Pecha Kucha is visual storytelling format where each presenter prepares and shares exactly 20 slides. The presentation is set to automatically advance every 20 seconds, ensuring a fun and fast-paced night of engaging talks. Get a glimpse into the past, current, and future musings of folks doing creative, inspiring, and unique work here in Baltimore!

Including:
– Jamal Abrams (dancer, performer, choreographer)
– Jen Plaskowitz (photography & gardening)
– Jonna McKone (film, photography)
– Michael Campola (scientist)
– Rae Red (performance)
–Meg Baldwin (gardening & landscape)

Talks begin at 7, but the Current Space Garden Bar is open starting at 5, with happy hour from 5-7pm.

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Bios:
Jamal Abrams is an Immersive and Physical Theater artist born and raised in Baltimore, MD. Their focus is self-supplied reparations through play and a sense of the fantastical. Ultimately using play to address and move though trans/intergenerational trauma. They received their BFA in dance from The University of the Arts. Jamal has worked with Tariq Darell + The UNUM Dance Collective, Priorie Dance, haus of bambi, Sleep No More NYC, as well as Company SBB They are currently in his first season with Company SBB. As a maker they are the recipient of the The Next Look Residency for the 2022/23 cohort supported by The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as well as a featured performer for the DC Dance Choreographers Festival 22’. They have recently made their NYC solo debut at Harlem Stage for the E-moves Dance Series curated by Stefanie Batten Bland.

Jen Plaskowitz has always been curious about the effects of the built environment on human psyche, and towards the tension between the suppression and reintroduction of natural elements in the human built landscape. What began as an exploration through film and image gradually translated to plant work in and out of the garden. Originally from Baltimore, after graduating with a BFA in photography from MICA, Jen spent her early adulthood in New York, splitting time between organizing in the Bushwick DIY art scene and working in small scale landscaping. She currently studies Landscape Architecture at Morgan State University.

Jonna McKone is a photographer, artist, and filmmaker based in Baltimore, MD. She works with documentary, archives, and abstraction to explore legacies of empire, the fragility of truth, and the land and body as vessels of memory.

Michael Campola develops tests/methodologies for use of active electronic devices in the natural space radiation environment at NASA-GSFC.

Rae Red (they/them) is a multimedia performer living in Baltimore, MD. They imbue their projects with playful sincerity while examining ideas of perception and transformation often using the color red as a conduit. They are originally from Albuquerque, NM where they developed their love of both DIY culture, and nature with its queer, sexy, and violent rhythms. Rae has performed all over the country, in spaces grungy and chique from Mana Contemporary Chicago to the barn at Bread and Puppet in Glover, VT. They have been awarded numerous grants and residencies and were recently an artist in residence at both the MacDowell Colony and Mass MoCA, they are currently a Sondheim Prize semifinalist. They hold a MFA from Towson University and a BA from Bard College.

Meg Baldwin is a registered landscape architect and garden designer in Baltimore, MD.