Ebony travel guide: June

Ebony, June, 2004 by Joy Bennett Kinnon

TRAVEL GUIDE

JUNE

WHAT'S HAPPENING WHERE!

ATLANTA

* African Gold from the
Glassell Collection. The
Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston. Exhibit. High
Museum of Art. Through
Sept. 19,2004.

BALTIMORE

* The Zora Neale Hurston
Society 20th anniversary
conference. Hyatt Regency
Hotel. June 17-19.

* African-American Heritage
Festival. Camden Yards
Stadium. June 18-20.

* Father's Day Jazz Concert
& Banquet. Great Blacks in
Wax Museum. June 18.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

* African Shields: Art
Power and Identity. Exhibit
Birmingham Museum of
Art. Through June 20.

CHICAGO

* 20th Annual Chicago
Gospel Music Festival.
Grant Park. June 4-6.

* 21stAnnual Chicago Blues
Festival. Grant Park.
June 10-13.

* 24th Annual Taste of
Chicago. Grant Park.
June 25-July 4.

* Real Men Cook for Charity.
South Side YMCA. June 20.

* Modern Free and
Accepted Masons of the
World convention.
Holiday Inn-O'Hare Airport.
June 20-27.

* Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Convention. Sheraton-Chicago
Hotel & Towers.
June 28-July 1.

CLEVELAND

* Power Networking 3rd
Annual Networking
Training Conference.
Building Bridges.
Businesses. Prosperity.
Cleveland Convention
Center, June 24-27.

COLUMBUS, Ohio

* Creekside Blues & Jazz
Festival. Creekside Park.
June 18-20.

DETROIT

* Dawoud Bey: Detroit
Portraits. Exhibit. Detroit
Institute of Arts.
Through Aug. 1.

* Detroit Festival of the Arts.
Midtown Detroit's Cultural
District and Wayne State
University Campus.
June 11-13.

* Fireworks Day. Hart Plaza.
June 23.

HOUSTON

* Top Ladies of Distinction
40th Anniversary celebration
Hotel Intercontinental.
June 24-27.

INDIANAPOLlS

* Black Coaches
Association convention.
Hyatt Regency Hotel.
June 3-5.

LAS VEGAS, Nev.

* Juneteenth Community
Celebration. West Las
Vegas Arts Center. June 4.

LOS ANGELES

* Real Men Cook for Charity.
Las Angeles Exposition
Park Intergenerational
Community Center.
June 20.

* Hollywood Black Film
Festival. Various venues.
June 22-27.

* Long Beach Bayou
Festival. Queen Mary
Events Park, Long Beach.
June 25-27.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

* 100 Black Men of America
annual national
conference. Loews Hotel,
Miami Beach. June 9-13

MILWAUKEE

* Summerfest. Henry Maier
Festival Park. June 24-July 4.

NEW ORLEANS

* International Arts Festival.
Formerly known as the
Reggae Riddums Festival.
Marconi Meadows, City
Park, June 11-13.

* National Newspaper
Publishers Association
convention. Wyndham
New Orleans Hotel.
June 16-20.

NEW YORK CITY

* The Music of Lionel
Hampton and Milt
Jackson. Jazz at
Lincoln Center.
Stanley H. Kaplan
Penthouse. June 3-5.

* Real Men Cook for
Charity. Minisink
Townhouse. June 20.

PHILADELPHIA

Odunde Afrikan
American Street
Festival. Now in its
29th year, this festival celebrates
the Yoruba New
Year. June 13.

* National Association of
Minority Contractors
convention. Loews Hotel.
June 15-18.

* Sigma Pi Phi (Boule)
Centennial Grand Boule.
Marriott Hotel. June 26-30.

ST. LOUIS

* U.S. Bank Saint Louis Jazz
Festival. Shaw Park in
Clayton, Missouri.
June 25-26.

SAN FRANCISCO

* San Francisco Black Film
Festival. BRAVA Theater
and other various venues.
June 9-13.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

* 12th Annual Capital Jazz
Fest. New location this
year, Merriweather Post
Pavilion Columbia, Md.
June 4-6.

* National Juneteenth
Holiday Observance.
Various venues.
June 16-20.

* Safeway's 12th Annual
National Capital Barbecue
Battle. Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW. June 26-27.

CANADA

* 25th Anniversary-Montreal
International Jazz Festival.
Various sites.
June 30-July 11.

ISLAND DESTINATIONS:

CAYMAN ISLANDS

* Some Kind of Blue Festival.
June 13-15.

JAMAICA

* Ocho Rios Jazz Festival
2004. Various island
venues. June 13-20.

ST. KITTS

* 8th Annual St. Kitts
International Music
Festival. Historic Fort
Thomas grounds.
June 24-27.

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS

* R&B, Reggae & Calypso
Festival. St. John. June 26.

NOTE: Sponsors may
change dates or locations
after the magazine has been
published. Travelers should
verify event information with
local sponsors.