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Kenny Adams is a writer, designer, film maker, and a father. As Executive Director of The Father’s Group, Kenny has bolstered and strengthened 

The Ujima Youth Program, developed the Night Out With The Father’s Group series, developed and administered The Father’s Group Film Festival featuring his own documentary, Blend, in which he interviews many Black residents of Central Oregon. Kenny has an IT professional background but his life is devoted to the betterment of his family, friends and community, by any means.

In this edition of Bend Don’t Break, we chat with Adams about the Juneteenth celebration happening June 17 and 18 in Drake Park in Bend, his work with The Father’s Group and much more.

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Trailer for Adams’ film, “Blend”

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This article appears in Source Weekly June 15, 2023.

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LISTEN: Celebrating Juneteenth with Kenny Adams 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
June 15, 2023

<h1>LISTEN: Celebrating Juneteenth with Kenny Adams 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />June 15, 2023</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">K</span>enny Adams is a writer, designer, film maker, and a father. As Executive Director of The Father’s Group, Kenny has bolstered and strengthened&nbsp;</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/bend-dont-break-podcast-kenny-adams.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/bend-dont-break-podcast-kenny-adams.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-48192" /></a></figure> <p> The Ujima Youth Program, developed the Night Out With <a href="https://thefathersgroup.org/" target="_blank">The Father’s Group</a> series, developed and administered The Father’s Group Film Festival featuring his own documentary, Blend, in which he interviews many Black residents of Central Oregon. Kenny has an IT professional background but his life is devoted to the betterment of his family, friends and community, by any means.</p> <p>In this edition of Bend Don't Break, we chat with Adams about the <a href="https://www.juneteenthcentralor.com/" target="_blank">Juneteenth celebration</a> happening June 17 and 18 in Drake Park in Bend, his work with The Father's Group and much more.</p> <p><b><i>Listen now: </i></b></p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/celebrating-juneteenth-with-kenny-adams" title="Celebrating Juneteenth with Kenny Adams" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Celebrating Juneteenth with Kenny Adams</a></div> </p></div> <p><b>Trailer for Adams' film, "Blend"</b></p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://www.youtube.com/embed/EsfePt7X2zQ </div> </figure> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-celebrating-juneteenth-with-kenny-adams-19335510/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=48186&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-celebrating-juneteenth-with-kenny-adams-19335510/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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