Wayne Davis Part 2 - Odell's - Baltimore Music Map
Longtime Baltimore DJ, club owner and promoter Wayne Davis shares the story of Odell's, the club at center of the 1970s dance music craze in Baltimore and where the eclectic Davis introduced cutting edge sounds as a beloved DJ and promoter.
Baltimore Music Map highlights people and places crucial to the city's remarkable and largely unheralded musical heritage. The project collects oral history from Baltimore music elders telling important stories at or near the settings of the stories. Emphasis is placed on the rich musical heritage of neglected Baltimore communities.
Baltimore Music Map is funded by the Maryland Traditions Project Grant and produced by Brooks Long (2017-2018 Robert W. Deutsch Fellow at Creative Alliance) and is supported and hosted by Creative Alliance.
Robert W. Deutsch Foundation - rwdfoundation.org
Creative Alliance - creativealliance.org
BaltimoreMusicMap.org
Amy Sherald - 2019 Conrad Nelson Lecture - Millersville University
2019 Conrad Nelson Lecture
February 19, 2019
Amy Sherald received her MFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and BA in Painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997), and was a Spelman College International Artist-in-Residence in Portobelo, Panama (1997). Known for her stylized portraits of African Americans, in 2016, Sherald was the first woman to win the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition; an accompanying exhibition, The Outwin 2016, was on tour through August 2018. In February 2018, Sherald unveiled her official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, commissioned for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Sherald has had solo shows at venues including Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL (2016); Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD (2013); and University of North Carolina, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill, NC (2011). A traveling solo exhibition of new and recent works first opened at Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, MO in May 2018. Group exhibitions include Southern Accent, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC (2016), which traveled to Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY (2017), and Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2017). Residencies include Odd Nerdrum Private Study, Larvik, Norway (2005); Tong Xion Art Center, Beijing, China (2008); Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD (2016); and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans, LA (2017). Public collections include Embassy of the United States, Dakar, Senegal; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; and Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC.
Patterson park Baltimore city free concert
6-17-2015
Patterson Park Lantern Parade
8th annual Patterson Park Lantern Parade, Baltimore Maryland 2007. This was shot with my sony cybershot and the image quality suffers greatly in the dark.
The Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith - Dobbs Productions
Urban Drives: Central Baltimore - Roadtrip USA
Tour of Charm City from Broadway to Fells Point, East Harbour, Downtown, Inner Harbour, Charles street, Mount Vernon, MLK Jr Blvd, Ravens Stadium. Map at the end of video.
Music by Kevin MacLeod under creative commons licence
source: incompetech.com
Tracks:
Jellyfish In Space
Orange
Groove Grove
Dub Feral
Unity
Space 1990-B
EDM Detection Mode
Who Likes To Party
Joseph Norman's Middle Passage
Joseph Norman's Middle Passage Mural is on exhibition at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson, Baltimore, MD September 24th - October 29, 2011. This a 6 minute promotional piece is for the documentary film being made in the artist's life and the Middle Passage Mural Project,
The accompanying music is by Tunde Jegede and Sona Jobarteh.
My Relationship With Hampden: Continuous Creative Growth | Elisa J Wells | TEDxHampdenWomen
My talk focuses on nurturing and cultivating your individual creativity, creativity in the community, and using creative outlets to inspire others. I use examples from my personal experiences working in the arts community here in Baltimore, professionally, as an artist and a woman to expand on this subject.
I'm an artist living and working in the Baltimore arts community and have had many experiences with individuals in the Hampden neighborhood on various creative events and also showed my artwork in various Hampden venues.
The discussion would serve as a way to share my personal and professional experiences with others so that they may gain some insight and knowledge for their benefit. So that they may grow creatively and professionally.
Elisa J. Wells is an artist living and working in Baltimore for a local arts organization, the Creative Alliance. Previously, she was director for RAW Baltimore and managed and curated an event with local galleries.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
HORIZON house pool.mpg
Vacuuming of pool , Horizon house Baltimore MD
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Dedication Ceremony, April 12, 2012
A gathering of more than 1,400 people on hand to take part in the dedication of The Johns Hopkins Hospital's new $1.1 billion, state-of-the-art facility. The ceremony marks completion of one of the nation's largest hospital construction projects, which features the Sheikh Zayed Tower and The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center. They buildings are designed to enhance every aspect of the patient experience at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and offer an array of unprecedented advancements in adult, pediatric and emergency care. Philanthropist and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, members of the United Arab Emirates' Royal Family, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, Senator Barbara Mikulski were in attendance.
Blue Hair Blues - Interfaith Housing Alliance
Sacre bleu!
Kai Hagen and Hugh Gordon have challenged one another in what may become the biggest blue-gray conflict that the state of Maryland has experienced in over 150 years!! There is going to be a winner and a blue-ser.
In July, Kai posting on his Facebook page that, at 58, he'd never had a tattoo and didn't have any piercings, but had thought about dying his hair blue...or green...or red...or something. That post generated a lot of comments, mostly encouraging and some very much not! Chatting with Hugh late one evening, he graciously offered to ask his friends and associates if they would donate money in support of a good cause -- the Interfaith Housing Alliance -- if he dyed his hair blue.
The next morning, out of the blue, Hugh called Kai and suggested a challenge. The person that raised the least amount of money would have to dye their hair blue and keep it that way for thirty days. Every dollar donated to Kai increases the chance that Hugh has to dye his hair blue and vice versa.
All of the donations go to IHA to support the organizations efforts to provide affordable housing in the community.
The blue print is set. The challenge begins on Friday, October 3 ends Monday October 31st, close of business.
If you want to take part in the fun you can either send a check to IHA at 5301 Buckeystown Pike, Suite 320, Frederick, MD 21704.
Charles and Sharon Riser of The Temple have offered to shampoo the blue doo.
It might not be the Thilla in Manilla but Kai and Hugh are cruising for a blue-sin!
Here are the lyrics:
Saw a post out on Facebook,
From a fellow named Kai,
Lamenting he’s in his fifties,
Maybe life’s passed him by.
Never had him a piercing,
Or any tattoos.
Hadn’t dyed his hair colors.
Never able to choose.
Ya see, Kai didn’t know it, but those words were like lighting a fuse……..
He embyo’ed it, birthing the blue hair blues.
Later on we was chatting,
Kai said, ponder this Hugh.
I think I have chosen,
To dye my hair blue.
Going to ask for donations
And then he thought with a pause.
I’ll give all the money,
To the I-H-A cause.
Kai still didn’t know it, but those words were like lighting a fuse……..
It seemed apropos that, he was birthing the blue hair blues.
I don’t know what made me do it,
But I replied, like a fool.
I’ll do you one better
Challenge you to a blue hair duel.
The one that earns the least money,
Get’s the colorful doo,
The Temple is waiting,
With all shades of blue.
Kai knew that he’d done it, his words had lit up the fuse,
Oh yeah, he begun it, birthing the blue hair blues.
The bread’s for affordable housing,
Maybe for senior cribs too.
What we hope to accomplish,
Is make blue lives less blue.
So please don’t let us down now,
Send a dollar or two,
Do it with cash or a check pal
We’lll take an I.- O.- U.
We have accepted the challenge, we both think that its swell.
We want to send one another…….. to blue hair hell…….
Here is some info on the Interfaith Housing Alliance (IHA)
IHA strengthens communities by providing affordable and workforce housing opportunities as well as supportive services to improve the quality of life and economic stability for seniors, working families and individuals.
It is the leading provider of affordable housing in the region and has helped create more than 1,200 units of affordable housing throughout Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Junot Díaz's Keynote Speech at Facing Race 2012 [Excerpt]
Author Junot Díaz, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the Macarthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, delivers the keynote at the Facing Race 2012 conference in Baltimore, Maryland on November 16, 2012.
For legal reasons, we can only show you the first 25 minutes of his 90-minute talk - please enjoy! ____
Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Founded in 2002, CSI catalyzes community, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity and create equitable outcomes for all.
The new Race Forward is home to the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all. Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines and presents Facing Race, the country’s largest multiracial conference on racial justice.
ARTS, BALTIMORE & CULTURE
Spending a few hours on the creative scene in Baltimore...
Greektown, not only a place for Greeks
Nitsa Morekas, the Greektown Business Alliance President, tells the story of Greektown and the growing Latino Population.
Race and Religion in the U.S. - Women Writers in Conversation
Race and Religion in the U.S.: Women Writers in Conversation
Samiya Bashir, poet
Susan Muaddi Darraj, fiction writer
Alia Malek, journalist and author
Moderated by Mejdulene B. Shomali, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies, UMBC
Three award winning writers, poet Samiya Bashir, journalist and author Alia Malek, and fiction writer Susan Muaddi Darraj will perform short excerpts of their work. After the performance, they will join Dr. Mejdulene B. Shomali for a moderated conversation on writing, gender, race, and religion in the U.S.. During the conversation, writers will discuss the useful and dangerous ways racial, ethnic, and religious identities do and do not overlap; how race, gender, and religion inform the writing and reception of their work; and how they use genre and form to navigate cultural expectations for their writing, especially when those expectations are tied to their perceived or real identities.
A book signing and reception will follow the program.
Bios: Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories, Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as Poet Laureate, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. Bashir lives in Portland, Oregon where she teaches at Reed College.
Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection, A Curious Land: Stories from Home, was named the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. It also won the 2016 Arab American Book Award, a 2016 American Book Award, and was shortlisted for a Palestine Book Award. In 2018, United States Artists awarded her a Ford Fellowship for creative writing. She is Associate Professor of English at Harford Community College, and she also teaches in the MA Program in Writing at Johns Hopkins University.
Alia Malek is a journalist and former civil rights lawyer. She is the author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria and A Country Called Amreeka: US History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives. She is the editor of Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustices and EUROPA أوروپا : An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, NewYorker.com, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, Jadaliyya, McSweeney’s, Guernica and other publications.
Mejdulene B. Shomali is a Palestinian American poet and Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies at UMBC. She received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 2015 and an MA in Women’s Studies from the Ohio State University in 2009. Her creative and scholarly work centers on femininity, queerness, and Arab cultural production in a transnational perspective. Her academic monograph in progress, Moving Femininities: Queer Critique and Transnational Arab Culture, underscores femininity and sexuality as sites for cultural and political negotiation for Arabs, immigrant and indigenous.
Sponsored by Office of the Provost; the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies Department; the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program; the Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication Department; the Media and Communication Studies Department; the English Department; and the Women’s Center.
Medication Adherence: Landscape, Strategies, and Evaluation Methods
This public meeting, convened under a cooperative agreement between the Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy at Duke University and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will explore the state of the science of clinical research evaluating medication adherence involving FDA-regulated products. Specific topics include:
-Current landscape of interventions intended to (a) track (monitor) medication adherence, (b) improve medication adherence, and (c) improve clinical outcome(s) due to increased medication adherence;
-Measurements of medication adherence; and
-Study designs to evaluate the effectiveness of FDA-regulated products intended to track and/or improve medication adherence, with or without an association to clinical outcomes.
Impeachment Trial Day 1: Senate proceedings set to begin as rules come into focus
The first day of President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate is set to get underway at 1 p.m., marking just the third time a president has faced removal from office in U.S. history. Follow Live Updates:
#impeachmenttrial #impeachment #trial #trump #CBSN #CBSNews
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Joycelyn Elders Chair in Sexual Health Education Symposium
Former Surgeons General converge at the University of Minnesota to discuss the state of sexual health education in the United States. This will be a panel style symposium with an intermission and plenty of time for a Q&A with former Surgeons General Dr. Richard Carmona, Dr. Kenneth Moritsugu, Dr. David Satcher, and Dr. Joycelyn Elders.
Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, MD, teamed up with the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota Medical School to advance comprehensive science-based sexual health education. Elders and PHS are responding to the current sexual health crisis by creating the Joycelyn Elders Chair in Sexual Health Education. Together we will help to change the direction of sexual health in this country and around the world.
By establishing the Elders Chair, PHS will work to create comprehensive life-long sexual education curricula, to increase the number of health care providers trained in sexual health care, and to expand scientific research in sexuality education. Sexual health education is about more than disease and preventing pregnancy, and we will work to promote sexual health throughout every stage of human life, from adolescence through adulthood and beyond.
Senator Sessions 1
Baltimore area bands get together to support the historic Senator Theatre in Save the Senator: A Baltimore Revue on February 13, 2009. My amateur video of the event includes three of the bands that played that night: The John Hardy Boys, U.S. Royalty, The Payola Reserve. Other bands played and were also great, but I was having too much fun to catch all of them on video.
Please help support the historic Senator Theatre as it transitions to a non-profit community arts and entertainment venue.
Facing Race 2012: Junot Díaz Press Conference
From the Applied Research Center's Facing Race 2012 conference, held November 15-17 in Baltimore, Maryland. ____
Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Founded in 2002, CSI catalyzes community, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity and create equitable outcomes for all.
The new Race Forward is home to the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all. Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines and presents Facing Race, the country’s largest multiracial conference on racial justice.