Fri June 18, 2021
Monumental Reckoning: 350 ancestral sculptures installed in the heart of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
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Representing the first Africans stolen from their homeland and sold into chattel slavery in 1619, these 350 ancestral sculptures will encircle the vacant plinth of the slaveholder Frances Scott Key which was partially toppled by protesters last Juneteenth. Creating a sweeping throughline from America's original sin of 250 years of slavery, to the evolution and imposition of a brutal and pervasive color-based caste system, to this moment of racial reckoning across America.
Adjacent to this creative, work of fearless examination, the universal beckoning of 'LIFT EVERY VOICE' will be installed above the historic Spreckels Temple of Music in honor of the civil rights champion James Weldon Johnson, author of the defacto Black National Anthem 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' as part of his 150th birthday which falls on Juneteenth this year and Monumental Reckoning's true-telling of America' history.
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Adjacent to this creative, work of fearless examination, the universal beckoning of 'LIFT EVERY VOICE' will be installed above the historic Spreckels Temple of Music in honor of the civil rights champion James Weldon Johnson, author of the defacto Black National Anthem 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' as part of his 150th birthday which falls on Juneteenth this year and Monumental Reckoning's true-telling of America' history.
Representing the first Africans stolen from their homeland and sold into chattel slavery in 1619, these 350 ancestral sculptures will encircle the vacant plinth of the slaveholder Frances Scott Key which was partially toppled by protesters last Juneteenth. Creating a sweeping throughline from America's original sin of 250 years of slavery, to the evolution and imposition of a brutal and pervasive color-based caste system, to this moment of racial reckoning across America.
Adjacent to this creative, work of fearless examination, the universal beckoning of 'LIFT EVERY VOICE' will be installed above the historic Spreckels Temple of Music in honor of the civil rights champion James Weldon Johnson, author of the defacto Black National Anthem 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' as part of his 150th birthday which falls on Juneteenth this year and Monumental Reckoning's true-telling of America' history.
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Adjacent to this creative, work of fearless examination, the universal beckoning of 'LIFT EVERY VOICE' will be installed above the historic Spreckels Temple of Music in honor of the civil rights champion James Weldon Johnson, author of the defacto Black National Anthem 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' as part of his 150th birthday which falls on Juneteenth this year and Monumental Reckoning's true-telling of America' history.
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Golden Gate Park - Bandshell (Music Concourse)
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Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118
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