It has been reported that the talented artist and author, Carl Hancock Rux has curated a New York City-wide Juneteenth program for the city to experience and enjoy.
Harlem Stage, Park Avenue Armory and Lincoln Center are offering a weekend-long series of free events to celebrate this national holiday that highlights the resilience and power of Black Americans all over the country.Juneteenth: Examined: A Panel Discussion led by Carl Hancock Rux at Harlem StageHarlem Stage Associate Artistic Director and Curator-in-Residence Carl Hancock Rux moderates a panel discussion featuring Charles Blow, Dr.
Park Avenue Armory presents an art installation of newly discovered works by Archer Aymes—protagonist of Rux’s Obie-award winning play ‘Talk’—exploring the story of Juneteenth through a critical fabulation of what freedom might have felt like to the emancipated. The immersive art installation is curated by Carl Hancock Rux with Tavia Nyong’o and Dianne Smith, and also features a concert performance by mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and pianist Aaron Diehl.Sunday, June 19 at 7 p.m.
The culminating event takes place during the evening of June 19, with I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me: A Juneteenth Celebration, curated and directed by Carl Hancock Rux. The site-specific, evening-long event unfolds across Lincoln Center, drawing inspiration from the narratives of enslaved people seeking and finding freedom—from Harriet Tubman to today—and reckoning with the question of whether true freedom has ever fully been achieved.
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