Juneteenth in Prospect Park

Celebrate Juneteenth in Brooklyn’s Backyard with free events that bring the community together for live music, innovative performances, kids activities and more!

Uhuru Season: 17 Days of Freedom
On View Daily Friday, June 19–Sunday, July 5
Lefferts Historic House Toll Booth, Free
Visit the Lefferts toll booth to view a series of posters created by local artist Grey Jones. This site-specific installation is on view through Sunday, July 5 and commemorates the historical tradition of celebrating Juneteenth, the last day that Americans were freed from enslavement, and July 5, the day that many Black Americans historically celebrated American Independence as a sociopolitical protest to the continued enslavement of people prior to emancipation.

Alfreda’s Black Earth Juneteenth Commemoration
Thurs, June 18, 4–11 pm,
Prospect Park Boathouse, Free, RSVP

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.

Juneteenth School Holiday in Prospect Park
Fri, June 19, 10 am–5 pm
Prospect Park Boathouse, Free, RSVP
Join Prospect Park Alliance on the school holiday for Juneteenth for family-friendly nature education programs at Prospect Park Audubon Center, Lefferts Historic House and the Prospect Park Carousel.

Ogemdi Ude: MAJOR: Juneteenth Performance
Fri, June 19, 6–8 pm
Prospect Park Boathouse, Free, RSVP
Prospect Park Alliance and Danspace Project present MAJOR: Ogemdi Ude’s dance project exploring the physicality, history, and interiority of majorette dance. These Black femme teams accompanied by marching bands created a movement style that requires master showmanship with allegiance to count, undulation, groove and sensual yet strong performativity. This celebratory Juneteenth performance is a co-presentation between Danspace Project’s Platform 2026: Secret Gardens and Prospect Park Alliance’s ReImagine Lefferts initiative.