Happy May Day! Celebrate by learning more about the US Labor movement through music, photography, theatre, poetry, literature, and film from the Fine Arts and Humanities departments.
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Labor Music
Prints and Photographs
Humanities: Theatre
Humanities: Poetry
Humanities: Film
Humanities: Literature
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You can learn it all without ever leaving your house with Safari Books.
With your Pratt Library card you have access to Safari Books, guides for technology. Safari Books Online is the premiere on-demand digital library providing over 44124 technology, digital media, and business books and videos online to academic and library users. The resources can help with both personal and professional development. Some top titles include:
Android™ How to Program, Third Edition by Paul Deitel and Harvey M. Deitel
Beginning Node.js byBasarat Ali Syed
Head First C by David Griffiths and Dawn Griffiths
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In 2014, the state of Georgia and the city of Atlanta declared April as Black Women’s History Month. Pratt Library staff have highlighted related texts in the Humanities Department, Fine Arts and Music Department, and African American Department. Please enjoy the major contributions black women have made to religion, theatre, poetry, writing, political thought, activism, and art. Check out the first and second post for more suggested reading.
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Black Feminism
Included here are works by seminal scholars that consider black women’s historical contributions to the feminist movement. Several texts reflect on intersectionality- the theory that race, class, gender, and other social categorization creates overlapping identities that shape black women’s experiences in ways often very different from white women.
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Highlighted here are works by and about influential but lesser known black women, including early suffragists, Civil Rights leaders, Black Panthers, and contemporary cultural critics.
ESSAYS
Additional anthologies, essays, and speeches reflecting on race, gender, feminism, and popular culture.
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April is National Poetry Month, and the Pratt is celebrating with some new poetry titles.
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This year, the Pratt is partnering with Light City Baltimore to spread the joy of fairy tales across the city.
A month of enchanted events kicks off with the Fairy Tale Extravaganza, where the Maryland Historical Society will be transformed into an enchanted forest.
Saturday, April 7, 10am-3pm
Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
As part of Light City, this year’s Extravaganza will include an illuminated tree house. Families can take pictures on the throne surrounded by fairy lights. Storytelling with TAHIRA begins at noon, followed by a Fairy Tale Ball with a live string quartet and dancing. Crafts, magic, face painting and other fairy tale fun will entertain crowds throughout the day.
The magical month continues throughout April with Fairy Tale Balls and events at branches across the Pratt Kingdom. “Fairy tales are an introduction to reading for many children,” says Pratt Library President & CEO Heidi Daniel. “We want to help spark their imagination by bringing those books to life and hopefully inspire a lifelong love of learning.”
The Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Fairy Tale Festival is sponsored by Transamerica.