17th Annual Juneteenth Season

Tickets Released Below on June 1st

17th Annual Juneteenth Season:

Celebrating our Resistance, Resiliance, Empowerment & Joy!

Joy is Revolutionary. Wellness is Revolutionary.

1) DANCE AS RESISTANCE - ARTS & WELLNESS GATHERINGS
Each Gathering will include:

• Showing of a GWDC piece of choreography on film

• Interactive Presentation of Black Resistance through dance & GWDC's Lineage

• GWDC Choreography taught - come dance (standing or in a chair!)

• Sound Bath

• Shared Meal

Come celebrate our liberation, our community, our strength, our hope, and our collective power. Please RSVP, as spots are limited.

Choreography shown & snippet taught:

June 27th: My Country 'Tis of Thee/ Still I Rise - Honoring voices that have been silenced

July 11th: Shelter In Place: An Exploration of Gentrification, Displacement & Homelessness

July 25th: A Ballad for John Henry - Tracing the unbroken lineage between Slavery, Convict Leasing, and Mass Incarceration

August 8th: #DanceTheVote

The subjects are deep, but the gatherings will be joyful! No dance experience needed! Come move your body in community - standing or sitting in a chair are both great!

Tickets Released Here June 1st - seats are limited.

GWDC Studio - 494 9th St, Old Oakland

Saturdays at 12pM:

June 27th

July 11th & 25th

August 8th

JUNETEENTH SEASON ELDER WORKSHOPS (Pre-registration required at Tonya@GrownWomenDance.org for eight week elder workshops.)

June 16th- April 4th Tuesdays @ 1pm, 8 Weeks, ONLINE Choreocore®: Fall Prevention & Pain Reduction for Elders

July 6th - Aug 8th Thursdays @ 2pm, 6 weeks , IN STUDIO Beginning Pilates for Elders

2026 SUMMER SCHEDULE TBA on June 1st

2) 2025 SUMMER OF FREE, FAMILY-FRIENDLY JUNETEENTH ARTS & WELLNESS COMMUNITY CLASSES

All dance classes are family-friendly and don’t require any prior dance experience. Come enjoy being in community and moving your body!

All summer in-person activiites are masked. We’ll hand you a fresh, individually wrapped N95 (US made Aura or Indiana Facemask) at the door, which are required to enter the studio. If you are sick or have been exposed, please stay home and take care of yourself and the community.

JUNETEENTH WEEK INTERGENERATIONAL DANCE CLASSES - NO DANCE EXPERIENCE NEEDED!

Thursday, June 19th

6:00pm

Contemporary Dance Brandon Ellis (Dayton Conteporary Dance Company, Philadanco)

7:30pm Contemporary Dance Mindy Haywood (Stomp! On Broadway, Metropolitan Opera)

Friday, June 20th

6:00pm

Contemporary Dance Brigette Dunn-Korpela (Lion King on Broadway, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble)

7:30pm

Contemporary Dance Michael Medcalf (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre)

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION SUMMER CLASSES - COME TO ONE OR ALL!