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For many people, theme parks reconnect us to childhood memories of thrilling rides, tasty food, and live entertainment. This shared nostalgia is easily attributed to the nearly three dozen amusement parks scattered across Maryland’s landscape over the past 144 years.

In the last two decades, Baltimore's music scene has risen from near obscurity to become one of the best in the country.

But due to the fleeting nature of music and art in the digital world, Baltimore's contributions to the local and national music scene haven’t been documented in one place, and some of these artists and their music are in danger of being forgotten.

The women’s suffrage movement. Cast-in-place concrete. Katherine Hepburn. What do these three things have in common? The Roosevelt Park Recreation Center, of course! In this installment of Virtual Histories, BAF board member Jackson Gilman-Forlini will present his ongoing research into the origins and architecture of Baltimore’s first rec center.

Anything can be grown in a container from a violet to fig tree once you learn the basics. Urban living can be challenging for budding gardeners who want to have more green space. Let a Baltimore City Gardener help you find the right plant for the right pot and how to make it thrive. Get tips on how to make your containers more interesting with plants you may never have considered or even known about to green up your city home.

We hope your virtual visit to the Pratt Library is a positive one.

RAIN CHECK! New Dates - Mon, August 17th and Tues, August 18th

Pull up in your car and spend an evening with the cast of Voices of Carmen. Hear excepts from Voices of Carmen performed by our 2020 Cast!

The Carmen Concert includes fresh new arrangements of George Bizet Opera Carmen plus original songs, from Pop to Hip Hop and R&B, written and arranged by CJay and Winston Philip. This concert series is based on their musical VOICES OF CARMEN which brings a contemporary spin to this iconic story.

The Emily Rose Trio is a group of jazz musicians from the greater Baltimore area. Emily Mahoney began her singing career as a classically trained soprano, but now sings all genres at her day job as a board-certified music therapist. Alexander Abdoulaev is a pianist, conductor, researcher, bandleader and currently a professor of music history at the University of Delaware. Tomas Drgon studied jaz theory and performance (bass) at the Bratislava Folk Conservatory in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is the bandleader of Baltimore Swing Drop.

The 2020 Enoch Pratt Free Library / Little Patuxent Review Poetry Contest finalists read along with one of the contest judges and last year's winner.

Happy 100th birthday, Ray Bradbury! Bring your own dandelion wine to this virtual celebration. Justina Ireland, Michael Swanwick, Sam Weller, and David Wright will share readings of Bradbury and join in a discussion of his legacy moderated by Sarah Pinsker.

The year 2020, in addition to being an election year, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification and the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment’s ratification. MdHS’s upcoming virtual exhibition, Forgotten Fight: The Struggle for Voting Rights in Maryland explores the long, combative road that Marylanders walked to get their right to be heard. But who were these champions?

The year 2020, in addition to being an election year, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification and the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment’s ratification. MdHS’s upcoming virtual exhibition, Forgotten Fight: The Struggle for Voting Rights in Maryland explores the long, combative road that Marylanders walked to get their right to be heard. But who were these champions?

Lisa Snowden-McCray will moderate a conversation with celeste doaks and Camonghne Felix.

The annual Artscape Artists’ Market will be held virtually from Friday, August 21 to Sunday, August 30, 2020. This digital opportunity will support artists, performers, makers and craftspeople across all artistic disciplines by providing a virtual platform for artist storefronts.

Enoch Pratt's Digital Equity Coordinator is here for you! Each week, Lo will share some of their digital expertise, from different ways to stay in contact, to how they evaluate software, to best practices in apps! Bring your questions, and ask Lo to share what you need to know.

The chat will also be broadcasted on the Enoch Pratt Free Library Facebook page.

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Baltimore Rock Opera Society Presents: Rock Opera 101, Part 2: Onto the Stage.

"Black music and with it the private black self were suddenly grossly public—tossed onstage, dressed in clown white, and bandied about with a gleeful arrogance that just yesterday had chosen to ignore and condescend." - Margo Jefferson

Swing out of summer with the Corner Pocket Jazz Band led by Jon Tigert.

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Join in Crowdcast:
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Watch the livestream here on Tuesday, August 25: https://bit.ly/3l3gpCA

Multimedia artist and musician Landis Expandis joins us for a live talk followed by a Q&A about his recent performance for the Walters’ Art Sound Now Series (available on YouTube). Landis' project LHL reimagines how the museum’s physical space can be utilized in the digital realm.

Raven Leilani will be in conversation about her debut novel, Luster, with Lisa Taddeo.

Raven Leilani’s work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Narrative, Yale Review, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England Review, among other publications. She won Narrative’s Ninth Annual Poetry Contest and the Matt Clark Editor’s Choice Prize, as well as short fiction prizes from Bat City Review and Blue Earth Review. Luster is her first novel.

Baltimore portraitist Jerrell Gibbs exhibits his work all over the nation. His paintings illustrate his life growing up as a Black man in Baltimore. Jerrell delves into the importance of collecting Baltimore experiences throughout history and how to create context for the Black experience beyond trauma in art.