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Quilts, Ideas, and the Underground Railroad Come Together As One!
An International Ideas Month Program
Discover how ideas come together to form the fabric of quilts coded to communicate in the Underground Railroad!
Join renown artist & historian
Sharon Tindall
Friday - 2016/03/18 for an exhibition, seminar, & special family event at The Village, in Laurel MD.
Open to the Public!
A $10 donation is appreciated
March
18
- Friday, March 18
Schedule
- 10:30am Exhibit - Public Viewing & Artist's Discussion
- 11:30am Program - Ideas, Quilts, and the Underground RR (Come join us - live audience + streamed online)
- 2:30pm Special Family Program - "Secret Lessons: Math & History Patchwork" (Families, Classes, After-Hours Programs, Parents Accompanying Children - 3rd-to-5th Graders Invited)
- 3:30pm Exhibit - Public Viewing & Artist's Discussion
- 5:00pm End of Day
Location: The Village, 8101 Sandy Spring Road, Suite 290, Laurel, MD 20707
(Easy access off of I-95, MD-200/ICC, and I-295)
Ample free parking
Sharon Tindall, renowned artist and historian, will exhibit her work, tell stories, and give you the history of her hand-made Underground Railroad coded quilts on Friday, March 18, 2016, at The Village in Laurel, Maryland.
Sharon will also present a special family program for 3rd-through-5th grade children (accompanied by adults) in the afternoon.
This is about more than "just quilts."
You will learn how ideas, borne of necessity in a different era from ours, became an entire communications platform prior to the age of telephones and mobile devices.
You will discover how the fabric of an entire society was sewn together (pun intended) to meet a social, political, spiritual, and life-giving need so that people could realize a freedom that we take for granted today.
Let us know if you can attend the exhibit of Sharon's beautiful hand-made quilts and be in the audience as she shares stories and the histories of the quilt designs and the people for whom they were originally created.
Event Contact
Sylvia Henderson
Sylvia@SpringboardTraining.com
301-260-1538
