UB Joins Light City Baltimore Festival for Performances, Parade
March 23, 2017
Contact: Public Affairs
Phone: 410.837.5739
The University of Baltimore will join several other city institutions for the second annual Light City Baltimore festival, being held in the Inner Harbor as well as in locations across the city, March 31 through April 8.
Presented by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, Light City is a festival that creates an "ecosystem of ideas and learning" as part of its transformation of Baltimore through large-scale light installations, performances, music and more. Its principal feature is the BGE Light Art Walk along the Inner Harbor.
UB School of Law Associate Prof. Colin Starger, co-director of the school's Pretrial Justice Clinic, will join faculty members from a number of University System of Maryland and other institutions as part of the USM-sponsored presentation, EduLab@Light City. This daylong gathering of education innovators —one of six ticketed labs at the festival—will feature an expansive conversation about the central role of education in modern society. The dialogue will take place on Wednesday, April 5, beginning at 8 a.m. in the IMET Columbus Center, 701 E. Pratt St. Starger's panel discussion will begin at 10:20 a.m.
Starger's scholarship involves "mapping" legal doctrines, which raises cutting-edge questions about the role of visualization in learning. As principal of the SCOTUS Mapping Project, a software-driven effort to map U.S. Supreme Court doctrine, Starger is demonstrating how technology can open up promising new fields of research in the law, leading to a better understanding of how legal precedent, societal trends, mores and other factors all play a role in the function of the law.
UB student Jayla Briscoe, a spoken-word performer who goes by the artistic name Jay Eli, will present a piece on special injustice and the war on poverty as part of Light City's artistic offerings on Wednesday, April 5, at 3:30 p.m. as part of the EduLab event at IMET Columbus Center. Briscoe is studying digital communication at UB and plans to launch her own visual arts and production company by the name of Raw Impressions Media. Student Moses Wamalwa will present a spoken-word piece on defining revolution in a nonviolent way and mobilizing people to action on Wednesday, April 5 at 3:30 p.m., also at IMET Columbus Center.
UB also will be represented at Light City’s College Night Out parade, which will take place at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, along the BGE Light Art Walk, beginning at the Maryland Science Center and ending at the Under Armour Brand House in Harbor East.
Learn more about the Light City Baltimore festival.
The University of Baltimore is a member of the University System of Maryland and comprises the College of Public Affairs, the Merrick School of Business, the UB School of Law and the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences.