Meet the GreenGive partners at this and the May Green Drinks. Hear about the important work these organizations are doing, and enjoy an evening of community. GreenGive is just around the corner on June 7-8. Take advantage of this early bird opportunity to get to know the GreenGive partners at both the the April and May Green Drinks.
Join Maryland Hall for a free Gallery Reception in the Chaney and Martino Galleries to celebrate the opening of the new exhibit Reception Women In the Arts - A Dialogue between Nature & Environment. Just as culture occupies a special place in life, women have always played an important role in this vast and beautiful area of human activity. Looking at the works of Yumi Hogan and Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki, we can understand and delight in the different ways in which these two women have embodied and defined nature through art....
Join us for a panel discussion as we revisit the 2020 critically acclaimed Banneker-Douglass Museum exhibit, The Black Vote Mural Project. During this panel discussion we will explore what was involved in the creation of the exhibit, current projects of some of the exhibit’s artists/curators, and how current social justice movements align with the 2020 art project.
Grand Opening! 2022 Beer Gardens! Come Enjoy the Beautiful Spring Weather at Whites Hall!! Join us for delicious food, refreshing drinks, lawn games, and live music.
Walk for the Woods is Scenic Rivers Land Trust's signature community event celebrating the joy of the outdoors and our local, protected woods. This beloved spring event is scheduled for Saturday, April 30, 2022, at Bacon Ridge Natural Area in Crownsville (rain date is May 1). Scenic Rivers will again partner with Anne Arundel County’s Department of Recreation and Parks to offer a wonderful opportunity to hike and explore this beautiful wilderness just minutes from downtown Annapolis. We anticipate a fantastic, safe day in our local, protected woods! Experts in wildlife,...
During Walk for the Woods 2022, local historian Janice Hayes-Williams will again host the "Say My Name" remembrance ceremony honoring the Crownsville State Hospital patients who were buried in the Crownsville Hospital Cemetery (located adjacent to Bacon Ridge Natural Area) with only numbers to mark their graves. To allow for more participation, the ceremony is being offered twice—at 10 am and again at 12 pm. Walk up attendance is available for this event.
Grand Opening! 2022 Beer Gardens! Come Enjoy the Beautiful Spring Weather at Whites Hall!! Join us for delicious food, refreshing drinks, lawn games, and live music.
On Sunday, May 1, the Odenton Heritage Society will continue its observance of the town's 150th anniversary with "Odenton's Founders," a photo display about prominent 19th century families and their businesses. The general stores, post office, farms, and cannery operated by the Watts and Murray families helped to define the young town and populate the area near the railroad junction at its center (today's MARC station). Additional displays present community history in the 20th century, including homes, stores, schools, World War I and World War II, amateur baseball, National Plastic Products,...
Join us on select Tuesday mornings for storytime and fun activities in the William Paca Garden, a secret treasure in the Historic District of Annapolis. Each program is designed for little ones (3-7 years) with a book reading, song, craft/art project, and free time in the garden. This Week's Book: Every Cake Has A Story by Christina Tosi Bored with everything being exactly the same in Samesville, Sammi places a recipe under her pillow at night and wishes for a brighter and more colorful world. What happens when she wakes up? In Every Cake...
The Boston Tea Party was a response to the 1773 Tea Act, new legislation designed to reduce tea smuggling within the British Empire and boost the sales of tea imported to the American colonies by the East India Company, a mega corporation with an all-too-cozy relationship to the British Government. But, of course, it all backfired spectacularly. In this talk, historian Dr. Richard Bell argues that the resulting Boston Tea Party marks the first major protest in America against corporate greed and the effects of globalization. Registration required. Cost: $15 per...