Broadway Stages is proud to support FREEFEST, a significant event that uplifts “Black experiences through youth, community, carceral justice, LGBTQ+, and artistic voices.” Inspired by BREATHING FREE, a visual album by Heartbeat Opera (Anaiis Cisco, filmmaker), FREEFEST commemorates June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth), when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

The online portion of the festival ends today (June 18), but you can participate in the culminating live event tomorrow (June 19), at Domino Park, including marches, DJ sets, film screenings, and a ceremony commemorating the community work of NYC’s Violence Interrupters.

Find a detailed schedule and sign up on EventBrite (free).