{"id":462,"date":"2022-10-20T05:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?p=462"},"modified":"2022-10-20T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:27:41","slug":"baltimore-field-school-bfs-2-0-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Field School BFS 2.0 Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For more info follow @UMBCPubHum<\/a><\/strong> and others listed below on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month we announced the 2022-2023 BFS 2.0 Community Fellows<\/a>. It’s a great group and they have a lot going on… including this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, October 22 at 2pm BFS Community Fellow Tisha Guthrie @TishaGuthrieMSW<\/a><\/strong> and Baltimore Renters United @b_renters<\/a><\/strong> are hosting an amazing event in Poppleton. It is the kickoff of a free concert series that will move around the city providing a space to spread joy in our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guthrie, who is a resident of Poppleton, explains, “In a city like Baltimore, which has suffered and continues to be blunted by trauma after trauma, a more comprehensive approach is our best chance at building a sustainable movement. The people of Baltimore deserve emotional, physical and mental spaces to dream. The BOC Joy project strives to provide such a space.” Come out to dance, dream, and learn more about renters rights and housing justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later that evening BFS Fellow Yesenia Mej\u00eda-Herrera is an organizer for the annual Great Halloween Lantern Parade and Festival<\/strong><\/a>. The festival starts at 4pm and the parade is at 7pm. Mej\u00eda-Herrera explains, “Absences of Indigeneity in Baltimore\u2019s Latinx community represents a disconnect for many people, like myself, from our Indigenous cultural traditions.” Like Guthrie’s solution based in the joy that comes from creating community, Mej\u00eda-Herrera explains, “As a part of my work with the Artesanas at the Creative Alliance and as the director of the CIELO program (Creatives, Immigrants Educators, from Latin America Origins), I will work with the immigrant communities to encourage, promote, and honor our Latin American cultures and traditions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BFS 1.0 partner Nicole Fabricant @nikifab77<\/a><\/strong> (Towson University) and BFS 1.0 & 2.0 Community Fellow Eric Jackson of Black Yield Institute @BlackYield <\/a><\/strong>will be speaking on Sunday, October 23 at Black-owned bookshop Urban Reads<\/a> @urbanreadsbooks<\/a> as part of the Mellon\/JHU funded Sawyer Seminar on the Right to the City @BRT_RTTC<\/a><\/strong>, a 2-year seminar bringing together intellectuals, organizers & artists to reflect critically on the city as a site of political struggle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can watch the first RTTC event The City and Black Nationalism on YouTube:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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