Diverse Voices: A Juneteenth Celebration

Join the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts & Culture, Washington Revels, and communities around the Washington D.C. metropolitan area for a festive week celebrating freedom! From June 17-25, Diverse Voices: A Juneteenth Celebration, the DMV’s first regional Juneteenth festival, will commemorate the end of slavery in America and honor the rich history of the Civil Rights era, particularly the desegregation of the privately-owned Glen Echo Amusement Park in Montgomery County. These events will recognize how the span of history from abolition to Civil Rights has shaped American history, our communities and culture, and how that history helped to transform a segregated amusement park into an arts destination and green space that is open to all.

From June 17-25, the festival will feature concerts, virtual and in-person songfests, historical discussions and educational activities, a film preview, community sings, local events, storytelling, and performances by local, regional, and internationally known artists, and Washington Revels’ performance ensembles. On June 25, the week ends with a family-friendly Festival of Freedom, starting with a symbolic procession into Glen Echo Park and Carousel ride, as well as a concert featuring legendary vocal ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock.