Freedom Party 2026

Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures

Parties can change the world! Join us for an afternoon of art, music, and knowledge exchange—a party to sustain joy and build community.

Greater Ithaca Activities Center

Come party for community, joy, and freedom!This year's Freedom Party will feature live music by SingTrece and DJ sets by DJ Dou, a knowledge corner with free books and zines for adults and kids, a community resource center, and face painting, games, and activities for all ages. Food and drinks will be provided at no cost by the phenomenal Mama Sharon's Kitchen.Join us at this world-building endeavor! Hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures and the Africana Studies &amp; Research Center, the Freedom Party is a space for resource gathering and sharing, storytelling, artmaking, and community building. We’ll have games, food, art, music, activities for all ages, and more. We party for fun and to sustain our fight for freedom!

In the summer of 1925, visual artists, musicians, and writers joined civil rights activists, lawyers, physicians, and academics for a party that changed the world. Their gathering stoked the embers of one of the most discussed and robust periods of artistic revival, political upheaval, and scholastic engagement ever witnessed: the Harlem Renaissance.Over 100 years later, we can learn from our early twentieth century counterparts. Parties are places of relaxation and decompression as well as spaces of community galvanization and resource accumulation. Parties can change the world!

Parking is available on-street.All ages are welcome to attend.

Freedom Party 2026