Promise Heights--Featuring Fathers/From the Heights/Family Fun

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Family Fun, & Fond Farewells

Upton/Druid Heights' families recently visited Port Discovery, it's nearly Father's Day, and "From the Heights" Juneteenth is near!

So much has been happening in Upton/Druid Heights the past few months! After a sluggish year of pandemic lockdowns, opportunities for safe social gatherings have finally reopened, both here and throughout the nation. As well, Promise Heights community members are starting to enjoy the return of opportunities to be out and about since more and more Baltimoreans are fully vaccinated.

Although we're still offering virtual programs for both youth and adults, we also have opened future options for vibrant community events, old and new.

We imagine you may feel as if you're seeing "light at the end of the tunnel" and today, we're excited to share several of these recent events and opportunities.

Please Join our Juneteenth Conversation

FROM THE HEIGHTS

a series of free virtual programs in 2021

Click here to learn more

PIPELINE: The PLAY

“Pipeline”...confirms [Dominique Morisseau's reputation as a playwright of piercing eloquence. She bravely and repeatedly dives into the muddled shadows of social issues often presented in cold statistics and cleanly drawn graphs....The sparks that are struck come from the rich dialogue.

As always, Ms. Morisseau’s characters are distinctively expressive, and there are beautiful monologues of self-revelation by Nya, Omari and Ms. Velazquez’s uprooted boarding-school girl, who combines adolescent romanticism with a precocious awareness of how love usually ends.

New York Times Review, "A Mother Fervently Tries to Protect Her Son in ‘Pipeline’" August 27, 2017

We hope you won't miss Everyman Theatre's current production of playwright Dominique Morisseau's famed work, Pipeline, and what better moment than Juneteenth—Saturday, June 19—to join the essential conversation faced by countless Black families today?

This final Winter/Spring From the Heights virtual program in partnership with Everyman offers you the ability to stream this renowned play in advance and to consider during our free 90-minute discussion, moderated by WEAA Radio Host, Dr. Kaye Wise-Whitehead.

Everyman is offering discounted tickets to UMB employees and alumni/students. Click here for tickets to the free talk & ticketed play , and click here to learn more.

Social Workers attending the full program and play are eligible for a Certificate of Attendance.

Celebrating Father's Day 2021

June 20 is a day to celebrate all nurturing men, and Promise Heights honors them year round

"What we're trying to do is engage fathers—but not just fathers—all the men in the community while connecting around various important issues.

Meldon Dickens, B’more for Healthy Babies Resource Dad/Community Outreach

We hope you know that the B'more for Healthy Babies Promise Heights team devotes their programming to increase the health and happiness of entire families while promoting the wellbeing of women and babies. So, it's only natural to support and encourage the significant and varied roles that fathers, uncles, grandfathers, brothers, and nurturing men play as community members throughout the entire year. We celebrate each of them, especially during Father's Day week. Learn more.

Check out these community Father's Day celebrations-- Click here to see more!

Family Fun &

After a year of pandemic isolation, in March 2020, families of Upton/Druid Heights visited Port Discovery for a night of fun

It’s no surprise that after a year of mostly remote-learning experiences, many Furman L. Templeton (FLT) students and their families seemed more than ready to be together while exploring a safe and fun public space.