Mapping Baybrook: a Community Celebration
Saturday, December 1, 2012
This event is now over.
Join us in celebrating the community arts activities that have been taking place in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay community (also known as Baybrook). The event also includes an exhibit of artwork from both Baybrook and Rotterdam's Heijplaat neighborhoods. These two communities are the subject of an art exchange called HarborTraces.
Where:
Polish Home Hall
4416 Fairhaven Avenue, Baltimore, MD Google map
(Corner of Fairhaven & Filbert Streets, in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay neighborhood of Baltimore, south of the harbor)
Parking: There are parking spots along the streets. (There is no parking lot at the building itself.)
When:
1-5pm on Saturday, December 1, 2012
Cost:
$10 at the door (includes a meal).
Kids under 10 admitted free of charge.
News about this event:
About the organizers:
Professor Nicole King, the Departments of American Studies and Visual Arts at UMBC, and the Baybrook Coalition (a non-profit community development corporation serving the residents of Brooklyn and Curtis Bay), have organized this event to celebrate the history and culture of Brooklyn and Curtis Bay (also known as Baybrook).
Event includes:
A $10 ticket provides a pulled pork Barbeque lunch with all the fixings, a copy of Mapping Baybrook’s main streets walking tour brochure, and an event program with live music & public history programming.
The event features an art exhibit designed and executed by Professor Steve Bradley and UMBC’s IRC Fellows. It includes artwork produced as part of the Baltimore-Rotterdam artist exchange, HarborTraces.
The event will also mark the launch of the Mapping Baybrook website, which was designed in collaboration with UMBC’s Imaging Research Center (IRC).
Children under 10 will be admitted free of charge and are invited to participate in special activities just for kids.
Background information:
This work is funding by a UMBC Breaking Ground grant and illustrates how the successes and failures of urban industrial development contribute to our understanding of historic places and the creation of social space. A central theme of this research is that preserving places through original research, virtual mapping, and public humanities and arts programming creates social space—the room for diverse people and perspectives to come together and effect change in today’s urban environments. “Mapping Baybrook” recognizes historic main streets as an essential place for the future development of the community and features the aesthetic resources within the community.
All proceeds raised at the event will be donated to the non-profit Baybrook Coalition for the continued preservation of the historic Polish Home Hall. The Polish Home Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as an anchor for the communities of Baybrook.
Event sponsored by UMBC’s Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture in the Department of American Studies, the Visual Arts Department, a Breaking Ground grant, the Imaging Research Center (IRC), and the Baybrook Coalition.
