CANning Hunger with Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen
View team-built sculptures that use cans to raise awareness about our shared connection to food and the issues around hunger and food scarcity in our community.
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CANning Hunger with Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen
View team-built sculptures that use cans to raise awareness about our shared connection to food and the issues around hunger and food scarcity in our community.
El Hogar que Cargamos: Inmigración y Cultura
¿Cómo mantenemos vivos los recuerdos del hogar? Se parte de un seminario en español sobre inmigración narrado a través de la música en The Home We Carry: Immigration and Culture, presentado por la banda Las Cafeteras y la vicepresidenta de iniciativas del Vera Institute of Justice Kica Matos.
How do we keep the memories of home alive? Join us for a Spanish seminar on immigration told through music in The Home We Carry: Immigration and Culture, presented by roots band Las Cafeteras and Kica Matos, Vice President of Initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice.
El pueblo unido: Voces en activismo latino Voices in latinx activism
Aprende acerca de las voces del activismo latino de la mano de la consumada activista de derechos civiles y organizadora comunitaria Dolores Huerta, fundadora y presidenta de la Dolores Huerta Foundation, en El Pueblo Unido en conversación con Camila Güiza-Chavez, co-directora ejecutiva de Heavenly Treats y miembro de Semilla Collective.
Elder Honoring Ceremony
The Elder Honoring is an annual tradition and trademark of the Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven. Each honoree is selected to be part of this revered ceremony that recognizes the work, accomplishments, and dedication of unsung members of the black community. Such persons usually go undetected, unappreciated and unrecognized by the very people they serve and fight for. We, the JCGNH, honor them, put them on the pedestal they deserve to be placed upon and pronounce their position of eldership.
Juneteenth Village
The concept of cooperative economics - Ujamaa - is the lifeblood of any community. The exchange of goods and services is the engine of a community. The Juneteenth Village, represented by vendors in that section of the Green, symbolizes thriving towns like Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, often referred to as “Black Wall Street”. Come and support the various entrepreneurs who welcome you and your families.
Juneteenth: Full Circle
Curated by Hanan Hameen, founder of the Artsucation Academy Network and Official Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven, the Juneteenth festivities will feature a performance on June 18 including a welcome back from Hameen as well as a highlighted jazz performance by Jesse “Cheese” Kilpatrick Hameen II and his jazz band Elevation. Hameen is an internationally recognized Jazz artist and has performed with numerous Jazz legends and other notables, many gone but never forgotten.
New Haven Pride Center Day of Action on Racial Justice
Join us for a full-day festival-within-the-festival as we dedicate our annual Day of Action to exploring how our community can do the work needed to ensure a future free of racism and white supremacy. This mini-conference will directly combat racism in the LGBTQ+ community through discussion, group learning, performances, and artistic perspectives that address the diverse needs and struggles of LGBTQ+ Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
Un(re)solved
Say their names. Know their stories.
Who are the men, women and children whose cases were re-examined under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act? The Un(re)solved installation uses augmented-reality, mixing art and technology with investigative journalism, to investigate racist civil rights-era killings and right wrongs of our country’s past. This is a partnership between FRONTLINE and Ado Ato Pictures, founded by artist, filmmaker, and technologist Tamara Shogaolu.
E-Study Tour, American Furniture: Interpretation through Reproduction
Furniture maker and educator Bob Van Dyke discusses with Eric Litke, Museum Assistant in the Department of American Decorative Arts, his project to reproduce several pieces of Colonial American furniture in the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection for use in two Connecticut houses owned by the Windsor Historical Society. The conversation charts Van Dyke’s process of selecting and studying objects at the Leslie P. and George H. Hume, B.A.
