Juneteenth Celebration & Gospel Workshop with The Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir

Everyone is welcome at this joyful Juneteenth celebration at the Elizabethtown Social Center! BBQ, Lawn Games, Raffles, a gospel workshop and a 7pm performance by the rousing and spirited Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir perform!

From 5:30 – 6:30, Choir Director Dexter Criss will lead a GOSPEL WORKSHOP for community members. All singing abilities welcome. Dr. Criss will rehearse one song with community members, who will have the rare opportunity to perform the song in the concert alongside the choir.

The celebration starts at 4:30pm for a BBQ, Mocktails, lawn games, informational booth and book raffles for all ages.

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 that the enslaved African Americans of Galveston, TX, were freed – nearly two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The next year, the people of Galveston commemorated that day as Juneteenth, a celebration of freedom. Since then, it’s been observed in communities and states as a holiday, but officially recognized as a federal holiday in 2021.

The event is free with a suggested donation of $8 for dinner. BYO Picnic blankets or folding chairs. Indoors in the event of rain.

About Elizabethtown Social Center

The Elizabethtown Social Center, Inc. was established and endowed in 1939 by Cora Putnam Hale to provide the "greatest good for the greatest number of people." Currently more than 100 of our neighbors, many of them teens between the ages of 12 and 18, use our facilities weekly. Learn more at elizabethtownsocialcenter.org.