FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 • 11 AM – 5 PM
J.O.Y. JUNETEENTH YOUTH DAY
Friday is J.O.Y. Juneteenth Youth Day, and to date we have 10 City of Memphis summer camps registered as well as another 100 coming from commissioners and city council!
Hours for Youth Day are 11am–5pm so please come prepared to spend the day supporting our youth and young people on stage, our youth vendors, and our young festival-goers!
SATURDAY, JUNE 21 • 11AM – 8PM
PARADE | BBQ SMOKE OFF | TOXIC TOURS | TYKE T
Saturday is our BIGGEST DAY starting with the Juneteenth Freedom Parade at 11am, the BBQ Smoke-Off at noon, and continuing with Toxic Tours at 1pm and 3pm that will charter festival-goers to various environmentally damaged sites around North Memphis to educate residents on threats to our water/aquifer, air, and soil.
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Saturday is also our headliner day featuring TYKE T on the Mobile Shell Stage starting at 3pm. We are expecting HUGE crowds for this headliner so make sure to invite your family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, classmates, EVERYBODY!
We are SURE to have a great time!
SUNDAY, JUNE 22 • 3–8PM
LIBATIONS & HONORS DAY
Sunday is our Libations & Honors Day. We offer praise, song and dance to our ancestors starting at 3pm. Our theme this year is Honoring Women of Color, where we will offer libations to our mothers, grandmothers, great-greats, aunties, and sisters before us that held up the movement, and honor some of the women today who still move the movement towards equity and equality.
There will be plenty of merch vendors, artists vendors, food vendors, and more! And unlike any other festival in Memphis you are free to bring your grills. The entire weekend is sure to be fun, fabulous, and festive!
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We encourage you to come prepared with your tent, tables, chairs, water, grills, blankets, camping/hiking gear/shoes, wear lightweight protective clothing, sunscreen, sun hats & bonnets that protect from the sun, all the things that will keep you festive in the June heat! and most of all STAY HYDRATED!
Please remember that there is no running water or electricity in Douglass Park so be prepared! There will be portable potties available. You are free to bring a generator but it must be staged AWAY from the public if it runs on gas. We recommend that you bring a portable power station to keep your phones & fans charged and a mobile hotspot to keep your social media sociable!
SEE YOU THERE!