In December Culture Keepers learned about the 7 principles of Kwanzaa and how to apply these African principles to their community and daily lives. They also learned about PGAAMCC's upcoming exhibit "A Space of Their Own", a celebration of Prince George's Historic Black Townships. Students learned how early residents of these townships encompassed these principles in order to build strong communities.
Joi Waller makes art reflecting life in Eagle Harbor (Prince George's Historically Black Township) and how the early residents used
Umoja (Unity) when building Eagle Harbor!
Saturday Field Trip: Smithsonian African Art Museum where we took a docent tour of exhibits and created paintings in their workshop space! Thanks NMAFA!
Malaaya Adams practices Kuumba (Creativity) when making a collage of Prince George's African American Heroes!
Students learned techniques in public speaking and professional presentations from trained a theater actor and motivational speaker. Later that month students took a trip to the Banneker Douglas Museum where they learned more about Maryland's African American history and produced and presented a peer to peer oral history presentation.
Culture Keepers @ the Center for Performing Arts at Suitland High School
Oral History Workshop at the Banneker Douglas Museum.
Culture Keepers Saturday Field Trip to the Banneker Douglas Museum
Joi, Detara, Bryanna, Rachel, and Mcboun have a blast in Annapolis!
After the tour we took a walk in downtown Annapolis!
We were blown away by the Artwork by Loring Cornish, a Balitmore based Mosaic Artist
