LIVE BROADCAST 19 JUNE 2022 @ 12P-6P (EST)

JUNETEENTH COMMUNITY BLOCK PARTY LIVE FROM UNIVERSE CITY

Nobody's free until everybody's free — FANNIE LOU HAMER

This day will be an opportunity to honor our ancestors and our dear Fathers as the two holidays align this year. Universe City NYC & Grow Brownsville feel the need to ensure our community has a place where they can come together to celebrate this momentous occasion by hosting a community block party on Glenmore Avenue between Van Sideren Avenue and Snediker Avenue.

We look forward to celebrating alongside community members and have invited local elected officials, Community Based Organizations, entertainers, technologists, artists, community leaders and local businesses to join us. This year we are working with our BeautifyNYC participants to design and build games, artwork, and more to share and celebrate with our community.

After being awarded the Carnegie Hall Neon Arts Beautify NYC grant for the 2nd year in a row, Grow Brownsville will allocate funds toward this celebration as one of our cultivating events for the program. This will be a Grow Brownsville event in collaboration with Universe City, Carnegie Hall Neon Arts, Council Member’s Office of District 37, and Assembly Member’s Office of District 60. Event Production is led by The Vanderbilt Republic in association with Play.Wit.Rox. Entertainment & Bacchanal Agency. Live broadcasting will be provided by MIDHEAVEN Network.

Juneteenth commemorates the hard earned freedom of African American people and emphasizes a legacy of contribution to the history of achievement. It is a time for assessment, self-improvement and planning the future. Juneteenth’s federal recognition as a national holiday signifies a new level of dignity and acknowledgement for Black Americans that is long overdue.

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EVENT SCHEDULE & PROGRAM

12 - 12.10p — COACH D welcoming + centering

12.10 - 12.20p — SANDY NURSE, COUNCIL MEMBER 37th DISTRICT

12.20 - 12.30p — LATRICE WALKER, ASSEMBLYWOMAN DISTRICT 55

12.30 - 12.40p — NIKKI LUCAS, ASSEMBLYWOMAN DISTRICT 60

12.40 - 12.50p — VIKIANA CLEMENT

12.50 - 1p — HILA THE KILLA

1 - 2p — COMMUNITY TIME feat. THE BEST TWINS & UNWIRED DANCE THEATER

2 - 2.30p — EQUITY COIN COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

2.30 - 2.45p — D-VASS

2.45 - 3p — JAY VEGAS

3 - 3.15p — PHONETIC WISDOM

3.15 - 3.50p — COMMUNITY TIME feat. JOJO, ALSOKNOWNASROX & UNWIRED DANCE THEATER

3.50-4p MOMENT OF SILENCE

4 - 5p — AKIL APOLLO DAVIS

5 - 5.30p — JAYSON P. SMITH

5.30 - 6p — CLASSIQUE

6 - 6.15p — HOST thanks & praise, closing remarks

All times are EDT

MIDHEAVEN NETWORK is a brave, generative space of healing and for the building — not “rebuilding” — of a fully inclusive society. MIDHEAVEN exists in paradox: FROM many, one.

THROUGH live arts programming from A GLOBAL phalanx OF performance, visual art, social justice, human development and cinema/ digital/ VR voyagers, MIDHEAVEN will ADVANCE COURAGEOUS, loving & possibility-driven VISIONS to the world.

LIVE BROADCAST 19 JUNE 2022 @ 12P-6P (EST)

JUNETEENTH COMMUNITY BLOCK PARTY LIVE FROM UNIVERSE CITY

EVENT SCHEDULE & PROGRAM

MIDHEAVEN NETWORK is a brave, generative space of healing and for the building — not “rebuilding” — of a fully inclusive society. MIDHEAVEN exists in paradox: FROM many, one.

THROUGH live arts programming from A GLOBAL phalanx OF performance, visual art, social justice, human development and cinema/ digital/ VR voyagers, MIDHEAVEN will ADVANCE COURAGEOUS, loving & possibility-driven VISIONS to the world.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR × EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GEORGE DEL BARRIO

art director AL-KHABIR RICHMAN

DIRECTOR OF AUDIO ADRIAN MARTINEZ

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY BRIAN GONZALEZ

CAMERA OPERATOR IAN CHEN

COMPOSER + ASSOCIATE PRODUCER bandit lu