16th ANNUAL

2025 TABPHE CORPUS CHRISTI

SPIRIT OF EMANCIPATION YOUTH POSTER CONTEST    

                 

Create a Juneteenth inspired poster with your take on "What Does Juneteenth Mean to You."

 

Winners will be announced on June 21, 2025 at the annual festival.

 

Winning posters will be shared with local officials for public display.

 

There will be two categories, each with a 1st place winner and two honorable mentions:

Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12

1st Place: $100/ 2nd Place: $75/ 3rd Place $50

 

***NEW FOR 2025. Rai Rai's Juneteenth Adventure has been developed to allow the little to color, learn or submit their take on Juneteenth. Please check social media for scheduled kid events or list of places to pick up the coloring book. A site list will be developed and placed here on the web. ***

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- Physical submissions must be delivered to Beverly Cage at Del Mar College, Heritage Campus, Harvin Center Building, Room 105 by May 30th no later than noon.

 

Participants must attend the event.

 

***Important:

The top 10 digital submissions will be printed. The remaining submissions will be on display on a digital loop.

A 3-judge panel will review posters.

All posters must be 18″ X 24″.

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All submissions must include the following:

Artist name(s), school, grade level, phone number

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Poster Contest Background:

                                                 

One of the goals of the Ten Days of Celebration and Observance of the “Spirit of Emancipation” is to conduct and anchor intergenerational transfer of knowledge, information and accurate history of economic slavery of the African people brought here on ships across the Atlantic Ocean and sold as property.    The theme of the “Spirit of Emancipation” Celebration is “FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM TO EDUCATION TO ACHIEVEMENT.”   Exploration of this theme in many dimensions and venues represents a large part of the ten days of celebration – set aside from June 9 – 19 annually in Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend.  Involvement of the children and youth of the community is a significant part of this.  

 

All events aim to recognize and honor African American achievements for the year and others who have contributed to the development of Corpus Christi and the development of the African American community over the years since slavery ended with the June 19, 1865  “putting” of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 in Galveston, Texas to free the remaining slaves in Texas and end economic slavery and ownership of human beings as property.

 

Each year TABPHE attempts to ensure that local facilities set aside numerous books, magazines, periodicals and journals relating to slavery, emancipation, and the evolution of African Americans in the United States of America and especially in Texas.  Children, Youth, their families, their church leaders and advisors and organizational leaders of our youth are encouraged to explore the concepts of slavery, freedom, education and achievement, and how they relate to the celebration of JUNETEENTH.  

 

As a tangible expression and motivation to explore this theme, TABPHE Corpus Christi in consultation with educators,  elected leaders in local and county government,  media participants,  church leaders and organizations as well as children and youth in the Corpus Christi area, developed this  program to have children and youth  express their understandings and feelings about the theme in the form of making an original poster.