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October 28, 2010 | Issue 41
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Discover Wonderland Fashion Show- Drive2Thrive III at Port Discovery. Photo by Brooke Hall.
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This isn’t the time to piss off The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. This is What Weekly.
Help us get The Baltimore Love Mural in Waverly!!!
The creation of public art and murals in Baltimore is essential. Show your support for the mural and the proposed location on the north (32nd Street) white wall of the Greenmount Avenue Rite Aid.
Vote Now!!! Deadline is tomorrow!
Email Mary Pat Clarke (subject line: MURAL) Marypat.clarke@baltimorecity.gov
Include:
1. Your Name and Address
2. Vote YES or NO to THE MURAL ITSELF
3. Vote YES or NO to the RITE AID LOCATION
Deadline for VOTING: Friday, October 29, 5:00 pm
The Baltimore Love Project expresses love by connecting people and communities across Baltimore City through love themed murals.
A few years ago, local artist Michael Owen, developed a design of four hands spelling out the word love. Now this image will be painted on 20 walls, spread evenly across the communities within Baltimore City.
For more information, go to www.baltimoreloveproject.com
Promote your event: Email charmcity@whatweekly.com
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Discover Wonderland Fashion Show
It’s not everyday that Alice in Wonderland meets Project Runway in a philanthropy-driven spectacle under the towering glass ceilings of Port Discovery. And when it happens, any expectation you have about this event will be blown to smithereens. Yes, there were models strutting down the catwalk in clothing that was closer to art than practical wares, national celebs showcasing their latest designs, and fashion-lovers from all walks of life partaking in the frenzy. But after this experience, one would be inclined to believe that this is Baltimore’s fashion epicenter in the making.
In its third year running, Echelon Life’s Drive2Thrive brings together superstars and local Rising Stars to benefit children’s charities. Let’s just say it: This is one hell of a fashion show.
First to hit the runway was a collection of designs by students of the Maryland Academy of Couture Arts.
Many thanks to Debbi Weinberg, Founder and Chair of the Girls’ Empowerment Mission of Maryland, who was honored at Echelon Life’s annual fundraising event.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Julie Bent.
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www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org
The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) is a coalition of diverse organizations and professionals working together to build sustainable peace and security worldwide.
Help build peace.
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Inspired by the night’s theme “Alice In Wonderland,” the academy designers channeled the Mad Hatter and company in their over-the-top designs reminiscent of the Tim Burton-style Wonderland.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Julie Bent.
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Tweed, silk, and a long feather. A tailored fall look from an academy student takes the symbolism of the peacock to another level.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Julie Bent.
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www.lot201.com
Original apparel designs by Julie Bent.
Call Julie for an appointment: 410.929.1183.
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Well, hello, Caterpillar. A reversible cape closed the academy’s section of the runway show. This exquisitely hand-painted silk lining was stunning. The butterfly cape is the work of a remarkably talented 12-year-old, Jude Drakeford.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Julie Bent.
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Baltimore designer Wendy Kaufman’s longtime background in costuming shines through on the runway, but her collection is entirely wearable save the headpieces, which while stunning would garner an odd look or two at a PTA meeting.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Julie Bent.
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Since 1995, The Creative Alliance has promoted Baltimore as a dynamic center of art in all genres. With members ranging from artists and educators to neighbors and supports, the Creative Alliance cultivates community through collaboration.
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Music or Writer’s Block
I went to see Jenny and Johnny at a Baltimore venue Monday night. I was going to write about that, but what are you going to say? I shot some flip camera stuff, but everybody was shooting with phones and flips. I saw Rilo Kiley at the Wiltern in L.A. a bunch of years ago (with my niece, who turned me on to them when she was like 12) and it was pretty great. I remember we were sitting behind Kirsten Dunst, and how everyone in the packed house held up cell-phones-as-candles, replacing the traditional matches/ cigarette lighter offering of old. Three and half years ago we saw the Rabbit Fur Coat/ Watson Twins incarnation at the 9:30 in D.C. Fantastic also, but not the same sense of excitement. Now it’s Jenny and Johnny in four-piece rock band mode at a club, with a small turnout. I used to wonder why Jenny Lewis was not more popular than say Taylor Swift (at least in my naive aesthetic worldview that would have made sense). One big difference: Taylor Swift is focused.
But so anyway, that day before the show I was listening to Fresh Air: Terry Gross interviewing Keith Richards. Ms. Gross is a dutiful interviewer, and was sort of trying to get Mr. Richards to say something controversial or revealing (talk about Venus and Mars…) She failed on both counts, but it was enormously entertaining. Like Mr. Richards trying to explain the importance of “vowel movements,” or when she would complete a thought for him and he’d say, “you’ve got it Terry, that’s it.” And it’s always cool to hear cryptically disjointed groupie stories from a dude pushing seventy. Ms. Gross wanted to stir up some tales of acrimony between Richards and Jagger, but Mr. Richards said: “rubbish.” You work in a band fifty years, of course you have fights.
So I’m watching Jenny and Johnny, and remembering about Keith Richards, but mostly I’m thinking about the sound track music that I don’t have for the movie trailer I am editing (ROWS, a scary psycho thriller)….. keep going.
-david warfield
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David Warfield, Confessions of a Mad Filmmaker
A What Weekly Column
“And so here we have a unique opportunity to track the production of a truly independent film from the moment of conception (the script is not yet completed) to the first public screening, and beyond. ”
Were not talking about EPK filler here, were talking about life, and its bound to get messy.”
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DIY Fest 2010
Andrew Mattingly, Don Barton, A.G. Sherman and Jamie Kitch
Since the recession hit, many of us have had to layoff our butlers, maids, gardeners and kitchen staff. If you’re like me, there’s nothing you enjoy more than coming home after a long night of debauchery and waking up your personal chef to prepare fried pickles for you and your friends. Well, for many of us, those days are long gone. I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve been forced to fry my own pickles as of late.
Recently, the good people at Red Emma’s saw fit to gather experts in several disciplines together to host workshops and disseminate information on the subject of how one might accomplish tasks one used to pay others to do.
For instance, the committee from the Baltimore Free Farm, comprised of enterprising young women and men, have discovered a way to grow food within the city limits. I know it sounds hard to believe but it’s true. In addition, they’re raising money using the interwebs via an innovative website the kids call the kickstarter. I’m looking into using the site myself to raise money for renovations on my summer home in the mountains. If you’d like to make a donation drop me an email.
As if all of their hard work wasn’t enough to fill up their busy calendar, they’re also throwing a party. An epic one at that. It’s shaping up to be the social event of the season.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Quite simply, DIY Fest was an inspiring event that brought together like-minded individuals for the sake of sharing information and fellowship. The workshops ranged from Alternative Business Models to Urban Foraging. The Red Emma’s Collective have been hosting a multitude of quality events at 2640 and should be commended for their forward-thinking and community service. They’re a unique group who do their part to make Baltimore a little bit better every year since their inception.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Books, Live Music, Art Gallery and more!
Same block as Windup Space, across from Joe Squared. Plenty of room inside for your bike; FREE street parking for your car (well plug your meter before 6, after that its free anyway) come on over…
30 West North Ave.
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Lee Connah’s hand made musical instruments are “built largely from salvaged and recycled lumber, debris, found objects and unorthodox materials such as beer cans and tree bark.”
Each instrument is a work of art and entirely unique.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Lee Connah is a folk singer and carpenter who, as far as I can see, puts a lot of soul into everything he does. His instruments drew me in as soon as I saw them and kept me there asking questions for some time after.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Bob Noble Goes to Baltimore
It’s been said that there are two official versions of Little Wing. The first, of course, was performed by the song’s originator, Jimmie Hendrix. The second was an instrumental version recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Some would say that Frank Zappa’s version should be included but I disagree. While Zappa was a masterful player his over-use of effects on the song dates his interpretation and strips it of it’s classic tenor.
Little Wing is, perhaps, the perfect guitar composition. One might even argue that no further exploration of the instrument was needed after its inception. As a result of witnessing several disappointing attempts at its recreation, I had long since given up the notion of experiencing a live version that moved me as much as Hendrix or Vaughan. That is until I witnessed Bob Noble do it live. The song is arranged in such a way as to insist that its performer lay his soul bare for the audience in order to come close to capturing its essence. Noble’s re-imagining of Little Wing is moving, distinct and proof that he has mastered his craft. Though you may have never heard of him, Bob Noble is one of the best guitar players alive today, and we found him playing at The Horse You Came In On. You should have been there.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Somehow we heard that this amazing guitar player was coming through Baltimore and was doing a free show in Fell’s Point. We’d heard that he’d played with acts like The Supremes and Ben E. King. We also heard that he was one of the best players alive today mastering everything from jazz and blues to finger tapping – shred metal – with a healthy dose of hairspray if you know what I’m saying. When we heard that Bob Noble and Blue Voodoo was playing for free we knew that we would regret missing what might very well be an amazing performance so we took a chance and went to the show. Nobody who came out was disappointed.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Each generation a new breed of musicians emerge and it’s easy to forget the common thread that ties the what’s-happening-now back to Motown, Mississippi and across the ocean if you trace it back far enough. Major record companies have perfected the art of snatching up an idea, mass producing it and beating us over the head with it for a decade or so until we can’t stand it any longer. After sitting down with Noble and talking about his musical roots it becomes clear why he can channel the music of San Francisco in the sixties, New York in the seventies and Los Angeles in the eighties. It’s because he was there. At this point he’s not just a live performer. He is the embodiment of music fused with his experience. Witnessing a player like him is an entirely different kind of musical encounter and he’s the only person I’ve ever seen play Little Wing with all the grace of Hendrix himself.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Check out the great work being done by the Baltimore Free Farm Collective. Theyre raising funds at Kickstarter to get their community center up and running. Follow the link for details.
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Caleb Stine in studio at WNRN performing Eyes So Strong and Clean.
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Beach House- Heart of Chambers
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Thursday, Oct 28
Free Fall Spooky Campfire Folklore at The Strand Theater 6:30 pm
The night begins with a marshmallow reception at 6:45 p.m. and is followed by storyteller, actor and scholar, Bill Grimmette, who will present a history of story telling. Bill will summon the spirits from folklorists, story tellers and urban legends of yore to give the audience a history lesson that they won’t soon forget.
The audience will then be invited to gather around a non-functional and highly imagined fire pit to begin creating folklore of their own. Group members take turns adding bits and pieces to the story. And after 30 minutes of bone-chilling gore and gloom, groups will be present their stories to fellow folklorists.
And as a blazing finale, Kate Guntermann will delight and terrify with her fire artistry. Gaze and admire as Madam Guntermann imbibes a fiery elixir and then performs her death-defying feats.
To register for this spooky and fun event, call Jayme Kilburn at 410-685-0095.
Red Emma’s : Radical Info Night 7 pm
Yeah we sell coffee, yeah we sell books, yeah we promote radical ideas and community building, yeah we have free internet, yeah we host awesome concerts, yeah we offer a space for free classes, yeah we help organize delicious fundraiser dinners and national conferences, yada yada yada.
But in reality, we are many things, the Red Emma’s family of projects. We are a collection of individuals with diverging and converging perspectives. In the past six years, we’ve established Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, The 2640 Space, and The Baltimore Free School, projects with purpose.
DROP pt. 4 with SBTRKT (UK), A-Mac + Cullen Stalin at The Get Down 10 pm
“[A]n exciting new producer/performer who recently appeared to come out of nowhere to remix Tinie Tempah’s UK #1 single, as well as tracks for Gorillaz, Modeselektor, and Basement Jaxx. He also made appearances on or at famed station Rinse, London’s Fabric, and dubstep’s foundational club, Forward>>, all in the span of 18 months. Such is his hype, he’s currently having to turn down remixes and keep music off air because “things end up on YouTube within an hour or being on radio.” In an accessible era, his success has been overnight.” – Pitchfork.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Friday, Oct 29
The Temporary Nature of Ideas at School 33 Closing Reception 6 pm
On Friday, October 29th, there will be one last chance to make your mark in the space, during the closing reception from 6-9pm. All are also welcome to stop by through the month of October to make an object from the provided materials. Gallery hours are 12-6, Wednesday through Saturday.
Moving to Utopia: unpacking the quest for a more sustainable life at Current Space 7 pm
Current Space, is proud to present Moving to Utopia, which documents the efforts of Barry Febos, a young ecologically minded artist, as he sets out to begin a tour back and forth across the United States in his waste vegetable oil powered Volkswagen with the goal of finding a more sustainable way of life. Through a live-in exhibition of photos, drawings, maps and video as well as an archive of necessary possessions and a silent auction of the unnecessary, you’re invited to take an intimate look at a quest for sustainable living.
Balti Mare Brass Transylvania Halloween Party at Joe Squared 10 pm
BALTI MARE BRASS!!! For the first time ever Balti Mare will feature a 3 piece brass section: tuba, trumpet, & euphonium! Witness a real live Transylvanian Gypsy Halloween Bash!!! Vampires, Bats, Bears, Chickens, Ghouls, Ghosts, Beer, and Slivovitza/Tuica! /p>
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Saturday, Oct 30
The Great Halloween Latern Parade & Festival at Patterson Park 3:00 pm
Festival and Parade Line-Up at Pulaski Monument at Eastern & Linwood Aves.
Festival 3-9pm. Parade Line-Up 7pm, Step Off 7:30pm.
FREE! Food, drinks, arts & crafts on sale.
Rain Date Sun Oct 31
The world’s one and only glowing giant vegetable garden!
1000 Lanterns! Stiltwalkers! Huge Floats! The Gourd Orchestra!
Lantern Festival!
Hay Rides! Lantern Making! Day of the Dead Community Altar & Activity!
Live Music! Yummy Food, Hot Cider, Cold Beer!
Witches Brew at Minas Gallery 5 pm
Witches Brew is a mix of music, dance, spontaneous painting & spoken word delivered via mystic wavelengths. It’s the stirring of the ancient krater-cauldron, the alphabet of the invisible, the eve of the eve of the twilight spirits, the old memories made immediate, the grand glow of the blood moon, the double-helix duende dance, the chant of remembered magic creating medicine, the illumination of the mystery again honored. Costumes are encouraged and revered.
=-P3RFORMANC3 VARI3TY SHOW -= at the Copycat Theatre 8 pm
Transformable Stories , Ventriloquism, Silk Trapeze, Evil iPods, Dance, Rap, Words, Music, Murder, Chile, Ke$ha, Beiber, Bands, Cyrus and Forceful Expulsions From the Stomach !!!!!!!! Join us for a truly epic variety show. Halloween Eve. Get down on it.
Performers: Baltimore Experimental Dance Collective Alexander D’Agostino Katherine Ralston BRAINDANCE Hoesy Corona & Mary Alessi Monica Mirabile & Caroline Marcantoni The Max Guy Band Person & Carrie Jackie Wang Theresa Columbus Pilar Diaz La Malicia Pajarita …and more!
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Sunday, Oct 31
Indian Dance Performance at The Walters 2 pm
In this event commemorating Diwali—India and Nepal’s annual festival of lights— Dakshina’s dancers will perform a blend of traditional Indian dance illuminated by modern techniques. This event juxtaposes ancient traditions with new vocabularies in movement and dance.
The Samhain Ball 9 pm
Please join us for this musical and hauntingly artistic showcase to celebrate Samhain featuring four rooms of music, art, and performance. This is a costumed event so come dressed in your wildest creation, or just come as you are and Celebrate Halloween!!
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Ongoing
Eschatology II at Positron Gallery
Often in reference to the end of the world, the Oxford English Dictionary defines Eschatology as “concerned with the four last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell”. In Eschatology II, guest curator Cherí Landry invites you to explore this branch of theology through a selection of works by Emil Alzamora, Sasha Blanton, Jen Blazina, Jordan Eagles, Gwyneth Scally and Carlos Tarrats.
C?U?R?V?E?S? : Michael Dotson at Nudashank
Michael Dotson creates contemporary, synthetic landscapes that achieve a hi-tech sensibility through the use of low-tech media (paint and tape). Applying basic two-point perspective and color theory, Dotson creates vivid geometric simulations of imagined utopic environments. Interior and exterior virtual spaces are rendered with a hard-edged digital flatness that belies the fact that the work is made by the human hand.
Hope Against Hope At The Pheonix Shot Tower
From the theft of fire [by Prometheus], to contamination through water [Leviticus]; echoing the home of invention and the cornerstone laying by Charles Carroll of Carrollton; a commercial enterprise dissolves the myth of bullets and opens onto hope as poison at the bottom of Pandora’s box.
Scattering the fragments of history to the sound of falling water, this once tallest building in the US becomes a site of modest explorations and play.
Featuring site specific performances, video, drawing, installation, food, and lectures. Ends December 4.
FORCE: on the Culture of Rape at Current Gallery
If we are too uncomfortable to talk about rape, how can we ever process sexual violence in a way that lets individuals heal and challenges our culture to progress?
FORCE: on the Culture of Rape is a collection of art, performance, discussion, and critique about unwanted sexual experience. The show promotes a critical dialogue about how our attitudes towards gender, sex, power and violence are played out on people’s bodies. In bearing witness to the survivors of sexual violence, FORCE creates a safe and healing space. Closing November 12-14.
25 Important Comics of Dina Kelberman at Pheonix
Dina Kelberman is one of the founders and (very) active members of Wham City Collective, creator of IMPORTANT COMICS (as seen in the City Paper and in her beautiful self-published book of the same name), local blogger and overall busy-as-a-person-can-be person. Her comics are timely, simple, and hilarious! We are proud to show her off on the walls of the bar!
“25 important Important Comics of Dina Kelberman” will be on view at Baltimore’s PHOENIX (1 west biddle) for the entire month of October.
David Page & Elizabeth Brady at Jordan Faye Contemporary
Elizabeth Brady’s work is an observation and documentation from her environment. In discussing her work, Ms. Brady has said, “My new pieces are evolving to be less a direct representation and more of a reflection on Baltimore and the realities of those living here. The new series is directly influenced and informed by my experiences working with student artists and community members in Baltimore City.”
David Page creates seamlessly crafted sculptures constructed primarily from leather, wood, canvas and found objects. His sculptures juxtapose figurative forms with machine like structures and elements. His work is included in The Teaching collection at St. Mary’s College, the permanent collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the collection of Nelson Mandela. He has received two Individual Artist Awards in sculpture from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2007 and 2009.
Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos And Toys In The Attic at The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum will host the playful and interactive world of best-selling author and photographic illustrator Walter Wick in the exhibition Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic on view Sept. 19, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011. Wick is the creator of the Can You See What I See? series and co-creator, with writer Jean Marzollo, of the I Spy books for children. Wick’s books challenge readers to solve visual riddles or puzzles created from the thousands of props he has collected in his renovated firehouse studio. His photographic style, one of precision and detail, will alter the viewer’s sense of visual perception. September 19, 2010 – January 02, 2011
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at The BMA
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first Museum
exhibition in the country to explore the Pop icon’s late
works. Featuring more than 50 paintings created between
1976 and 1986—the most prolific era in Warhol’s 40-
year career, the exhibition illustrates the artist’s energetic
return to painting (after his foray into filmmaking and
screenprinting) and the physical act of art-making through
hand painting, folding, and staining. Paintings of epic proportions—
stretching up to 35 feet wide—envelop viewers
in dramatic fields of color, painterly gestures, and symbols
of American culture.
What Makes Us Smile? at AVAM
In celebration of its 15th Anniversary, AVAM will mount its most delight-filled exhibition to date, exploring just “What Makes Us Smile?” It will be curated by master humorist and creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening, artist Gary Panter, and AVAM Founder Rebecca Hoffberger. This mega exhibition on the timeless and global phenomena of smiling, laughter and humor will include contributions by dozens of artists, including comedian Michael Baldwin’s spectacular vintage toy assemblages created from toys collected from five decades of his dedicated dumpster diving, and a seven-thousand toothbrush welcome mat that uses bristles and color to invite a “SMILE” from all who enter. The triumvirate of curators will take a look at both historic and modern employ of humor to speak truth to power – think court jester/fool’s ability to say things to the king that no one else could get away with to today’s Tina Fey, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert and their sardonic take on today’s news and leadership.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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What is What Weekly?
What Weekly is a multimedia magazine chronicling the real Baltimore movers and shakers not the corporations, not the politics, What Weekly spotlights the people. Were paying attention to the good things happening in Baltimore and sharing it all with you.
Why online? Disposable print media is wasteful and, with the advent and proliferation of the Internet, it is more difficult to justify. Technology is a gift and a tool use it to evolve and build things together.
If you want to be a part of the movement, you can send us your photos to publish, your events to promote and your ideas to talk about. Forward the email, share a link, start a movement. Your audience is the world, pass it on.
Whats the Goal?
One day soon you will hear a bit of news like this, “Multimedia Magazine Reaches One Million People.” If we dont do it, someone else will. We want to build a large independent distribution channel and well use it to tell the world what youre doing. We want as many people as possible clicking on the links to your websites and ultimately taking an interest in the Baltimore Renaissance and its artists.
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Whats the point?
This is a movement dedicated to uniting the creative community in and around Baltimore City and then sharing it throughout the world for the benefit of Baltimore and its people. The movement has already begun; we just gave it a name.
Using a multimedia platform, we want to put Baltimore on the map so it’s recognized globally for the artistic and intellectual hub that it is. We start by chronicling your amazing work.
We understand that the distribution of ideas is no longer bound by geography. This paradigm shift allows for cultural movements to exist locally and globally simultaneously. We can share everything, we can create anything and we can reach everyone. It’s time to do something with that power.
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