CHESAPEAKE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION PROUDLY PRESENTS THE

2010 JUNETEENTHVA FESTIVAL

Saturday, June 19, 2010

12noon - 6pm

Dr. Clarence V. Cuffee Community Center 

2019 Windy Road

Chesapeake, VA  23324

757.648.8549

BE A PART OF A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE

12:15pm

Ben & Jefferson

Benjamin Bannker, inventor, publisher and farmer was regarded as the first African-American scientist and, of course, Thomas Jefferson was renowned for his inventive nature.  So, it's no big surprise that these two thinkers and tinkers were pen pals.

12:45

Oprah WinTrey & the JuneteenthVA Puppets

24 puppet personalities from Powhatan to Rosa Parks to Arthur Ashe and Susan B. Anthony are interviewed by a human legend.

1:45

2 Harriets

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor share their lives in song and story.

2:30

Army of 1: James Armistead Lafayette

In 1781 an enslaved Black man, based in Portsmouth, spied on Cornwallis at Yorktown and provided serious help to George Washington and the Patriots in their winning battle for independence against the British during the Revolutionary War!

3:00

Chillin' on Death Row w/ Big d.o.G.

A man's last hours on Earth.

3:30

Auction

An enslaved family is broken apart and sold away from each other.

4:00

Abolitionists' Museum

Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, David Walker and John Brown face anarchy when a curator hangs a rebel flag in their wax home.

5:00

Afrikan Kingz & Queenz

It's lots of music and fun with Cleopatra, Hannibal, Queen Nzingha, Makeda, Queen of Sheba, Khama, the Good King of Buchanaland and King Alfonso of the Congo as contestants on "Egyptian Squares," a show very much like tv's "Hollywood Squares."

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Hampton Roads "Karaoke Idol" Competition

A Conversation about Race

3-on-3 Basketball Playoffs

Who Dat w/ the Best Car Audio!!!

Amazing "Underground Railroad" Hunt

Spades, Hearts, Dominoes, Bid Whist Backgammon, Scrabble, Chess, Uno

Mediation / MAAFA / Meditation