Enjoy a night of laughs, ride a bike, go to a classic rock concert, celebrate local artists and musicians or party like Barbie. Friday: Baltimore Comedy Fest Treat yourself to a night filled with laughter at the 7th annual Baltimore Comedy Festival at 400 Cathedral St. Enjoy the comedy stylings of Michael Furr, Maria Sanchez, Niki Fuchs, Pierre Bennu and more. Beer and wine will be served. The .
‘In Our Mothers’ Gardens’: Film Review Lovia Gyarkye IN OUR MOTHERS GARDENS Still
In Our Mothers’ Gardens, the feature directorial debut of Shantrelle P. Lewis, gingerly tends to the incandescent and sometimes knotty relationships between Black mothers and their daughters. The film, distributed by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY and available on Netflix, takes inspiration in name and concept from Alice Walker’s 1972 essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,” a still-brilliant meditation on the interior and artistic lives of Black women in America.
Walker’s essay begins with several questions: How did the mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers of Black American women, forced into bondage and servitude, express themselves? Who were they? What did they do with their creative energies? To find answers, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” leisurely wades through literary criticism and personal history. Walker indicts Virginia Woolf’s ill-consid