Messages by Mayor Justin Elicker and Elder Byron Breland, and performances by Dr. Karima Robinson as Ida B. Wells, Keepers of the Culture Performing Arts Company, singer Lucitta Odyce Adger, artist/poet Shaunda Holloway, and and singers Pamela Campbell and son, Gabriel Abdul-Kareem.
1:00pm
Juneteenth Opening Ceremony, Elder Honoring, and Mantle Award
With the Official Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven
3:00pm
WORKSHOP: World-Building with Moiya McTier
VIRTUAL EVENT
Kick-start your creative flow by learning how to build fictional worlds with astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier.
4:30pm
Choreographers Workshop with Shayla Caldwell
Virtual Workshop
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Calling all choreographers! Participate in a workshop with New Haven native and EVIDENCE company member, Shayla Caldwell.
5:30pm
Poetry Workshop with Abiodun Oyewole
Workshop
IN-PERSON EVENT
ABIODUN OYEWOLE is a poet, author, teacher, and a founding member of the American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, which laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop.
7:00pm
Imagine Beginnings
Festival 2021 Opening Ceremony
Imagine: A mini version of the whole International Festival of Arts & Ideas, complete with musical performances, talks, and a film!
8:30pm
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Opening Night
IN-PERSON & LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Our first night of events on the New Haven Green will be silky smooth, improvisational, and freeing, set to the sounds of The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.