The Peale Center May 4th Gala May 4, 2021 TRANSCRIPT PROVIDED BY CAPTIONACCESS LLC [email protected] www.captionaccess.com * * * * * This transcript is being provided in a rough-draft format. The transcript reflects the transcriber’s best effort to express the full meaning intended by the speakers. It is not a verbatim transcript. * * * * Recording in progress. (VIDEO) Hello and welcome to the Peale Center Spring Gala. We will start in a few minutes. Until then, enjoy the images of the Peale Center through the ages. Please turn your mics off. Those in the Baltimore area are experiencing a severe storm. If this interrupts our program, please check your email for instructions on how we will proceed. Thank you very much. Hello again to everyone joining us. We will start the program in a few minutes. Please keep yourselves on mute and video off until the question and answer session at the middle and end of the program. Hello and welcome to the Peale Center Spring Gala. We will start in a few minutes. Until then, enjoy these images of the Peale Center through out the ages. Please keep yourself muted until the question and answer session. If the storm in the Baltimore area interrupts our program, please check your emails for instructions on how we will continue. Thank you and enjoy. (MUSIC) Well oh well. (PIANO) Hi. I'm Scott Patterson , artistic director. And I'm (inaudible) in 2018, we brought out (inaudible) to the Peale. Bringing that was instrumental in bringing it forward. Peale is very important to us. Become a home, a place where we're encouraged and welcomed (inaudible). Thank you. (PIANO) This is Aaron from the Baltimore podcast out of the blocks. When the Peale Center first opened, folks came to me with this idea. Saying we want to get to know our neighbors on the block. And them to know us. So they said what if we put together an event at the Peale Center, where you interview each neighbor on stage in front of a live audience? Chance to celebrate them and welcome them into the fold of what we're doing. I thought it was such a cool idea. And great experience of this museum's principles of staying connected to the community around. It was a fun event too. Really appreciate what the Peale does and why they do it. The Peale is important to me because of the intention and thoughtfulness that goes into every program produced or presented. The commitment to engage with the community in Baltimore, genuine respect the team has for each other. And the way they make me feel a part of that team since day one. Hello everyone and thanks for joining us this evening. I'm Krista Green, chief administrative officer. Peale Center is a multidimensinoal cultural institution in downtown Baltimore. Oldest museum in the country. Focused on preserving and sharing stories. The Peale is a center of innovation. It strives to reinvent the museum for the 21st center. It's a home for Baltimore stories. It aims to be a safe space for all the city's voices. Where a diverse community can be heard. Our story telling is how we discover and perserve the history of our people. Today, the Peale Center is proud to maintain the largest collection of stories and about Baltimore. These happen in exhibition, musical performance, community conversations and folk and word programs. All the stories we collect from around the city can be heard on our website at www.thepealecenter.org. Tonight we're celebrating. Rennovations are under way. You will get a peak of that later. First, join me in welcoming Robin Marquis. Robin? Robin Marquis: Hi everyone. Welcome. My name is Robin Marquis. I'm the accessibility manager at the Peale. So glad you could be here. Today's event includes ASL interpretation and live captions available in zoom with the CC button at the bottom of the zoom. Thank you to the interpreters and our transcriber Katrina working behind the scenes. If you need help or have concerns, you can email me. In the event of technical difficulties, watch the chat box or email for further instructions. Technical help, email [email protected]. You can reach us on social media. @thepeale on Facebook. Use the handles (inaudible) We begin this event by acknowledging the land of the Peale is the land of indiginous people. Over the next few years, many of these were decimated. And forced by the US federal government to move west beyond the Mississippi river. Since then, other tribal people have moved here. January 9, 2012., two tribes became the first tribes recognized by the state of Maryland. In 2017, the state also recognized another. We acknowledge the Peale stands on stolen land. And now I would like to hand the program over to the Peale's chief experience officer David London. Thank you. David London: Thank you for joining us today. As Robin mentioned, I'm the chief experience officer. And a licensed bonded insured time travel agent. That's where I will be most helpful today. I'm standing in the escapement time travel agency. Time has stopped. Since we're sharing why the Peale is important to us. Time travel is a main reason it's important to me. Allows me a place where I can explore my obsession with time travel. But allows me to do so. It's a time capsule and time machine. Today's program will be about one hour, followed by a Q&A. You will have an opportunity to ask questions to many of the staff and team. Stick around. The other main reason the Peale is important is that it gives me the opportunity to work with the incredible team who makes the Peale what it is. There will be times during the main program to answer questions you might have. Some of you had the opportunity to visit the time travel agency where I find myself today. If you did, you may remember our time machine was limited in its capabilities. Only being able to travel back in time exactly 200 years. During the pandemic, I found the module to allow us to visit the distant past. But also the recent past. And look forward and see into the future. That's what we'll be doing today. It has been over 7 months since we last gathered for the fall gala. To catch you up to speed, we thought we would spend a few minutes traveling back to let you know what we've been up for the last amount of time. We had recently launched the virtual Peale. Opened a month earlier on Founder's Day, 2020. We continue to see thousands visit. This near to exact replica was created in partnership with Lyndon Labs and Virtual (inaudible). Redefinable. Created in partnership with the university of Maryland to celebrate the ADA. As a society, we still have far to go in providing accessible and inclusive experiences. Explained as a cross platform exhibition, redefining accessibility during the pandemic. Seeks to challenge those to (inaudible) to Maryland and beyond. Kim Rice inheritance curated by Jeffrey Kent was installed in physical space to capture it and create a virtual online experience. Several tours as well. Kim Rice confronted her white privilege. (inaudible) race's fair complexion is (inaudible) created over the past decade. These confront systemic racism from a white woman whose ancestors enslaved others for labor. Our virtual exhibition schedule continues with out of the blocks online exhibition. To launch in October 2021. This exhibition has now been since by over 3,000 visitors. From the podcast. The online exhibition is an immersive listening experience built from a mosaic of sounds and spaces in Baltimore. Produced by the Peale, this online exhibition of the 25 Baltimore blocks recorded so far will grow over the coming years. You can check our website often for updates or subscribe to receive alerts. You can also hear it on Apple podcast and Google play. In October 2020, we returned to in person exhibitions at Carroll Mansion. Rights and wrongs, citizenship, belonging and the vote. (inaudible) all created new artworks related to racial, social and economic injustice and various struggles. Some works respond to visual records of contested public memory. It's an art exhibition that contends with elections in light of the fact that equitable voter participation is hardly available in America. In February of this year, artist Julia and Jaz brought pouring light to the Carroll Mansion. an art exhibition about the cease fire. They believe our perspectives can change reality. Images are repeated in the way same people and places are portrayed to contrast to show the array of choices we have. And how to create our perception. This winter and Spring, we continued our annual partnership with Baltimore national heritage area for the More than History lecture series. To tell you about our story telling iniatives here is Daisy Brown. Hi everyone, I'm the story telling ambassador of the Peale Center. To give you insight of the project we're working on. Lexington Market project where we are recording stories of residents of Baltimore city. And residents that may have moved elsewhere that are giving us stories or memories about their time and experience at Lexington Market. Whether it be food, music, the overall environment. That's been a very interesting project to work on. I'm loving every minute of it. The next thing we're also working on is the (inaudible) came out during the time when the pandemic first started.