Telfair Museum’s Juneteenth Free Family Day

Free admission to the
two sites from 10am to 5pm. Festivities kick off at 1pm 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 10am to 5pm (the last tour of the day will begin at 4pm).
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.