Elegba Folklore Society

JUNETEENTH 2015, A FREEDOM CELEBRATION - THE SYMPOSIUM
2015-06-19 06:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | VCU Campus (Academic Learning Commons, Room 1107), 1000 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, VA, 23284, United States
Juneteenth 2015, A Freedom Celebration’s The Symposium will feature elder activist, Bobby Seale, on June 19. Nearly 80 and a grandfather of four, Bobby Seale is the elder activist still speaking out on college campuses and in communities about the Black Panthers — founded as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense with Huey P. Newton in 1966 — and about social justice issues, including voting rights, education, employment and equality. He shows the similarities of the 1960s protest movement with today’s activism. Then, his work followed that of Martin Luther King. “Dr. King was speaking about what we have to do to end this discrimination, this institutionalized racism,” Seale said. He recalls Dr. King urged members of the audience to boycott companies that refused to hire African Americans, bread companies in particular, saying, “We want to make Wonder Bread wonder where the money went.” Inspired and committed to speak out while nurturing from within, Seale informed that the Black Panther Party’s goals included decent education, full employment, housing, free preventive health care and an end to police brutality. According to the theme of Juneteenth 2015, A Freedom Celebration, Self Determination, Black Lives Matter — in 1865, in 1965 and, especially now, in 2015. Mr. Seale will address actions for African Americans in 2015.
Friday – June 19
• The Symposium • 6:00-10:00pm • $10 for 1 and $18 for 2
• The campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in the Academic Learning Commons, 1000 Floyd Avenue 23284, Room 1107.
►Bobby Seale (keynote speaker)
►Elegba Folklore Society’s African dancers, drummers and singers
►Celebrated jazz vocalist and actress, Desiree Roots will also appear.
►Exhibitors

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JUNETEENTH 2015, A FREEDOM CELEBRATION - IN REFLECTION
2015-06-20 16:00 - 23:00 | Manchester Dock, 139 Virginia Street, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
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.

JUNETEENTH 2015, A FREEDOM CELEBRATION – ESU FESTIVAL
2015-06-21 04:00 - 19:00 | African Burial Ground, 1500 E. Franklin, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Sunday – June 21
• Esu Festival • 4:00-7:00pm • Free
• The Esu Festival happens at Richmond’s African Burial Ground, 16tth & Broad Streets.
►Ceremonies and rituals for healing and ancestral veneration lead by the Ile Ise Ejiogbe Ifá Temple.
