Juneteenth at the John Brown Farm Sunday, June 19th, 3-5pm Free and open to all. Performances by Kuf Knotz and Christine Elise blending hip-hop, soul and classical traditions PLUS "Remove the Scales from Thine Eyes! Helen Appo Cook," a dramatic monologue by Robin Michel Caudell from "The Black Opal [...]
Tickets are on sale now for the Resistance Revival Chorus, coming to Lake Placid Center for the Arts on Friday, August 5th at 7pm! Experience radical joy with this powerful group of musician-activists. The Resistance Revival Chorus fuses music and activism to uplift women’s voices in the music industry and [...]
John Brown Lives! and numerous community partners are teaming up to host an Adirondack Family Book Festival at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid. The festival is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 20. The festival will be free, open to all and held outdoors. The inaugural lineup [...]
Blues at Timbuctoo, is scheduled for September 18, from noon to 5 p.m., at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid, NY. The event is to be held outdoors at the 270-acre John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid with renowned vocalists, instrumentalists, performers, and [...]
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For John Brown’s birthday, a Memorial Field installation “Geography of Grace” dance film at LPCA. Find out more about this amazing film here.
John brown Lives! will have an information table at this event!
Juneteenth, short for “June Nineteenth,” celebrates the effective end of chattel slavery in the United States when, on this date in 1865 and two and a half years after President Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, nearly 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to ensure the freeing of all [...]
Prosecco Prelude VIP Reception (4:30 PM - 5:15 PM): Meet and greet our special guests Jamelle Bouie, Nell Painter, and David Blight in the "Dreaming of Timbuctoo" Exhibit in the Upper Barn: David Blight: Professor of History, award-winning author, and leading expert on slavery and the American Civil War Jamelle [...]