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THE COOPERATIVE CULTURE COLLECTIVE
Art Business = Cultural Awareness and Economic Growth!
Art Business = Cultural Awareness and Economic Growth!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 25, 2007
Contact: Marcia Pendelton
Walk Tall Girl Productions
646.467.7393 (T)
646-253-1258 (F)
Marciapendelton@aol.com
Walk Tall Girl Productions
646.467.7393 (T)
646-253-1258 (F)
Marciapendelton@aol.com
THE COOPERATIVE CULTURE COLLECTIVE PRESENTS
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN
JUNETEENTH ARTS FESTIVAL
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN
JUNETEENTH ARTS FESTIVAL
Annual festival celebrates the formal end of slavery in the United States.
Cuyler Core Park is the scene for the day-long celebration of arts and culture
Saturday, June 16, 2007 from 12 noon to 6:00 p.m.
Cuyler Core Park is the scene for the day-long celebration of arts and culture
Saturday, June 16, 2007 from 12 noon to 6:00 p.m.
Brooklyn, NY -- The Cooperative Culture Collective (TCCC), a Brooklyn-based collaboration between artists and business owners, will present the Seventh Annual Fort Greene, Brooklyn Juneteenth Arts Festival on Saturday, June 16, 2006 from 12 noon to 6:00 p.m. at Cuyler Gore Park (Fulton Street and Carlton Avenue). The festival commemorates Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration of the formal end of slavery in Texas and other parts of the South, which happened two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. The theme for the 2007 festival is "Sankofa: Look Back to Honor; Embrace to Move Forward," with an ancillary theme of "As The Men Lead, The Children Will Follow."
The Fort Greene Brooklyn Juneteenth Arts Festival will open at 12:00 p.m. with a ceremony honoring African and African American ancestors at BAM Sculpture Park (Fulton Street and South Elliot). In addition to acknowledging the ancestors, TCCP will honor Brooklyn residents with its annual Uplift, Spirit, and Trailblazer Awards. 2007 Upift Award honorees are Richard Green (Crown Heights Youth Collective), Roger Toussaint (President, Local 100, Transit Workers Union), Charles Barron (City Council Member/Activist), Brian Mack (financial mentor/educator), and Michael Hooper (educator/youth activist). Rev. David Dyson (Pastor, Lafayette Presbyterian Church/social activist), The Vulcan Society (Black Firefighters Organization), and Dale Charles (Pratt Area Council) will receive the Spirit Award. The Trail Blazer Award will go to Renee K. Smith, a dancer, choreographer, and educator, for her work at Ife Tayo Cultural Center. Following the awards ceremony the action will move from the Sculpture Park up Fulton Street to Cuyler Gore Park (Carlton Avenue and Fulton Street) with a cakewalk strut and drumming. Festival programs and events will take place from 1:00 pm to 6:00 p.m at the Cuyler Gore location.
The Fort Greene Brooklyn Juneteenth Arts Festival is a day-long celebration of arts, entertainment, and culture. The program will include a visual arts exhibition and sale by local artists curated by Gwen Lewis of Lewis Gallery; performances by the Koko The Klown, Sankofa Youth Theatre Group, ACTS of Emmanuel Baptist Church, New Life Missionary Baptist Church Mime Ministry, Ife Tayo Cultural Center Dancers, Imani Praise Dance Group from Norwalk, CT, youth swing dancers of the Cotton Club Dancers, Creative Outlet Dance Theater of Brooklyn, jazz singer Margarite Merianna, Auntie Roz's Peanut Show, an edu-entertainment presentation by Roslyn Burroughs about George Washington Carver and other important figures in Black History; a men's wear show produced by Christopher Dorm, a presentation by educator/author Jwajiku Morenteng, a stilt walker, African drumming and dance by Talu Green, a children's fashion presentation by Little Brownstone Collection Rainwear and Underground Railroad Tours at Lafayette Presbyterian Church (85 South Oxford Street). The festival will also offer vendor and information booths, children's games, a dance party and face painting. Former Brooklyn resident and TCCC member actor/singer/producer, Charles Reese will serve as festival host.
Financial and in-kind support for TCCP's Seventh Annual Fort Greene, Brooklyn Juneteenth Festival is provided by New York Council of the Arts, The Office of Council Member Leticia James, Rush Philanthropic Foundation, All State Insurance (Spring McClendon), the accounting firm of Barton, Greene & Vance (Estella Greene, Partner), The MoCada Gallery, Tribal Truths Collection (Brenda Brunson-Bey, designer/owner) and Walk Tall Girl Productions (Marcia Pendelton, President).
For more information about the festival call Marcia Pendelton at 646.467.7393 or visit www.walktallgirlproductions.com/juneteenth.
Program and participants subject to change.