ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COMMUNITY GARDENING & BEAUTIFICATION COLLABORATIVE

PLAN...PREPARE...PLANT...MAINTAIN...HARVEST...PRESERVE...FEED...EAT...LIVE!
...THE FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM FARMS...

ULTRA*CULTURE AG*ARTS
Intergenerational

Community Garden

@

VARIOUS SITES
Saturdays...1p - 4p

WEEKDAYS...as scheduled

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R.E.A.L.
(*Responsibility *Earth *Art *Learning*)

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...UPCOMING EVENTS...
* Hoop House Construction
* Garden Art
* Harvest Celebrations / Open House

Edu*Art Projects
"L.A.W.S."
Land *Air *Water *Sunshine

* Interdisciplinary
SATURDAY * SCHOOL

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"...maybe we'll there to share the land...that they'll be giving away...when we ALL live together..."

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ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
775.544.6907

901.562.5071
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JUNETEENTH...2007

WE BELIEVE in the RESURRECTION ...such divine genealogical order... when they stole U Father, Brother, Husband...they stole us & WE! WE ARE PROGENY OF DIVINE*DIASPORA ...jes' like the DIS*EAZE of capture is as nothing when laid 'side a enslavement... WE ARE UNIFIED IN THE RESURRECTION ...same ol' GOD*WILL...them baldhead dog maken we cullum new name... WE ARE SELF*DETERMINED IN THE RESURRECTION ...ALL ways new memory come long side ALL old... WE ARE COLLECTIVE WORKERS IN THE RESURRECTION ...naming our chirren by the light of the harvest moon... WE ARE ECONOMICALLY COOPERATIVE IN THE RESURRECTION ...praying down the true roots old & faded culture, remixing that with the new... WE ARE PURPOSEFILLED IN THE RESURRECTION ...knowing in born witness, cain't no parent be no child... WE ARE CREATIVE IN THE RESURRECTION ...ol' stank Massa say them mangy back porch dogs do better learning than We... WE ARE FULL of FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION ...jes/ me a WE linger lil' lil' bit longer 'round larnin's doe... WE ARE PROGENY OF DIVINE DIASPORA ...passing on the precious true roots knowledge, centered in the ALL with love & heART ear to hear & listen... WE ARE UNIFIED IN THE RESURRECTION ...we name hOUR chirren in the voice of the ancestor, on the day of the weak, in the seasons of time, in the years & years, & years, & years, & years, & years & years of some enslaver's symbionic bondage... WE ARE SELF DETERMINED IN THE RESURRECTION ...on that longtime gone, gone presentime coming Day of JU-JU-JUBILEE... WE ARE COLLECTIVE WORKERS IN THE RESURRECTION ...check out how we be rejoicing in new heART FATHER"S DAY * JUNETEENTH celebration... WE ARE ECONOMICALLY COOPERATIVE IN THE RESURRECTION ...them true roots soldiers made them baldheads read us listenin' to what they was fear in lettin' us know to write... WE ARE FULL OF PURPOSE IN THE RESURRECTION ...allala time knowing WE peoples is 1one... WE ARE CREATIVE IN THE RESURRECTION ...trusting & believing & knowing... WE ARE FILLED WITH FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION ...as WE are the essence of the beauty of ALL beings Afrikan, free in the GODWILL, and blessed to be at least THIS Black... ...as WE are the Resurrection which surely cometh in the mourning... ...and YOU & I dear heART... IN TIME"S DIVINE FULLNESS scratchd out FREEDOM'S map on the plantation cabin slaveship flo' ###

ULTRA YOUth!
INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY

celebrates

JUNETEENTH

Jubilee * Sunday
HONORING

...survivors & descendants of the Middle Passage...

Father's Day

17 June 07

8a & 10a Congregational Services

@

Reno 1st Methodist Church

209 West 1st Street

featuring

...the spoken word offered by...

IiYAH*ISHA

&

Sher'on Jackson

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JUNETEENTH

19 June 07

Agri*CULTURAL*Arts

Dawn to Dusk

REDEDICATION

Bar*B*Que

potluck

DRUM*CIRCLE

Paradise Park, Reno

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DROP in the BUCKET

...community sustenance service...

23 June07

9a

209 West 1st Street

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23 June 07

R.E.A.L.

*Responsibility *Earth *Art *Learning

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City of Reno

Block Party

12p - 5p

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24 June 07

JUNETEENTH*TALES

@

The HOLLAND Project

hollandreno.blogspot.com

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25 June 07

7p

1st METH*BOOK Club

(Seeing in the Dark)

775.544.6907

renofirstmethodist.org

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PREVIOUS CELEBRATIONS

BUFFALO SOLDIERS
...heroes & heroines unsung...
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FRIDAY
16 JUNE 06
Boy's & Girl's Girl's Club, Truckee Meadows
2680 E 9th St.
4p ASSEMBLY
(...arts & crafts...stories & songs...genealogy...)

SHARING OurStory!
Intergenerational JUNETEENTH Tales
BUFFALO SOLDIER TALES

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SUNDAY
18 JUNETEENTH 06
10:00a
209 West First Street

(HONORING PATRIARCHS, FATHERS, BROTHERS via FREEDOM SONGS & PRAYERS)

775.322.4564
www.RenoFirstMethodist.org

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MONDAY
19 JUNETEENTH 06
2:00 - 4p
DOWN TOWN Reno Library
301 S. Center Street
AUDITORIUM

(gospel...world music...jazz...blues...soul food...genealogy...oral histories...)

INTERGENERATIONAL AFTERNOON OF MAKING COMMUNITY ART, CHAUTAUQUA & SONGS of FREEDOM!

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19 JUNETEENTH 06
REDEDICATION CEREMONY
17 S. Virginia
SIERRA ARTS GALLERY
6:00 - 8p

*** CULTURAL Marketplace * SOULFUL Tastings * ORAL History * SILENT Auction * ART & Entertainment * GENEALOGICAL Investment * FAMILY Reunion * Sharing OURstory ***

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CELEBRATING THE VERY BEST OF YOU IN YOUth!
P.O. Box 40754, 89504
ultrayouth.org
775.544.6907
ultrayouth@blackplanet.com
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ASANTE SANA!
(thank YOU very much!)
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JUNETEENTH

JUNETEENTH...an Amer-Afrikan Liberation Celebration...festivities are held on the 19th of JUNE...but for these past few years...celebrations are held throughout the month, if not through the year...This HOLY DAY commerates GENERAL GORDON GRANGER'S announcement of AFRIKAN SLAVERY's official end in these UNITED STATES...Supported in this dangerous task (assigned by A. Lincoln) by regiments of YANKEE SOLDIERS of COLOR...they went 'way down south in Dixie'...up to the very gates of plantations and concentration camps often very, very far off the main thoroughfares...their assignment was to  read the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION to the illiterate captives...in the presence of the captors who generally regarded any one of Afrikan descent as PROPERTY... often at gun point...The declaration was made in Texas more than two years after the President delivered the speech (1 January 1863) inwhich he enforced legislation which freed ALL captive and enslaved people in the United States and all rebellious territories...

It is well documented...on New Year's Eve...31 January1862...Large numbers of free and runaway Amer*Afrikans in the Northern United States gathered...Those 1st Emancipation Parties were held usually in churches...and we now celebrate Juneteenth in a time honored tradition which connects us to those who anxiously, though patiently awaited Lincoln's reading of the PROCLAMATION...it was 1st transmitted over the then state of art communication system...the telegraph...print media, being non-electronic took a second though very viable seat...enabling General Granger to formally and literally introduce freedom to many captives in Dixie..."You are free!"

That is to say, hundreds of thousands of the captive's ears were privileged to finally hear the freedom framing words of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Oral Histories document, many hundreds held in bondage were never made aware of THE JUBILEE. Many resistant captors simply refused to set the captives free...many plantations were inaccessible to the troups or were never visited.

IGNORANCE NOT BEING BLISS...it is documented, hundreds were never told of their new legal status, many lived long lives in forced captivity. Many died being isolated, remaining illiterate, being forcibly bound by  economic and legal systems which justified systematic oppression by virtue of  rancid terrorism and Jim Crow Laws.

...and so we count down the years of "FREEDOM"...and we celebrate JUNETEENTH as the victory of REVELATION...the blessing of TENACITY...the joy of LOVE SUPREME!

This year...it will be excellent for us all to consider giving concerted thanks, praise and honor to those bold free beings who rode with Granger...The Free and Captive Freedom Fighters of Color...THOSE AMER*AFRIKAN SOLDIERS...those future BUFFALO SOLDIERS...those ANCESTORS whose courage, strength and valor caused the UNITED STATES to finally know victory in the bloodiest war possibly of all time...the CIVIL WAR.

On 1 January 1980, JUNETEENTH became an official state holiday in Texas...due to the legislative persistence of State Representative, Al Edwards...Consequently, people of Afrikan descent...and others...celebrate globally the 1st state recognized FREEDOM CELEBRATION...We strive by process and example to follow the suit of Representative Al Edwards...to cause JUNETEENTH to be fully sanctioned as a UNITED STATES of AMERICA NATIONAL (HOLY) HOLIDAY.

We are so very blessed, as JUNETEENTH increases in it's recognition as a historically viable GLOBAL FREEDOM CELEBRATION...We commit to celebrate not only during the month of June...The ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE COMMUNIVERSITY dedicatedly commits to respectfully celebrate ALL FREEDOMS for ALL COMMUNITIES...ALL WAYS!

IT IS IN EXACTING WELLORDER...We must give respectful HONOR to the dedicatedly courageous CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH made by GENERAL GRANGER and his COMRADES in ARMS...THOSE AMER*AFRIKAN SOLDIERS OF GLORY...THE UNEQUIVOCAL FREEDOM FIGHTERS...that unsung battalion of JUSTICE SEEKERS / MAKERS whose heroic trek ended only when THE RECONSTRUCTION ACT was rescended by PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN's successor...Vice President Johnson ...WE must celebrate JUNETEENTH...no matter our race, color or creed...as we have open opportunity to be the NEW DAY FREEDOM FIGHTERS...MARCHING on to even GREATER HEIGHTS of much deserved LIBERATION!

Asante' sana...thank YOU very much!