Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Family Story: Genealogy 101
2020-03-07 10:00 - 13:00 UTC
Researching your family tree can feel like being a detective with witnesses to interview, evidence to analyze and records to keep organized. Learn the basics of genealogy in the Lewis Museum’s Resource Center and start writing your family story. This program is the first in a series of genealogy programs to be hosted by the Lewis Museum. Member: $10, Non-member: $15. Purchase series of five genealogy programs for $45 for members or $65 for non-members.
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UPCOMING GENEALOGY SERIES

Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Family Story: Jumping Into the Records
Saturday, May 16, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Family Story: Unraveling Your DNA
Saturday, June 13, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Family Story: Weaving a Narrative
Saturday, September 12, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Family Story: Family Reunions & African Ancestry Revealed
Saturday, October 10, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Family Story: Digitizing the Past
Members Only
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Girl Scouts Event: Celebrate 100 Years of Women's Right to Vote!
2020-03-07 10:00 - 14:00
Learn about the suffrage movement that resulted in the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Experience a living history portrayal of Sojourner Truth, learn about Maryland African American women who empowered women and men to exercise their right to vote, “vote” at a polling machine and participate in activities that explore and celebrate women’s history. This program is in partnership with Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Program fee: $10 per Girl Scout, $5 per adults.
Living History Presentations of Sojourner Truth by Denise Higgs: 11 am and Noon
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CANCELED // Author Talk: The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
2020-03-14 13:00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Author Joseph R. Fitzgerald will reveal how Gloria Richardson’s human rights activism extended beyond Cambridge, Maryland and how her liberation vision was embraced by younger activists of the Black Power Movement. A book signing will follow; books available in the Museum Shop. Member: $8; Non-member: $10.
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CANCELED // Film Screening: 16 Bars
2020-03-15 14:00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Exploring cycles of addiction and incarceration through the power of music and storytelling, the inspiring 16 Bars offers a window into rehabilitation. The film follows a unique rehabilitation effort in a Virginia jail that invites inmates to write and record original music. In the jail’s makeshift recording studio, four men collaborate on an album with Grammy-winning recording artist, Todd “Speech” Thomas, from the hip-hop group Arrested Development. Stay after the film for a panel discussion with Lyn Twyman, Reentry Subject Matter Expert, 16 Bars Regional Coordinator and CEO of LASERS; and Antoin Quarles, Founder of Helping Oppressed People Excel (HOPE). Watch the Trailer. Member: $6, Non-member: $8.
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CANCELED // Artist Talk: Diana Wharton-Sennaar
2020-03-21 13:00
Join artist Diana Wharton-Sennaar as she discusses her rewarding career as a musical composer and educator. Wharton-Sennaar is a founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock and composed the music for the Broadway hit, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Diana Wharton-Sennaar is the co-founder of Piano for Youth, an award-winning Maryland-based music education non-profit organization. Member: $10; Non-member: $15.
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CANCELED // Short Kuts Live: "My Mind's Playin' Tricks On Me"
2020-03-28 18:30 - 21:00
Join The Short Kuts Show live storytelling experience for the first show of its 2020 season at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. The show is inspired by the Geto Boys’ 1991 hit song, ‘Mind Playing Tricks On Me’–the first rap song to openly and unashamedly wax lyrical about struggling with mental illness.
Storytellers include Tracy Allen, LCSW-C (AKA “The Hood Therapist”),Chelsea Leah Burrell (meditation coach),Latesha Higgs (mental health advocate for NAMI), Amber Taylor (digital communications Strategist), Dasie Thames (human resources executive), Winifred Winston, M.S.,GCDF (author), and a handful of other mental health practitioners, mental health patients (past and current), and patient’s loved ones, sharing the true stories—hilarious, unbelievable, suspenseful, amazing, tragic, and triumphant—of their lives wrestling with the monsters of mental illness.
Member: $12; Non-Member: $15
Doors Open at 6:30 P.M.
Performance from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
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About The Short Kuts Show Narrative Therapy Initiative & Live Storytelling Experience:
The Short Kuts Show, a project created by Cambio Group Co-Founder and equity advocate and consultant, Dr. LaMarr D. Shields, Ph.D., and social designer Darius Wilmore, Co-Founder of the Taharka Brothers Ice Cream Company for Social Justice, Human, Rights, and Beyond, begun in 2017, debuting at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in 2018, is a narrative therapy initiative and live storytelling experience steeped in and inspired by the oral narrative tale-telling traditions and person to person(s) information sharing activities along with and the anticipated hair chair therapy (practiced, unofficially, by barbers/beauticians—the hair chair therapists) services persisting within the Black community’s barber/beauty shop sanctuary spaces within the U.S. and beyond.

CANCELED // The Corner: 20 Years Later with David Simon
2020-04-02 18:30 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
Based on the book “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood”, the television series, The Corner, first aired on HBO on April 16, 2000, and chronicled the life of a family living in poverty in West Baltimore.
Join author, journalist, and producer David Simon for commentary and recollections from the critically-acclaimed show.
A short audience Q&A will follow. Member: $10, Non-member: $15.
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CANCELED // Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day: Earth Optimism
2020-04-04
Join us for Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Enjoy activities inspired by conservation and sustainability, including:

Crafting and art creation with recycled materials
Lessons on building a community garden
Earth Day-themed scavenger hunt

Free with Smithsonian Museum Day pass or museum admission.
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CANCELED // Family Story: Jumping Into the Records
2020-04-11 10:00 - 13:00
Once you have learned all you can from your living relatives, researching vital records is the next step in writing your family story. Come explore all the documents the Lewis Museum’s Resource Center has to offer and learn how to decipher these confusing documents.
This program is the second installment of the Lewis Museum’s 2020 genealogy series. Members: $10, Non-member: $15.
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Virtual Storytime: Sunday Shopping from Shadra Strickland
2020-04-16 13:00 - 14:00
Illustrator Shadra Strickland reads Sunday Shopping for this week’s storytime!
Sunday nights are special for Evie and Grandma. That’s when they go on their weekly shopping spree. Grandma flips open the newspaper to see what’s advertised, and the imaginary tour of neighborhood stores begins.
Overflowing with whimsy and a sweet grandmother-granddaughter relationship, this picture book is a joyous celebration of imagination, family love, and making a lot out of what you’ve got.
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CANCELED // From the Front Lines: Five Years Later
2020-04-18 11:00 - 15:00 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, 21202, United States
In partnership with Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, experience a day of reflection in examining the ways the Baltimore Uprising changed the City and the resources that are now available to effect sustainable change for the future. The program will include conversations with significant figures during the Baltimore Uprising, workshops on issues important to our community, and a talk with Wes Moore, CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation and author of Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City.
Special $5 admission. Registration encouraged; space is limited.
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Virtual Storytime - Callaloo: The Trickster and the Magic Quilt
2020-04-23 13:00 - 14:00
Calling all little ones! Listen to the story of Callaloo: The Trickster and the Magic Quilt from author Marjuan Canady. This story is for kids aged 3 to 7 or all kids at heart.
In search of a long lost patch from her grandmother’s quilt, Zoe and her friend Winston travel to the Gullah Sea Islands where they meet the slick-talking Bruh Rabbit, who tricks them into handing over their quilt and vanishes to the magical island of Sankofaland. With time running out, Zoe and Winston enlist the help of some new friends to catch the trickster and find the missing patch before it’s too late.
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CANCELED // Floetic Friday: Conversations With The Mirror
2020-04-24 19:00 - 20:30
Spoken word poets and hip-hop education scholars, Dr. Crystal Leigh Endsley and Dr. Tony Keith Jr., will share stories about their journey towards intellectual, emotional, and spiritual liberation through performances of original poetry. Collectively, their work seeks to inspire audiences to center love, and knowledge of self in their passionate pursuit of purpose and dreams.
Members: $10; Non-Members: $15
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CANCELED // Freedom Bound: Songs of Love, Hope, and Determination
2020-04-25 16:00 - 17:30
Together with Baltimore Musicales, the Lewis Museum presents an afternoon of art, songs, arias, and spirituals by African American composers and poets. Works by Thomas Kerr, Moses Hogan, Margaret Bonds, Hall Johnson, William Grant Still, H. Leslie Adams, and Florence Price, along with the premiere of new music by Baltimore-raised composer Jasmine Barnes. A reception with the artists will follow the performance.
Member: $10, Non-member: $15.
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Objects Revealed: Highlights of the Lewis Museum's Collection
2020-04-29 15:00 - 16:00
Learn the stories behind the remarkable items found in our permanent collection during Objects Revealed: Highlights From the Lewis Permanent Collection. ⠀
Join registrar and collections manager, Kaili Lockbeam, for this interactive lecture as she explains the history of the items found in our Stearns Family Collection of Slavery Documents. ⠀
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This virtual talk will take place on Wednesday, April 29 at 3 p.m. and is free to attend on Google Meet. Registration is required. After registering, you will receive the meeting information via email.
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Museum Nights @ Home
2020-05-14 18:00 - 19:30

VIRTUAL Family Story: Jumping Into the Records
2020-05-16 10:00 - 11:00
Once you have learned all you can from your living relatives, researching vital records is the next step in writing your family story. Virtually join genealogy expert Lyndra Marshall for this exciting workshop. The program will be hosted through Google Meet. Once registered participants will receive the meeting link.
This program is the second installment of the Lewis Museum’s 2020 genealogy series. Members: $5, Non-member: $8.
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Talks & Thoughts: COVID-19 in Black and White
2020-05-28 17:30 - 19:30
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on the African American community in this country. African Americans are being infected and subsequently dying at higher rates. What puts the black community in this country at greater risk?
Join us for a conversation with Kaiser Permanente’s Director of Community Health, Celeste James, Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green, and award-winning radio host and associate professor of Communication and African American Studies at Loyola University, Dr. Kaye Whitehead, as we discuss how and why black communities account for a disproportionate number of coronavirus cases and deaths.
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This program is presented in partnership with Kaiser Permanente.

Objects Revealed: Jazz and the Blues
2020-06-03 17:30 - 18:30
Maryland’s music industry enriched the world. Some of the bright stars of jazz and blues including Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, and Billie Holiday were Baltimore natives. Baltimore was also home to the Royal Theater, a stop on the famous Chitlin’ Circuit, which featured black musicians, comedians, and other entertainers. Join Jacqueline Copeland, Executive Director, and Kaili Lockbeam, Registrar and Collections Manager, for an exploration into the Louis G. and Shirley Hecht Collection Catalog of Records. The collection includes banned music too scandalous for the radio and first recordings from the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith, and the Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band.
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Virtual Reading: Story Time - Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
2020-06-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Facebook
Prepare for naptime with a recorded reading of Bedtime for Sweet Creatures with acclaimed illustrator Elizabeth Zunon’s latest children’s masterpiece that creates an imagination-fueled and animal-filled journey to bedtime. Mommy needs to wrangle her sweet creature in bed so that the whole family can sleep. From tigers to squirrels to snakes, the little boy dodges around his bedtime, until he is tired enough to finally sleep. His imaginative animal friends weave their way through the illustrations, eventually joining him in curling up for the night. Purchase the book in advance.
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Virtual Reading: Story Time - Freedom Soup by Tami Charles
2020-06-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Facebook
Celebrate Carribean Heritage Month with a virtual reading on Facebook of Freedom Soup with author Tami Charles. Join the celebration in the kitchen as a family makes their traditional New Year’s soup — and shares the story of how Haitian independence came to be. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup — Freedom Soup — just like she was taught when she was a little girl. Together, they dance and clap as they prepare the holiday feast, and Ti Gran tells Belle about the history of the soup, the history of Belle’s family, and the history of Haiti, where Belle’s family is from. Purchase the book in advance.
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VIRTUAL Family Story: Weaving a Narrative
2020-06-13 12:00 - 13:30 | GoToWebinar
Join Nathania Branch-Miles for this webinar showing you how to use your genealogy research and discussion with your elder to document your family history. Branch-Miles is an author, lecturer, researcher, and family historian who has written books and articles on her family research, Prince George’s County history and the American Civil War. This program will build on the knowledge learned from the previous genealogy installments and will be hosted on GoToWebinar.
This program is the third installment of the Lewis Museum’s 2020 genealogy series. Members: $5, Non-member: $8.
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Virtual Reading: Story Time - Freedom Bird by Jerdine Nolen
2020-06-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Facebook
Enjoy a virtual reading on Facebook of Freedom Bird: A Tale of Hope and Courage with author Jerdine Nolen to celebrate Juneteenth. In this inspiring story in the tradition of American black folktales, an enslaved brother and sister are inspired by a majestic and mysterious bird to escape to freedom in this dramatic and unforgettable picture book. Purchase the book in advance.
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VIRTUAL Annual African American Children's Book Fair
2020-06-27
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture will host the Annual African American Children’s Virtual Book Fair on Saturday, June 27, 2020 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Join us online for a day of family-friendly activities including storytelling, workshops, author talks, art-making activities and literary resources that celebrate diverse book titles embracing black culture and identity! Visit the Book Fair Schedule to see all the contributors.
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Writers LIVE: Wes Moore, Five Days
2020-06-28 15:00 - 16:00
Best selling author Wes Moore joins us with the Baltimore launch of his new book, Five Days.
In Five Days, Moore—along with journalist Erica Green—tell the story of the Baltimore uprising both through his own observations and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans.
Book sales provided by the The Ivy Bookshop. Visit their website to purchase your copy of Five Days.
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The event will also be streamed live on the Lewis Museum’s Facebook page.

Educator Webinar: COLONIAL AND EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (1600-1860)
2020-07-27 13:00 - 14:30, 2020-07-29 13:00 - 14:30, 2020-07-31 13:00 - 14:30
Examine Maryland slavery from colonial era to mid-1800s with content lectures and interactive instruction from An African American Journey Resource Guide. This course includes home assignments and teaching a curriculum lesson to obtain 1 MSDE credit hour. This webinar meets for 3 sessions (July 27th, 29th, 31st). For more information, contact Education Manager, Terry.Taylor@lewismuseum.org. RSVP HERE.

Virtual Summer Mini-Camp: Architecture of Teens
2020-07-30 13:00 - 14:30
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the Baltimore chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects for an interactive STEAM workshop introducing school-aged children to the field of architecture and related design professions.
Students will learn about basic design principles to complete a small project while discovering the importance of design in the built environment.
Registration is limited. Secure your spot today!
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Free to attend; donations encouraged.

Virtual Mini-Camp: Comic Books for Kids - Session 1
2020-08-06 11:00 - 12:00
Create the next great Black superhero with this introductory comic book workshop! Campers will learn the basics of comic book creation including writing, drawing, and character development. By the end of the series, comic book creators will create their own superhero story​.​
This program is facilitated by​ comic artist Akinseye Brown of East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC)​.​
Dates: August 6, 13 and/or 21. Register individually or for the entire series!
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Recommended for students in GRADES 3-8
​Cost: $6 per session or $15 for all three classes
