CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH

In an effort to continue our outreach beyond Balboa Park, we have partnered with lyric baritone Glenn Herring to celebrate Black History Month with a virtual lecture on spirituals, African-American composers, musicians, and seminal works. Mr. Herring is a native of the windy city Chicago where he spent over a decade performing as a musician and has even sung with members of the acclaimed Chicago Symphony Chorus. Glenn has taught music in the U.S. and abroad and currently resides in Vermont where he is a member of the Burlington Choral Society and the Vermont African American/ African Diaspora Artist Network.

Songs of Freedom and Hope - An Account of the African American Experience Through Music
February 27, 2021 | 2:30 PM (PST)
Free w/ Zoom registration

CELEBRATE SAN DIEGO: BLACK HISTORY & HERITAGE

Our friends from the San Diego History Center (SDHC) started this project as an initiative that “is multi-layered and has life in the physical, the digital, as well as the SDHC permanent collection to be shared and studied for generations to come.

HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW:  

Celebrate represents ongoing collaboration and partnerships that occur in real life and through digital portals. 

Celebrate is an unfolding exhibition that’s not complete without on-going community crowd-sourced insights, information and items.  

Like the community itself, Celebrate is dynamic and ever-evolving.” 

SDHC invites the community to take part in this project by submitting an event, milestone, or memory that should be included in the timeline and/or nominating a “Black hero that has been a pioneer, visionary, champion, leader or inspirational to you in the San Diego region.”