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Annual Voices of History Street Fair 2025
📅 Date: June 28, 2025
⏰ Time: 11:00am-6:00pm
📍 Location: National Great Blacks In Wax
Free Outdoor Community Event with vendors, food, music & performances, a children’s area, and informational booths: health, wellness, and community resources.
The “Voices of History'' Street Fair (“Street Fair”) is a free summer public event hosted by The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum (“The Museum”). The event began in 2015 as a culmination of the Growing Griots Literacy Learning Program, of which The Museum remains a long-time supporter. It has since expanded to an annual celebration of community arts, culture and health, coinciding with both the Juneteenth holiday and The Museum’s anniversary.
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Keur Khaleyi Kids
Harford Heights Show Choir
Magician John Carrington
And More!
Museum Access: The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum will be open for both walk-in visitors and scheduled group tours throughout the day. Guests are invited to experience our powerful new wax figure of Henrietta Lacks, honoring her legacy in advancing medical science, and explore "Cash Crop," a moving temporary exhibit by artist Stephen Hayes that confronts the realities of the transatlantic slave trade through sculpture and storytelling. The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum will be open for walk-ins and group tours throughout the day (general admission $18, children under 4yrs are free, and senior and student discounts available).
Grounded in uplifting Black history and the collective impact of local creatives and wellness efforts for children, families and neighborhoods, the Street Fair now serves as a culmination of The Museum’s Existential Determinants of Health (E.D.O.H.) Initiative, which utilizes artistic and cultural practices to support Baltimore residents’ navigation of and healing from trauma and its manifestations.
If you are interested in vending please send your inquiry to doralee.fakunle@greatblacksinwax.org
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Past Programming & Public Events
Annual Voices of History Street Fair 2024
Annual Kwanzaa Celebration 2024
Celebrate Kwanzaa with us as we uplift the creativity, talents, and boundless potential of our youth through rhythms, songs, dances, and stories in the African Oral Tradition.
Highlights Include: Book Giveaways, Food, Museum Wax Figure, and Raffle Drawings
Guest Performances By: Keur Khaleyi Kids, Dance Happens, Inc., Community of Academic Scholars LLC, The Growing Griots, and POWERFTP
Presented by the National Great Blacks In Wax Museum & Men and Families Center. Sponsors: DiscoverMe/RecoverMe and T.E.A.C.H.
Power Tools and Wax Figures 2024
Photo: Jim Burger
Tools and Wax Figures: Learning and Co-Teaching with Baltimore Communities.
Hosted at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum and Station North Tool Library, the event brought together scholars, students, and community leaders for two unforgettable days of collaboration and dialogue.
Special Thanks to Dr. Blanks-Jones and Johns Hopkins Center for Social Concern
Photo: Jim Burger
Free Outdoor Community Event with vendors, food, music & performances, a children’s area, and informational booths: health, wellness, and community resources.
Partners: with DiscoverME/RecoverME and the T.E.A.C.H. program!
Black Storytelling: Public Health in the Black World: Spring 2023
Game Night at the Museum featuring Dr. Lawrence Brown's Urban Cipher
A Game Night workshop offering valuable insight into fair housing activism.
This game illuminates Baltimore's structural inequities, illustrating how policies like redlining have widened the wealth gap. Participants play the game, followed by a debrief led by Dr. Lawrence and a tour of the "Cash Crop Exhibit" by Stephen Hayes. Dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..
Black Storytelling Presentations: Spring 2024
A Community Engagement course in partnership with the Center for Social Concern.
This course examines the work and research of young artists from Liberia, West Africa, who used street theatre to teach best practices for prevention during the Ebola crisis and considers how their use of dialogical performance contributed to critical knowledge, which iteratively informed interventions throughout their awareness campaign.
A Community Engagement course in partnership with the Center for Social Concern.
This course examines the work and research of young artists from Liberia, West Africa, who used street theatre to teach best practices for prevention during the Ebola crisis and considers how their use of dialogical performance contributed to critical knowledge, which iteratively informed interventions throughout their awareness campaign.
Photo by Sierra Romero
We are celebrating 40 years of Uncompromising Truth!
Learn more about our resent 40th Anniversary Celebration! Click the link below to see a recap of the event.