Fete Accompli a Celebration of Baltimore Arts and Culture
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Tuesday, October 17th : 7-10pm
Baltimore School for the Arts
712 Cathedral Street :: 21210
Interiors: Stephanie Dinkins + Bina48 & Bruce Duncan; Dear at the Edges of Personhood brings ongoing conversations between artist Stephanie Dinkins and social robot Bina48 to the stage. In 2014, Stephanie set out to build a long-term, empathetic friendship with Bina48—one of the globe'southward almost advanced artificial intelligence beings based on the likeness and lived experience of Bina Aspen. Their conversations are farther enriched past dialouge with Bina48'south handler and close companion Bruce Duncan.
The panel will explore questions effectually archiving humanity, race and gender in artificial intelligence, and strategies for empathy in a rapidly changing world.
Interiors , our 2017-eighteen Speaker Series, looks inside exciting artist practices by centering the significant relationships between artists and their collaborators, subjects, friends, and families that make artistic production possible.
Stephanie Dinkins is an artist interested in creating platforms for ongoing dialog about artificial intelligence as it intersects race, gender, aging and our time to come histories. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to develop deep-rooted AI literacy and co-create more culturally inclusive equitable artificial intelligence. Dinkins' holds an MFA from the Maryland Constitute College of Art. She is also an alumna of the International Center of Photography and the Contained Studies Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Her artwork is exhibited internationally, at a broad spectrum of customs, private and institutional venues by design– including Establish of Contemporary Art Dunaujvaros, Hungary; Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Spellman Higher Museum of Art; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Moving ridge Colina, Studio Museum in Harlem; The Long Island Museum, NY; Spedition Bremen; and the corner of Putnam and Malcolm X Blvd, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She is the recipient of financial support from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Trust for Mutual Agreement, Lef Foundation, and Residency Unlimited. Artist residencies include the NEW INC, Bluish Mountain Heart; Aim Program, Bronx Museum; The Laundromat Project; Santa Fe Art Plant, Art/Omi and Heart for Contemporary Art, Czech Republic. Her work has written nigh in media outlets such equally The New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sunday, and SLEEK Magazine.
She is currently an A Blade of Grass Fellow, an Artist-in-Residence at NEW INC and projection goad for Team Haptics, Cyborg Futures 2017. Professor Dinkins teaches digital and interactive media at Stony Brook University.
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Bina48 is one of the world'southward about advanced social robots commissioned by Dr. Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics Inc. She is based on the likeness and data of a real person, Bina Aspen, co-founder of the Terasem Motion and the World Against Racism Museum. Using video interview transcripts, laser scanning life mask applied science, face up recognition, artificial intelligence and voice recognition technology, Bina48 was created to demonstrate the first step in the Terasem Hypothesis, which states: (1) a conscious analog of a person may be created by combining sufficiently detailed information about the person (a "mindfile") using future consciousness software ("mindware").
Bina48 is designed to be a social being that represents a mix of memories, values, beliefs from the original Bina, along with new experiences gained through interaction with others. She has lectured internationally and appeared in chat with Whoopi Goldberg, Morgan Freeman, and many others. She has been featured in the New York Times Science Department, GQ Magazine, Vogue, NPR and National Geographic Magazine since she "came to life" in 2010.
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Bruce Duncan is Managing Director of the Terasem Movement Foundation Inc. and project leader for the LifeNaut Project, which is the brainchild of Dr. Martine Rothblatt: inventor of SIRIUS Satellite Radio, author, and Biotech CEO. Every bit the Main Investigator of the LifeNaut Project Bruce Duncan is responsible for the ongoing evolution of Bina48, the world'southward starting time avant-garde humanoid robot based on the "mindfile" information of a real person.
Bruce is the Managing Producer for Terasem Media and Films, which produced the independent science fiction feature film 2B: The Era of Mankind is Over. He also curates the first cyber museum dedicated to addressing racism, bigotry and prejudice at the World Against Racism Museum. As an Educator he has taught Conflict Resolution at the University of Vermont and worked as a Peace Facilitator with the Seeds of Peace International Peace Camp, New York/Casco Maine.
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Wed, October 18th – Nov 11th
The Walters Art Museum
600 Northward Charles Street :: 21201
Gratis
In a special installation, artist Edgar Reyes responds to the museum's aboriginal Americas collection and explores the ongoing displacement of native people whose traditions are non defined by national borders. Coyote explores the connexion between the art of the past and the gimmicky Mexican diaspora.
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Press Press Public Studio Announcements: Readings past Amelia Bande, Bilphena Yawon, Rose Buttress + Puerto Rico Relief Fundraiser
Wed, Oct 18th, 7-10pm
Printing Press
427 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Press Press is excited to host a night of readings + declarations featuring Amelia Bande, Bilphena Yawon, and Rose Buttress, as function of a new serial of events: Press Press Public Studio Announcements. All contributions to this event volition be donated to the Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund.
Amelia Bande is a writer working in functioning, theater and film. Her plays Chueca and Partir y Renunciar were staged in Santiago, Chile. She is function of the Gel Film Series (2012- present) and she co-founded Publishing Puppies, a printing for visual work, poesy and fiction (2011-present). She has recently shown piece of work, solo and collaborative, at Artists Space, The Poetry Projection, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Dixon Identify, BAM, The Shandaken Project, and MIX NYC in New York; NGBK and Flutgraben Kunstfabrik in Berlin, and the NewBridge Project in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Bilphena Yawon is a baltimore based writer + social justice advocate born in Republic of liberia, w Africa and raised in Danané, Côte D'Ivoire. Yahwon is the owner + curator of goldwomyn.com, the writer of 'Teaching Gold-mah How to Heal Herself.'and the creative managing director at Broken English Co. She writes of the immigrant feel, of blackness, of healing, of African women made from flowers animate fragility. When she is non writing or in the classroom, Bilphena enjoys wandering through spaces of foods, people(due south), colors + lessons.
Rose Buttress is a seamstress and machinist living in Baltimore. Absolutely humorless and nightmarish in temperament, she spends all her fourth dimension tailoring, mending holes, and manufacturing or replacing worn machine parts.
Printing Press Public Studio Announcements is a serial of gatherings featuring readings, declarations, announcements, and speeches at the Press Press studio. Every gathering serves to raise funds for specific social causes or organizations.
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Thursday, Oct 19th – Saturday, Oct 28th
MICA
1601 W Mountain Majestic Artery :: 21217
MICA's annual Haunted House is a student-run production that creates a big-scale, intricately detailed (and horrifying) immersive experience. This twelvemonth'south theme is backwoods, which invites guests to navigate a series of rooms themed on popular urban legends.
$10 general admission; more information at http://www.micahauntedhouse.
Thursday, Oct. xix , 10 – 11:thirty p.m.
Friday, Oct. 20, eight:thirty p.m. – midnight
Saturday, October. 21 , 7 – 11 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 27, viii:30 – 11 p.m.
Sabbatum, Oct. 28 , 3 – 6 p.g.
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Thursday, October 19th : iii-9pm
The Angelos Law Center
1401 Northward Center Street :: 21201
In 2017, GBCA celebrates fifteen years of working to nurture and advocate for the many faces and voices of arts and culture in Baltimore City and the five surrounding counties. To marker this milestone, we invite you to save the appointment of October 19, 2017 for ii events that gloat our history, our present, and our futurity.
3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Interrupt Injustice: Bringing Remainder to the Cultural Workplace
Equity and Inclusion take get take hold of phrases that become lost in everyday language, particularly in the workplace. What happens beyond the dialogue – in the space where real equity exists and changes lives? Noted speaker and producer Donna Walker-Kuhne, one of the nation's foremost experts in creating a more diverse and inclusive audience, volition guide this deep dive into strategies and tools. Every participant volition develop a purposeful call to activity for their own workplace.
half dozen:00 – 9:00 p.1000.
Fete Accompli: A Celebration of Baltimore Arts and Civilization
Artists, arts lovers, patrons, and members of our cultural community are invited to join us for a festive blow-out featuring great local talent, free food and drinkable, and fun for all.
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Th, October 19: 7 – ten PM
Space 2640
2640 St. Paul Street : Baltimore 21218
LESTER SPENCE is an Associate Professor of Political Scientific discipline, and is one of two co-directors of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins Academy. Dr. Spence has published 2 books: Stare in the Darkness: Hip-hop and the Limits of Black Politics, winner of the 2012 Westward. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Volume Honour, and Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, winner of both the Baltimore Urban center Newspaper and Baltimore Mag 2016 Best Nonfiction Book Awards, named to The Atlantic's 2016 "Best Books We Missed" list. His work has also been published in over a dozen academic articles and several dozen essays and think. He is currently examining the contemporary AIDS crisis in black communities and the growing role of law in major American cities.
"SON OF NUN doesn't just entertain, he empowers. His lyrics are rooted in the movements he'due south fought with; he's at the meeting, the protestation, the action, and the mic." S.O.Due north. has rocked shows with Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, The Coup, Tom Morello, and Rage Against the Car. He's shared the stage w/ activists like exonerated quondam death row inmates Shujaa Graham and Darby Tillis, Black Lives Matter student leader Makayla Gilliam-Price, and the late great historian Howard Zinn. Due south.O.Due north. has released two albums, Blood and Fire, produced w/ DJ Krimson and The Art of Struggle w/ DJ Mentos.
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Dwelling house Movies photograph showroom by Amy Davis
Opening Reception Friday, October 20: half dozen-8 pm
GALLERY CA
440 E. Oliver Street
"Home Movies: Portraits of Baltimore's Neighborhood Movie Houses" examines the fate of our local theaters, gritty ghosts on the streets of Baltimore. Our local picture houses, not the downtown theater palaces, helped shape the identity of each customs.
The photographs by Amy Davis are from her new book, Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore'southward Forgotten Movie Theaters (Johns Hopkins University Printing).
The opening reception, and a gallery talk about "Home Movies" on Sat. Oct. 28 at 2pm, are free and open up to the public. The gallery talk on 10/28 is presented in conjunction with Doors Open Baltimore 2017.
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Fri, October 20th – Sunday, October 22nd
Baltimore Theatre Project
45 West Preston Street :: 21201
Delight join us at the Baltimore Theater Project over the Oct xx-22 weekend to feel an evening of contemporary trip the light fantastic toe equally the Coppin Country University Repertory Trip the light fantastic Ensemble and ClancyWorks Dance Company team up for an evening of choreographic bear upon. This collaborative performance draws on millennial perceptions from dancers and choreographers hailing from Coppin State University, ClancyWorks Dance Company, and a number of Baltimore County and Baltimore Urban center High Schools, in order to accelerate positive social activeness in the Baltimore customs.
Inspired by the quote of Ossie Davis, "Whatsoever form of art is a form of ability; it has impact, information technology tin can affect change — it can non only move u.s., it makes united states move", this concert will explore the ability to respond to change as it impacts them. This performance highlights the interest to use trip the light fantastic toe every bit a goad to bring different generations of dancers together in a spirit of celebrating dreams and possibilities.
The Coppin State University Section of Dance, housed in the Humanities Department, offers a Available of Science Degree in Dance. Through its courses in performance and wistful studies, the program offers intense technical and performance preparation besides as the knowledge and practices that volition support them as "mindful reflective" artists in the field. Trip the light fantastic toe majors acquire about the significance of dance as a cultural art form and feel its capacity to create and build community. The trip the light fantastic faculty consists of artists, educators and scholars who are committed to providing the student with a comprehensive and diverse cadre-grooming curriculum in dance and research with a focus on contemplative studies in movement. This season Coppin Country Academy welcomes invitee artist Alice Howes and her new modern piece attack the Coppin Ensemble dancers. Faculty members Florian Rouiller and Vanessa Jackson bring choreographic works to the performance as well as student choreographers Deidra Dawkins and Bintou Kouyate who created dance works for the CSU Youth Dance Ensemble and Bryan Mawr Individual School.
ClancyWorks Dance Company is a not-profit trip the light fantastic company that has been an agile member of the Baltimore Trip the light fantastic Community since our company'south inception in 2001. ClancyWorks is committed to enhancing the quality of life for individuals in various communities by using the arts as a vehicle to develop common understanding and to accelerate positive social action. Touted by the Washington Mail service, Executive Manager Adrienne Clancy's work is "a bout de forcefulness of unpredictable partnering" and has earned a reputation for laurels winning educational programs as well every bit nuanced partnering piece of work that is simultaneously athletically physical and philosophically driven by questions.
Prior to the concert, Coppin Country University Dance Program offers customs workshops throughout the week. On Tuesday, 10/17/17 at 6:xxx p.m. we will offer Afro Caribbean area west/ Sheena Black; on Midweek, 10/18/17 at four:30 p.chiliad. join us for Body Percussive Dance (Stepping) with Ryan K. Johnson; and on Saturday, 10/21/17 at 2:45 p.thou. savor West African Dance with Maya Ajanku. Pricing for workshops is $x for non-students and $v for students. To register, e-mail dance@coppin.edu or telephone call (410) 951-3355.
For more data about ClancyWorks Dance Company, visit us online: world wide web.ClancyWorks.org
For more data on the Coppin State Trip the light fantastic Programme, visit u.s.a. at: www.Coppin.edu/trip the light fantastic toe
Showtimes:
October 20 @ 7:30pm
Oct 21 @ vii:30pm
October 22 @ 5:00pm
Tickets:
General Access – $fifteen
Students & Seniors – $10
Please click below to purchase tickets.
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Valerie Maynard: Devotion
Reception Sunday, October 22 at 3 pm
New Door Creative
1601 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, Md 21202
October 22nd through December 22nd, 2017
Renowned sculptor/printmaker Valerie Maynard volition showroom at Baltimore's Station North Arts and Entertainment District gallery, New Door Artistic, October 22nd through December 22nd, 2017. The exhibition is entitled "Devotion", and will feature a collection of woodcut and linocut prints. An opening reception will exist hosted on Sunday, October 22nd at 3 P.K., and volition characteristic a conversation with the creative person.
"Devotion" explores a range of subject matter: visual interpretations of characters whose personal narratives take registered an imprint on the creative person's life; and examinations of the spirit of resistance, transformation, and creative intent. The seventeen works included in the exhibition were created over multiple decades of printmaking exercise; and reveal an development of thought, process, and technique by an artist whose name is synonymous with contemporary art, and the "centre and soul" of the Blackness Arts Movement.
Varied in scale, the works on exhibit singularly and collectively expose a chapter in the continuing story of an creative person devoted to the artistic process, the history and nuance of the African American feel, and the politics of fine art-making. Throughout her distinguished professional history of more than than fifty years, she has informed and inspired a broad scope of artists, students, educators, and collectors.
Born in Harlem in 1937, Maynard apprenticed every bit a portrait painter with artist Elaine Journey, followed by studying at the Museum of Modern Art. She received a Thou.A. in Sculpture from Goddard Higher in 1977.
Widely nerveless, the work of Valerie Maynard is included in the United States Library of Congress, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, The National Museum of Mozambique, The Massachusetts Plant of Applied science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, IBM Corporation, White Plains, New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, and the Riksutställningar National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Numerous public artworks include the New York City MTA Arts in Transit landscape ( glass mosaic on mezzanine walls and above stairs), Polyrhythmics of Consciousness and Light, which was installed on 125th Street/ Lexington Avenue subway station in Harlem, New York in 2003.
Maynard is recipient of The Riksutställningar National Museum Buy/Travel/Lecture Grant, Virgin Islands Humanities Council Research Grant, The Atlanta Life Insurance Sculpture Honour, New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for Printmaking, New England Foundation for the Arts Grant, and The Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, to name a few.
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Mon, October 23rd : 7pm
The Parkway Theatre
3 West N Avenue :: 21201
Sweaty Eyeballs, The Parkway'southward monthly animation serial curated by Phil Davis and Max Porter, continues with THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS!
(Sébastien Laudenbach, 2016, France, 80 minutes)
In hard times, a miller sells his girl to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes from the Devil who, in revenge, deprives her of her hands. So begins her long journey towards the light… only in spite of her resilience and the new protection of a handsome prince's estate, the Devil devises a plan of his ain. THE Daughter WITHOUT Easily is the adventurous feature debut from acclaimed short filmmaker Sébastien Laudenbach, whose beautiful and dreamlike take on the Brothers Grimm story has created an adult fairytale destined to become up a classic.
Hand-painted with lush, evocative details and featuring the voices of Anaïs Demoustier (The New Girlfriend) and Jérémie Elkaïm (Declaration of War), the motion picture premiered in the ACID department at Cannes, was nominated for Best Blithe Feature at the César Awards, and won both the Jury Prize and the award for Best French Motion-picture show at the Annecy Animation Festival.
Sweaty Eyeballs Blitheness is curated by animators and animation professors Phil Davis (Towson University) and Max Porter (MICA). For more data visit sweatyeyeballs.com
Source: https://bmoreart.com/2017/10/bmorearts-picks-baltimore-art-galleries-openings-and-events-october-17-23.html
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