Price
Free for everyone

Join us for our 24th Annual Black History Month Celebration Day! With something for everyone, come enjoy a wide array of art & crafts, Live painting, live music with a DJ Ironwill, dance performances, singing, African dance & drums, face painting, poetry, a fashion show, step teams, contemporary movement, Black-Owned Business vendors, panel discussions, and more!

Schedule of Events

M&T BANK BALLROOM

12–4 pm | Black Owned Business Vendors  
12–4 pm | Community Photo Souvenirs Fred Tanskley 
12:30 pm | Garth Fagan Ensemble Contemporary Dance 
1 pm | Teen Empowerment 
1:15 pm | Dance Dunwoody Dance 5678 
1:30 pm | Black Owned Vendors highlight their business 
2 pm | Borinquen Dance Gates
2:15 pm | Toby Gospel Rap 
2:30 pm | Gates-Chili High School Step Team 
2:45 pm | Maine: The Dancer
3 pm | Black Owned Vendors highlight their business 
3:30 pm | Mayukwa (Wala) Kashiwa African Dance & Drums

VANDEN BRUL PAVILION 

12–4 pm | Community Photo Souvenirs Fred Tanskley
12–3 pm | Live Painting & Art Displays by Prince Will Star (ProartCreate)
12–4 pm | DJ Ironwill playing all your favorite music
12 pm | Garth Fagan Dance Ensemble
12:30 pm | African Dance & Drums Mayukwa (Wala) Kashiwa
1 pm | Poetry Lu Highsmith Renditions of Maya Angelou
1:20 pm | Soulful sounds of Cinnamon Jones
1:30 pm | Spoken Word Sypher Quaves Walker & Ironwill
1:45 pm | Dance Dunwoody Dance 5678
2 pm | Kassie Transforming Bodies in Motion
2:15 pm | Speakers
2:30 pm | ROC City Line Dance Express
3 pm | Vibrant Strings
3:30 pm | Fashion Show by Sheila Vaughn with Vibrant Strings
4 pm | Maine: The Dancer

AUDITORIUM

1–2 pm | Panel Discussion
2:30–3:30 pm | Panel Discussion

BAUSCH & LOMB PARLOR

12–4 pm | Make-it-and-take it arts & crafts with MAG’s Creative Workshop
12–4 pm | Face Painting

CREATIVE WORKSHOP

12–4 pm | “Art Grows Here” Planting with Cornell Cooperative Extension inspired by artwork from Clementine Hunter

IN THE GALLERIES

1 pm | MAGconnect tour with Delores Jackson Radney

FOUNTAIN COURT

1:30 pm | Going for Baroque organ performance
3 pm | Going for Baroque organ performance


Celebration Series is sponsored by the MAG Council, with additional support from the Robert and Madeleine S. Heilbrunn Memorial Fund. Black History Month Celebration Day is also sponsored by WDKX, BIPOC PEEEEK, Monroe County Family Coalition, Inc., Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, FIDELIS CARE, Shaheen Hyde – Real Estate Agent, and Senior Expressions Inc.

Generous support for the Art Grows Here project provided by Art Bridges.