Day? The improvscience Freedom Festival invites people in the US and internationally to come together, to create and explore and continue organizing for freedom and independence. What are we celebrating with Juneteenth and Independence Day? What is ... Read more
What do beer and freedom have in common?
Parliament Brewing serves up great brews and an opportunity to test your knowledge of Emancipation and African-American history and facts. As the country continues to create new traditions in celebration of Juneteenth, this local brewery is creating shared culture with the simple act of asking questions. Join us for trivia and beers.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
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Friday, June 21, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 21, 2024 -Stories of freedom: in our lives and in the world
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Virtual EventJune 21, 2024 -Discovering and Sharing Our Untold Histories
Stories of freedom: in our lives and in the world
1-hour Playback Theatre performance + 30-minute workshop on Embodied Empathy True Story Theater performs a style of improvisational drama where volunteers from the audience spontaneously share how they connect to the show's theme. Actors and a musician listen deeply and then transform the stories into theater, portraying the heart of what they heard. From this ... Read more
Discovering and Sharing Our Untold Histories
Our communities and families are repositories of history. This history is not usually written up textbooks. Often, we don’t even share it with each other. Now that the teaching of Black History is under attack, it is more important than ever that our untold histories are heard. This story-telling gathering is an invitation to share ... Read more
Saturday, June 22, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 22, 2024 -Creating Our Mental Health
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June 22, 2024 -Blasian Pride 2024 Marks Juneteenth
Creating Our Mental Health
Join us for a special edition of Creating Our Mental Health on Saturday June 22, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (Eastern Time), in honor of Juneteenth and as a part of the Freedom Festival. Creating our Mental Health (COMH) is a free, monthly, drop-in, community conversation which is open to all people from around the ... Read more
Blasian Pride 2024 Marks Juneteenth
The Blasian March marks its fourth annual Blasian Pride Rally to uplift Black, Asian, and Blasian LGBT community as a Juneteenth celebration. Brooklyn, NY-- The Blasian March proudly presents Blasian Pride: Juneteenth Edition on Sunday, June 22, 2024, 2 PM at Cadman Plaza, to celebrate Black, Asian and Blasian LGBT people. Through speeches and performance ... Read more
Sunday, June 23, 2024
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June 23, 2024 -Hallberg Butterfly Gardens: 25th Open Gardens Day
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Virtual EventJune 23, 2024 -Unhiding History: A Florida Fort that Promised Freedom
Hallberg Butterfly Gardens: 25th Open Gardens Day
Join us for our 25th annual celebration and plant sale! We're excited to be part of celebrating life and freedom. We will have mostly native plants for sale, including several host plants (caterpillar food), Dutchman’s pipevine, milkweed, and a broad selection of seasonal nectar plants (butterfly food). We will have an up-to-date map and garden ... Read more
Unhiding History: A Florida Fort that Promised Freedom
Did you know that a prosperous, self-governing community of free Black people existed on American soil long before the Civil War? In 1814, deep in the swamplands of Florida, a diverse group of formerly enslaved Black people took over a British military fort, built housing and farmland and lived truly free, for a time… How ... Read more