Baltimore Arts and Protests: Metro Gallery

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As developments unfold with events in Baltimore, we will attempt to catalog efforts of visual artists, musicians and all creative artists of our city (along with various arts organizations) to respond to what is happening and provide opportunities for people to think on what is happening and find a voice. Please share any other upcoming events in the comments, and we’ll make sure to re-post, thank you.

Wednesday (May 20th)

Be More Benefit: A night of music to aid the rebuilding of our city @ Metro Gallery 5/20

Metro Gallery 1700 N Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

https://www.facebook.com/events/1587169564893761/

In response to the recent events in Baltimore, a group of artists have banded together to host a night of music and fundraising to support the rebuilding and rebirth of our city. All proceeds will be given to The Baltimore Community Foundation’s Fund For Rebuilding Baltimore. Help us heal our home.

Artists:

Eze Jackson – https://www.facebook.com/ezejackson?fref=ts

Wing Dam – https://www.facebook.com/wingdammusic?fref=ts

Blacksage – https://www.facebook.com/blacksagemusic?fref=ts

Joy Classic – https://www.facebook.com/JoyClassicband?fref=ts

Baltimore Arts and Protest: Community Organizations

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As developments unfold with events in Baltimore, we will attempt to catalog efforts of visual artists, musicians and all creative artists of our city (along with various arts organizations) to respond to what is happening and provide opportunities for people to think on what is happening and find a voice. Please share any other upcoming events in the comments, and we’ll make sure to re-post, thank you.

via MICA Office of Community Engagement https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F-CQV629Eph81JgP_iNQENvr3VhO3JjvcG8m1gcQyC8/pub

Community Organizations

No Boundaries Coalition: The No Boundaries Coalition is a resident-led initiative dedicated to deconstructing boundaries and reconstructing community. The No Boundaries Coalition brings Bolton Hill, Druid Heights, Madison Park, Reservoir Hill, Upton, and Sandtown together across race, class, and neighborhood lines to build a more unified and empowered Central West Baltimore. Contact: Rebecca Nagle – 443.722.0929 noboundariescoalition@gmail.com

Leaders of A Beautiful Struggle (LBS): Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) is a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people, in Baltimore, through: youth leadership development, political advocacy, and autonomous intellectual innovation. Contact: info@lbsbaltimore.com

Baltimore United for Change (BUC): BUC is a coalition of concerned citizens and organizations working for justice in Baltimore City. We are working toward sustainable solutions to end police brutality in Baltimore. http://bmoreunited.org/

Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute (UHI) Student Outreach Resource Center (SOURCE):  Johns Hopkins is working with community partners to identify community-led initiatives for community engagement. In particular, UHI and SOURCE, are working together to share opportunities for volunteers, events for healings, and continuing needs in the community.

https://www.facebook.com/UrbanHealthInstitute

The Holistic Life Foundation teaches yoga, meditation and helps kid with homework after school. Sign up to give kids hugs after school, do yoga with them, help with crafts and homework. The Holistic Life Foundation is a Baltimore-based 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization committed to nurturing the wellness of children and adults in underserved communities. Through a comprehensive approach which helps children develop their inner lives through yoga, mindfulness, and self-care HLF demonstrates deep commitment to learning, community, and stewardship of the environment. HLF is also committed to developing high-quality evidence based programs and curriculum to improve community well-being.

http://hlfinc.org/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Holistic-Life-Foundation-Inc/119112564775646?fref=ts

Baltimore United Viewfinders is a youth driven organization using the arts to explore their own definition of self and place. The Baltimore United Viewfinders‬ meet at MICA Place. Their mission is to  foster the leadership potential of young people as social entrepreneurs producing multimedia arts for community action and income.

MICA Place: 814 North Collington Ave, Baltimore

http://baltimoreviewfinders.org/ 

The WINGS Collective‬ is a group of amazing young women who will be completing a documentary about the importance of mentorship in our city. For more information please email Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander at kirsten@findingourwings.org or visit their website at http://findingourwings.org/

CASA de Maryland: Their mission is to create a more just society by building power and improving the quality of life in low-income immigrant communities. Their vision is a future with diverse and thriving communities living free from discrimination and fear, working together with mutual respect to achieve full human rights for all.

Baltimore’s Latino Community Marches for Justice and Prays for Peace http://wearecasa.org/?p=2037

Baltimore Racial Justice Action:

https://www.facebook.com/BaltimoreRacialJusticeAction

http://bmoreantiracist.org/

Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA) is a network of Maryland individuals committed to social and economic transformation with an emphasis on racial equity.

BRJA is an action-based organization grounded in collective analysis of structural racism and white privilege. Organizing across the Baltimore metropolitan area, BRJA seeks to make Baltimore recognized as the leading city in the nation intentionally working for racial equity.

Achieving racial equity requires working to create a society in which the distribution of resources, opportunity, societal benefits and protection is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.

We attempt to influence and guide respectful and just thinking and actions. We strive to support people and organizations to see themselves as world residents or leaders or change agents by acknowledging our linked fate and encouraging responsibility for our choices, decisions and actions to collectively build an equitable world for all.

Baltimore Arts and Protest: Center Stage

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In these troubling times, Center Stage has decided to take action and get involved in the healing of our Baltimore.  Tomorrow (Saturday, May 2nd) at 3:30pm the International Cast of Marley will host a FREE community concert at the intersection of Pennsylvania and North Ave. We want to offer healing and what better way to do that than through the music of the legendary Bob Marley.

All the info is in the flier below. Please help us spread the word. We want to create an atmosphere of peace and support, so everyone is invited to join us.

There will be a carpool shuttle leaving Center Stage at 2pm. We will make multiple trips.  Please contact Kristina Szilagyi at kszilagyi@centerstage.org if you would like to carpool with us.

Baltimore Arts and Protest: Baltimore Art + Justice Project

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As developments unfold with events in Baltimore, we will attempt to catalog efforts of visual artists, musicians and all creative artists of our city (along with various arts organizations) to respond to what is happening and provide opportunities for people to think on what is happening and find a voice. Please share any other upcoming events in the comments, and we’ll make sure to re-post, thank you.

Kalima Young and the Baltimore Art + Justice Project are creating an archive of cultural production efforts that are occurring as a result of current unrest and collective community action in Baltimore. If you have video or still images of signs, clothing, art, music, dance — anything reflective of people’s responses — please send these to kyoung01@mica.edu or to the Office of Community Engagement via facebook. Collected images will live on the BA+JP blog for research and reflection.

Baltimore Arts and Protest: Gallery 788

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As developments unfold with events in Baltimore, we will attempt to catalog efforts of visual artists, musicians and all creative artists of our city (along with various arts organizations) to respond to what is happening and provide opportunities for people to think on what is happening and find a voice. Please share any other upcoming events in the comments, and we’ll make sure to re-post, thank you.

Wednesday (May 8th) 

Gallery 788: 3602 Hickory Ave, Baltimore, Maryland 21211

In light of the protests and riots around the city this April, Baltimore artists are donating 100% of the proceeds from the sales of their work to support community centers that serve our most at-risk youth. (specific organization TBA).

More details to come, including a list of contributing artists, performers at the opening on May 8th. Donation requirements: Art drop-off is May 4th and 5th from 1-7pm at Gallery 788. Please fill out a release form at the gallery and don’t forget to specify your starting bid (NO greater than $125) and your buy-it-now price. Please tape a tag to the back of your work with your name and title to help out these frazzled, last-minute volunteers! There is no limit on the number of pieces or size of work that you can submit, but we kindly ask that you keep the nature of your work POSITIVE and understand that we reserve the right to pick and choose from multiples in case space fills up. We want to represent as many artists as possible! Thank you for your donation!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/712105028915773/

-McKenzie, Matt, Robert, and Eduardo

Baltimore Arts and Protest: Youth Resiliency Institute

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As developments unfold with events in Baltimore, we will attempt to catalog efforts of visual artists, musicians and all creative artists of our city (along with various arts organizations) to respond to what is happening and provide opportunities for people to think on what is happening and find a voice. Please share any other upcoming events in the comments, and we’ll make sure to re-post, thank you.

Saturday (May 2nd)

Youth Resiliency Institute

BLACK YOUTH IN BALTIMORE ARE NOT THUGS! “Providing outlets for our youth is a responsibility of adults in order to protect our youth.” ~Fanon Hill

An answer to violence through the arts. Join us…………….

WHEN: Saturday, May 2, beginning at 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Area 405, 405 E. Oliver St., Baltimore, MD 21202

Baltimore Arts and Protest: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

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As developments unfold with events in Baltimore, we will attempt to catalog efforts of visual artists, musicians and all creative artists of our city (along with various arts organizations) to respond to what is happening and provide opportunities for people to think on what is happening and find a voice. Please share any other upcoming events in the comments, and we’ll make sure to re-post, thank you.

via the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Facebook page:

Tomorrow (Friday, May 1st) we’re opening the doors for a FREE 10:00 AM performance of Romeo and Juliet. It’s a regularly scheduled show for school groups. They can’t make it, but we hope you can. It’s a gift to our beloved city.

“You are welcome to come, and then enjoy a lunch or stroll in the Harbor. Or go volunteer your time nearby. Or just talk to each other. Or just listen.
Come “- Vince Eisenson