Alfreda’s Black Earth Juneteenth Commemoration

Join Prospect Park Alliance and Alfreda’s Black Earth for our second annual Juneteenth gathering honoring Black life, land and liberation through film and sound. Our celebration begins with a set by DJ Tara from 4–8 pm, setting the tone for an outdoor celebration grounded in community and reflection. Following, we welcome filmmaker Arielle Knight for a pre-show Q&A. At 8:30 pm, we transition into our film program exploring Black relationships to nature, care and self-determination. Featuring The Boys and the Bees (2025), a tender portrait of a family tending both land and lineage in rural Georgia, and The Learning Tree (1969), Gordon Parks’s landmark coming-of-age film and the first feature directed by a Black American for a major Hollywood studio. Together, these works invite us to consider how Black communities have long cultivated connections—to land, to memory and to one another—as acts of resilience and freedom.