Baltimore Sister Cities

Mar 25 / Culinary Health and Egyptian Cuisine

This event has been CANCELLED.

Culinary Health & Egyptian Cuisine with Amy Riolo & Aida Mady (photos of Egyptian spice, produce, and ancient art)

Location: Middle East Institute, 1763 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Time: 5:30-8pm
Admission: Ticketed. Advance registration required.

Award-winning author, chef, television personality, and Mediterranean diet advocate Amy Riolo will share the secrets of culinary medicine while gourmet chef entrepreneur Aida Mady will introduce you to the world of Egyptian spices and cuisine. Evening includes presentation/demonstrations, pastries and cookbooks to take home, and a silent auction to benefit Baltimore Luxor Alexandria Sister City Committee. PLUS treats from Koshary by Misteka and Fava Pot.

This event has been CANCELLED.

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

Baltimore Sister Cities Holiday Party (Jan 10, 2020)

We held our annual meeting and holiday party at Baltimore City Hall on January 10, 2020. We had fun looking back on a great year of accomplishments with our members and friends!

Baltimore City Hall decorated in purple colors in January 2020
Baltimore City Hall was decorated with purple colors in honor of Baltimore’s football team, the Ravens (Photo: Anthony Quivers)

Baltimore Sister Cities’ executive officers address sister city committee members at the annual members meeting at Baltimore City Hall. (Photo: Vanessa Chen)

After the meeting, we celebrated with a holiday potluck featuring delicious food from around the world. (Photo: Vanessa Chen)

The party included a holiday raffle fundraiser with cultural items donated by our sister city committees. (Photo: Rachel Sengers)

Vice President Chip Graber and other BSC leaders addressed the crowd at the holiday party, talked about the past year’s accomplishments and looked to the future, along with a slideshow of photos from our 2019 activities. (Photo: Anthony Quivers)

Nov 8 / Baltimore + Changwon Sister City Celebration

Baltimore+Changwon Sister Cities - Image with Korean dancers

Come and join us as we celebrate the signing of the new Baltimore and Changwon Sister City Agreement. Changwon in South Korea is Baltimore’s newest sister city relationship!

Event features:

Performance by Changwon Municipal Dance Company Troupe (18 dancers). Roh Hyun Sik is the artistic director & choreographer for this company. He is known for his ability to create dynamic and modernistic performances while maintaining the philosophy of Korean dancing, and also his role in expanding the spectrum of Korean dancing.

Persimmon-themed tasting event. Changwon is the first place where persimmons were grown in Korea, and it is also the largest persimmon plantation in the country. Changwon is bringing products made of persimmons to Baltimore to introduce us to their the sweet taste.

Location: Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Brown Center, Falvey Hall, 1301 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore MD 21217
Time: Persimmon tasting event 5-6:30pm; Dance performance 6:30-7:30pm
Admission: Free

More information & to RSVP: Event page

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Sep 21 / Charm City Night Market

Photo of Charm City Night Market (1st annual edition of the festival). Photo by Fontaine Bell

Time: 3-11pm
Location: Outdoors at 200 Park Ave & 100 N Charles St.
Admission: Free.
More info: Event site

Food stalls, live performances, artists, and makers — an Asian-style night market experience! One of Baltimore’s largest one-night celebrations. The Charm City Night Market is a tribute to what used to be Baltimore’s Chinatown and a promise of what it could be again. This is the 2nd annual edition of this night-time festival.

Event organized by the Chinatown Collective: “The Chinatown Collective is a coming together of Baltimore’s pan-Asian community – across ethnicity, across industry, and across generations. We are artists. We are chefs. We are filmmakers. We are experimenters. We are advocates for all people of color. We are residents of Baltimore City who believe that investment begins with action.”

Supported by Baltimore-Changwon, Baltimore-Kawasaki, and Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City Committees.

July 9 – Aug 23 / Japanese-American art exhibit at city hall

“Flightless Cranes/Tobenai Tsuru” Art Exhibit

Location: Baltimore City Hall’s North Gallery, 100 N. Holliday St, Baltimore, MD 21202
Title: Flightless Cranes/Tobenai Tsuru (meaning: “a crane cannot fly”)
Curator: Kirk Butts
Artists: Aimi Chinen Bouillen, Ahraun Chambliss, Mary Champagne, Kei Ito, Sanzi Kermes, and Ayaka Takao.
Opening reception: Tuesday July 9, 6:30pm, Baltimore City Hall Rotunda.
Exhibit dates: July 9 – August 23
Admission: Free (bring your photo ID in order to enter the building)

The exhibit celebrates the 40th year anniversary of Baltimore and Kawasaki’s sister city relationship. This exhibit will open just before Baltimore’s ArtScape festival on July 2 and runs through August 23. It showcases 6 young Japanese, American, and Japanese-American artists, looking for commonalities in their immigrant identity and relocation themes that are part of their artistic heritage. The artists include several members of Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee and other artists both local and national. We welcome you to visit this exhibit during ArtScape and delve into themes that are part of our Sister City fabric in Baltimore.

Organized by Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee.

Related event

Friday, July 19

Butoh Japanese dance performance

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Baltimore City Hall’s Rotunda, 100 N. Holliday St, Baltimore, MD 21202
Admission: Free (bring your photo ID in order to enter the building)
More info and to RSVP: Facebook event page

Special Butoh performance by Azumi O E with sound artist Miki, held in conjunction with the “Flightless Cranes/Tobenai Tsuru” Art Exhibit.

Organized by Michael Young/OTS Productions. Sponsored by Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee, Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University, Baltimore City Hall, Charm City Meadworks.

Azumi OE poster, July 19 2019 in Baltimore

July / Alexandria Library Presentations

Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
Library of Alexandria, Egypt

These events are now over. Here is a recap video of Heba El-Rafey’s July 2019 visit to the Baltimore-Washington region:

The Ancient Alexandria Library – Anew for the 21st Century

Alexandria, Egypt, was a world center of knowledge and learning in the third century BCE, when its ancient library gathered scrolls and scholars from around the world. During these events in July 2019, learn how the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) in the 21st century is dedicated to recapturing the spirit of openness and scholarship of the original library.

Speaker: Heba El-Rafey, Director of Public Relations and International Communications at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA). She oversees the BA Youth Activities Program, engaging young Egyptians and connecting with the International Friends of the BA Network. She is in the Baltimore-Washington area July 22 – 25, 2019 and is speaking at the following events.

EVENTS:

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Time: 10:30am
Location: Diplomatic Center of the State Department in Washington, DC.
Admission: $5 AAFSW members; $10 nonmembers. Advance RSVP required by July 19.
More info and to RSVP: Event page | Baltimore Egypt website

Mary Kane, former executive director of Sister Cities International, will introduce the event.

Organized by Baltimore-Luxor-Alexandria Sister City Committee and Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide (AAFSW)

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Two events:

At the Library of Congress

Time: 12-1pm
Location: Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Reading Room, LJ-229, 2nd Floor, Jefferson Building, in Washington, DC.
Admission: Free
More info: Event page | Baltimore Egypt website

A special presentation of the Library of Congress’ Middle Eastern collections will follow Heba El-Rafey’s talk.

Organized by Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Maryland, Virginia, DC and the Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress.

At George Washington University & Textile Museum

Time: 5-7pm
Location: George Washington University & Textile Museum (Foggy Bottom Metro) in Washington, DC.
More info: Baltimore Egypt website
To RSVP: Contact Baltimore-Luxor-Alexandria committee

Hosted by the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

A Sister City Presentation in Baltimore

Organized by Baltimore-Luxor-Alexandria Sister City Committee in conjunction with Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Walters Art Museum.

Two activities:

6:30-7:30pm – Presentation at Enoch Pratt Library

Location: Central Library (in the African American Department), 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Admission: Free
More info: Event page | Baltimore Egypt website

Speaker: Heba El-Rafey, Director of Public Relations and International Communications at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA).

7:45-8:30pm – Highlights of the Egyptian Collection at the Walters Art Museum

After the Enoch Pratt presentation, join us on a tour of the Egyptian Collection at the Walters, together with Heba El-Rafey from Bibliotheca Alexandrina and members of Baltimore-Luxor-Alexandria Sister City Committee. The Walters is located near Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Location: The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201
Admission: Free
More info: Event page | Baltimore Egypt website

June 15 / Kawasaki Lantern Commemoration

Commemoration Ceremony to mark 35 years of the Kawasaki stone lantern located by the Maryland Science Center at the Inner Harbor

Date: Saturday, June 15, 2019
Time: 11am
Location: Baltimore Inner Harbor promenade, Rash Field, near the Maryland Science Center

The Kawasaki Stone Lantern is a gift donated to Baltimore by its sister city of Kawasaki, Japan. It was installed with much fanfare 35 years ago in June 1984 in the Inner Harbor when Mayor William Donald Schaeffer welcomed a delegation from japan and presided over city-wide festivities.

Learn about the lantern’s history, why it is a masterful example of Japan’s Kasuga style, and the upcoming plans for its relocation.

Ceremony will include speeches, procession, lantern lighting, and Japanese drumming and dance performances. Program includes:

  • Taiko Drumming Salute
  • Welcome by Co-Chairs of Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee
  • Messages sent from Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young and Kawasaki Mayor Fukuda
  • Remarks from reps from Waterfront Partnership and Public Arts Exchange; Councilman Ryan Dorsey; Bob Buker; Maryland Cherry Princess
  • Ceremonial Lantern Lighting
  • Japanese Festival Dance by Satoko Kajima Best
  • Taiko Drumming Finale

Organized by Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee.

Visit us at Artscape July 21-23, 2017!

Visit the Baltimore Sister Cities booth at Artscape, Baltimore’s annual FREE public arts festival — Friday July 21 through Sunday July 23, 2017

During Artscape, the Baltimore Sister Cities organization will have a booth with fun activities for kids, and information about our sister cities around the world. We’re featuring a raffle for a package of great Orioles tickets, too!

Sister Cities booth location:

Booth number E41 — located on the south side of Mount Royal Avenue, in the block between Charles Street and Maryland Avenue. We are in front of UB Business School Center. See map near the bottom of this page.

Festival website

Artscape.org
Directions, public transportation, and parking
Download the festival app for your phone

Dates & Times

    Friday July 21 11am – 9pm
    Saturday July 22 11am – 9pm
    Artscape After Hours: Friday and Saturday 9pm – 11pm
    Sunday July 23 11am – 8pm

About Artscape

Artscape is America’s largest free arts festival, attracting 350,000+ attendees over three days. Artscape features 150+ fine artists, fashion designers and craftspeople; visual art exhibits on and off-site, including exhibitions, outdoor sculpture, art cars, photography and the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize; incredible live concerts on outdoor stages; a full schedule of performing arts including dance, opera, theater, film, experimental music and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; family events such as hands-on projects, demonstrations, competitions, children’s entertainers and street theater; and a delicious, international menu of food and beverages that is available throughout the festival site.

This year, Artscape’s theme is “Camp Artscape: Adventure Awaits!” and features kid’s activities related to engaging in new experiences and exploring the outdoors.

Map showing the location of Sister Cities booth

Map of area near MICA and UB, showing the location of the Sister Cities Booth

Look for our Baltimore Sister Cities sign to find us!

BSC-Booth-Artscape-2016

Stop by the booth to get a free Sister Cities fan to keep you cool!

Baltimore Sister Cities paper fan for Artscape 2017

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