Freedom Celebration

Saturday, June 21, 2008

8 am Breakfast at the Brenda Cowan/Phillis Wheatley Center, 647 Chestnut Street

Exhibit of Art created by youth

Military Cadence lead by the 12th Heavy Artillery Regiment to African Cemetery No. 2

Libations to the Ancestors

10 am Program

Key note speaker: Mr. Harold Jones, Curator African American Civil War Memorial Washington, D.C.

Profiles of United States Colored Troops by Youth

Drumming By the Sacred Sister's Drumming Circle

Sponsored by: African Cemetery No. 2, Inc. ArtsPower, Inc. Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum, Inc.

Funded in part by the Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc., the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, www.kylincoln.org and the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government