Join us to celebrate Freedom on Friday, June 19, from 11AM to 2PM on the grounds of the Edmonds Waterfront Center, 220 Railroad Ave, Edmonds, WA. 

The annual Festival of Freedom event will include free food, book-reading circles for children, storytelling, music, and a free screening of the movie “John Lewis: Good Trouble”, with unlimited popcorn. The event is organized by Lift Every Voice Legacy (LEVL) and hosted by the Edmonds Waterfront Center (EWC). 

This free community event also features:

• Live music performance by Erie Darby

• An address from the Honorable Mike Rosen, Mayor of Edmonds

• Live storytelling performance by Chloe Guillot

• And More!

“Celebrating Juneteenth for the fifth year in our community, LEVL is once again joining EWC and community sponsors to observe America’s newest national holiday, which African Americans have commemorated for nearly 160 years. It now serves as a reminder to all of us who love justice and freedom that shining a light on the often-untold stories of our American history provides the stepping stones towards a future free of hatred, injustice and discrimination,” said Donnie Griffin, LEVL’s founder and president. 

Juneteenth – also known as Emancipation Day and Freedom Day – is a portmanteau of June 19 and marks the day when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 and informed the last enslaved outpost of African Americans in the Confederate South that they were no longer under bondage.