Our annual event, Rise & Remember Festival, exists to hold in remembrance George Floyd and those we have lost unjustly to the pervasive impacts of systemic racism. Activities focus on education, empowerment, healing, celebration, and our collective pursuit for racial justice and equity. Through Rise & Remember Festival, we will host a candlelight vigil, a Night of Honor, and the street festival that continues to highlight the role of community-rooted healing and art as activism. Our vision is that this experience inspires people to rise to the occasion to come together in community and build racial justice and equity.
In the past years, our themes were as follows:
2021 Rise & Remember (no sub theme)
2022 We Will Heal Us.
2023 Ubuntu: Make the Impossible, Possible.
2024 As Long As We Have Breath, Reset.
We have been through collective trauma and a major fight against racism. We marched, we fought, and we have sustained our collective work. In 2023 when I spoke with the grandson of Nelson Mandela, Nkosi Mandela, he listened deeply to all that we have been through together and suggested that “The people have spoken.” Drawing from his profound realization, we are uplifting his words as our 2025 theme.
Now is the time for the people to rise up and continue the good work we started. We must not let Perry’s death be his last word. Join us in May 2025 because the people have spoken, and we are going to do something about it.
– Angela Harrelson, Aunt of George Floyd & Board Co-Chair
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