CONNECTICUT
| Hartford |
| Hartford, Connecticut The Amistad Foundation Jubilee Commmittee invites you to the 9th Annual Juneteenth Weekend Events: Juneteenth Gala Friday, June 16, 2000 8:00 P.M. to Midnight Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Arts 600 Main Street Hartford, CT Black Tie - Cash Bar Silent Auction (Final bids 10pm) Tickets $65.00 per person Sponsor Tickets at various levels, please contact the co-chairs (see below) Saturday, June 17 Juneteenth Family Day Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Arts 11:00 am to 4 pm (Family Day activities are free of charge) Red Soda Barbecue 2 pm to 5:00 pm Sunday, June 18 Juneteenth Brunch featuring: Morgan State University Choir of Baltimore, MD 12:45 pm to 3:00 pm Tickets: $40.00 Please RSVP by Friday, May 19, 2000 For information please contact: Connie Pouncy, Juneteenth Co-Chair 860-653-5367 or POUN1@aol.com or Joyace Peoples, Juneteenth Co-Chair 860-688-9259 or PEOPLESR@home.com This is Hartford's premier social event and is always as "sold out" |
| Norwich |
| Juneteenth Celebration 2000 sponsored by Norwich Branch NAACP. Dates June 11th - June
19th. June 11th - Youth Rally; June 12th Ringing of Church Bells and Reading of
Emanicipation Proclamation on steps of City Hall at 12 noon; June 15th - Miss Juneteenth
Contest; June 17th - Parade and all day Festival on the waterfront at Howard T. Brown Park
- speeches, food,awards,entertainment, fun and many other vendors. For information call
(860) 886-1686 /887-4888. E-mail JBO2931@aol.com. Mailing address - Norwich NAACP, P.O.
BOX 24, Norwich, CT 06360 Juneteenth Week - June 11 - 19, 2000 Sunday - June 11: NAACP Youth Forum at Martin Luther King Center, 3 p.m. Monday - June 12: Emancipation Proclamation reading and Blessing of Juneteenth, City Hall steps, 12 noon. Thursday, June 15: Crowning of Miss Juneteenth, Unitarian-Universalist Church, 7 p.m. Saturday, June 17: Juneteenth Festival, Howard T. Brown Park, Norwich Harbor. Juneteenth parade begins at Little Plain Green, Broadway at Union Street, 10 am. Festival begins immediately after. Sunday, June 18: Juneteenth Brunch celebrating Fathers, Martin Luther King Center, 2 p.m. Call (860) 887-4888 or (860) 887-4408 for more information or email to aldenter@quixnet.net |
| Stamford |
| The Stamford Center for the Arts will host its annual Juneteenth gala
June 2, 2000, at the Rich Forum, 7:30 pm (Stamford, CT). This year's celebration will
feature JUBILATION!, a musical play that both traces music of African America and pays
homage to notable Black poets. Scenes incorporate African/Afro-Cuban drumming; work songs;
spirituals; ragtime pieces; blues; jazz; gospel; and R & B songs--as well as poems by
Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances E. Haper, and Langston Hughes. Complete
with Stamford and New York-area choirs and ensembles, the production follows its
predecessor Shout! (1998), written by Yale alumni Pamela Jennings and Reginald Roberts.
JUBILATION! was written and is being directed by Reginald Roberts. Call (203) 325-4466 for
your tickets today! "JUNETEENTH" - LET'S CELEBRATE! COME cELEBRATE WITH US. SATURDAY , JUNE 17, 2000 1:30PP. Featuring Storyteller: AMIR RASHIDD ANDjUNETEENTH CRAFTS AND FREEDOM POEMS AT THE FERGUSON lIBRARY SOUTH END BRANCH COSPONSORED , FERGUSON LIBRARY SOUTH END BRANCH And THE STAMFORD KWANZAA ASSOCIATION |
| Norwalk |
| The Christian Crusaders of Bethel A.M.E. Church Norwalk CT., will be hosting its 4th annual Juneteenth Carnival. The Carnival will begin on Thursday June 22nd and go through Saturday June 24th, 2000. The carnival will be held at Andrews Field located on County street, off of Westport Ave(Rt. 1), two blocks from Stew Leonards Dairy store. There will be rides and games for all ages. Live entertainment from local groups and choirs, singing, dancing, and stepping. Friday night is youth night there will be a DJ playing their style of music (6:00pm - 9:30pm), while the rest of the family enjoys the rides, games and other fun. When you come down make sure you stop by the food booths, fried fish, fried chicken, hush puppies, chop BBQ, corn on the cob, hamburgers, hot dogs, cotton candy, candy apples,popcorn, soda, juice, and much much more. Thursday June 22nd the carnival will open at 5:30 pm and close at 10:00pm, Friday June 23rd carnival opens at 5:30 pm and close at 10:00pm, and on Saturday June 24th the carnival will open at 1:00pm and close at 10:00pm. Please come out and help celebrate with us. |