Our Community


Hollins Roundhouse Inc.
Our community neighborhood association welcomes you to attend our ongoing monthly meetings and add your important voice in solving our neighborhood’s concerns:
Meetings:
every second Monday of the month:
Location:
Black Cherrt Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street
Time:
7:00pm

  • Housing Issues
  • Economic Development
  • Crime and Public Safety
  • Community & Youth Activities
  • Working With Our Representatives
  • Surveying the Neighborhood’s Needs
  • Strategic Planning

Hollins Roundhouse Inc.is an equal opportunity member organization open to the public. Voting privileges are $1.00 a year. Help us come together and build the neighborhood you want to live, work, and play in. For meeting dates contact: Misha Dannenburg: 410-625-4665


Black Cherry


The Arabber Preservation Society
Sowebo Arts is proud to now be hosting webpages for the Arabber Preservation Society.


   April 29, 2009

 

Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street
Black Cherry’s Puppetry Resource Center and Theater is an association of artists and performers dedicated to the development of the art of puppetry serving audiences of all ages in communities throughout the Baltimore and Mid-Atlantic Region with highly acclaimed performances and innovative educational programming. Black Cherry works with rod puppets, shadow puppets, hand puppets, and marionettes. All are painstaking crafted by hand, as are the sets, backdrops, and props. Music and scripts are composed in collaboration with other visual and performing artists. Black Cherry's productions for young audiences are based on multicultural myths and fables and combine entertainment with education. Their productions for older audiences consist of original stories some incorporating social and political commentary. Black Cherry is currently building Baltimore’s first permanent puppet theater located 1115 Hollins St. This project includes the completion and outfitting of a black box theater, offices, library and puppetry resource center as well as the creation of a new outdoor performance space. The outdoor performance garden opened in the summer of 2002. The theater’s opening is in the fall of 2003. http://www.blackcherry.org


In The Garden
Betsey Water's new retail garden store within walking distance that specializes in containers and gardening in small spaces
Hours: Thursday- Saturday
10:00-5:30
(410) 233-3922


Umri Siki
Robert Williams
1100 Hollins Street
410-837-8777
Once again our community has blinked and found a wonderful new neighbor opening a business in our mist. Robert Williams’s new African art gallery will have everything from spirit filled Ivory Coast and Congo mask, to Dogon carved figures rich with creation stories, to beautiful Mali “Bogalifine” dresses, hats, and jewelry. Robert who says he was drawn to the “good feel” of the 1100 Hollins St. corner store has already tapped into our artist community, inlisting many to paint almost every square inch of the gallery with Adinkra symbols. But this will be more than a place just to buy art, chothing, and jewelry. Robert is passionate about the history and meaning behind the art work and is a teacher to anyone who listens. He plans to bring children through to learn about the many traditions of African Art. His gallery is named Umri Siki: “New Day” in Swahili.
www.soweboarts.org/UmriSiki.html for images.