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:
– Jalynn Harris
– Jamal Abrams
– Monica Owens
– Realm
– Safiyah Cheatam

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

Bios:

Realm is a collaboration between Ian Murphy (he/they) and Stevie Pniewski (they/them). Experimental by nature, Realm focuses on creating aberrant furniture and objects. It is the vessel that fuses their eclectic design philosophies with their investigation of unconventional form and advanced crafting techniques. Embracing the strange and otherworldly, Realm’s vision is constantly morphing, flirting with avant-garde and modern design while maintaining a sense of mischief and seduction

Monica Owens (she/her) is a nonbinary union organizer, negotiator, and researcher. Recently while on sabbatical from her job at a national union, she traveled to conduct interviews at major trade unions in Europe and the UK to learn about their respective collective bargaining practices. Now she's piecing together what she found and is happy to share a few highlights with you at Pecha Kucha.

Safiyah Cheatam (she/her) is a multimedia artist, researcher and storyteller of Black Islam and Afrofuturism. Over the past 10 years, she has enriched Baltimore City with community engagement in arts education and currently serves as the Assistant Manager of Teen Programs at the Walters Art Museum. In 2020, she was a curatorial Research Assistant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture for the special exhibition Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, which is open through August 2024. She is a recipient of Washington Project for the Arts’ Wherewithal Research and Project Grant, Red Bull Arts Microgrant, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation’s Rubys Artist Grant and VisArts’s Fleur And Charles Bresler Residency. Safiyah has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, BmoreArt, and has exhibited artworks nationally. She received a Masters of Fine Arts from UMBC, co-founded the Islam & Print studio fellowship where she and her husband Daniel Flounders curate cohorts and exhibitions of Muslim artists, and is in her 5th year of serving on the board of Baltimore’s philanthropic Awesome Foundation.

Jalynn Harris: Jalynn (she/they) is a writer, educator, and book designer from Baltimore. Her work 'Oh, Baltimore!' is a full-length collection of poems exploring the natural and social geography of Baltimore through the verse of a 6th-generation Marylander.

Jamal Abrams (he/they) 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.

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Pecha Kucha is an monthly series at Current Space.

Interesting in sharing at a future event? Please email currentspace@gmail.com with the subject line "Pecha Kucha Proposal" – include a short description of what you'd like to talk about and a link to your website (if relevant).

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This outdoor event will be held in our rear courtyard. Enter through the alley at 421 Tyson Street. Rain or shine.
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Current Space is an artist-run gallery, studio, outdoor performance space, and garden bar; nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Operating since November 2004, we are committed to showcasing, developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.

Thank You
Programs at Current Space are made possible in part by supporting members like you; the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation; The Creative Baltimore Fund, which is a grant program funded by the Mayor’s Office and the City of Baltimore; and The Rouse Family Foundation.