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From Free to Freedom: A Juneteenth CelebrationFREE Wonders of the Wurlitzer Concert
WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 7:00PM
This event is free and open to the public. No ticket required.
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Event Details:
In collaboration with Juneteenth RI, Mixed Magic Theatre, Rhode Island Black Storytellers, and Providence's Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism.
"From Free to Freedom" is a play with music, dance and storytelling that celebrates Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the end of 300 years of the enslavement of African people in America. This special Wonders of the Wurlitzertells the story of Juneteenth and is a pre-event to the 6th Annual Juneteenth RI Festival to be held this year in Downtown Providence at 195 DISTRICT PARK on June 22, 2024 from 12:00pm - 7:00pm.
Written and directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley of Pawtucket’s Mixed Magic Theatre, From Free to Freedom takes the audience on the journey of a people torn from the lives of family, friends, and traditions in their homelands, through the horrors of bondage, to freedom, accompanied by PPAC’s Wondrous Wurlitzer as brought to life by PPAC’s House Organist Peter Edwin Krasinski, and narrated by Jomo Peters and Bernadet V. Pitts-Wiley, with a special appearance by Valerie Tutson of the Rhode Island Black Storytellers.
The show’s musical director Kim Pitts-Wiley, in collaboration with veteran Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, direct some of Rhode Island’s finest singers and actors, including Joyce Brayboy, Jeannie Carson, Matt Fraza, Amos Hamrick, Autumn Jefferson, Donna Osborne, Corinne Pitts-Wiley, Habibah Quddus, Ondrea Robinson, Lauri Smalls, Diane Straker, Kim Trusty, Aaliyah Turner and Gia Yarn.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Providence Performing Arts Center, 212 Weybosset St, Providence, RI 02903-3712, United States,Providence, Rhode Island