Book Talk with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein featuring The Disordered Cosmo: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime & Dreams Deferred
2023-05-06 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Saturday, May 6th | 1 pm | Location: Reginald F. Lewis Museum

A book signing will follow the book talk conversation. This program is included with Museum Admission.

Join The Lewis Museum as Dr. Izetta Autumn Mobley, Director of Interpretation, Collections & Education, talks with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein about race, gender, and space and her book, In The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime & Dreams Deferred. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein will share her love for physics; from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. She urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society, beginning with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an Assistant Professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is also a columnist for New Scientist and Physics World. Her research in theoretical physics focuses on cosmology, neutron stars, and dark matter. She also does research in Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. Nature recognized her as one of 10 people who shaped science in 2020, and Essence magazine has recognized her as one of “15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers.” A co-founder of Particles for Justice, she received the 2017 LGBT+ Physicists Acknowledgement of Excellence Award for her contributions to improving conditions for marginalized people in physics and the 2021 American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award for her contributions to particle cosmology.

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Black Futures/Black Imaginings: 18th Annual High School Juried Art Show
2023-05-09 - 2023-07-16
Black Futures/Black Imaginings: 18th Annual High School Juried Art Show
Art Exhibition Opens: May 9, 2023 to July 16, 2023
This year, 2023, marks 18 years since the Reginald F. Lewis Museum launched its High School Juried Art Show. Our 2023 theme, “Black Futures, Black Imaginings” coincides with two exciting exhibitions that explore Afro-Futurism. For its 18th year, the High School Juried Art Exhibition at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum provides an opportunity to honor the artistic talent of Maryland youth from all 25 school districts in the state. Partnering with the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA), the exhibition and programming will explore what young people imagine and conceive of for the future of the cities, state, region, the nation, and the world.
For 18 years, the High School Juried Art Show has provided students opportunities to voice, create, and showcase their own artistic vision and expression. This year, a cohort of selected students will now have the opportunity to work behind the scenes with museum staff and community art professionals to learn the art of curation and design.

Into Utopia 2023 Gala
2023-05-11 18:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | The North Club at M&T Bank Stadium, 1101 Russell Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202, United States
Into Utopia: The Reginald F. Lewis 2023 Gala
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Cocktail at 6 pm | Dinner & Awards at 7pm
The North Club at M&T Bank Stadium | 1101 Russell Street | Baltimore, MD
Tickets: $350 | VIP Table Experience including Chair’s Reception access and table of eight: $4,000 | Sponsorship opportunities available
Escape to a world where fantasy and futurism reign supreme as The Reginald F. Lewis Museum transports you to a place filled with limitless possibilities … Into Utopia properly starts the Spring Gala season and recognizes luminaries who boldly imagined the seemingly impossible and made it reality. Join us as we recognize leaders who embody our namesake’s distinction as a titanic of industry, a trailblazer, and a maverick.
Into Utopia is presented by Kaiser Permanente with the support of Orion level sponsor Whiting-Turner and Andromeda level sponsor CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield.
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First Friday: The Jonathan Gilmore Project - Funktopia Nation
2023-06-02 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring The Jonathan Gilmore Project – Funktopia Nation
Friday, June 2 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase
Relax and unwind from your week mingling at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum with local musical performances. Explore our latest one-of-a-kind exhibitions with food and drinks by local chefs from Lexington Market. During our Black Futures, Black Imaginings Music Edition, experience a wide range of music connected with Black futurism and involving the imagination, time, and liberation. Come early to view Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined.
Celebrate Black Music Month at the Lewis getting your P-Funk on with The Jonathan Gilmore Project as they present “Funktopia Nation.” Funktopia is part-theater, part-concert, and full of original funk, soul, and R&B music taking music-lovers on an intergalactic trip. Enjoy a theatrical concert performance featuring a series of selections from the hip hop, blues, funk, and disco genres and bringing Jonathan Gilmore together with a collective of Baltimore-based artists.
Jonathan Gilmore is an award-winning Baltimore native, a multidisciplinary artist that has over 10 years of experience in performance, programming, teaching, and directing. Deemed “Mr. Soul,” he has cut his teeth in musical theater (The Wiz, and Purlie), countless workshops and as a support vocalist for national artists Navasha Daya, Donnie Hathaway, and Musiq Soulchild to name a few. Jonathan is also the leader of two bands. The Experience with longtime collaborator Lawrence “Mann” Robinson and the Jonathan Gilmore Project whose debut album Yes Love Music was released in 2022. Known for his vocal range and dynamic performances, it has been said his shows are “the crossroad of church and a juke joint.”
Food and Beverages will be provided by Next Phaze Cafe and Lounge and Just Elbows, Tossed Together, and Deedles Donuts of Lexington Market.
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Juneteenth Celebration: Envisioning A New Future
2023-06-19 11:00 - 16:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Juneteenth Celebration: Envisioning A New Future
Monday, June 19 | 11 am to 4 pm
FREE ADMISSION

Celebrate Juneteenth this year at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum by looking towards the future. Visitors can learn about the origins of Juneteenth while enjoying musical performances by the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Benny Russell Big Band and actor and vocalist Keith Snipes. Commemorate the holiday by creating a time capsule with Culture Queen and sharing your memories in our Time Capsule Video Booth. Join us as we salute Maryland high school student artists and their works in the Black Futures, Black Imagining High School Juried Art Show with an artist talk by Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined exhibition artist Monica Ikegwu. Then, examined how 19th-century Black freedom fighters reimagined a free Black society with scholars Dr. Daniel J. Broyld of University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Angela T. Tate of National Museum of African American History & Culture. Enjoy Juneteenth-inspired refreshments in Slemmers Alley. Highlight Tours of our exhibition galleries will be provided.
This program is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.
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PRIDE Film and Poetry Mixer: How the Boogeyman Became a Poet featuring Tony Keith Jr., Candice Iloh, and the Baltimore International Black Film Festival
2023-06-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
PRIDE Film and Poetry Mixer: How the Boogeyman Became a Poet featuring Tony Keith Jr., Candice Iloh, and the Baltimore International Black Film Festival
Thursday, June 22 | 6 pm – 9 pm
Mix and mingle at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum with afro futuristic exhibits, poetry, short films, music, and refreshments during Baltimore Pride Week. The evening kicks off with a series of short films exploring themes on same gender love, coming of age, parental acceptance, and bullying screened by the Baltimore International Black Film Festival. A talk back about coming of age and growing into their own personhood will follow.

Tony Keith, Jr., Ph.D. and Candice Iloh will then present poetry and literary readings from their works, On How the Boogeyman Became a Poet and Everybody Looking. Dr. Keith shares original stories and poems and performs spoken word about his journey towards being an openly gay Black man in America. He discusses key moments as a teenager when poetry protected him from racism, poverty, homophobia, and white supremacy. In Candice Iloh’s debut novel in verse, Every Body Looking, college and the newfound independence it brings launches 18-year-old Ada from her conservative upbringing into a discovery of what she wants.
ABOUT OUR GUESTS
Anthony R. Keith, Jr, Ph.D. is a Black, gay, spoken word artist, poet, Hip-Hop educational leader, and writer who produces academic and community-based scholarship about the politics of Black language, and the possibilities for Black intellectualism to disrupt White supremacy in American education. Tony is a multi-year fellow and grant recipient of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities from his hometown of Washington, D.C., where he lives with his husband, Harry Christian, III.
Candice Iloh is a first generation Nigerian-American writer, dancer, and author of the 2020 National Book Award finalist and 2021 Printz Honoree, Every Body Looking. They have performed their work around the country, most notably at Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City; the Women in Poetry & Hip Hop celebration at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore; and as part of the Africa In Motion performing arts series at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.
The Baltimore International Black Film Festival (BIBFF) promotes and celebrates culturally significant films directed, produced, and starring African Americans and members of the African Diaspora. They also prominently feature and celebrate films with content of interest to the Same Gender Loving – Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (SGL-LGBT) community. Their mission is to couple the film festival with education, health, and exhibition programs that enrich life in Baltimore City and the greater Washington, D.C.; Maryland; and Virginia communities.
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PRIDE Children Story Hour: We Are Family
2023-06-24 11:00 - 16:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
PRIDE Children Story Hour: We Are Family
Saturday, June 24 | 11 am – 12 pm | Included with Museum Admission

The Lewis Museum celebrates Baltimore Pride Week with a children’s story reading and art activity rooted in the diverse ways families show up. Hear a story reading of A Tale of Two Mommies by Vanita Oelschlager and Papa, Daddy & Riley by Seamus Kirst read by our partners from the Pride Center of Maryland. An art project celebrating the families will follow.
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First Friday: B-Fly
2023-07-07 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring B-Fly
Friday, July 7 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase

Relax and unwind from your week and mingle at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum with local musical performances. Explore our latest one-of-a-kind exhibitions with food and drinks.  During our  Black Futures, Black Imaginings Music Edition, experience a wide range of music connected with Black futurism and involving the imagination, time, and liberation. Come early to view Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined.  Womanist. Formidable. Multi-disciplined… This sultry summer month will be a groove with the vocals of B-FLY. Hailing from the west coast, B-FLY is a non-fiction film producer and music creator who uses multiple mediums to express her “I” statements. As an advocate for the liberation of Black women and Black people, her lyrics resonate like a sonic bullhorn. Through her moniker, BlackShesus, B utilizes her original Afro-futurist style of filmmaking to produce unscripted short films and documentaries. As co-founder of BlakWater Production House in Baltimore, she continues paving the way for women in the technical arts.
“I produce films that convey our collective story, but I make music to tell my own.” – B, 2023
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The BlkRobot Project presents SOULBOT SATURDAY DESIGN SQUAD
2023-07-22 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
The BlkRobot Project presents SOULBOT SATURDAY DESIGN SQUAD
Saturday, July 22 | Session at 11:30am & 12:30pm
Ideal for patrons ages 7-12 | Included with Museum admission
Become a computer coder for a day and learn how to write the basic code used on application screens and devices we use every day. Participants will learn how to code on two platforms with STEM educator Jason Harris and become familiar with coding language to design a device. Space is limited.
Workshop participants should bring a laptop with them. A limited amount of laptops will be available for this event. Please contact Terry Taylor at terry.taylor@lewismuseum.org if you have any questions.

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Kindred Summer Book Club Session II with guest speaker Tananarive Due
2023-07-22 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Kindred Summer Book Club Session II with guest speaker Tananarive Due
Saturday, July 22nd | 3 pm EST |Virtual via Zoom (Link will be provided after registration and prior to the event)
Virtual guest speaker Tananarive Due will explore the author behind the book to continue the conversation about Kindred. Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award. Her writing has also been included in several best-of-the-year anthologies. Shortly after the publication of her debut novel, The Between, Due met sci-fi icon and MacArthur genius Octavia E. Butler at a Black writers’ conference, which led to friendship. Due wrote the article, “Inside My 90 – Minute Visit with Octavia Butler” for Essence Magazine in 2020.
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First Fridays: Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh and WhoCamille
2023-08-04 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh and WhoCamille
Friday, August 4 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Patrons must be 18 years or older to attend
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase

Relax and unwind from your week and mingle at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum with local musical performances. Explore our latest one-of-a-kind exhibitions with food and drinks by local chefs from Lexington Market.  During our Black Futures, Black Imaginings Music Edition, experience a wide range of music connected with Black futurism and involving the imagination, time, and liberation. Come early to view Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined.
Vibe with us this month as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop with performances by Maimouna “Mu Mu Fresh” Youssef and WhoCamille, a discussion on the five elements of hip hop, and a pop-up art show. Baltimore-born and D.C.-raised, Grammy®-nominated singer Maimouna Youssef blends gospel, jazz, soul, and hip hop to encourage listeners to believe in their own potential. Mumu Fresh has toured internationally as a critically acclaimed Afro-Indigenous singer, MC, songwriter, activist, workshop facilitator, and audio engineer who’s been called a “quadruple threat” by The Roots’ Black Thought and “groundbreaking” by Oscar-winning artist Common. Mumu Fresh’s music and philanthropic endeavors has been featured in publications such as Variety, Ebony, Essence, BET, NPR, Al-Jazeera, Afro Punk & more. Maimouna has also served as a mentor for several Grammy U-affiliated young aspiring artists.
From the 410 to the A, WhoCamille has become a name to remember. The Maryland native is showing the world who WhoCamille is! Not only can she carry a melody in her music, but she’ll tear a 16-bar verse to pieces when she gets behind the mic. Since dropping her debut EP ‘Copper and Carbon’ in 2019, WhoCamille has gone nowhere but up, making music for the daydreamers, paper-chasers, and passionate people. Winning the nationwide jingle contest for world-renowned restaurant Slutty Vegan in 2020 turned into WhoCamille being the first artist on Slutty Productions. She’s opened for some of the biggest names in music including Lil Baby, Moneybagg Yo, King Combs, and more. Appealing to fans all over the country and obtaining coverage from HypeBae, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Bedroom Barz with Sway and more, WhoCamille is WHO you need to know.
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Hip Hop Writers Workshop Metaphors for the Music: Hip-Hop & Poetry from the Page to the Stage
2023-08-05 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Hip-Hop Writers Workshop Metaphors for the Music: Hip-Hop & Poetry from the Page to the Stage
Saturday, August 5 | 1 pm | Included with Museum admission
The celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop continues as you Rap to your own beats by participating in a workshop for youth and adults. Join Ed Emcee Academy in this writing and performance workshop exploring the evolution of hip hop culture from the late 80’s to early 2000, with a specific focus on influential poets, rappers, spoken word artists and emcees. The Ed Emcee Academy team will discuss the relationship between written and spoken words, rhythm, lyricism, beat, flow, and rhyme in hip hop music. This workshop includes a creative writing activity followed by an open mic experience for the audience to share their works.
Space is limited.
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Kindred Summer Club Session 3 and Kindred FX Film Screening - In Person
2023-08-12 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
NOTICE?: The Kindred event for tomorrow is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We will reschedule the event at a later date. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Visitor Services at 443-262-1800. Thank you.
Kindred Summer Club Session 3 and Kindred FX Film Screening – In Person
Guest Speaker Courtney Lee-Mitchell
Saturday, August 12 | 1 pm
Join us as we conclude our Summer Book Club with an in-person screening of episodes from the FX Series Kindred adapted from the celebrated Octavia Butler novel by writer and showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
The afternoon will conclude with a conversation with Kindred executive producer Courtney Lee-Mitchell. From 2007 to 2012, Courtney worked in development for Cine Mosaic, the NYC-based production company founded by Lydia Dean Pilcher. Films on which Courtney worked during her time at Cine Mosaic include the Mira Nair-directed feature films The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Amelia as well as the Fox Searchlight feature film Notorious about the life of Notorious B.I.G. directed by George Tillman, Jr. After leaving Cine Mosaic, Courtney began developing projects, including Kindred, through her company, 4th Power Films.

Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined Artist Panel - Part II
2023-08-19 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined Artist Panel – Part II
Saturday, August 19 | 2 pm
Join several artists from Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined for a conversation examining afro-futurism and how it served as an inspiration for their works. The panel is moderated by Afro-Futurist Manifesto originating curator Myrtis Bedolla of Galerie Myrtis.
Panelists will include:

Arvie Smith
Felandus Thames
M. Scott Johnson
Morel Doucet

Developed for the 2022 Venice Biennale, one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world, Afro-Futurist Manifesto brings together a stellar assemblage of African-American artists who construct a future forged in transatlantic links and Afrofuturism’s ideology to expand the notion of Blackness at the intersection of technology and liberation. Bedolla is only the second Black woman commissioned to curate a showing for the renowned exhibition.
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First Fridays: Marcus H. Mitchell
2023-09-01 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring Marcus H. Mitchell
Friday, September 1 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Patrons must be 18 years or older to attend
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase

Social Music Artist “ Marcus H. Mitchell is not only an established saxophonist and pianist. He is also CEO and President of 24th Music a division of MHM Entertainment Group – a multi- faceted entertainment company that brings ‘SOCIAL MUSIC. What is “SOCIAL MUSIC “? It is a vast amount of eclectic nuances allowing him to explore his musicianship with no restrictions. Therefore as the listener, Marcus’ music will take you on a journey within any type of setting providing an array of experiences relative to all things social. In 25 years, he has released 30 projects and 1 DVD. Marcus’ most profound release “20” features Gerald Albright, Jeff Lorber and a host of others.
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ArtClusive Series: Beats per Minute "Celebrating the Timeless Legacy of Tupac in Baltimore"
2023-09-07 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
ArtClusive Series: Beats per Minute “Celebrating the Timeless Legacy of Tupac in Baltimore”
Thursday, September 7 | 6:30 pm
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and Beats per Minute as we reflect on Tupac Shakur’s hip hop legacy as a Baltimore teen on the anniversary of his death (September 7, 1996). Author and artist Darrin Keith Bastfield will discuss his artwork, Shakurspeare, an original oil painting that includes the very first master audio recording of Tupac describing the late rapper’s dream of becoming a Shakespearean actor at age 15. Darrin will share young Tupac’s original Baltimore raps and winning poetry submissions presented throughout Bmore’s community. Interviews connected to Tupac’s time at the Baltimore School of the Arts will be viewed from portions of Darrin’s working documentary, “Born Busy: Exploring Tupac Shakur and The Power of Arts and Culture.” Kenneth Bond will serve as moderator with a Q & A following.
Darrin Keith Bastfield is a visual artist, author, filmmaker, and President of BecomeAPatron.org, advocating for access to arts and culture for underserved youth. Bastfield graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts in 1988 and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. He authored Back in the Day: My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur, first published in 2002 chronicling their teenage years in Baltimore. As an art broker, Bastfield represents Dr. Samella Lewis’s private collection featuring works by Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Richmond Barthe’. His artwork has appeared in solo exhibitions, national television, publications Including the 10th anniversary edition of Michael Eric Dyson’s ‘Holla If You Hear Me.’
Kenneth Bond served 27 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. While in prison, he educated himself and became a mentor, spiritual leader,and positive influence. He continues today to spread positivity and purpose with his voice and words.
This program is museum general admission.
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Film Screening & Discussion The Silent Killer: Prostate Cancer in the Black Community
2023-09-09 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Film Screening & Discussion
The Silent Killer: Prostate Cancer in the Black Community
Saturday, September 9th | 1 pm
September is National Prostate Health Month. Health statistics reveal that 1 in 6 African American will struggle with prostate cancer – a rate higher than any other group. Join The Reginald F. Lewis Museum and ZERO Prostate Cancer for a documentary screening of The Silent Killer: Prostate Cancer in the Black Community. Following the film screening there will be a panel discussion featuring the filmmaker Landi Maduro, Eric Morrow, a prostate cancer survivor, Dr. Sherrie Wallington, health disparities researcher specializing in oncology in the Policy, Populations and Systems department and Kris Bennett of ZERO Prostate will moderate the discussion. The panel will talk about the film, how prostate cancer impacts the Black community, and provide suggestions to address barriers to treatment and care. Questions from the audience will be taken during a Q & A. Light refreshments will be provided.
A CHANCE TO WIN : Are you a Baltimore Orioles fan? Program attendees have the opportunity to win Baltimore Oriole Tickets for an upcoming home game when attending this event.
About the Participants
Kris Bennett is the new Director of Health Equity, Community Organizing and Engagement at ZERO after years of working in the public health sector, with virtually all of his experience centered around health equity and health disparities. Before ZERO, Kris designed and managed programs in homeless services and community health care. He also worked in the political sector, collaborating with state and local level politicians on health equity and advocacy matters. Kris earned his undergraduate degree from Lesley University, his first Masters in Management from Durham University in the United Kingdom, and is currently working towards a dual MSW and MPH from the University of Alabama. Kris came to ZERO because he was excited to work with so many people who are passionate about ending prostate cancer. As a Black man in America with a personal tie to cancer, Kris understands how scary the idea of prostate cancer can be, let alone a diagnosis. He’s passionately invested in devoting his time and skills to helping eradicate prostate cancer for all.
ZERO Prostate Cancer hosts the Prostate Cancer in the Black Community film series throughout the country, using public viewings to highlight and raise awareness about prostate cancer within the Black community.
Eric Morrow was diagnosed in 2021 with very high risk, locally advanced prostate cancer, at age 49. A husband and father with two teenage children, Eric opted for an aggressive treatment program including robotic assisted radical prostatectomy, two years of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT, hormone therapy), and external beam radiation therapy. He will complete ADT in October 2023 and remains optimistic about his long-term prognosis and future prostate cancer research and treatment developments. Professionally, Eric served as an Air Force officer for 20 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2013. He then spent nine years as a sales rep and executive in the medical device industry before taking a sabbatical in 2023 to devote more time to family and advocacy efforts. Eric is a ZERO Prostate Cancer Champion and a Consumer Reviewer with the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program’s Prostate Cancer Research Program. He volunteers as a patient advocate with the Center for Prostate Disease Research at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda. He currently works from home in Bowie, Maryland.
Landi Maduro is an awarding winning writer, director, and producer who has worked in the film industry for over 10 years. She has continued to direct and produced short films, features, music videos, small business commercials, business tutorials, and documentaries since launching her production company, Bluechild Entertainment, in 2012. Her documentary The Silent Killer: Prostate Cancer In The African American Community is currently streaming on Tubi TV and Amazon Prime. The award-winning documentary was screened for the Congressional Black Caucus and has been used by healthcare professionals and scholars to educate on the health disparities African American men face in dealing with prostate cancer. She is also the proud Founder & President of Women of Color Filmmakers; a 501c3 nonprofit organization that garners support, skill-building, and networking for female filmmakers as they pursue careers in film and television.
Dr. Sherrie Flynt Wallington is an associate professor (tenured) and health disparities researcher specializing in oncology in the Policy, Populations and Systems department. Dr. Wallington teaches and conducts research on health communication, social determinants of health, and community-based participatory research strategies that focus on prevention, health disparities, and clinical trial recruitment and engagement. She has a particular interest in cancer, particularly prostate, breast, and HPV-associated cancers. The American Cancer Society, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Cancer Institute support her research. She has authored several peer-reviewed publications and serves as a scientific grant reviewer for the NIH and other national foundations. In addition, she is a program evaluator and consultant on NIH-funded, governmental, and foundation grant awards.
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Note: This program is a free event. To view museum exhibitions, tickets must be purchased at the front desk.
This program is in conjunction with Blacks in White: African American Health Professionals.
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Restorative and Laughter Yoga with Jupiter Aura from Aura Well World Wide - 2 sessions
2023-09-16 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Restorative and Laughter Yoga with Jupiter Aura from Aura Well World Wide

September 16th, 2023 | 1 pm – 3 pm (2 sessions) Rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit through mindful breathing and yoga practice at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Our Yoga Wellness Series invites yoga enthusiasts, new and advanced to join us for a variety of holistic and creative yoga workshops between September 2023 and January 2024. Participants should bring yoga mats and wear comfortable clothing.

This class will gently help the body rest, heal and restore balance while also practicing laughter breathing exercises for deeper mind awareness.
About Participants
Aura Well Worldwide (A.W.W.) is a creative wellness commingling of well experienced community leaders, multi-disciplinary artists + wellness practitioners born from a passionate spark of re-imagining what pleasure looks like throughout life’s processes!
At Aura Well, we put our good FAITH in simplifying the process of self-discovery, daily growth and innovation. Our approach focuses on nurturing our clients to tap into their creative potential, embrace change and enhance their own healing abilities so they can get down to business, be it passion or PURPOSE.

Note: Included with Museum admission. Register below. This program is in conjunction with Blacks in White: African American Health Professionals.
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WordSmith & Danny Simmons presents WordSmith Baltimore
2023-09-22 19:00 - 23:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Doors open at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Dinner available for purchase from HoodFellas Bistro and Catering. Adult beverages from Sassy Shots.
Poetry has been and continues to be experiencing a renaissance. Artist, poet and entrepreneur Danny Simmons recognized this several years ago in founding Def Poetry Jam which was responsible for discovering many young talented poets and visual artists, several of whom went on to fame, including Saul Williams, Kanye West, Kehinde Wiley, and Wangechi Mutu.
Join us for the Baltimore installation of this critically acclaimed, intimate series of performances by world renowned musicians paired with icons from the world of poetry, delivered against a backdrop of curated visuals featuring established and emerging artists in celebration of Artscape, the return of Simmons to his family home, and the indelible mark his cousin – lauded artist Derrick Adams – has made on both the local and national arts landscape.
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Our musical guests include:
Jamaaladeen Tacuma‘s Band of Resistance featuring guitarist Jake Morelli, Marc Cary on keyboard, and Wes Watkins on percussion
Lezlie Harrison
Khemist
Words:
Toni Blackman
Derick D. Cross
Kraal “Kayo” Charles
Bonafide Rojas
Baltimore Slam Team
A virtual art display curated by Alma Roberts that will include:
Anita Henley Carrington
Ram Sueno
Tanya Bracey
Erasto Curtis Matthews
Thomas Dade
Marie Antoinette Diaw
This event is made possible through the generous support of Verizon.
About Our Honoree
Derrick Adams (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA from Pratt University, New York, in 1996 and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University, New York, in 2003. Adams has held numerous teaching positions and is currently a tenured assistant professor in the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at CUNY Brooklyn College, and has received an Honorary Doctorate from MICA. Adams celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. He has developed an iconography of joy, leisure, and the pursuit of happiness within a practice that encompasses paintings, sculptures, collages, performances, videos, and public projects. Adams synthesizes representational imagery with planar Cubist geometry to produce multifaceted figures and faces that address the richness of the Black experience.
In 2022, Adams established Charm City Cultural Cultivation, an organization to support and encourage underserved communities in the city of Baltimore through events conducted by three entities: The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a residency program that subscribes to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative; The Black Baltimore Digital Database, a collaborative counter-institutional space for collecting, storing, and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives; and Zora’s Den, an online community of Black women writers started in January 2017, which has since expanded into in-person writing workshops, a writers’ circle, and a monthly reading series that strive to promote instruction, support, and social engagement.
About The Featured Artists
Danny Simmons, Jr., is an American abstract painter from Queens, NY, who once coined his particular style of painting as “neo-African Abstract Expressionism.” His talent and passion for the arts reaches beyond the canvas. He is a published author, poet, painter and art philanthropist. He has become a leader in the art world with his philanthropic ventures, artistic talents and creative mind and drive. Danny Simmons also played an instrumental role in the nation’s newfound love for poetry, particularly in the conceiving of and co-producing the hit HBO show Def Poetry Jam, a weekly TV series that exhibits an eclectic blend of old-school poets (such as legendary expressionists Nikki Giovanni and Amiri Baraka) and new-school poets. Its success is quite evident: Def Poetry is now offered as an elective at the University of Wisconsin, and Simmons won a Tony Award for the Broadway version of the show. Simmons is co-founder – along with his siblings, music mogul Russell and hip hop legend Joseph Simmons aka “Rev Run” – and president of the Rush Arts Gallery. He is also founder and VP of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization “dedicated to providing disadvantaged urban youth with significant arts exposure and access to the arts.” He is a former board member of the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Conference of Artists. And his own works have been obtained by art lovers and renowned celebrities everywhere, including: music industry executive/producer Lyor Cohen, film director/producer Stan Lathan, late musical producer Andre Harrell, actor Ron Perlman, renowned businessman Olivier Sarkozy, actress Annabella Sciorra, actor Will Smith, and many others. Danny Simmons holds a Bachelor’s degree in social work from New York University, a Masters in public finance from Long Island University, and is the recipient of an honorary Ph.D. from Long Island University. He continues to thrive at his ‘home gallery’ in Philadelphia, PA.
Few musicians leave their audiences with a feeling that they have truly witnessed something amazing. Artist/Producer/Performer/Arranger/Innovator AND Bassist – Jamaaladeen Tacuma does just that. This native Philadelphian has always stretched the old mold of what and how a bassist is supposed to play. Tacuma has simply re-defined his instrument’s artistic potential.In the mid 70’s, his creatively free approach to the bass caught the eye and ear of the legendary saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He has performed and recorded with saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, Grover Washington Jr., David Murray, Odean Pope, Wolfgang Puschnig, and James Carter. He has worked with orchestras led by Anthony Davis at Carnegie Hall, to recording and performing with the Hip Hop rap group The Roots, DJ King Britt and DJ Logic. He has even written music for the hit TV show, “The Cosby Show.” He has worked with poets Jayne Cortez, Quincy Troupe, Amiri Baraka and co-wrote and co-produced a song entitled “WOMEN FIRST” with the R&B Neo Soul group from Philadelphia, KINDRED (the family soul) on their new CD recording “IN THIS LIFE TOGETHER,” on the Hidden Beach/Motown label (2006).

About Our Curator
Alma Roberts is a Baltimore-based, second generation abstract expressionist artist. At the age of 62, she literally picked up a paint brush and began producing what has been described as “fully formed, energetic abstract compositions” that belied the fact that she was at the time, new to the medium. Her works provide an insight into her viewpoints on life and the issues and forces that impact it. Roberts has had numerous exhibits over the course of the ten years she has been painting. In 2017, she had a successful solo exhibition at the City Hall Gallery in her beloved hometown of Baltimore. She also has one of her compositions (A Vessel Full of Power, 2017) in the permanent collection of the James E. Lewis Museum at her undergraduate Alma Mater, Morgan State University (Baltimore). Roberts is a founding member of the Joshua Johnson Council at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History and Culture and is also a Commissioner on the Baltimore Public Art Commission that oversees and approves the installation and maintenance public art throughout the city.

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Blacks In White: African American Health Professionals
2023-09-28 - 2024-02-04 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Blacks In White: African American Health Professionals
September 28, 2023 – May 20, 2024
This exhibition proactively presents a snapshot of African American and Black health professionals in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Chesapeake region and their many interventions to protect and support Black public health. Blacks in White traces health practitioners’ commitment, innovation, ingenuity, and resistance to medical racism. The narratives presented in the exhibition intentionally trace the continuous and creative efforts of Black community members and health professionals to provide care for and to African Americans.
Blacks in White explores four primary themes that help frame the contributions of African American health professionals in the region, including: a timeline outlining African American access to health, the role of key institutions in supporting public health education for African Americans, exploring the pivotal role of Provident Hospital, and highlighting the contributions of African American community health giants.
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Vision & Spirit | African American Art: Works from the Bank of America Collection
2023-10-05 - 2024-01-15 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Vision & Spirit | African American Art: Works from the Bank of America Collection
October 5, 2023 – January 15, 2024
Vision & Spirit | African American Art: Works from the Bank of America Collection is composed of more than 100 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and mixed-media works by 48 artists born in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The exhibition highlights key aspects of these artists’ lives, as well as the important objects they created. Vision & Spirit focuses on these talented individuals’ strength and spirit as creative forces whose work continues to shape our understanding of the world.
The wide variety of artists represented in the exhibition look forward, contribute to progress and guide the visitor toward greater equity and understanding. The theme of Vision & Spirit is resilience and demonstrates how African American artists have embodied this quality in their work. The exhibition explores the meaning of resilience: Is it perseverance? Is it staying power, or is it something much deeper? Resilience embodies strength and humanity.
Artists in the exhibition include Henry Clay Anderson, Chelle Barbour, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Willie Cole, Murry DePillars, Jacob Lawrence, Whitfield Lovell, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, Jamel Shabazz, and James VanDerZee.
Artists have always mattered. Whether it’s Lorna Simpson, whose work challenges narrow, conventional views of identity, history and memory using the African American woman as a visual point of departure, or Dewey Crumpler, whose examinations of the lure of contemporary pop culture in his mixed-media works explore global consumer capitalism, they inspire other artists to push forward and develop new ideas.
Vision & Spirit inspires viewers to go on a journey of revelation and discovery. Passion, ingenuity, and beauty are brought forth by the creative geniuses in this exhibition. Art is a two-way conversation; viewing art is not a passive act. The artist speaks through their work, and, by way of their experience, the viewer has the opportunity and privilege to listen, reflect and to be transformed.
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First Fridays: The JoGo Project
2023-10-06 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring The JoGo Project
Friday, October 6 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase
The JoGo Project is a WAMMIE Award winning Jazz and Go-Go fusion band from Washington, DC founded in 2014 by DC Native Elijah Jamal Balbed, who performed with the late, great Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown. In 2019, the band won the WAMMIE Award in the category of Best Go-Go Song for “Dear Draylen” composed by Elijah, with lyrics by JusPaul Spires and featured artist Wes Felton. In 2020, the band released their debut holiday track “JoGo Christmas” featuring Go-Go legend Sugar Bear.
Website: www.jogoproject.com
FB: facebook.com/thejogoproject
IG: @thejogoproject
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Free Exhibition Day at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
2023-10-07 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
FREE Exhibition Day at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | 10am – 5pm
Enjoy a free museum admission day at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum touring the latest fall exhibitions to include Vision & Spirit: African American Art – Works from the Bank of America Collection and Blacks in White: African American Health Professionals. Bring your family and friends to tour the exhibits and enjoy one of the following art-related activities.
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Vision & Spirit African American Art Workshop for Kids
11am – 1pm

Inspired to become an artist like art masters Jacob Lawrence or Romare Bearden? Join us for this fun and interactive artwork workshop dabbling with drawing and mixed media materials utilizing your creativity. This workshop will be facilitated by visual artist Charles Mason III.
Seats are limited.
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Vision & Spirit Art Panel Discussion
2pm – 3:30pm

Spend the afternoon with Black community artists and curators in dialogue about their journey as artists and how their work contributes to the legacy of Black visual culture. Artists will discuss artist’s works from Vision & Spirit: African American Art and how it connects with Black artist’s experiences today. Panelists include:

Charles Mason – Charles Mason III is a visual artist who works in photography, mix media, installation, and painting to discuss social, racial, political, history, and identity issues. He has curated several shows in Baltimore and Philadelphia and has exhibited work in institutions such as The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Woodmere Art Museum, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, and Maryland Art Place. He has participated in group exhibitions to include, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) and The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD.
Ernest Shaw – Ernest Shaw Jr is known for Easel and mural painting, portrait specialty and African-American subjects. Being a native of West Baltimore has taught Artist Ernest Shaw the meaning of perseverance, community and integrity. As a product of Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore School for the Arts, Morgan State University and Howard University Shaw recognizes the importance of using his skills and talents for the betterment of others. For Ernest, teaching is also an artistic medium.
Jeffrey Kent – Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist and curator whose life’s work embodies healing and wellness through creativity in art making, mentorship, and stewardship. Jeffrey Kent is the founder of the Subbasement Artist Studios (2004-2014), an alternative art space in Baltimore and also Amy Sherald’s first artist studio. He is the co-founder of Connect+Collect (2018 – current), an initiative designed to create awareness and momentum among new and experienced collectors, provide professional development to Baltimore-based artists, and promote a culture of collecting in Baltimore.

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Vision & Spirit Art Panel Discussion
2023-10-07 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Vision & Spirit Art Panel Discussion

Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | 2pm – 3:30pm
Spend the afternoon with Black community artists and curators in dialogue about their journey as artists and how their work contributes to the legacy of Black visual culture. Artists will discuss artist’s works from Vision & Spirit: African American Art and how it connects with Black artist’s experiences today. Panelists include:

Charles Mason lll – Charles Mason III is a visual artist who works in photography, mix media, installation, and painting to discuss social, racial, political, history, and identity issues. He has curated several shows in Baltimore and Philadelphia and has exhibited work in institutions such as The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Woodmere Art Museum, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, and Maryland Art Place. He has participated in group exhibitions to include, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) and The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD.

Ernest Shaw – Ernest Shaw Jr is known for Easel and mural painting, portrait specialty and African-American subjects. Being a native of West Baltimore has taught Artist Ernest Shaw the meaning of perseverance, community and integrity. As a product of Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore School for the Arts, Morgan State University and Howard University Shaw recognizes the importance of using his skills and talents for the betterment of others. For Ernest, teaching is also an artistic medium.

Faith Couch – Faith Couch is a photographer, educator, and curator whose work illuminates the Black memory landscape and the mundane. She received her BFA in Photography from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 and has exhibited her work internationally. She has most notably exhibited at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, the ICP, the Nasher Museum at Duke, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Aperture Foundation in NYC and more. Most recently, Couch is a Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 in Art and Style honoree.

Jeffrey Kent – Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist and curator whose life’s work embodies healing and wellness through creativity in art making, mentorship, and stewardship. Jeffrey Kent is the founder of the Subbasement Artist Studios (2004-2014), an alternative art space in Baltimore and also Amy Sherald’s first artist studio. He is the co-founder of Connect+Collect (2018 – current), an initiative designed to create awareness and momentum among new and experienced collectors, provide professional development to Baltimore-based artists, and promote a culture of collecting in Baltimore.

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Vision & Spirit African American Art Workshop for Kids
2023-10-07 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Vision & Spirit African American Art Workshop for Kids

Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | 11am – 1pm
Inspired to become an artist like art masters Jacob Lawrence or Romare Bearden? Join us for this fun and interactive artwork workshop dabbling with drawing and mixed media materials utilizing your creativity. This workshop will be facilitated by visual artist Charles Mason III.
Free Museum Admission
Seats are limited.

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Blacks in White Author Series: Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America with Dr. Monique Rainford
2023-10-12 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Blacks in White Author Series: Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America with Dr. Monique Rainford moderated by Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead
Thursday, October 12th, 2023 | 6:30pm – 8pm
This event is free and open to the public.

Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. Dr. Monique Rainford is working to better understand these disparities and do something about them. Pregnant While Black is a hopeful exploration of the issues pregnant Black women face in America. Within these pages, Dr. Rainford draws on over twenty years of experience working in obstetrics and gynecology to offer a primer on Black pregnancies and how to better care for them. She shares the successes and testimonies of Black women who have struggled during pregnancy and childbirth, anchoring the stories of these women with carefully researched facts.
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for this overdue conversation on Black maternal health with Dr. Monique Rainford. Questions from the audience will be taken during a Q & A followed with an author book signing. This book conversation will be moderated by WEAA Radio Show Host, Dr. Kaye Whitehead. This program is in conjunction with Blacks in White: African American Health Professionals.
About the Participant:
Monique Rainford, MD, is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist with over twenty years’ experience. An award-winning graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School, she is currently an assistant professor at Yale Medicine. Her writing about maternal and other health disparities experienced by Black women has been featured in multiple publications, including Afro, Elephant Journal, and the Hartford Courant, and her broader work related to women’s health and wellness has been featured in the South Florida Times, the Baltimore Sun, Thought Catalog, and the Journal of Reproductive Medicine. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.
Kaye Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., professor of communication and African and African American Studies, is a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and the award-winning radio host of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9FM. She is also the founder and executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice, and the founding executive director of the Emilie Frances Davis Center for Education, Research, and Culture. Her scholarship examines the ways race, class, and gender coalesce in American classrooms as well as in political and social environments.
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Book Talk - Kin: Rooted in Hope with Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford
2023-10-19 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Book Talk – Kin: Rooted in Hope with Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford | Sponsored by The Robert Family Fund with support by Verizon
Moderated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond
Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 6pm – 9pm
FREE EVENT | The first 125 registrants get a copy of the book!

Celebrate Black Family roots on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Jeffery Boston Weatherford’s newest book release, Kin: Rooted in Hope. Rendered in searing poems and stunning scratchboard art, a powerful portrait of a Black family tree is shaped by enslavement and freedom. From scraps of history, this mother and son duo have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were in a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too universal.
Carole’s poems capture voices ranging from her ancestors to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation house and land itself that connects them all, and Jeffery’s evocative illustrations help carry the story from the first mention of a forebear listed as property in a 1781 ledger to he and his mother’s homegoing trip to Africa in 2016. This book conversation is moderated by Rachel D. Graham, Director of External Relations for The Lewis Museum. This book talk includes a book signing and light refreshments. A limited supply of free books will be available. Bring family, youth and educators to this intergenerational book event.
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Fall Fest: Health and Wellness Day Presented by MedStar Health
2023-10-28 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Fallfest: Health and Wellness Day Presented by MedStar Health

Saturday, October 28th, 2023 | 11am – 4pm | FREE EVENT
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum this fall for a day of health and wellness activities that focuses on the well being of your body, mind and spirit. Limber the body to Trap Yoga with hip hop beats with yoga instructor Brandon Copeland. Discover and sample healthy holiday recipes with Chef Clarence of Food Rx from MedStar Health. Participate in a discussion about racial health inequities in medicine and how they should be addressed. Enjoy a live Short Kuts Show with storytellers in the healthcare field sharing their personal stories of healing. Children and families can join Olu Butterfly and friends creating their own garden inspired art projects. Visitors will have the opportunity to participate in a health screening fair and obtain health resource materials provided by MedStar and other health organizations.
This program is sponsored by MedStar with support from Kaiser Permanente and Pompeian.
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MD Emancipation Webinar for Educators: Places of Black Joy: The NACE’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD
2023-11-01 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
MD Emancipation Webinar for Educators: Places of Black Joy: The NACE’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 5 pm – 6 pm, EDT

Celebrate Maryland Emancipation Day (November 1, 1864) exploring museum curricular resources developed by Maryland educators from the University of Maryland Writing Project connected with one of the first freedom celebrations in Maryland. Learn about Nathaniel “Nace” Hopkins, an enslaved Black man and Union soldier who founded the Nace’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD which is still celebrated today.
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First Fridays: The Kimberly Project
2023-11-03 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
First Fridays Featuring The Kimberly Project
Friday, November 3 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Exhibits open at 6 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm.
Admission:
Members – $20
Non-Members – $25
Food available for purchase
Kimberly Holloway, formerly and musically known as K. Holloway, is an American singer and actress from Baltimore, MD. American Idol fans may remember her from Season 4 when she became the youngest person to make the Top 20.The Kimberly Project is a duo formed in 2022 when two veteran musicians met and instantly knew they needed to play together. With Kimberly Holloway on vocals and Bill Henry on guitar, these two are quickly taking the Baltimore music scene by storm with their unique blend of cover and original R&B, new-funk, funk, rock, pop, and more.
FB: Nola Kandis
IG:_kholloway
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