Celebrate the 200th birthday of local literary scholar Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a suffragist, club woman, and valued community member. Visit the H. Furlong Baldwin Library to view a copy of Harper’s published poetry book, Forest Leaves, and enjoy a live reading of poems and written pieces by Harper. Birthday treats and refreshments will be served.

Throughout history, queer representation and identity has been embraced through art, self-expression, and building community. Baltimore is one of many places that owes much of its identity and charm to the queer communities that made the city home. MCHC presents a Halloween special evening program that explores the representation of queer identity through history, with a spooky twist!

Enjoy a free Thursday evening in MCHC’s Meyerhoff Courtyard! Students from the Baltimore School of the Arts Black Student Union celebrate their music and literary creations in an open-mic fashion. Bring a drink or snack and pull up a chair for a culmination of student community and creativity.

Author Seth Rockman presents his new Pulitzer Prize-finalist publication, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. Examining producers and consumers linked in economic and moral relationships across great geographic and political distances, Plantation Goods explores how people in the nineteenth century thought about complicity with slavery while showing how slavery structured life nationwide and established a modern world of entrepreneurship and exploitation.