Juneteenth Free Family Day
June 13 All Three Sites- This event has passed.
Free admission for locals to each of our three sites!
Join us for our nineteenth year of Juneteenth celebrations!
Local residents enjoy free admission to the Telfair Academy, the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters and the Jepson Center from 10am to 5pm. Festivities kick off at 1pm with a “libation ceremony” by Dr. Jamal Touré, who will once again channel the African Spirit on the front steps of the Jepson Center.
Join in activities at the Telfair Academy inspired by the new exhibition Roots in the Rushes: African American Basketry of the Lowcountry, as well as storytelling by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah Geechee Nation, basket-making demonstrations by Gregory Grant, Anastasia Ketchen, and others, as well as a “basket dance” by the Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts.
At the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, tours offered will be abbreviated and run from 10am to 5pm (the last tour of the day will begin at 4pm). These specialized tours will explore Savannah through the lens of Black craftsmanship, revealing how enslaved and free African Americans built and sustained the city’s physical and cultural landscape.
Free admission all day for local residents, including Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty, Bulloch, Jasper, and Beaufort Counties
