Things to do in NYC in June 2021 include the Tribeca Film Festival, Blue Note Jazz Festival, SummerStage, and NYC Pride.
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New York City reopens under COVID protocols, including timed ticketing (even outdoors), so check before you go. Please stay calm, mask and distance to keep all families safe. Let’s make our City work again ~ for everyone.
Museums, movie theaters and jazz clubs are packed again.
The Month of June
June is a transition from school year rhythms to summer rhythms.
June weather is early summer weather. Average temperatures range from 64° to 79°F so it is comfortable. Rainfall is average.
These events happen all month long.
- New York Mets baseball ⚾️
- New York Yankees baseball ⚾️
- NYCFC soccer ⚽️
- NY Red Bulls soccer ⚽️
- Peak whale watching season
- The Tango Gotham tango show tribute to bandoneón Maestro Raúl Juarena is weekends the Thalia Spanish Theatre in Sunnyside, Queens. From $37 🇺🇾
Things to Do in NYC in June 2021 Week 22
May 31 – June 6, 2021
The Open Roads: New Italian Cinema film festival is hybrid, in-person at Film at Lincoln Center and virtual at filmlinc.org through Sunday. 🇮🇹
Tuesday, June 1
Hurricane season begins (through November 30).
In New York City, it is Pride Month, Caribbean Heritage Month and African-American Music Appreciation Month.
Remember the Tulsa Race Massacre of June 1, 1921. To build a better future together, we have to accept our past. 🇺🇸
Wednesday, June 2
Celebrate Italy’s national day La Festa della Repubblica. 🇮🇹
Thursday, June 3
Thursday is art gallery opening night.
LAST CHANCE
The Melvin Van Peebles classic “The Story of a Three Day Pass” ends streaming from filmforum.org
OPENING RECEPTION
Camilo Godoy’s “AMIGXS” photo exhibition opens with a reception at OCDChinatown in Two Bridges, Manhattan from 5-7pm. It’s on view weekends through July 19. 🇨🇴 FREE
OPENING RECEPTION
Art and Empathy: Community Care Through Art opens with a reception at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park from 7-9pm. It’s on view through FREE
Helio Alves and Duduka Da Fonseca play Brazilian jazz at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens at 7pm. 🇧🇷
It’s Thursday Night Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 9pm. FREE
Celebrate Yoruba New Year (in Yorubaland, not the Caribbean)! 🇳🇬
Anniversary Day is a New York City School holiday. 🗽
Friday, June 4
Friday is opening night at the movies.
Yankees vs Red Sox is game 1 of 3 at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx at 7:05pm.
The Brooklyn Film Festival is virtual at brooklynfilmfestival.org and in-person at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint through June 13.
The Tango Gotham tango show tribute to bandoneón Maestro Raúl Juarena is at the Thalia Spanish Theatre in Sunnyside, Queens at 8pm. From $37 🇺🇾
Saturday, June 5
There is no Celebrate Israel Parade this year. The organizers hosted a virtual competition for marching groups and is focused on 2022. 🇮🇱
OPENING DAY
Salsa Saturdays at Orchard Beach reopens for the season in Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx from around 1pm – 6pm. FREE 🇵🇷
First Saturday Lite: Still Here, Still Queer honors queer and trans icons with a drag and burlesque showcase in the Brooklyn Museum Plaza from 2-6pm. FREE 🏳️🌈
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band salutes Puerto Rican composers and plays the complete “West Side Story Reimagined” for Casita Maria at the Playground 52 Amphitheater in Longwood, The Bronx on Sun, June 6, 2021 from 2:30-5:45 pm. FREE 🇵🇷
Bronx Banda is joined by Arturo O’Farrill and NY Philharmonic musicians for Casita Maria at Playground 52 in Longwood, The Bronx from 5-7pm. FREE 🇨🇺
OPENING NIGHT
Central Park Tango resumes at the Shakespeare Statue in Central Park from 6-8:30pm. Through the last Saturday in September. Pay-as-you-wish ($10-20 recommended) 🇦🇷🇺🇾
Yankees vs Red Sox is game 2 of 3 at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx at 7:15pm.
The Tango Gotham tango show tribute to bandoneón Maestro Raúl Juarena is at the Thalia Spanish Theatre in Sunnyside, Queens at 8pm. From $37 🇺🇾
Sunday, June 6
The Philippine Independence Day Parade 2021 celebration begins with a flag ceremony and Independence Mass at the Philippine Center (Philippine Consulate) in Midtown, Manhatta at 8am. 🇵🇭 FREE
LAST CHANCE
The Open Roads: New Italian Cinema film festival ends today at Film at Lincoln Center. 🇮🇹
The Philippine Independence Day Parade 2021 streams live on Facebook from 11:45am to 4pm. 🇵🇭 FREE
Yankees vs Red Sox is game 3 of 3 at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx at 1:05pm.
NY POPS UP FESTIVAL
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band salutes Puerto Rican composers and plays the complete “West Side Story Reimagined” for Casita Maria at the Playground 52 Amphitheater in Longwood, The Bronx on Sun, June 6, 2021 from 2:30-5:45 pm. FREE 🇵🇷
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade Mass (in Spanish) is at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown East, Manhattan at 4pm. FREE 🇵🇷
Things to Do in NYC in June 2021 Week 23
June 7-13, 2021
Abran Paso. Make way. It’s New York Puerto Rico Week! Mi gente ¡Ustedes! Celebramos la hija del mar y del sol. Baila si quieres bailar. Canta si quieres cantar. Avisale a mi contrario, que aquí estoy yo, con un orgullo profundo. Boricua soy, tu los sabes. ¡WEPA! 🇵🇷
We always wondered why we celebrate Puerto Rico at this particular time of year. In the Caribbean and Latin America, everything African is coded. In Yorubaland, it was just New Year, and in the Caribbean we ask Eleguá/Esu and St Anthony to open the road. A le, le, le, le, abran paso! Ashé
This week builds to the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, America’s largest cultural celebration. We can’t gather on Fifth Avenue, Madison Square Garden or Barclays Center this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate. Celebrate with us. ¡WEPA!
We dedicate this New York Puerto Rico Week to our padrino Borinquen, the legendary Nuyorican photographer Adál Maldonado (New York Times, 1948-2020). We haven’t been able to stop laughing since we met in Santurce.
Adál, we don’t know where you went, and you didn’t say goodbye, so you must have been kidnapped by aliens again. We hope you have enough flags and plantains, and await your return. You are a legend now. ¡Adál Lives!
Monday, June 7
It’s Monday Night Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 8pm. FREE
Happy birthday Juan Luis Guerra. The merengue star was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on June 7, 1957. 🇩🇴
Tuesday, June 8
Filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz talks about his 2014 documentary “We All We Got” with Lawrence Ralph, Professor Anthropology at Princeton University and Director of the Center on Transnational Policing, hosted by curator Grace Aneiza Ali, as part of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s “On Protest and Mourning” exhibition and student curriculum at onprotestandmourning.digital at 6pm ET.
The Museum Mile Festival is virtual at Africa Center, El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, Jewish Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Neue Galerie and the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue.
Wednesday, June 9
The Brooklyn Public Library streams a Facebook live performance by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company at 2pm ET. 🇲🇽
OPENING NIGHT
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival opens with “In the Heights” outdoors in communities across New York City and runs through June 20. 🇵🇷
Thursday, June 10
Jon M. Chu’s and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights movie opens in theaters and on HBO Max 🇵🇷
LAST CHANCE
Fellini’s 8 -1/2 ends at Film Forum in Hudson Square. 🇮🇹
The Manhattan Theatre Club 2021 Virtual Gala is on ManhattanTheatreClub.com at 7pm. FREE with registration 🇫🇷🇭🇹🇮🇹🇵🇹🇵🇷
The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance presents Potatoes are People Too (Adam & Zack O’Farrill) at Drom in the East Village at 8pm (7pm doors). $20 🇨🇺
It’s Thursday Night Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 9pm. FREE 🇵🇷
Juan Carlos Formell (Los Van Van) & Danae Blanco play Cuban jazz outdoors at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens at 11pm. $10 🇨🇺
Celebrate Portugal Day, the national day of Portugal which commemorates the death of Luís de Camões, the Portuguese Shakespeare. 🇵🇹
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes through next Saturday, June 19.
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is all over New York City.
Friday, June 11
The multimedia exhibition New York, New Music: 1980-1986 opens at the Museum of the City of New York at 10am. 🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷
Big Screen Summer screens highlights from the last New York Film Festival 58 at Film at Lincoln Center through August 26.
Juan Carlos Formell (Los Van Van) & Danae Blanco play Cuban jazz outdoors at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens at 11pm. $10 🇨🇺
Só Brasil: Erik Charlston JazzBrasil (vibraphonist) celebrates their “Sunnys Wind” album release with a tribute to Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal at Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village at 7:30 & 9pm. From $25 🇧🇷
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
Celebrate Corpus Christi, the Catholic Mass that celebrates communion.
Saturday, June 12
Do the Central Park Tango at the Shakespeare Statue in Central Park from 6-8:30pm. Pay-as-you-wish (we suggest $10-20)
Sonia Olla & Ismael Fernandez play and dance Spanish flamenco at Drom in the East Village at 7pm. $20 🇪🇸
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
Celebrate Philippines Independence Day (from Spain) on June 12, 1898. 🇵🇭
The 116th Street Festival, Puerto Rican street fair is moved to Saturday, July 10, 2021.
Brazilians celebrate Dia dos Namorados (Brazilian Lover’s Day) because Saint Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost things also blesses young couples so they have good relationships. 🇧🇷
The 145th Westminster Dog Show opens at the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, New York through tomorrow.
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
No New York Salsa Festival this year.
Sunday, June 13
The 145th Westminster Dog Show closes with “Best in Show” live on Fox from the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, New York.
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade broadcast is hosted by Joe Torres and David Novarro on WABC-TV Channel 7 at 12pm ET. FREE 🇵🇷
LAST CHANCE
Catalina Chervin: Catharsis at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary in the Upper East Side closes. Viewing by appointment from 11am-6pm. 🇦🇷
Celebrate the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost things. In Brazil he is known for blessing young couples with a prosperous marriage.
Celebrate Eleguá, the Caribbean/West African orisha of the crossroads. Ashé.
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
Things to Do in NYC in June 2021 Week 2
June 14-20, 2021
Monday, June 14
It’s Monday Night Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 8pm. FREE
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
Remember Tito Rojas, the salsa romántica singer who was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico on June 14, 1955. 🇵🇷
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
Tuesday, June 15
OPENING NIGHT
The Blue Note Jazz Festival is at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village and Central Park SummerStage through August 15, 2021.
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
Wednesday, June 16
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
Thursday, June 17
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
NYC Pride’s Family Movie Night is virtual at nycpride.org at 7pm 🏳️🌈
Pedro Giraudo plays Argentine tango for dancing at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens at 7pm. Suggested donation: $10 🇦🇷
It’s Thursday Night Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 9pm. FREE
Remember Francisco Oller, the Puerto Rican impressionist painter who was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico on June 17, 1833.🇵🇷
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
Friday, June 18
NYC Pride’s Pride Films is virtual at nycpride.org at 6:30pm 🏳️🌈
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival 🎞🎪 is live.
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
Saturday, June 19 ~ Juneteenth
Celebrate Juneteenth when the U.S. Army forced Texans to end human slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. Texas was a Confederate traitor state who lost the U.S. Civil War in April, but continued being slavers. The Texas statehouse in Austin is doing it again through active voter suppression and rewriting history to cover up the history of Texas as an anti-Mexican, slave state. This is hard, but real. 🇺🇸
Paul Winter’s Summer Solstice Celebration is at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan at 4am in the morning.
PregonesPRTT community theatre presents Stage Garden Rumba from the Pregones Garden at PregonesPRTT in Mott Haven, The Bronx on the PregonesPRTT social channels and on BronxNet Community TV at 3pm. FREE
Do the Central Park Tango at the Shakespeare Statue in Central Park from 6-8:30pm. Pay-as-you-wish (we suggest $10-20)
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
Coney Island Mermaid Parade is in Coney Island, Brooklyn at 1pm. FREE Maybe later in summer.
Celebrate NYC Dance Week with free dance classes.
Happy Birthday Chico Buarque de Hollanda! The legendary Tropicália singer, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 19, 1944. 🇧🇷
Sunday, June 20
Happy Father’s Day!
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Flamenco jazz singer Barbara Martínez records a Direct-To-Vinyl concert live from Leesta Vall recording studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at 6pm. $25 Pre-Order Only leestaval.com
Celebrate the Summer Solstice (Midsummer), the shortest night of the year in the northern hemisphere.
The 20th Tribeca Film Festival is live.
Celebrate International Tennis Day.
Things to do in NYC
June 2021 Week 25
June 21-27, 2021
It’s Pride Week! 🏳️🌈
Monday, June 21
The new moon rises over New York City at 2:41am.
NYC Pride’s Human Rights Conference is virtual at nycpride.org at 9am 🏳️🌈
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 1 of 3 against the Atlanta Braves is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 7:10pm.
It’s Monday Night Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 8pm. FREE
Tuesday, June 22
The New York State Primary Election is today.
The New York Mets game 2 of 3 against the Atlanta Braves is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 7:10pm.
The Midsummer Night Swing festival is at Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center Tuesday-Sunday through July 10.
Celebrate Inti Raymi, Andean (Inca) new year. 🇵🇪🇧🇴🇪🇨🇨🇱
Wednesday, June 23
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 3 of 3 against the Atlanta Braves is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 7:10pm.
Celebrate Saint John’s Eve or Festa Junina (Brazil), the Latin midsummer celebration. 🇧🇷
Thursday, June 24
ON PROTEST AND MOURNING
Photographer and poet Nadia Alexis talks with curator Grace Aneiza Ali about her “What Endures” series which contrasts the presence and absence of self of Black women in the South, as part of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s “On Protest and Mourning” exhibition and student curriculum at onprotestandmourning.digital at 6pm ET.
NYC Pride’s Savor Pride virtual culinary experience benefits God’s Love We Deliver home meal service at nycpride.org at 6:30pm 🏳️🌈
It’s Thursday Night Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 9pm. FREE
Celebrate the Feast of St John the Baptist.
Friday, June 25
It’s the last day of the 2020-21 public school year in New York City.
NYC Pride’s Rally is virtual at nycpride.org at 6pm 🏳️🌈
It’s Neighborhood Stories: Voices of Pride at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 7pm. FREE 🏳️🌈
The New York Mets game 1 of 3 against the Philadelphia Phillies is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 7:10pm. ⚾️
OPENING DAY
Celebrate Black Restaurant Week through July 4, 2021.
Celebrate Mozambican Independence Day from Portugal on June 25, 1957. 🇲🇿
Saturday, June 26
NYC Pride’s Youth Pride street fair is virtual at nycpride.org at 3pm 🏳️🌈
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 2 of 3 against the Philadelphia Phillies is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 4:10pm.
Celebrate Black Restaurant Week.
Happy Birthday Gilberto Gil! The legendary singer-songwriter, was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on June 26, 1942. 🇧🇷
Sunday, June 27 ~ NYC Pride
Celebrate Black Restaurant Week.
The PrideFest street fair is both in-person on Fourth Ave between 9th and 13th St, and virtual as MarketFest from 11am – 6pm 🏳️🌈
The Pride Island concert party is virtual at 12pm 🏳️🌈
The NYC Pride Parade 2021 (NYC Pride March) is a broadcast special on ABC-7 in New York and streaming on abc7ny.com on Sunday, June 27, 2021 from 12-3pm ET. 🏳️🌈
The New York Mets game 3 of 3 against the Philadelphia Phillies is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 1:10pm. ⚾️
LAST CHANCE
Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean, an exhibition of Taíno and Carib art, closes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park. 🇧🇸🇨🇺🇩🇴🇭🇹🇵🇷
Celebrate the Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, the patron saint of Haiti. 🇭🇹
Things to do in NYC
June 2021 Week 26
June 28 – July 4, 2021
Monday, June 28 ~ Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall Riots began at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan’s West Village on June 28, 1969. Stand up to the bully! 🏳️🌈
It’s Monday Night Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village “Loisaida” at 8pm. FREE
Celebrate National Ceviche Day 🇵🇪.
Celebrate Black Restaurant Week.
Tuesday, June 29
Celebrate Black Restaurant Week.
Wednesday, June 30
LAST CHANCE
The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s digital exhibition OnProtestAndMourning.digital ends today. 🇵🇷
Remember “La Noche Triste” (the sad night) when the Spaniard Cortés fled the Aztec capital after betraying his host, Aztec ruler Montezuma II, on June 30, 1520. Don’t feel bad for the Spanish. They had a sickness for gold and conquered dishonorably through betrayal. A gold bar from this episode has recently been discovered (Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show, “The Guardian,” Friday, January 10, 2020).
Celebrate Black Restaurant Week.
June 2021 Planner
June is Pride Month, Caribbean Heritage Month and African American Music Appreciation Month.
The New York Primary Election is June 22, 2021.
JUNE HOLIDAYS
- Anniversary Day NYC Schools holiday, June 3, 2021 🗽
- Juneteenth the end of legal slavery in the USA, June 19, 1865 🇺🇸
- Last day of NYC Schools Friday, June 25, 2021 🗽
JUNE FESTIVALS
- Father’s Day on June 20, 2021 (3rd June Sunday)
- International Tennis Day on June 20 🎾
- Inti Raymi is on June 24, 2021 🇵🇪
- Stonewall Riots Commemoration is on June 28 🏳️🌈
- Yoruba New Year is on June 30 🇳🇬
JUNE INDEPENDENCE DAYS
- Italy Republic Day on June 2, 1946 🇮🇹
- Portugal Day on June 10, 1580 🇵🇹
- Philippines Independence Day 🇵🇭 from Spain on June 12, 1898
- Mozambican Independence Day 🇲🇿 from Portugal on June 25, 1957
- Malagasy Independence Day 🇲🇬 from France on June 26, 1960
- Djiboutian Independence Day 🇩🇯 from France on June 27, 1977
- Seychelles Independence Day 🇸🇨 from the UK on June 29, 1976
- Democratic Republic of Congo Independence Day 🇨🇩 from Belgium on June 30, 1960
JUNE PARADES
The City isn’t permitting parades as far out as August. Most parades are virtual, broadcast or postponed.
- Israel Parade is virtual on Sunday, June 6, 2021 🇮🇱
- Portugal Day Parade 🇵🇹
- Philippine Parade is virtual on Facebook on Sunday, June 6, 2021🇵🇭
- National Puerto Rican Day Parade is WABC-TV Channel 7 on Sunday, June 13, 2021. 🇵🇷
- Coney Island Mermaid Parade is on hold, maybe later in summer
- NYC Pride Parade is virtual 🏳️🌈
JUNE STREET FAIRS
We won’t know whether street fairs are allowed until late May.
- Portugal Day Festival is cancelled 🇵🇹
- Museum Mile Festival is virtual
- 116th Street Festival, Puerto Rican street fair, is moved to Saturday, July 10, 2021.
- PrideFest 🏳️🌈
JUNE ART
- NYC’s art world goes on summer schedule.
JUNE DANCE
- Central Park Tango resumes Saturday, June 5, 2021
- New York City Ballet
- American Ballet Theatre
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Midsummer Night Swing- NYC Dance Week | June 10-19, 2021
JUNE FASHION
- CFDA Fashion Awards UNCERTAIN at press time
JUNE FILM & TELEVISION
- Brklyn Film Festival virtual and Windmill Studios in Greenpoint, June 4-13, 2021
- African Diaspora International Film Festival moved to May 28-31, 2021
- 20th Tribeca Film Festival is June 9-20, 2021
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival moved to May 19-27, 2021
JUNE MUSIC
- Blue Note Jazz Festival is June 15 – August 15, 2021
- Paul Winter Summer Solstice Celebration is June 19, 2021 at 4:30am
- Concerts in the Parks
- Metropolitan Opera Summer Recitals
- The Governors Ball Music Festival moved to September 24-26, 2021
- New York Salsa Festival
- Pride Island
JUNE SPORTS
- New York Mets baseball, April 8 – October 3, 2021 ⚾️
- New York Yankees baseball, April 1 – October 3, 2021 ⚾️
- NYCFC soccer, April 3 – November 7, 2021 ⚽️
- NY Red Bulls soccer, April 3 – November 7, 2021 ⚽️
JUNE THEATRE
- Shakespeare in the Park “Merry Wives” Moved to July 5 – August 29
- Drama Desk Awards
- Tony Awards 2021 (for 2020 shows) moved to cable on Paramount+ on September 26
JUNE BIRTHDAYS
Luís de Camões, Portugal’s national poet, was born on June 10, 1580 (Portugal Day) 🇵🇹
JUNE NATURE
- Hurricane Season is June – November with a peak around September 11
- New Moon is June 10, 2021
- June Solstice is June 20, 2021
- “Strawberry Moon” full moon is Thursday, June 24, 2021
- Midsummer is Thursday, June 24, 2021