Name: Juneteenth Celebration!
Start: 2024-06-15T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-15T12:30:00-07:00
Location: St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Juneteenth Celebration!

Located near Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, St. Paul's is regarded as one of the best concert venues in the East Bay.  The church is historic, unique, and beautiful, with live and clear acoustics, ideal for choral and chamber performances.In recent years, the church has held and hosted concerts by renowned groups such as Grammy award-winning Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble and Pacific Boychoir Academy, , San Francisco Choral Artists, Prometheus Symphony Orchestra, Piedmont East Bay Children's Choirs, Pacific Collegium, Volti, and many others, as well as concerts and special events by St. Paul's Choir, Benjamin Bachmann, MMusic, FAGO, Director of Music.If you love music, consider attending 8pm 4th Sunday Compline, a sung service of chant and polyphony in candlelight, and 4pm 2nd Sunday (Oct-June) Evensong, a contemplative service with psalms, canticles, hymns, and anthems. Streamed on our Facebook Group pageHERECurrent concert listings isHERE. Contact info and directions isHERE

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Oakland

Everyone is welcome to join us for the third annual Juneteenth Feast Day of Celebration, Reflection, and Repentance.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

This year on Saturday, June 15th at 11:00 am, the Episcopal <a href="https://www.diocal.org/" title="https://www.diocal.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Diocese of California</a> will celebrate its third Juneteenth Feast Day, at <a href="https://www.stpaulsoakland.org/" title="https://www.stpaulsoakland.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">St. Paul’s Episcopal Church</a> in Oakland. In a rare occurrence, two bishops will be present: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Marc Andrus, Bishop, will be the Celebrant and The Rt. Rev. Austin Rios, Bishop Co-adjutor, will be the Preacher.Everyone is welcome to join in this time of Celebration, Reflection, and Repentance. A reception will follow.THIS EVENT IS FREE. TICKETS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO ATTEND.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Juneteenth</a>, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, became a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holiday_in_the_United_States" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holiday_in_the_United_States" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">federal holiday</a> in 2021. It is celebrated annually on June 19, to commemorate the day in 1865, when, almost two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, to free the more than 250,000 people then still enslaved in Texas. The Civil War had ended two months earlier, in April 1865.“It’s an important holiday,” says the Rev. Dr. Mauricio Wilson, rector of St. Paul’s in Oakland and chair of the Diocese of California’s Afro-Anglican Commission. “Things didn’t just magically change on June 19 of that year when the news got to the then-enslaved people in Texas, but when you look back in history, it marks an important date for all of us.”Juneteenth celebrations are a time when people of all races, nationalities and religions join in acknowledging this important part of our shared history.The service is sponsored by the Afro-Anglican Commission of the Diocese and the Northern California Vivian Traylor Chapter of the <a href="https://www.ube.org/" title="https://www.ube.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Union of Black Episcopalians</a>.With St. Paul's Choir. Benjamin Bachmann, MMusic, FAGO, Director of Music.Metered street parking is available and also paid parking is available at Children’s Fairyland at Grand and Bellevue Avenues.Live stream will also be available at the following: Full link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@communicationsworkinggroup9687/streams" title="https://www.youtube.com/@communicationsworkinggroup9687/streams" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/@communicationsworkinggroup9687/streams</a> orShort link: <a href="https://t.ly/DioCalLivestream" title="https://t.ly/DioCalLivestream" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://t.ly/DioCalLivestream</a>

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