Truth and Reconciliation in Baltimore: A discussion on Policing in Baltimore
Truth and Reconciliation in Baltimore.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019. 6:30pm
The Barber Room, Charles Commons (enter on 33rd St)
Truth and Reconciliation in Baltimore.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019. 6:30pm
The Barber Room, Charles Commons (enter on 33rd St)
Visitors can enjoy free admission to the entire museum as part of our Free First Thursdays. The following tours will take place this day (groups of 10 or more people must book the tours ahead of time):
Ross J. Kelbaugh has been an avid collector of 19th and early 20th century photography for over 45 years. Part of his collecting has focused on African American photographs, which has enabled him to amass one of the most important collections, including a number of national treasures. The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture will feature his collection in a major exhibition this fall. This lecture will introduce some of his discoveries and the stories behind these national treasures.
Join Us For:
HISTORY THROUGH ART
A Student Showcase in Honor of Black History Month
Opening Reception & Gallery Walk
Friday, February 8
4:30pm – 7:00pm
Baltimore Visitor Center
401 Light Street, located along the Inner Harbor Promenade
The Arena Players Gallery & Exhibition Space, 801 McCulloh Street, is now showing its latest exhibition, Storypiece: Documentary Story Quilts of Dr. Joan M. E. Gaither. This collection spans from Dr. Gaither's personal mentors to Baltimore history and icons from the wider Maryland African American community. The exhibition is FREE and open to the public through February 28th, 2019. Gallery hours Thursday/ Friday 4pm-7pm; Saturday 12-6pm; Sunday 12-4pm. Call 410-728-6500 or email [email protected] to arrange group tours.
Begun in the early 1800s on land donated by John Eager Howard, Baltimore’s iconic Lexington Market holds the title as the oldest market in America. Ralph Waldo Emerson also dubbed it “the gastronomic capital of the world.”
Built in 1845 by the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, the Lloyd Street Synagogue was designed by noted Baltimore architect Robert Cary Long, Jr. and is the third oldest synagogue in the country. It is also a story of ever-fluid immigration in Baltimore as the building changed from Jewish to Catholic, back to Jewish, and eventually to public space as a museum. The Baltimore Hebrew Congregation owned the synagogue until 1889, when it transitioned into St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, one of the first Lithuanian "ethnic" parishes in the United States.
Join Dr. Meredith Oyen as she explores the many paths Jewish refugees took to arrive in Shanghai, explains how they experienced the war and the postwar transitions, and discusses how China now remembers its part in their rescue through the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.
Join us for our free Family Second Sunday drop-in activity. This month we are celebrating the 1970s and making a local vintage Hon accessory. View 1970s vintage objects from our collection and decorate your own cat eyeglasses. No advanced registration is required.
Explore historic ships through Virtual Reality technology! Experience being on board the USF Constellation (the one docked in the Inner Harbor!). With the help of the Univeristy of Baltimore GameLab, take your turn at what it would have been like to be on these 19th century ships. Museum admission is FREE on Second Sundays and no advanced registration required.
Celebrate African American History Month with God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by Harlem Renaissance poet James Weldon Johnson. Directed by Kwame Kenyatta Bey, this lyrical revision of Biblical tales stars local pastors and is a revelation for the whole family about the foundations behind the African American church. Tickets are $25 and available by phone at 410-728-6500 or online at www.arenaplayersinc.com. Playing weekends 2/8/19-2/24/19, showtimes are 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays. Sunday performances begin at 4pm.
From Dry Documents to Full Lives - Illuminating the Lives of the Enslaved and Their Descendants
This illustrated lecture shows the broad range of historic records, archival materials, photographs, and other sources used to explore the lives of the enslaved and document their descendants. Based on work from the Hampton Ethnography Project, Weidman will show the step-by-step research that can lead to discovering fuller histories of the enslaved and to identify family groups and the lives of descendants.
Enjoy a living history performance, film and talk about the NAACP and its leaders from the Jim Crow and Civil Rights era. See a living history performance of activist Juanita Jackson Mitchell, hear a lecture on the Baltimore branch by Professor Prudence Cumberbatch and conclude with a film screening of Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall & The NAACP (57 min). NAACP artifacts and panels covering 97 years of Maryland history will be on view.
Explore the history and culture of African-Americans including the Thurgood Marshall Memorial and Alex Haley Memorial. The tour ends at the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Led by a period dressed tour guide. This tour is offered in partnership with the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation.
Join Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein as she explores the poems and travel writings of Melech Ravitch from his visit to China in 1935. Ravitch was one of Warsaw’s most influential literary figures in the interwar period. His vivid, sometimes disturbing writings helps readers experience his own wonder at the novelty of traveling to these fabled places while drawing connections and a sense of familiarity between his Yiddish readers and der vayter mizrakh (the Far East).
Listen to the stories of Lindy and Jane, two 18th century women of Annapolis. Learn about their favorite folktales and how they got their names. Living history interpreter Scotti Preston will present the program and immerse participants in the traditions of storytelling. This program results in fufilling the "Scribe" badge for Girl Scouts. Museum admission and drop-in storytelling activity FREE. Program is for ages 5-14. Registration required.