Juneteenth reflections and an activist portrait
**Friday, June 19, 2020
City Reliquary Live Presents:
Mediocre Portraits of Outstanding People**
**Live at 8 pm EDT on the City Reliquary Instagram**
**Live at 8 pm EDT on the City Reliquary Instagram**
**On Friday the 19th, we celebrate Juneteenth, commemorating the day when the last of the formerly enslaved people in the United States were finally informed that they had earned their freedom. As the fight for justice continues more than a century later, we reflect on the progress that has been made, and the incredible steps that still lie just ahead as we work toward a truer sense of freedom and equality in our society.**
**While reflecting on this historic day, the City Reliquary will take a moment to focus on the insights of author and activist adrienne marie brown along with our friend and local artist George Ferrandi via Instagram Live at 8:00 PM EDT.**
The City Reliquary's neighborhood artist-in-residence, [George Ferrandi](http://www.georgeferrandi.com/about), takes to Instagram live for an hour each **Friday at 8:00 pm EDT** to create a sketch of and reflect on someone who has been influencing her thinking this week during this remarkable cultural moment.
During this series, George will be listening to and learning from Black thinkers while attempting to honor them through portraiture, and sharing the experience live with our audience.
In last week's inaugural episode, the focus was on civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander, author of [*The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness*](https://newjimcrow.com/). While drawing the marvelous portrait below on [Instagram Live](https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYYt69n3Xm/), George and our audience listened to a [conversation between Michelle Alexander and Angela Davis ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzSOcKiuOIE)about the need to take active steps toward creating a more just society, and how these can be achieved.
The City Reliquary's neighborhood artist-in-residence, [George Ferrandi](http://www.georgeferrandi.com/about), takes to Instagram live for an hour each **Friday at 8:00 pm EDT** to create a sketch of and reflect on someone who has been influencing her thinking this week during this remarkable cultural moment.
During this series, George will be listening to and learning from Black thinkers while attempting to honor them through portraiture, and sharing the experience live with our audience.
In last week's inaugural episode, the focus was on civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander, author of [*The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness*](https://newjimcrow.com/). While drawing the marvelous portrait below on [Instagram Live](https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYYt69n3Xm/), George and our audience listened to a [conversation between Michelle Alexander and Angela Davis ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzSOcKiuOIE)about the need to take active steps toward creating a more just society, and how these can be achieved.
This Friday evening on the City Reliquary Instagram, the focus will be on the brilliant and fascinating **adrienne maree brown**. George will create the second portrait in the MPOP series with a live drawing of brown, while broadcasting an introduction to her philosophy of "Emergent Strategies." Tune in at 8 pm to watch the progress of this week's portrait - draw along if you like - and listen and learn from these visionary ideas.We hope you'll join us at 8 PM on [Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/cityreliquary) ([@cityreliquary](http://instagram.com/cityreliquary)).
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