These events are related to the musuem's Headquarters exhibit.

1) Thursday, June 15, 7pm @ The War Memorial Plaza

(btw City Hall & War Memorial Building)
The Other Hearing: Against Master Planning
On the occasion of the city planning commission's final adoption hearing for the new Baltimore Master Plan, join us in the War Memorial Plaza (between City Hall and the War Memorial Building at the 100 block between Gay and Lexington Streets) for an open hearing to discuss the highlights and specifics of the plan, to share information on the city's uneven development, and to contest the opaque structure of master planning. While the city planning commission has presented its community hearings as an open opportunity for citizen input, it, in fact, uses these poorly-attended meetings to create a one-way-mirror of public discourse, as city officials continue to meet behind the public facade to refine and execute their plans for neo-liberal redevelopment. Come with armed with questions and any information you might want to share about the impact of the Master Plan and other urban redevelopment plans for the future of Baltimore.

Note that we are not meeting at the Contemporary as we do every Thursday through the run of Headquarters as the City’s Master Plan deserves especial attention.
This program is being organized by campbaltimore, Chicago-based activist and artist Emily Forman, and others.
More precise directions: Block btw Lexington & Gay.

2) Sunday, June 18, 4pm @ Contemporary Museum

"Madness Ghetto: on a Fortification of Race"
---A presentation by Ashley Hunt
Hunt, an artist and activist who developed the Headquarters floor diagram, will discuss imprisonment and ghettoization through the lens of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, exploring the assignment of madness to the poor, and a characterization of the state’s response as a fortification against nightmares of the racial imagination.

3) Tuesday, June 20, 7pm @ Contemporary Museum
"The Other Campaign"
----A Discussion with Left Turn Magazine
Headquarters and Red Emma's are co-organizing the Baltimore stop of Left Turn's 5th Anniversary infotour. We'll be joined by a panel including, among others, former political prisoner and Black Panther Ashanti Alston for a discussion of the Zapatistas' Other Campaign. The Other Campaign is building a grassroots movement uniting various local struggles throughout the region and internationally. The event will also serve as a celebration for the five-year anniversary of Left Turn magazine, an activist publication.

4) Thursday, June 22, 7pm @ Contemporary Museum
"Barcelona-Baltimore: Models for the Resistance in the Tourism/Cultural Economy"
----A Discussion with Taller de Costura de Código Abierto
The Barcelona-based collaborative Taller de Costura de Código Abierto present Barcelona and Baltimore as case study cities as they discuss cultural tourism. Central to this discussion is The 2004 Forum of the Cultures, a six-month event hosted by the city of Barcelona, intended to promote “peace, multiculturalism, and sustainability,” yet was funded by companies who profit from war and gentrification. After a long struggle by social movements in Barcelona, organizers were able to convert this tourism development scheme into a PR nightmare for the city of Barcelona.

5) Sunday, June 25, 4 - 7pm, begins and ends
@ Contemporary Museum
"Toxic Tour with Glenn Ross"
Longtime community organizer Glenn Ross will lead a bus tour of Baltimore to visit some of the city’s most dangerous public health sites. Learn how redevelopment, demolition, and industrial sites negatively impact communities, and how these unhealthy conditions disproportionately affect poor and distressed areas. The tour will begin at 4pm at the Contemporary and will return at 6pm. $5 transportation charge per person. Call 410.783.5720 ext. 102 to reserve a seat.

6) Thursday, June 29, 7pm
"A Panel Discussion with Critical Resistance"
This panel discussion, organized by the prison abolitionist group Critical Resistance, will examine the historical context of institutional racism that has created the prison industrial complex and will offer solutions for social justice. Presenters will include members of Critical Resistance Baltimore, former prisoners and family members, and others working for social justice.

HEADQUARTERS:
INVESTIGATING THE CREATION OF THE GHETTO
AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Exhibition Dates: Now through August 27, 2006

Museum Hours: Wednesday – Sunday: Noon to 5 pm
----Open until 7 pm on Thursdays.

About Headquarters: Blurring the lines between art and activism, Headquarters participants intervene in Baltimore’s social and political fabric with projects that examine (and propose alternatives to) the relationship between the state, the ghetto, and the prison industrial complex.


Location: Contemporary Museum, 100 West Centre Street (between Cathedral St. and Park Ave.), Baltimore. www.contemporary.org