Henrico County will rejoice Juneteenth – often known as “Emancipation Day” or “Day of Freedom” – on Saturday, June 15, with a day of household enjoyable and leisure at Dorey Park, together with performances, an expanded vendor honest of 150 Black-owned companies, historic and academic reveals, a children’ zone with leisure and a neighborhood artwork challenge.
The Dorey Park occasion, scheduled from 4 to 10 p.m., is offered by the Division of Recreation & Parks. Admission is free and open to the general public. The Juneteenth Celebrations can be capped with a efficiency by Artwork of Noise RVA at 8 p.m. and a fireworks finale at 9:45 p.m.! The occasion additionally will supply meals vehicles with concessions obtainable for buy.
The annual Juneteenth Celebrations will honor the occasions of June 19, 1865, when Union troopers delivered phrase to enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas that they’d been freed underneath President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863.