Houston MLK Grande Parade In Midtown-2019
The MLK Grande Parade In Houston's Midtown Is The Largest Single Day Multicultural Events In The U.S. That is Held In Honor Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The MLK Grande Parade In Houston's Midtown Is The Largest Single Day Multicultural Events In The U.S. That is Held In Honor Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Celebrate the holiday with musical performances, theater readings, a book discussion with Dr. King’s barber, films and craft activities for the family. Kaiser Permanente will provide an array of resource services for the community including free health screenings.
Program activities include:
A Center Stage reading of The Mountaintop
101 Psychology and the Black Power Movement with Jeffery Menzise
Choral Presentation: The Singing Sensations Youth Choir
Living History Talk: The Colored Waiting Room with Kevin Shird and Nelson Malden
Join the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts as we celebrate the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a parade featuring community-based civic organizations, community and high school bands, colorful cheer and dance squads, military units, equestrian groups and decorative floats.
The parade steps off at the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and Eutaw Street, proceeds south on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and disbands at Baltimore Street.
Mayor Catherine E. Pugh and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts celebrates the 19th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade. The parade commemorates the life of civil rights leader and icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. More than 70 groups participate in the parade including high school and community bands, honor/color guards, equestrian units, fraternities & sororities, lively dance squads and civic organizations. The parade steps off at the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr.
On My Sisters’ Shoulders” is the compelling story of the Mississippi Civil Rights movement from the point of view of its remarkable and courageous women who changed the course of history.
“If you can show just one film on the Civil Rights Movement, this should be the one.”
~ Professor Priscilla Murolo
(Sarah Lawrence College)
Join the Carmen Youth Council Jan 21st for a Voices of Carmen performance and discussion examining escalating conflicts and violence among youth. Help us honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life long legacy of nonviolence.
What is Voices of Carmen?
Voices of Carmen is an urban musical adaption of an iconic opera set in a high school to contemporary rhythm and beats, and a creative vehicle for important conversations. Join the #CarmenCoversation
DJ, Performances, & Refreshments
Join us for live music - we have a rotating calendar of local musical acts for you to enjoy!
The below schedule is subject to change; please give us a call if you'd like to confirm a specific act during your upcoming visit to Baltimore (410-685-6600).
IN OUR BALTIMORE BAR & LOUNGE:
Bobby Betlejewski
every Monday & Tuesday 5-9pm
every Friday 7-10pm
every Saturday 7-11pm
Mike Sharp
every Wednesday 5-9pm
every Friday 4-7pm
Kevin Buttry
every Thursday 5-9pm
every Saturday 4-7pm
A first-hand look into Baltimore’s thriving jazz scene at this bi-monthly session. Join us for an unpredictable, imaginative, and electrifying jazz, brought to you by some of the city’s finest players! Musicians are welcome to sit in -- notify [email protected] so we know to expect you.
Nathan Hook, saxophone
Alex Fornier, bass
Jonathan Baez, percussion
Performing in our first floor gallery.
Fiber Redux pairs the work of two mixed-media artists. In her colorful sculptural work, Kelly Boehmer entangles symbols of fantasies with metaphors for anxieties while Meg Schaap’s artwork expresses a contemporary portrait of France’s iconic Queen Marie Antoinette.
A free exhibit reception will be held on January 18 (snow date: January 25) from 6-8pm.
HoCo Open is an annual non-juried exhibit showcasing Howard County artists. Artists (aged 18 years and older) who live, work, or study in Howard County were invited to bring one piece of ready-to-hang original artwork completed in the past two years to the drop-off on January 3 from 4:30–6:30pm for inclusion in the exhibit.
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm. Closed January 21 & February 18.
In this 6-Week class you will experience the passion and the fierceness of Merengue, one of the international symbols of the Caribbean and Latin American dances. Throughout the class we will work together as a group to bring out the best in each other and connect with the roots of this cultural dance style. This course is going to consist of a weekly 2 hour class from 6pm to 8pm on Tuesday’s and finalizing with the closing act of an optional Performance at the Creative Alliance at The Patterson.
TUESDAYS, JAN 15 - FEB 19 | 6-8PM | $70, $65 MEMBERS
Learn ukulele in one of Creative Alliance’s most popular ongoing workshops – bring your own instrument and learn 2 – 3 songs in each engaging lesson.
Tuesdays, JAN 22 - FEB 19 | $90, $80 MEMBERS (Registration fee is for entire series)
Roxane Gay, a critically acclaimed author, will speak at Loyola University Maryland’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, at 7 p.m. in McGuire Hall.
In her lecture, “Roxane Gay With One N,” the author will discuss social issues as it relates to her ongoing work in feminism, body image, and social justice. A book signing will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public; however, tickets are required and should be reserved by Jan. 16, 2019. To get tickets, visit www.loyola.edu/mlk.
Ebony G. Patterson (b. 1981, Kingston, Jamaica; lives and works in Jamaica and Lexington, KY) creates opulent tapestries out of dazzling arrays of found and fabricated materials—glitter, sequins, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and other embellishments. For her exhibition at the BMA, Patterson will create an immersive installation featuring her work …and babies too… (2016) in the Berman Textile Gallery.
Mark Bradford’s exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale was born out of his longtime commitment to the inherently social nature of the material world we all inhabit.
This exhibition features approximately 30 photographs by artists born in Vietnam, China, Japan, and Korea between 1929 and 1980. Each work explores a time of day, a reflection on legend or history, a past remembered and missed, or a future imagined and anticipated. The images also explore suspended time, periods of waiting or boredom. Some of these works are real-time images, others were created as a result of the time an artist spent immersed in the world of the image—the time required to manipulate the subject or to capture the image.
Beauty stops us in our tracks. It makes us pause, look, consider. Sometimes it overwhelms us. We are often told art should aspire to this standard and be proportionate, symmetrical, naturalistic, and orderly. But what of work that is designed to revolt and terrify? Across sub-Saharan Africa, artists working across a range of states, societies, and cultures deliberately created artwork that violated conceptions of beauty, symmetry, and grace—both ours and theirs. Subverting Beauty features approximately two dozen works from sub-Saharan African’s colonial period (c. 1880–c.
In 1968, nine Catholic peace activists protested the Vietnam War in a fiery blaze in Catonsville, Maryland. “Activism and Art: the Catonsville Nine, 50 Years Later” examines one of the most iconic and written-about acts of political protest in 20th century American history. Through art created by Catonsville Nine activist Tom Lewis and elements of the documentary “Hit & Stay: a history of faith and resistance,” this exhibit explores the motivations and considers the consequences of civil disobedience, and contextualizes this protest in our present turbulent political climate.
In the fall of 2018, the BMA’s oldest friends group, the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society (PDPS), will celebrate its 50th anniversary by sponsoring an exhibition to highlight a selection of late 19th-century, modern, and contemporary works on paper that PDPS has helped the BMA acquire over the years. Installed in a gallery adjacent to the Cone Collection, this one-gallery exhibition will be organized in two six-month presentations, each including 20–30 prints, drawings, and artists’ books.