Mayor Scott announces schedule for AFRAM Festival

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mayor Brandon Scott and the Department of Recreation and Parks connected Thursday announced the docket for this year’s hybrid AFRAM Festival, a lineup that includes an creation show, a movie night, a motorcycle party, a household skate night, and virtual concerts from rappers Busta Rhymes and Wale and R&B singer Chaka Khan.

Check retired the details below:

Monday, Aug. 16
AFRAM Gallery: Art lovers get the accidental to travel done the historical Druid Hill Park which volition beryllium transformed into an in-person creation showcase. On presumption are photos and past of AFRAM’s past, among different creation submissions. Guests volition besides get to bask unrecorded performances from Rufus Roundtree and Janelia Soul and offerings from different section endowment and makers.READ MORE: WATCH LIVE: Mayor Brandon Scott Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa To Provide COVID-19 Update Thursday

Time: 6-9 p.m. Location: Druid Hill Park

Tuesday, Aug. 17
AFRAM Movie Night: One of the champion parts of the yearly AFRAM Festival is its quality to bring the full household together. Join the AFRAM squad and different movie lovers astatine Herring Run Park for a treble diagnostic of “A Wrinkle successful Time” and “One Night successful Miami.” Each diagnostic is followed by a sheet treatment by section achromatic filmmakers. Guests tin dispersed retired with blankets, food, drinks and bask the evening.

Time: 6-11 p.m. Location: Herring Run Park

Wednesday, Aug. 18
AFRAM Bike Party: We promote our #AFRAMILY to articulation their favourite motorcycle enactment and articulation successful a motorcycle thrust to oregon successful Druid Hill Park. Please note: a information of the parkland volition beryllium closed disconnected from vehicular postulation and the backmost roads volition adjacent astatine 8 p.m. After the ride, articulation america successful Druid Hill Park for an after-party to observe assemblage with food, buying with section makers and euphony by DJ Ty Alexander.

Time: 6-10 p.m. Location: Druid Hill Park

Thursday, Aug. 19
AFRAM Alfresco: The AFRAM festival volition caput implicit to Middle Branch Park to big an evening of live, section euphony and section fare connected the water. Guests tin bring blankets and bask nutrient from section nutrient trucks, buying with tiny concern owners and more. Enjoys sounds with DJ Mighty Mark and a rebroadcast of the Cherry Hill Arts and Music Waterfront Festival from 3-5 p.m. followed by unrecorded performances with immoderate of Baltimore’s favourite section endowment opening astatine 5 p.m.

Time: 3-10 p.m. Location: Middle Branch Park

Friday, Aug. 20
Friday Nite astatine Shake & Bake: The authoritative AFRAM enactment gets started astatine the historical Shake & Bake Family Fun Center with skating, bowling, fun, food, and music. Attendees tin besides bask a unrecorded performance from instrumentalist Pariz, among different amusive surprises. Admission: $1, skate rental $3

Time: Youth & Family Skate 5-7 p.m. Adult Skate 7-10 p.m. Location: Shake & Bake Family Fun Center

Saturday, Aug. 21
AFRAM Concert Day 1: The hold is yet implicit arsenic time 1 of the AFRAM Concert kicks disconnected with sounds from Mooski, Wale and Busta Rhymes. Grab your friends, immoderate snacks and tune into the amusement from your smartphone, tablet, machine oregon tv and bask from the comfortableness of your home, the car oregon wherever you are.

Time: 6-9 p.m. Where to enjoy: CharmTV website/broadcast (Channel 25), WJZ Online or AframBaltimore.com.

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Sunday, Aug. 22
AFRAM Concert Day 2: Get your week disconnected to the close commencement with the last time of the 2021 AFRAM Festival. Sunday’s amusement is brought to viewers by legendary vocalists Smokie Norful, Marsha Ambrosius and Chaka Khan. Guests tin bask the extremity of the festival from anyplace there’s web oregon tv access.

Time: 6-9 p.m. Where to enjoy: CharmTV website/broadcast (Channel 25), WJZ Online or AframBaltimore.com.

Scott revealed the instrumentality of the festival and the philharmonic headliners successful June. AFRAM, present successful its 44th year, was canceled successful 2020 owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We volition observe achromatic civilization present contiguous successful Baltimore, successful the region, successful the world, honoring our past and showing however acold we person travel each and each year,” helium said.

The politician besides said that, starting successful 2022, the festival would beryllium scheduled astir Juneteenth, the vacation marking the emancipation of African-American slaves.

“The AFRAM Festival remains Baltimore’s premier, family-oriented solemnisation of African-American life, assemblage and show art,” Scott said successful a connection released Thursday. “Not lone is this year’s festival antithetic from however we’ve ever done it successful the past, but it’s innovative and engaging. We invitation not conscionable Baltimoreans but everyone, young and old, to acquisition a jam-packed week that honors the unsocial acquisition of African-Americans successful Baltimore and our city’s civilization of Black excellence.”