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 | Songstress Kaylana Victoria Butler
1:15 pm | Black Owned Business Vendors
1:30 pm | Dance Dunwoody Dance 5678
1:45 pm | Toby Butler Gospel Rap
2 pm | Dazzling Diamonds Majorette
2:10 pm | Black Owned Business Vendors
2:20 pm | Borinquen Dance Theater
2:30 pm | Gates-Chili Dance Team
2:45 pm | Teen Empowerment Spoken Word
3 pm | Maine: The Dancer Contemporary Dance
3:15 pm | Black Owned Business Vendors
3:30 pm | Mayukwa (Wala) Kashiwa African Dance & Drums
VANDEN BRUL PAVILION
12–4 pm | Community Photo Souvenirs Fred Tanskley
12–4 pm | Event Sponsors
12–3 pm | Live Painting & Art Displays by Prince Will Star (ProartCreate)
12 pm | Event Opening Remarks Toby Butler
12:15 pm | Garth Fagan Dance Ensemble
12:30 pm | DJ Iron Will playing all your favorite music
1 pm | Dance Dunwoody Dance 5678
1:30 pm | Lu Highsmith Renditions of Maya Angelou
1:45 pm | Spoken Word Sypher Quaves Walker & Iron Will
2 pm | Maine: The Dancer (Hip Hop Krump)
2:15 pm | ROC City Line Dance
2:30 pm | Kassie Transforming Bodies in Motion
2:45 pm | Speaker Dr. Shaun Nelms
3 pm | Mayukwa (Wala) Kashiwa African Dance & Drums
3:15 pm | Vibrant Strings
3:30 pm | Fashion Show by Sheila Vaughn
4 pm | Soulful sounds of Cinnamon Jones
BAUSCH & LOMB PARLOR
12–4 pm | Make-it-and-take it Arts & Crafts
12–4 pm | Face Painting
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.