![]() on Saturday in the performance tent, State Rep. In a reenactment of the original Juneteenth at 10 a.m. The festival also will celebrate Father’s Day and Pride month with 35 performers and 80 vendors, Marilyn Rowland of Arts Alive said. Falmouth holds second annual arts fest honoring Juneteenthįalmouth’s second annual Arts Alive Festival, from June 16-18, will include special arts and music events honoring Juneteenth in two performance tents on the Falmouth Public Library Lawn. They found in the Mayflower Compact, and antecedents in Native American governance, powerful relevance for the divided America of today, according to the Artists And Musicians news release. The film’s creators looked beyond the Eurocentric Mayflower story to present highlights in the history of the African American, Cape Verdean and Wampanoag people in this region since the arrival of the English settlers in 1620. The screenings are free to the public (NOTE: At the art museum, free with paid admission to the museum) and will be followed by question-and-answer sessions with the filmmaker and NAACP and Zion representatives. ![]() The one-hour documentary, produced by filmmaker Janet Murphy Robertson of in collaboration with the Zion Museum, features local artists Robin Joyce Miller, Carl Lopes, Pamela Chatterton-Purdy, Joe Diggs, Michael Alfano, Sean Cassidy, Vasco Pires and others. and at the Provincetown Unitarian Universalist Meeting House June 17 at 1 p.m. The “Journeys” film will be shown at the Wellfleet Library June 13 at 7 p.m., at the Cape Cod Museum of Art June 16 at 1 p.m. It was the date in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation was finally enforced in Texas, where an estimated 250,000 people were still enslaved, two years after President Lincoln’s proclamation. President Biden declared Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021, to be held annually on June 19. ![]() “ Journeys in the Light, Democracy, Diversity, and Myth in the Wake of the Mayflower” will be presented by the Cape Cod Branch of the NAACP and Zion Union Heritage Museum. ![]() View Gallery: Cape Cod Juneteenth celebration: Falmouth held reenactment at libraryĪ new documentary film about Cape Cod’s people of color will be featured in this year’s Juneteenth celebrations at three locations, in Dennis, Wellfleet and Provincetown. ![]()
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