Telfair Museum's Juneteenth Free Family Day

The Telfair Museum is hosting its 19th annual Juneteenth Free Family Day Celebration.

This event is free for residents from Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty, Bulloch, Jasper and Beaufort Counties, including free admission into both the Telfair Academy and the Owens-Thomas Slave House & Slave Quarters. Free admission to the two sites from 10 am to 5 pm.

Festivities kick off at 1 pm with a "libation ceremony" by Dr. Jamal Toure, who will once again channel the African Spirit on the front steps of the Jepson Center.

Enjoy activities at the Telfair Academy inspired by the new exhibition Roots in the Rushes: African American Basketry of the Lowcountry, as well as storytelling by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah Geechee Nation, basket-making demonstrations by Gregory Grant, Anastasia Ketchen, and others, as well as a "basket dance" by the Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts. At the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, tours offered will be abbreviated and run from 10 am to 5 pm (the last tour of the day will begin at 4 pm).

These specialized tours will explore Savannah through the lens of Black craftmanship, revealing how enslaved and free African Americans built and sustained the city's physical and cultural landscape.