June 16 closures, changes, activities | Local News

On the occasion of the June 16 holiday, on June 20, the following closures, changes and activities have been announced:

City of Winston-Salem offices will be closed.

Forsyth County offices will be closed.

State offices, including courts, driver’s license, license plate agencies and the North Carolina Department of Revenue, will be open.

Federal offices will be closed.

There will be no change to blue week garbage and recycling collections.

Yard waste collections will be postponed for one day.

Mixed reactions followed Granger’s Proclamation.

Many newly freed people stayed on the properties of former slaveholders to work for pay, while others immediately fled north or to neighboring states like Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma to reunite with their families. . As people spread out across the country, they took the June 19 celebrations with them. Former slaves and their descendants also made annual pilgrimages to Galveston to commemorate the significance of the date.

Juneteenth became an official Texas holiday in 1980.

If Juneteenth is one of the oldest celebrations of emancipation, it is not the the oldest. This distinction goes to Gallipolis, Ohio, which has celebrated the end of slavery there since September 22, 1863.

Illustrated Diary of Frank Leslie // Library of Congress

When: Friday and Saturday

Where: Venues in Winston-Salem with the annual festival on Saturdays in the Innovation District inside Biotech Place, 575 N. Patterson Ave., and outside at Bailey Park, 445 N. Patterson Ave. .

Tickets: Admission to the Art Exhibit Opening Reception and Festival is free. Tickets for the scholarship competition are $25 at tinyurl.com/yckvb5rb.

Parking: Free on the Fourth Street/Church Street parking deck

Information: triadculturalarts.org

Note: Festival goers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets and umbrellas (for the sun) on Saturday.

7 p.m. Friday: Queen Juneteenth Scholarship Competition at Paisley IB Magnet School, 1394 Thurmond St., (in partnership with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools)

1:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday: The Juneteenth Festival in Innovation Quarter (indoors at Biotech Place, 575 N. Patterson Ave., and outdoors at Bailey Park, 445 N. Patterson Ave.)

Juneteenth Sunday Concert at Tanglewood

The Forsyth County Government and the Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Arts Council will host a June 19 celebration from 5-8 p.m. Sunday at Tanglewood Park, 4061 Clemmons Road, Clemmons. It will feature gospel music by Jamera McQueen-Smith and Matelyn Alicia.

There will be family activities and food trucks during the concert.

Admission is free and people are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets and a picnic. Water, beer and wine will be on sale in aid of the Arts Council. No outside alcohol is allowed.