On Friday, June 25 to Sunday, 27, the Hampton Jazz Festival returns to the Hampton Coliseum. This year’s line-up includes:

Friday, June 25 at 7:30p: Gladys Knight; Keith Sweat; Dave Koz and Jonathan Butler with special guest Sheila E.; Melanie Fiona

Saturday, June 26 at 7:00p: Charlie Wilson; Teena Marie; Joe; Down to the Bone

Sunday, June 27 at 2:00p: Maze featuring Frankie Beverly; En Vogue; Sax for Stax featuring Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum; The Fuzz Band

The Anacostia Smithsonian hosts a forum on gentrification and housing Tuesday, April 6 at 7p. The Museum is at 1901 Fort Place, SE; Washington, D.C. 20020. For more information call 202.633-4820.

Do not miss Port Of Harlem’s Build/Renovate Your Own Castle IV in Anacostia, Saturday, June 19.

The Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center in North Brentwood, Maryland celebrates the opening of its inaugural exhibition - "Freedom: Contemporary Quilt Art," Friday, March 19 from 5p to 8p at Gallery 110, 3901 Rhode Island, Avenue in Brentwood - near the Washington, D.C. line.

Lecture:

Haiti: From Independence to Earthquake, lecture by Port Of Harlem print issue contributor C.R. Gibbs, Tuesday, April 6 starting at 7p, Largo-Kettering Library, 9601 Capital Lane, Largo. 301.336.4044. Free.

Earthquake Aid:

• Doctors Without Borders
  
• World Vision
  
• Clinton/Bush Haiti Fund

Charles Pinckney, jewelry and metals artist working in Athens, GA, will teach three workshops this summer.

Sunday, June 27 to Saturday, July 3, he will teach “Finding Your Own Style” for the Florida Society of Goldsmiths at Wildacres Retreat;

Little Switzerland, NC.

Sunday, August 1 to Saturday, August 7, he will teach “Small Sculpture Design and Fabrication” at Touchstone Center for Crafts; Farmington, PA.

Sunday, August 22 to Saturday, August 28, he will teach “Metal Art as Oral Tradition...the Story as Jewel” at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts; Gatlinburg, TN.

The three courses will explore aspects of design and the concept of art as an oral tradition. Pinckney teaches how to use traditional metal techniques, natural materials and surface embellishments to create small wearable objects.

NOTE:  We featured Pinckney in the Nov 2006 - Jan 2007 print issue.

If you were invited to a same-sex marriage ceremony, would you attend?

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