Events This Weekend

Happy Friday!

I just wanted to let people know that in light of the massive weather events this past week, the Banneker-Douglass Museum will be closed today and tomorrow (12-13 February). The scheduled programs for last weekend and this weekend are rescheduled for later dates.

The Seneca Village Collaboration Family Art Program scheduled for 6 February is now set for 27 February at 10:30 a.m.

The Morgan State University Choir concert at Four Winds Performing Arts Center is rescheduled for 8 May.

The Back to Africa? book signing with author Charles Nelson will be rescheduled for a date in the spring.

The Sylvia Gaither Garrison Library Celebrates Its 2nd Anniversary

On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the staff of the Banneker-Douglass Museum, along with business and community leaders, and members of the Annapolis community came together to celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of the Sylvia Gaither Garrison Library. The program began with a prayer by Rev. Hunt, the founder and pastor of the Grace of God Outreach Ministries in Baltimore, Maryland. Following the invocation, the audience, led by Denise Strothers, a recording artist, sang Lift Every Voice and Sing, the African American National Anthem. The staff of the Sylvia Gaither Garrison Library dedicated a poem, My First Memory (of Librarians), written by Nikki Giovanni, to the library's namesake, Sylvia Gaither Garrison. Then, the business and community leaders dramatically read the writings of such literary giants as Frederick Douglass, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Dudley Randall, Margaret Walker, Benjamin Banneker, and others. Betty Coleman, president of Friends of the Banneker-Douglass Museum and a board member of the Banneker-Douglass Museum Foundation, ended the event with a stirring reading of a poem entitled Harriet Tubman, written by Margaret Walker.