BmoreArt’s Picks: October 5-11
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: We are featuring online events that you can participate in from the comfort of your own couch and some that you can safely leave the house for, plus a few calls for entry to get involved locally and nationally. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
To submit your calendar event, email us at events@bmoreart.com!
Racial Justice Concert Series
Tuesday, October 5 • 12-1pm
presented by JHU SOURCE + Creative Alliance
Join us on Tuesday, October 5th from 12:00pm-1:00pm PM ET for our third concert in the series, featuring Afro House in support of Backyard Basecamp.
This event is part of JHU SOURCE’s 2021 Baltimore Week, a celebration of the Baltimore community through a social justice lens.
How to watch:
To get your ticket, click the orange “Select a Date” button, choose the October 5th option and register.
If the correct date is already selected, simply click the green “Register” button and claim your ticket.
This ticket will grant you access to the Youtube Livestream on the day of the performance.
Our performers will be hosted by Creative Alliance in a COVID-safe environment.
About Afro House
Founded in 2011 by Alisha and Scott Patterson, Afro House is a Baltimore-based, music-driven performance art house. Afro House is grounded in the belief that art can disrupt and transform the human imagination, providing fresh eyes to view both past and present, challenging artists and audiences to create a better future.
One Maryland One Book Author Tour with Ross Gay – Stop 5: Enoch Pratt Free Library & The Ivy Bookshop
Tuesday, October 5 • 7pm
presented by Maryland Humanities
This year, 2021 One Maryland One Book author Ross Gay will make virtual visits to Maryland to discuss his book, The Book of Delights: Essays. Maryland Humanities, which coordinates One Maryland One Book, has partnered with organizations across the state for six free virtual events October 3–6. Participants must register to receive a virtual event link.
The Book of Delights is a collection of lyrical essays. Gay wrote one essay per day over a year and took the time to find “delights” in his everyday life. The essays range in topic from the beauties in nature to what it is to be a black man in America. Readers can look to Gay’s collection as a guide to finding their own daily “delights.” The book was chosen by a committee of librarians, educators, authors, and bibliophiles in February from more than 160 titles suggested last fall by readers across the state for the theme, “Hope.”
“As we look towards recovering from the traumas of the past year and a half, people hunger for hope, which is what makes The Book of Delights a perfect selection for One Maryland One Book this year,” says Lindsey Baker, Executive Director at Maryland Humanities. “Ross Gay also doesn’t shy away from life’s hardships. It’s the first book of essays ever chosen for the program, giving Marylanders a wide range of topics to discuss. We look forward to these timely conversations.”
Gay says: “I’m so grateful that The Book of Delights was chosen for One Maryland One Book. It feels lucky to get to share this collection of questions and wonderings with you all for so many reasons (one of them that my big brother was an English teacher in Frederick a couple decades ago!). And I’m really looking forward to the conversations we’ll have about the book this fall.”
Read BmoreArt’s Review of Gay’s book Be Holding.
