May events at Minas
Peggy Hoffman
MAY EVENTS
Spring is finally in the air! This month the gallery hosts a silent auction to benefit House of Ruth. Twenty-eight of Baltimore’s finest artists have donated stunning artwork that will be offered for amazing prices. See details below. At the end of the month, the fine folks from the journal Passager host a reading for Moira Egan, our favorite jet-setting poet. And as always, we are your go-to spot for Essential Sundays Poetry, Town Square Open Mic, yoga classes, and belly-dancing.
FINE ART
Silent Auction to Benefit House of Ruth
Gallery Viewing & online bidding Thursday, May 2 – Friday, May 17
Final Bids and closing reception Friday, May 17 / 7 – 10 pm
This special fundraising event brings together fabulous works by Baltimore artists for a silent auction to benefit House of Ruth Maryland. House of Ruth is one of the nation’s leading domestic violence centers, helping thousands of battered women and their children every year. Their comprehensive, nationally acclaimed programs include a 24-hour hot-line, an emergency shelter, transitional housing, a legal clinic, individual & group counseling, children’s programs & abuse intervention programs. Peggy Hoffman, co-owner of Minás Gallery, is a former Operations Manager for the shelter at House of Ruth. To learn more, visit www.houseofruth.org
100% of all sales proceeds will benefit House of Ruth. A centerpiece of the exhibition and auction will be a large monoprint by Joyce J. Scott, generously made available by Goya Contemporary and the artist. The exhibit will be on view in the gallery from May 2 – May 17. Bids will be accepted online at www.biddingforgood.com/houseofruth/minas from May 2 – May 15. There will be a closing party in the gallery on May 17, where supporters can bid in person and the winners will be announced. Featured artists include:
Joyce J. Scott |
| Sherri Faaborg |
| John Metzler |
Penny Bamford |
| Scott Philip Goergens |
| Matt Muirhead |
Steven Bart |
| Mattye Hamilton |
| Ruth Pettus |
Sarah Butcher |
| Nora Harrington |
| Randi Reiss-McCormack |
Leah Cooper |
| Rosemary Hertsch |
| Soledad Salamé |
Pat Dennis |
| Kathleen Hill |
| Annie Simcoe |
Oletha DeVane |
| Ulric Joseph |
| Maxine Taylor |
E. Liz Downing |
| Michelle Sanzi Kermes |
| Sandi Timmins |
Dan Dudrow |
| Minás Konsolas |
| Daniel Van Allen |
Howard Ehrenfeld |
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YOGA
Friday mornings May 10 – June 14
7:00 am – 8:15 am / $60 for 6 classes, $12 drop-in
Regina Armenta teaches an Anusara-inspired yoga class for all levels. This series of classes will help you get combine the energy and flow of Vinyasa with the alignment of Anusara. Bring a mat if you have one. If you have questions or would like to reserve a space, please contact Regina at 614-205-7663 / yogaon...@yahoo.com.
POETRY
Essential Sundays
Sunday, May 12/ 4:00 pm / $3.00
An open mic followed by featured readers. Julie Fisher hosts. For more information contact Julie at Ju...@poetryinbaltimore.com.
OPEN MIC
Town Square: Open Mic plus special guests from Welter Magazine
Sunday, May 19 / 4:00 pm / Free
Welter is a student-run literary journal from the University of Baltimore, curating work from all over for the past 40 years. Welter proudly takes submissions of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and artwork/comics from both students and non-students. Each issue is inherently as unique as its editors, which are fresh and new every year. Help us celebrate the launch of this year's issue with a showcase of work. Readers to be announced.
Open mic preceding, mixed media & genre encouraged. Poetry / performance / stand-up comedy / acoustic music / fiction / mime / monologues / sleight-of-hand / puppetry / oratory / mimicry. If you can read it, perform it, sing it, or say it with little or no amplification, then bring it on! Jessica Lynn Dotson hosts. For more information, contact Jessica at townsquare...@gmail.com
DANCE
Belly Dancing
Sunday, May 26 / 5:00 pm / $5.00
Meridian Belly Dance holds a hafleh, a performance showcasing a variety of belly dancing styles. http://www.meridiandance.com/
POETRY
Book Release Party and Reading for Moira Egan’s Hot Flash Sonnets
Friday, May 31 / 7:00 pm / free
Join Passager Books for an evening of disorientation and disclosure, of serious craft as well as belly laughs.
Poet Moira Egan finally turned 50 and it was a good thing. Her poetic journey has gotten ever sweatier and sexier, and in her latest collection, Hot Flash Sonnets, she explores the sultry joys and humorous indignities of becoming “a woman of a certain age.”
Sonnets from the collection have been published in such journals as Baltimore Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Columbia Review, Little Patuxent Review, Mount Hope, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Passager, So to Speak, The Same, and the Sewanee Theological Review. Poems have also garnered honors in the 2012 literary competition of the Baltimore Review (on the theme of heat, naturally) and in the Sonnet category of the 2012 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition of the National League of American Pen Women.
Of the Hot Flash Sonnets, former national Poet Laureate Billy Collins has said that Moira’s “...unabashed admissions, balanced by the sonnet’s strictures and the wit of her endings, extend to the reader the double pleasure of craft and disclosure.”
Reception to follow. For more information, contact moir...@gmail.com.
Minás Gallery & Boutique
815 W. 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
www.minasgalleryandboutique.com
Hours: Thursday – Sunday / 11 – 7
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