JUNETEENTH 2015, A FREEDOM CELEBRATION – IN REFLECTION

Saturday – June 20
• In Reflection • 4:00-11:00pm • Free
• The historic Manchester Dock, 1308 Brander Street 23224, on the south bank of the James River, was an entry port for Africans being brought into the Americas to be sold into slavery, and it is the site for In Reflection.

►Ashby Anderson’s Afrikan Arkestra will perform Anderson’s original composition, Undertones: An Aural Memorial for the African Burial Ground.
►Elijah Coles, the 11-year-old spoken word prodigy will recall the words of Frederick Douglass
►Elegba Folklore Society’s African dancers and drummers
►The Esu Festival’s Market Day featuring food, information exhibits, art and imports along with special engagement for children.
►Annual Torch Lit Walk on the Trail of Enslaved Africans, about 8pm, led by Elegba Folklore Society’s performers with African dance and music and staged interpretations happening at the Dock, at the Canal Walk’s Turning Basin, the Henry Brown Memorial, the Reconciliation Statue, at the site of the infamous Devil’s Half Acre (Lumpkin’s Jail) in Shockoe Bottom and at Richmond’s African Burial Ground at 16th and Broad Streets.