July 4, 2024
Freedom Sounds
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Site open Noon-4pm for visits, tours, and community green space. Admission free.
Site open Noon-4pm for visits, tours, and community green space. Admission free.
Noon-3pm: Cassandra Gunkel, artist-in-residence, leads a paper-making workshop. Free, open to all ages, no supplies required. Part of the Remember the Children Memorial project.
Noon-3pm: Cassandra Gunkel, artist-in-residence, leads a paper-making workshop. Free, open to all ages, no supplies required. Part of the Remember the Children Memorial project.
2:00pm: Bell-ringing ceremony, historical performance, and music
2:00pm: Bell-ringing ceremony, historical performance, and music
Hear the historic schoolhouse bell ring out for freedom, followed by:
Historical performance: Frederick Douglass, played by Maurice Tucker and introduced by Dameisha Jackson, as Sarah Mapps Douglass (Grounded Theatre Company)
Solo jazz piano by Fahrad Austin, Settlement Music School (Germantown Branch)
Admission free. Bring a lawn chair if you wish.
Performance to be held in the Upper Burying Ground. Site open Noon-4pm for visits and tours.
Dameisha Jackson
Dameisha Jackson
as Sarah Mapps Douglass
Maurice Tucker
Maurice Tucker
as Frederick Douglass
Fahrad Austin
Fahrad Austin
Solo Jazz Piano
Learn more about Douglass and his speech, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?": National Museum of African American History & Culture