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I’ve Endured: a concert honoring the music and legacy of Ola Belle Reed

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, in conjunction with the exhibition Ola Belle Reed: I’ve Endured, on display through June 30, presents “I’ve Endured,” a concert honoring the music and legacy of nationally recognized bluegrass and old-time musician Ola Belle Campbell Reed (1916-2002). This performance brings together musicians and family members who worked with her, along with those who continue to carry on in the tradition of old-time music, including musicians Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, The Honey Dewdrops, Hugh Campbell, and Dave Reed, with Cliff Murphy, director of the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

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Maryland Arts Summit

Performing Arts and Humanities Building

The Maryland Arts Summit, hosted at UMBC, is a statewide conference presented by and for the Maryland arts sector, which includes, but is not limited to: arts advocates, arts educators and teaching artists, independent artists, arts organizations, youth, community stakeholders, arts and entertainment districts, county arts agencies of Maryland, public artists, boards of directors, and folklife artists.

Complex black and white photograph depicting a man, Frank, born in 1955 and died of AIDS in 1992

Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore is the first career retrospective of artist Amos Badertscher in the United States. Between the 1960s and 2005, Badertscher documented hustlers, club kids, go-go dancers, drag queens, drug addicts, friends, and lovers who were part of LGBTQ+ life in Baltimore.

Three women smile at the camera

Trio Sirènes

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Trio Sirènes, featuring flutist Marcia McHugh, violist Karin Brown, and harpist Jacqueline Pollauf, enjoys pushing boundaries and highlighting the diverse sonic possibilities of their wind, string and percussion instruments. Their program features works by Bax, Debussy, Laitman, Leclair, and Ravel.

In an old sepia-toned photograph of a seance, a man appears to levitate

Mediums, Magicians, and the Ouija Board: A Spiritualist History of Baltimore

Online

Do spirits return, and can we communicate with the dead? Baltimore's Spiritualists thought so, but magicians worked to disprove them. Join Julie Saylor of Enoch Pratt Free Library as she discusses spirit mediums, the Spiritualist origins of the Ouija Board, and Baltimore's group of amateur magicians, the Demons Club. This is the first in a series of six lectures, Beyond the Veil: Making Sense of the Spirit World.

In black and white photograph, a woman with long dark hair looks at the camera

Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Drawing on interviews with gig workers, policymakers, Uber lobbyists, and community organizers, Katie J. Wells will discuss her new book and explain how Uber offered a lifeline — though a costly one — to cities struggling with broken transit, underemployment, and racial polarization. The story she will tell is not the story of one company and one city. Instead, Wells will offer a 360-degree view of an urban America in crisis.

Against a blue sky, a person wears a dark wide-brimmed hat, a black collar, and an open shirt

The Sounds of the Futuro with Julián Delgado Lopera

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

What if Spanglish were to be the default language of high literature? In this talk Julián Delgado Lopera examines oral traditions, spoken word, and language that’s fleeting and usually discarded as sites of ripe creativity and engines for the making of their novel, Fiebre Tropical.

02-04. Kearra Amaya Gopee, video still from Artifact #3: Terra Nullius, 2019. Courtesy the artist.

States of Becoming — Opening Reception

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the Opening Reception for States of Becoming, an exhibition curated by Fitsum Shebeshe and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). A 6 p.m. panel discussion will feature Chukwudumebi Gabriel Amadi-Emina, Elshafei Dafalla, and Helina Metaferia, moderated by Maleke Glee, director of Stable Gallery in Washington, D.C. Exhibition curator Fitsum Shebeshe will provide an introduction.

Gabriel C. Amadi-Emina, Fade Catcher, 2021, Diptych photographic print on museo silver rag adhered flat on wooden panel. Courtesy of the artist.

States of Becoming

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents States of Becoming, an exhibition curated by Fitsum Shebeshe and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). States of Becoming examines the dynamic forces of relocation, resettling, and assimilation that shape the artistic practices of a group of 17 contemporary African artists who have lived and worked in the United States within the last three decades, and informs the discourse on identity construction within the African Diaspora.

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Piano Duets: Teodora Adzharova and Shirley Yoo

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Join us for an extraordinary afternoon of keyboard brilliance as we present a captivating duo-piano concert featuring the talents of Teodora Adzharova and Shirley Yoo. Prepare to be swept away by a breathtaking repertoire showcasing the works of two iconic Russian composers, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Anton Arensky.

On the left, a drawing of a man with a beard and glasses, on the right the words A Salute To John Philip Sousa

Maryland Winds: A Salute to John Philip Sousa

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Maryland Winds, a professional concert band based in Howard County, presents a Salute to John Philip Sousa, highlighting Sousa's music and that of his contemporaries. Sousa (1854–1932) became famous in the late 19th century for his military band and marching music, including Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis and The Washington Post March.

Amos Badertscher, Portrait of a Hustler, 1978. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the artist.

LGBTQ+ Oral Histories: Ethics and Practice

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

In conjunction with the exhibition Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents a panel discussion, LGBTQ+ Oral Histories: Ethics and Practice. The discussion will feature Kate Drabinski (UMBC), Joseph Plaster (Johns Hopkins University), Hunter O’Hanian (independent scholar and curator), and students of the 2023 Interdisciplinary CoLab, “LGBTQ+ Oral History Project.”

 

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