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Jazz in the Square

Lafayette Square Park @ N Arlington and W Lafayette Ave Baltimore, MD, United States

Join the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts, and founding director Lawrence Jackson, for Jazz in Lafayette Square, a musical celebration of the rich and important legacy of Baltimore’s own jazz legend Billie Holiday. Held at Lafayette Square Park, corner of Arlington Avenue and Lafayette Street. Performances will be provided by The Nasar Abadey Jazz Quartet--Sean Jones (trumpet), […]

Free

The Birth of Baltimore Jazz

Join us for a discussion on the Birth of Baltimore Jazz with Lawrence Jackson, the director of the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts. The event begins at 5:45 with a wine reception featuring the Peabody Graduate Jazz Ensemble in the Eubie Blake Center Garden, and the talk begins at 6:30 p.m.

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Birth of Jazz Exhibit and Roundtable

Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center 847 N. Howard Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Join us at the "Birth of Jazz: exhibit at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center. This event will also include a roundtable conversation featuring Jamal Moore, artist-in-residence at the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts. There will also be a catered reception. Please RSVP for the event in advance.

Sabine Mohamen

Sabine Mohamed

Baltimore Unity Center 1505 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Sabine Mohamed of JHU's Anthropology department.

Free

Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson

Dr. Raynetta Wiggins Jackson, Women’s History Month

Reginald F. Lewis Museum 830 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Billie Holiday Center for Liberations Arts for their Helena Hicks Speaker Series featuring  Dr. Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson. Dr. Wiggins-Jackson’s lecture will focus on “Ethel’s Place: Celebrating Ethel Ennis Baltimore’s First Lady of Jazz.” Her lecture grows out of her curatorial and exhibition work on the legendary jazz singer Ethel Ennis.  RSVP here for this […]

Free

Lauren Russell

Lauren Russell

Union Baptist Church @ 1219 Druid Hill Avenue Baltimore, MD, United States

Lauren Russell of The Writing Seminars speaks.

Free
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“Rent Party”: African American Urban Dance Music from Ragtime to House

Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, Maryland

Join us for a tribute to the Rent Party, a site of music and dance experience for the black urban migrant of the early 1900s. The Rent Party was an opportunity for confident, joyful self-expression and freedom from codes that regulated racial and sexual conduct, freedom from the ideals of uplift, sobriety, and propriety. It […]

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Sixth Annual Jazz in the Square

Lafayette Square Park @ N Arlington and W Lafayette Ave Baltimore, MD, United States

The Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts presents the Sixth Annual Jazz in the Square. This year's event features special performances from the Nasar Abradey Quarter, Sean Jones and Charenee Wade. The event is free, and hosted outside in Lafayette Square Park. Register online for the event.

Helena Hicks Speaker Series – Dr. Maria Trent

Come and engage with us as we delve into conversations about health-related racial inequalities and pay tribute to Ms. Helena Hicks, a pioneering figure in the student-led Civil Rights Movement in Baltimore City.