(MOORESTOWN, NJ) -- Moorestown’s Juneteenth Celebration will take place on the Perkins Center for the Arts West Evergreen Lawn on Saturday, June 17 from 2:00pm to 7:00pm. Perkins Center for the Arts, Moore Unity, and Curate Noir, have collaborated to support a family-friendly day featuring inspirational music, African dance and drumming, food, educational presentations, and offerings from local Black-owned businesses.

Join them as they honor and celebrate the day ALL people living in the US, including formerly enslaved Black people, were granted freedom. As we come together as a community to commemorate emancipation, we also dream our future and work toward the progress we still need to make as a nation.

Outdoor schedule:

2:00pm: Kickoff/Welcome, Jonathan Leath, Converge Church Singers, Town Officials

3:30pm: Poet Sherrie Yvette Wilkins

4:00pm: Fresh Fire Band

5:00pm: Universal Drum & Dance

6:00pm: Abe Speller Jazz Band

Indoor schedule:

2:30pm: Crafting Crowns - Black Hair

3:30pm: Underground Railroad

4:30pm: Brave Conversations on Race

Perkins Center for the Arts is located at 395 King’s Highway in Moorestown, New Jersey. It is a regional, multi-disciplinary arts education center with locations in Moorestown and Collingswood, New Jersey. With a mission to enrich lives, inspire life-long learning, and cultivate intercultural experiences, Perkins Center for the Arts offers a music conservatory, visual and performing arts classes, exhibitions, concerts, artist-led school residency programs, summer camp, Folklife Center, and community enrichment projects.