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Enjoy Food From All Across The African Diaspora At The Second Annual Juneteenth Food Festival

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We’re coming up on the 3rd year of Juneteenth officially becoming a federal holiday.

You can expect events all over the city celebrating this momentous day but first – you need to make sure you eat!

Weeksville Heritage Center and Black-Owned Brooklyn will be having their second annual Juneteenth Food Festival on June 17 and 18 and it’s gearing up to be one you don’t want to miss.

The Weeksville Heritage Center x Jummy’s Picks Juneteenth Food Festival will feature 28 top-tier food vendors with cuisine representing the American South and other regions across the African Diaspora, as well as a small marketplace with numerous goodies all from Black brands for you to grab. The event will also deliver cultural performances, including an all-day house music set by the Brooklyn-based Soul Summit DJ collective.

The celebration of Juneteenth dates back to 1866 when the holiday was first observed to commemorate June 19, 1865 — when more than 200,000 enslaved Black Texans were informed they were free, two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Reflecting this history, the Juneteenth Food Festival will feature a curated collection of food businesses offering African American delicacies such as barbecue, fried fish, crab boil, red beans and rice, red drinks, red velvet cake, pies and ice cream!

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To represent Brooklyn’s diverse Black community, the celebration also offers flavors from regions of Africa and the Caribbean. You can indulge in cuisines representative of both Juneteenth and Caribbean American Heritage Month at this festival – there will be something for everybody. Vendors will have Vegan options available too!

Last year’s festival garnered over 7,000 attendees over two days. The event returns to the grounds of Weeksville Heritage Center, a historic site and cultural center in Central Brooklyn that was one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America.

The Juneteenth Food Festival vendors have been carefully selected by Black-Owned Brooklyn, a publication that spotlights Black businesses throughout the borough, under their curatorial brand, Jummy’s Picks.

The event will extend onto Buffalo Avenue between St. Mark’s Avenue and Bergen Street on June 17 and June 18 from 12-7 pm.

And now for what you’ve been waiting on, here are some of the vendors you can expect to see at the Weeksville Heritage Center x Jummy’s Picks Juneteenth Food Festival!

For the full vendor lineup and more information on attending, head to the Weeksville Society website!

Looking for more Juneteenth celebrations? Here are 15+ Juneteenth Celebrations To Attend In NYC This Month

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Brooklyn’s Iconic Washington Street To Host Interactive Art Installations This Summer

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The Dumbo Improvement District recently announced its third iteration of The Six Foot Platform which is bringing several interactive art installations to Brooklyn’s iconic Washington Street this summer.

Six Brooklyn-based artists were chosen to showcase their art on a 6’ by 6’ platform on Washington Street—one of NYC’s most iconic blocks—for full-day residences.

“This group of artists is really showing the diversity of Brooklyns creative scene right now. We are thrilled to be presenting their work this summer,” said Alexandria Sica, President of the Dumbo Improvement District.

The Six Foot Platform / Art in Dumbo

The Six Foot Platform residencies will take place on Saturdays from July 8 to August 12, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. with exhibitions as follows:

Weiyun Chen | SUPERTRASH – Saturday, July 8

SUPERTRASH aims to create awareness about the importance of recycling waste, hoping to bring attention to the increasing rate of the world’s waste production. Guests can actively participate in the exhibition by bringing their own trash or using the trash collected by the artist to create their own art.

Melissa Diaz | Untitled – Saturday, July 15

This interactive installation invites visitors to collaborate in creating a living sculpture by allowing them to weave, tie, and attach upcycled materials onto the sculpture. The piece encourages visitors to consider how creativity can contribute to a sense of well-being and through the piece Diaz hopes to promote inclusion in art-making and the de-stigmatization of mental health support.

Tianding He | How I Disappeared – Saturday, July 22

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, this project explores the poetic intricacies of urban life by conjuring an ever-changing cityscape, evoking memories and desires built from their unique experiences and personal perspectives. The piece features experimental music, AR puppetry, and interactive installations.

YOU & I (Allie Marotta and Fernando Moya Delgado | inside the box – Saturday, July 29

inside the box asks audience members “If anything could be on this platform, what would you like it to be?” and then invites them to take part in a live devising process to create a new performance piece.

Anna Roberts Gevalt | DUMBO Sick Center – Saturday, August 5

DUMBO Sick Center is a pop-up sick cultural center—an experimental office offering resources, sick history, and songs. This project invites the audience to imagine a world where sick wisdom is honored and accessible, and the sick receive the care they need.

Maureen Catbagen | Abang-guard Street Museum – Saturday, August 12

Abang-guard Street Museum invites the public to share their inner voice and creative expression via gallery format. The exhibition is part workshop, part art space, and will feature each piece made by the public, providing an opportunity to showcase and uplift a diversity of voices.

The Dumbo Improvement District is also responsible for other works of art currently on display in NYC right now.

9-foot-tall sculpture of Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G” Wallace at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Source / Noemie Trusty

On Tuesday, December 6, they unveiled a 9-foot-tall sculpture of Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G” Wallace at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Created by Sherwin Banfield, the sculpture, titled Sky’s the Limit in the County of Kings, is dedicated to the art, life, and legacy of the Brooklyn legend and represents Biggie’s African American artistry, lineage, and evolution as the “King of New York.”

The sculpture is on view through October, 2023.

Babel in Reverse installation, DUMBO Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn / Joseph Morris and Owen Trueblood

New Yorkers can also head under the Manhattan Bridge at the DUMBO Archway to view Anchorage, Babel in Reverse.

This exhibition works to showcase the hundreds of languages spoken in NYC through hanging electronic speakers which play a babel of recorded voices speaking various languages. Though when one walks beneath each speaker the babel fades and individual voices and languages can be heard reciting stories, poems, and fables.

This instillation is on view now through August 2023. Listening hours are 8 a.m. – 11 a.m. Monday through Friday.

The Six Foot Platform is presented in partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council.

In other art news: NYC’s Captivating ‘Banksy In New York’ Exhibition Has Been Extended Due To Popular Demand

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Binge Free Movies All Weekend Long At Brooklyn’s Stuart Cinema

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There are few things better than hitting the theater on a warm weekend. Snacks, air conditioning, and of course, entertainment!

Sounds good, right? Well, Pluto TV is headed to Brooklyn to make the weekend even sweeter by offering FREE movies in Brooklyn this weekend!

Leading free streaming television service Pluto TV will be hosting a free movie weekend at Brooklyn’s Stuart Cinema & Cafe June 17-18th as part of their ongoing support of independent theaters. Stuart Cinema is New York’s first Black Latina-owned movie theater, led by Emelyn Stuart.

In celebration of summer movies, various screenings will be showing completely FREE, courtesy of Pluto TV, plus popcorn and fun Pluto TV swag for moviegoers!

Pluto TV & Stuart Cinema’s collaboration comes up on the weekend of DC’s latest film, The Flash!

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Fans interested in joining Pluto TV’s FREE Movie Weekend celebration at Stuart Cinema & Cafe can reserve tickets by emailing StuartCinemaCafe@gmail.com for the showtimes below:

Saturday, June 17: 11am | 2:30pm | 6pm | 9:15pm
Sunday, June 18: 10am | 2pm

Stuart Cinema is located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, at 79 West Street.

In the mood for more free movies? Check Out All These NYC Parks That Are Showing Free Movies This Summer

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