Is Genealogy DNA Testing for Me?
A geneticist and two test users share how DNA testing works and how it helped their African and Polish/Jewish family history research. Please join us for discussion and Q&A.
A geneticist and two test users share how DNA testing works and how it helped their African and Polish/Jewish family history research. Please join us for discussion and Q&A.
You’re Invited to a listening party for Voices of Carmen - an urban adaptation of the opera by George Bizet. Meet the Carmen Youth Council and the creative team. Your feedback is vital to our process and we look forward to hearing from you. Space is limited, please RSVP
Doors Open: 4:30PM
A CITY OF MAGIC CARPETS
ERICK ANTONIO BENITEZ
GALLERY RECEPTION AND ARTIST TALK
WITH CHRISTOPHER STACKHOUSE
Artist Reception: Thursday, October 25, 2018 from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
On view in till December 11, 2018
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
City Hall is located at 100 Holliday Street Baltimore, MD 21202.
Emerging artist, Erick Antonio Benitez, the 2018 Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize winner, will have a gallery reception and artist talk with art critic, and curator, and poet Christopher Stackhouse to discuss his new exhibition, A City of Magic Carpets, currently on view at The Gallery in Baltimore City Hall.
Programming for the Cordially Invited exhibition features an inclusive mixed media workshop where participants respond to artworks in Cordially Invited followed by an educational panel discussion about representation and ability/disability in the arts community. Current panelists include George Ciscle, Maxine Taylor (MAXgallery), and Joy Davis (Waller Gallery). This will take place on Saturday, October 27th from 1-3pm (workshop) and 3-5pm (panel).
When Baltimore nonprofit Civic Works relocated 25 years ago to Clifton Mansion, the former summer home of Johns Hopkins, the new tenants found evidence of a large wall mural in what was once the Italianate mansion’s grand entry hall. In April 2017, work began to restore the space, including the 160-year-old mural. Now, almost 18 months later, conservators Thomas Moore, Gillian Quinn, and Laurie A.
Adam Gopnik, author, broadcaster and award-winning writer for The New Yorker, will address "Believing Without Belief, Spirituality Without Team Spirit: Thinking about Tolerance in the Twenty-First Century."
Free and open to the region’s academic and religious communities and the general public, this lecture will provide a lively forum for discussing the nature and limits of religious tolerance and belief. It will be followed by a kosher reception. Registration is required.
ArtsLAB is a traveling professional development symposium, presented by MCA each year, in different parts of the state. ArtsLAB is a place where artists, arts professionals, advocates and more, come together to discuss current issues and concerns facing the arts sector. In addition to thrilling performances, the morning portion highlights an individual keynote speaker which exemplifies best practices for the topic at hand. The afternoon portion of the day is a mix of hands-on workshops, panel discussions, and case studies.
Why should you attend ArtsLAB?
Influenza (the flu) causes misery every season. Why haven’t we conquered it yet? How and why is the virus constantly changing? Should Do I really need to get a flu shot? Join us as we learn all about influenza from a panel of experts from Johns Hopkins and the Maryland Department of Health. We’ll have an overview about the influenza virus and then learn about vaccines, pandemics, and how public health officials monitor each year to look for hazardous new strains. All audiences welcome.
The Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CI&E) will host a community launch week on the Evergreen campus from Nov. 12-16, 2018. The CI&E Launch Week will feature pop-up interactive innovation exercises, discussions, speakers, activities, and other events to engage the Loyola and Baltimore communities with the new Center. All CI&E Launch Week events are free and are open to the public. For a list of events and to register.
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is collaborating with Baltimore's ETC to celebrate Women's Entrepreneurship Day on Thursday, November 15, 2018 with two panel discussion about women and entrepreneurship.
The event is part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 12-18, that highlights entrepreneurship worldwide and the global impact that women can have when they create, start and grow businesses.