Baltimore Sister Cities

July 6 | Baltimore Sister Cities Meet & Greet

Baltimore Sister Cities (BSC) Meet & Greet July 6, 5:30-8pm. BSC logo. Names of each of the sister cities.

Come mingle with our volunteers and friends!

Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Time: 5:30-8pm
Location: R.House, 301 West 29th Street, Baltimore MD 21211
Has outdoors and indoors seating.
Rain date: If it is pouring rain then we’ll move it to July 13 (and we’ll notify people on this webpage)

Meet our friends and volunteers; find out more about our sister cities and our activities at this informal summer get-together.

Spread the word to others in your network and invite them to come, too!

How you can find us: look for people wearing “Baltimore Sister Cities” logo stickers on their shirts, or look for table-top signs with “Baltimore Sister Cities” logo.

No RSVP needed — just show up!

About the R.House

R.House is a food hall with several food stalls from Baltimore chefs and a bar. It is a large space with open floorplan seating — both outdoors and indoors seating available. No reservations accepted — it is walk-in only. Located in the Remington neighborhood, near the Maryland Avenue bike lane and near several bus routes, including Purple Circulator; CityLine Silver; Bus 21. Street parking.

R.House website

July 23 | Bmore for Ukraine!

Bmore for Ukraine fundraiser event July 23, 2022. Illustration of yellow sunflowers with blue stems and leaves on a black background; logos of the sponsors

Date: Saturday, July 23, 2022 (Rain or shine)
Time: 12-6pm ET
Location: Pulaski monument in Patterson Park, Baltimore
For more info and to purchase tickets: Eventbrite page

Join the Baltimore-Odesa Sister City Committee for the first annual BMore for Ukraine, a celebration of communities coming together to support Ukraine in its time of need. The event will feature live music, cultural dance, raffles, and more!

All proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen & United Help Ukraine.

Blooming Rainbow Project

Blooming Rainbow class – making art
Blooming Rainbow class – making art
Blooming Rainbow class – writing names in English and Korean characters

During 2021-2022, artists conducted “Blooming Rainbow” — a collaborative class with children, 5-15 years old, in Baltimore and South Korea to create abstract painting jointly together. In this program, children paint scribbles — they can express their feelings, impulsion or their favorite figures. The scribbles are then exchanged with the artists in Baltimore and Korea, who overlap color onto the scribbles. The children learn about the sister cities of Baltimore, Maryland USA and Changwon, South Korea, and learn about abstract art concepts and artists. The program is coordinated by artists Ara Ko, Jack Koppert, and Huaqi Liu (graduate students in MICA’s LeRoy E. Hoffberger Painting MFA Program in Baltimore) and Chaeyeon Hong, Yongeun Kwon and Jaeeun Kim from Ewha University in Seoul, South Korea (who travel to Changwon to teach their group of students).

Baltimore-Changwon Sister City Committee (BCSCC) is a project partner.

Video about the Blooming Rainbow project

Exhibition – Summer 2022

The work is shown online on Instagram, and in an exhibition in summer 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland USA and Changwon, South Korea.

The opening was on June 10 at 7:00pm ET Baltimore time and on June 11 at 8:00 AM Changwon time and was livestreamed online. Dami S. Schlobohm was the MC at the opening show and performed music. Dami is a cellist and music teacher born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Maryland.

Watch highlights from the exhibition opening event

The full-length recording of the event can be viewed on YouTube.

The artists who are leading this program

Artist Ara Ko with examples of her artwork
Artist Ara Ko
Artist Chae Yeon Hong
Artist Chae Yeon Hong
Blooming Rainbow hand-drawn logo with hand prints

Baltimore-Xiamen chair speaks at Baltimore Mayor’s “410 Report” event

Xin (Cindy) Wang (Chair, Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City Committee) was one of the speakers in the 2022 Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month edition of Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s “410 Report.”  Other speakers included HyeSook Chung (President, Baltimore Civic Fund), Cori Dioquino (Co-Executive Director & Co-Founder, Asian Pasifika Arts Collective), and Heang Tan (Deputy Commissioner, Office of Aging). Mayor Scott and these members of our local Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community celebrated the contributions and experiences of our city’s AAPI communities. With a rich history in our city, AAPI communities continue to be a thriving source of what makes Baltimore, Baltimore. The program was originally broadcasted on Thursday, May 19, 2022, on the Mayor’s Facebook page, the CharmTV Facebook page, and the Mayor’s Instagram page. 

To view a recording of this program, visit the CharmTV Facebook page.

April | Baltimore Sister Cities workshops at Enoch Pratt Library

Photos of painted Pysanky egs; paper dolls; Korean fan dance for the workshops on April 9, 14, and 16, 2022. BSC & Enoch Pratt Library logos.

Baltimore’s public library hosts Imagination Celebration throughout the month of April. This signature event celebrates creativity and honors diverse voices and experiences within children’s literature and our communities. The celebration features special events, arts and crafts, and more.

Baltimore Sister Cities offers fun activities for kids from some of our sister city committees!

Admission is free.

Saturday, April 9: Pysanky Eggs

Time: 3pm ET
Location: Patterson Park Branch (158 N. Linwood Avenue, Baltimore MD 21224)
Event page on the library website

Learn about the Ukrainian tradition of decorating pysanky, or eggs, and create your own. 

This indoor program has limited space and pre-registration is recommended. To register, please look at the library’s event page for instructions. Walk-ins are also accepted until the program reaches maximum capacity.

Presented by Baltimore-Odesa Sister City Committee (BOSCC).

Thursday, April 14: Imagine YOU!

Time: 2pm ET
Location: Orleans Street Branch (1303 Orleans St, Baltimore MD 21231)
Event page on the library website

Join Susan L. Roth, author of “Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books” and Baltiimore-Luxor-Alexandria Sister Cities to make paper dolls together. Create a doll that represents who you are now, or who you want to be in the future. This workshop is inspired by this year’s Imagination Celebration book selection: What Will You Be? by Yamile Saied Méndez.

Presented by Baltimore-Luxor-Alexandria Sister City Committee (BLASCC).

Saturday, April 16: Korean Fan Dance Demonstration

Time: 2pm ET
Location: Central Library (400 Cathedral St, Baltimore MD 21201)
Event page on the library website

Learn about the tradition of Korean fan dance and enjoy a performance from the Baltimore-Changwon Sister City Committee.

This indoor program has limited space and pre-registration is recommended. To register, please look at the library’s event page for instructions. Walk-ins are also accepted until the program reaches maximum capacity.

Presented by Baltimore-Changwon Sister City Committee (BCSCC).

Baltimore+Rotterdam: Designing Cities

Baltimore+Rotterdam: Designing Cities - Conversation Series 2022. Baltimore Inner Harbor and Rotterdam waterfront by the Erasmus Bridge, looking towards Rotterdam Zuid.

A webinar series all about design — spanning Baltimore and Rotterdam!

Each week this spring, two design groups, one from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and one from Rotterdam (the Netherlands), paired up to discuss architecture, urban design, and how design and policy can improve the built environment for all residents. We observed how different architecture offices operate, to design in the city and improve the inhabitants’ experience of space. This is a unique opportunity to hear how different types of architecture firms approach design in two cities with similar historical legacies (working class cities with port industries).

Designers were paired up to reflect similarities in size, projects and methodology. Through presentations, moderated dialogues, and exchanges with the audience, we explored if and how the environment (historical, political, economical, social, environmental, economies, …) is truly determinant to the fail or success of a project and what that really means for the city, its residents and their well-being.

This series was designed and coordinated by Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center.

Dates: Every Tuesday from February 15 to April 12, 2022
Format: Online webinar; designers’ presentations followed by a moderated panel discussion and Q&A
AIA Continuing education credits: 1 LU

The series has ended, but you can watch recordings of each webinar below!

FEBRUARY 15

Jerome Gray Jerome C. Gray Architect (JCGA) (Baltimore)
Zico Lopes Spatial Codes – Studio for Architecture & Inclusion (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Roberto Rocco, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at Technical University Delft

Video recording: youtu.be/JMrRaw78Wg8
Event info page

FEBRUARY 22

Evan Wivell EastWing Architects (Baltimore)
Felix Madrazo IND [Inter.National.Design] (Rotterdam)
Moderated by coleman a. jordan Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P)

Video recording: youtu.be/UZ3dpkwhASg
Event info page

MARCH 1

Pavlina Ilieva PI.KL Studio (Baltimore)
David ter Avest Urban Geographer; Lecturer, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (RUAS) (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Thijs van Spaandonk Dean of Urban Design, Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB)

Video recording: youtu.be/a0DMfnkYeAI
Event info page

MARCH 8

Megan Elcrat Present Company (Baltimore)
Elina Karanastasi EX.s Architecture (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Tonya Sanders, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P)

Video recording: youtu.be/gSn4-O4E-TM

Event info page

MARCH 15

Paul Riley & Utku Akbulut Marshall Craft Associates (MCA) (Baltimore)
Duzan Doepel DoepelStrijkers (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Matteo Bettoni Barcode Architects
12-1:10pm ET (US) | 5-6:10pm CET (NL)

Video recording: youtu.be/M9JQtiA4-Vg

Event info page

MARCH 22

Steve Ziger Ziger|Snead Architects (Baltimore)
Jan Knikker MVRDV (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Sinisha Brdar Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal

Video recording: youtu.be/oyhBVyNgFXY

Event info page

MARCH 29

Taejun Kim Hord Coplan Macht (HCM) (Baltimore)
Maarten van Bremen GROUP A Architects (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Chris van Langen Program Manager for Spatial Design Action, Creative Industries Fund NL

Video recording: youtu.be/1ua84VHCMtc

Event info page

APRIL 5

Tyler Miller Gensler Baltimore (Baltimore)
Kees van Casteren Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Marc Verheijen Rotterdam City Architect

Video recording: youtu.be/imszYff-lU8

Event info page

APRIL 12

Fiver Soraruf Design Collective(Baltimore)
Jan Jongert Superuse Studios (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Selina Abraham Doctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam

Video recording: youtu.be/-bYhZOsUxlo

Event info page

Co-hosted by Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC).
Event Partners: AIA Baltimore, Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB)

Logos of Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee, AIA Baltimore, Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst, Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning

A special thank you to these firms for having supported Morgan State University SA+P students in their Baltimore-Rotterdam activities via sponsorships in 2019-2020:

Penza Bailey Architects

Quinn Evans

CallisonRTKL Inc.

Twopoint Studio

BCT Architects

hord | coplan | macht

Jerome C. Gray Architect

Vertical Architecture Enterprises

Recent webinars

Did you miss any of our webinars? Recordings are available on Baltimore Sister Cities’ Youtube channel and they include:

Growth Opportunities for AgriTech between Maryland and the Netherlands (January 2022)
https://youtu.be/n_NKBwvQt60

Can We Show Empathy on Our Devices – with Rana el Kaliouby (April 2021)
https://youtu.be/R2jr0jw8_0U

Food Resilience in Maryland (May 2021)
https://youtu.be/_-WyWs2O6Dk

Our Home Too: Forum in Support of Asian American Pacific Islander Communities (May 2021)
https://youtu.be/XI38KYsLbpA

Photo collage of Asian Americans; Photos of the speakers; event title; partner logos

Sister Cities International Annual Conference

Date: July 15–16, 2021
Format: Virtual
Admission: Free (advance registration required)
More info & to register: www.sci-ac.org

This year’s theme is “Building Stronger Ties for an Interconnected World” and features breakout sessions on economic, education, humanitarian, sports, and other themes.

May 27 | Our Home Too

Photo collage of Asian Americans; Photos of the speakers; event title; partner logos

A Forum in Support of Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities

Date: Thursday, May 27, 2021
Time: 7-8:30pm
Format: Zoom webinar
Admission: Free (advance registration required).
More info & to register: aapi2021.eventbrite.com

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), a time when we recognize the history and achievements of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Unfortunately, this year’s celebrations are marred by increasing rates of targeted violence against AAPI individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. These actions are rooted in our nation’s history of periodic exclusion, discrimination, racism, and xenophobia which have long been juxtaposed with the vitality, promise, and mutual benefit endowed by our diversity of backgrounds and experiences.

Please join Baltimore Sister Cities and our partners in solidarity, community and celebration as we honor the invaluable contributions of AAPI communities in Baltimore and Maryland. During this panel discussion, we will explore what AAPI heritage means to all of us. How have AAPI communities contributed to Baltimore and American history? What are AAPI communities currently doing to contribute to culture, the arts, activism, and public service in our region? What new directions are they calling for?

Speakers include:

  • Mayor Brandon M. Scott — Mayor of Baltimore city
  • Linda Yuriko Kato, RSCJ, Ph.D. — Senior Consultant for Society of the Sacred Heart – U.S. Canada Province
  • Christina Wong Poy — Administrative Director, Maryland Governor’s Commissions on Asian Pacific American Affairs and South Asian American Affairs
  • Mark Chang — Delegate for District 32 Anne Arundel County, Maryland State House of Delegates
  • Dana Petersen Moore — Baltimore City Chief Equity Officer and Director of Baltimore’s Office of Equity and Civil Rights
  • Nerissa Paglinauan — Program Manager, Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University

Moderator: Teresa Leslie from Baltimore Sister Cities.

More info & to register: aapi2021.eventbrite.com

Event partners

Logos of the event partners

Baltimore Sister Cities (BSC)
This webinar is organized by Baltimore Sister Cities in honor of its Asian sister city committees (Changwon, South Korea; Kawasaki, Japan; Xiamen, China).

Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA)

Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University (AA&CC)

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Previous mayor’s Dec 2015 press release about Baltimore Sister Cities.

 

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