Events
Coming up:
Check out our new campaign: “Dear John,” Letters to Street Harassers and submit your own!
Donate! Help send our team to the first ever Hollaback! Site Leader Conference in NYC this summer!
June 1 – Baltimore Youth In Action: Youth Unlocked! Some cool organizations are getting together to promote youth empowerment and community engagement in Old Town and surrounding neighborhoods. We’ll be there sharing our message of female and LGBTQ empowerment, giving youth tools to deal with street harassment. 1p-5p at Old Town Mall
June 7 – Transgender Marylanders and HIV: The Invisible Epidemic. The Transgender Response Team (of which we are a member) and CATCH are sponsoring this community forum to hear from YOU. Share this flyer:
June 13-15 – Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference. Hollaback!’s Baltimore and Philly are joining forces on a workshop on ways to encourage empowerment of the transgender community in the face of street harassment. We’re so excited! Send all your tips and suggestions to bmore@ihollaback.org. Our workshop will be Saturday June 15th from 4pm to 5:30pm.
July 25 – 29 – The first ever Hollaback! Site Leader Conference: HOLLA:Revolution! Herstory will be made in NYC as site leaders from all over the globe get together to skill share and build solidarity within our movement. The Baltimore team is so excited to be involved, check our facebook page for updates, pictures, and good quotes! Donate! Help send our team to the first ever Hollaback! Site Leader Conference in NYC this summer!
Previous Events in 2013
Jan 9 – Video Interviews with Insufficiently-Housed Women & LGBTQ folks. After last year’s Project Homeless Connect event, we promised (via video) to hear from the homeless community on how they experience street harassment. We’ll be conducting private interviews today and releasing the video soon!
Feb 8 – Terribly Two: Hollaback! Birthday Bash at Windup Space. Warm up on a Friday night with a Holla-tini, help us scarf down some birthday cake, take some photos, pin the tail on the harasser and SO MUCH MORE! For updated information, RSVP on our facebook event page!
See photos and a video of the event!
FEATURING:
Cake!
Games!
Drink Specials!
Dancing!
Performers!
Magic!
Photo Booth!
and
PRESAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS! (in cheap raffle form)
PERFORMERS:
J Pope & Funk Friday (jpopemusic.com)
Violet Gray – drag comedian
Rosa Azul – belly dancing troupe – (rosaazulbellydance.com)
Becky Savadkin – slight of hand
Jaki Griot – speaker/poet/educator (jakigriot.com)
The Dandy Vagabonds (facebook.com/dandyvagabonds)
AND MORE!
RAFFLE PRIZES FROM:
Howl
Big Crunch Amp & Guitar Repair
Outpost Music
The Line Campaign
bSafe – premium app subscription
The Dandy Vagabonds
War On Women
Comic Book Artist Monica Ghallager
Peace & A Cup Of Joe
AND MORE!
WTF?!
Get a professional neck massage from Adrienne Bergthold!
Birthday Cake generously donated by Charm City Cakes – woohoo!
Doors at 9pm, things get rolling at 10.
$8 at the door gets you one free raffle ticket!
Check out this amazing pre-party dinner just down the street at Bohemian Cafe, benefiting Project PLASE:
https://www.facebook.com/events/431790916893380/
*This party, just like Hollaback!, is for all us Baltimoreans. For those who experience street harassment, bystanders who witness it, or folks who support those who do. It’s for all genders, all ages, all races, all classes, all orientations, all languages, all education levels and all expressions of all of the above. Street harassment doesn’t discriminate (it happens to all types of people, perpetrated by all types of people) so why should we? Let’s get together, as we are and were meant to be, and let’s party.
Feb 14 -Baltimore Rising – we’re teaming up with MICA, Baltimore NOW and Baltimore Rising to participate in a worldwide movement to end gender-based violence. Meet up and march from the Washington Monument at 5:30pm, then come see the Vagina Monologues and enjoy a reception for the art exhibition “RISE” at MICA’s One Billion Rising. Find out more about OBR and Vday here. Play begins at 8pm at MICA’s Brown Center (Baltimore, MD) 1301 West Mount Royal Avenue, the reception follows at 10pm.
Feb 27 – TEA Time – Site leader Shawna will be meeting up with Transpeople Empowerment in Action (TEA Time, a sub group of AIDS Action Baltimore) to discuss street harassment, ways to deal in the moment, and how to help end it. This is our second time dropping by and we look forward to sharing what Hollaback! is currently up to!
Feb 27 – Our meet up with the local Health Department to talk about street harassment and it’s effect on the people that experience it (roughly half the population) went very well. Here’s a summary of the meeting written by Holly Kearl of Stop Street Harassment, who was also in attendance. This meeting was our participation in Global Day of Action, Delhi and Beyond: Concrete Actions for Safer Cities
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE -Due to unforeseen events, the Bell Foundry has had to temporarily cancel this awesome benefit show, but it seems all the bands are willing to reschedule for another date. We’ll keep you posted!
Benefit show at the Bell Foundry. (1539 N. Calvert st. It’s the warehouse on the corner of Calvert and Federal. And there will be plenty of street parking within walking distance.) Show your support and throw your horns up! RSVP on the event page. Proceeds go straight to Hollaback! Baltimore
Apr 7 to 13 - Meet Us On The Street (aka International Anti-Street Harassment Week). It’s the 3rd annual MUOTS and our 3rd time to be involved! We’re busy planning an action to take in solidarity with other Hollaback! sites, organizations, and individuals around the world. Want to get involved locally? Drop us a line: bmore@ihollaback.org Find out more about Stop Street Harassment and Holly Kearl here. **All photos from this year’s Meet Us On the Street are now on our Facebook page. Take a look!
Apr 8 - Feminism 2.0 hosted an #EndSH Twitter chat with Hollaback! Bmore as guests! We had a great conversation from 1:00 – 2:00pm @HollabackBmore and @Fem2pt0 about how street harassment uniquely affects LGBTQ individuals. This was a joint action for Meet Us On The Street. Check out the Twitter Chat schedule on Stop Street Harassment’s website for more info.
Apr 10 - Mel presented: “Let’s Talk Street Harassment” at 7:30pm at the UMBC Women’s Center (Commons 004). Here’s a link to the Facebook Event! We discussed what Hollaback! Bmore is doing in the city, bystander prevention and wrote our fav HOLLAs on vegan cupcakes! This was a joint action for Meet Us On The Street.
Apr 10 - Hollaback! Advisory Board member, Corey, was part of MICA’s panel discussion on street harassment at 7:30pm for students in Social Activism studies. This discussion was in the main MICA building on 1200 W. Mount Royal Ave and was a joint action for Meet Us On The Street.
Apr 13 - The Junior League of Baltimore hosted a rally from 12:00 – 2:00pm on behalf of Hollaback! Bmore beginning at the Baltimore World Trade Center at 11:45am. Participants wore black t-shirts and made signs to help raise awareness. Flyers were passed out to hundreds of people and they even wrote HOLLAs with sidewalk chalk on the street! Here’s a link to the Facebook Event! This was a joint action for Meet Us On The Street.
Apr 22 - Take Back the Night with Turn Around in front of City Hall in Baltimore from 5:30 – 8:00pm at 100 N. Holliday St. The keynote speaker was Mayor Rawlings-Blake and several other city officials made statements about the importance of sexual assault awareness. A lovely musical performance by Goucher College’s Feminist Rebels acapella group was enjoyed by all and the speak-out and open mic was moving with people’s stories of sexual assault and abuse, as always. See photos from the event here!
Apr 24 - Baltimore City Health Department’s Harm Reduction team received a Street Harassment 101 training from Mel at Hollaback! It was a great success with lively conversation about the basic definition of street harassment, where it is along the spectrum of gender-based violence and statistics that show its prevalence in the US. We discussed how to supportively respond to clients, or even friends and family, who share stories of street harassment. Lastly, we came up with strategies for intervening when bystanders witness street harassment, and ways to disengage when you’re being harassed yourself. Here’s Brenda, Jen and Lemont who all holla back against street harassment!
Apr 26 - Hollaback! Bmore participated in the Health Fair at The Great ACCE Middle/High School 10:00am-12:00pm. Mel presented a workshop for four separate groups of young people about how street harassment relates to bullying and tolerance.
Apr 30 - Take Back The Night at UMBC in The Quad from 6:30 – 9:00pm. We’ll be there, will you? This will be the University’s first TBTN event on campus! Check out their recent blog post here for more information.
