Pictured is last year’s Black Heritage Festival in Urbana.
Photo by Andrew Grimm Photography
The 3rd Annual Black Heritage Festival will be held in Urbana on Saturday starting at 10 a.m. and continuing all day.
The location is at Barbara Howell Park, 213 E. Market St.
The festival will offer food vendors from around the city, live entertainment, a talent show, kids activities, a marketplace of local businesses selling everything from jewelry, handmade crafts, home décor and so much more, according to information from the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau.
Urbana’s Black Heritage Festival curators have strong ties to the local Urbana community and use this time of celebration to give back and elevate the community they grew up in.
Sponsorship and partnership contributions to the festival will be poured back into the community through these three primary areas of impact:
-Revitalization of Barbara Howell Park
-Support for the homeless in Champaign County
-Scholarships and mentoring for youth
