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✨ IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN ✨
Join Us for the Annual Kwanzaa Celebration!
📅 Date: December 26, 2024
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Henderson-Hopkins Elementary
Celebrate Umoja (Unity) 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 | 🎟️ Raffle Drawings
🎤 Guest Performances By:
Keur Khaleyi Kids
Dance Happens, Inc.
Community of Academic Scholars LLC
The Growing Griots
POWERFTP
Registration Required!
📢 Presented by the National Great Blacks In Wax Museum & Men and Families Center.
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Past Programming & Public Events
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
Learn more about our 40th Anniversary Celebration and corresponding events at the Museum!