# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Vortex, Baba: Park Vibe Notebooks with Gerald Majer, Baba L'Salaam, and musical guests
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Wednesday May 6 * doors at 7pm, event starts at 7:30 * Free / donations * RSVP

At an intersection of Black philosophy, anthropology, and aesthetics, Vortex, Baba sounds through the people, the histories, and the profound diasporic-cultural vibrations gathered at Baltimore's iconic Druid Hill Park. Vortex, Baba traces the personal and collective lives of Baba L'Salaam, Adon Aesh, Jamal Moore and other Park Vibe players rooted in a drum circle community sustained from 1960s Black Arts radicalism onward through today's rising generations. Joining immersive literary journalism and philosophical explorations, Gerald Majer interrogates immediacies of race, feeling, and sociality. Preview: https://books.google.com/books/about?id=673GEQAAQBAJ

"Dennis Boyd strikes once, twice, forever, and the stainless steel disc minutely shivers and rings bright as he keeps moving around the circle, visiting in front of each drummer for a beat, beats, a bar.

Mobile and motile. He doesn't own a phone, he doesn't own a drum, but people can find him if they know his tracks and footsteps.

A rhythm monk, beat anchorite. Abyssinian hermits on inaccessible desert rocks listening to emptiness or God. Wise ones smiling and tranquil in village marketplaces as if they're listening to all the people's voices running together and they're hearing the sonic chaos as lovely orderly music.

Street and alley bricolage, storage caches, knapsack archive. The metal disc that anoints the beats comes from a junked pressure cooker. The thing rings like it's supper. Chimes, like everything's ready: time for the blessing."

Gerald Majer is author of The Velvet Lounge. His writing appears in Callaloo, Chicago Review, Georgia Review, and Yale Review.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/takoma-park/vortex-baba-park-vibe-notebooks-with-gerald-majer-baba-lsalaam-and-musical-guests/200029991725605
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 3

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Takoma Park
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 6950 Maple St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20012
- **lat**: 38.97417
- **long**: -77.01563
- **full address**: 6950 Maple St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20012, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012-2014, United States, Takoma Park

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Vortex, Baba: Park Vibe Notebooks with Gerald Majer, Baba L'Salaam, and musical guests being held?
  - **A:** Vortex, Baba: Park Vibe Notebooks with Gerald Majer, Baba L'Salaam, and musical guests takes place on Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 6950 Maple St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20012, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012-2014, United States, Takoma Park.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Vortex, Baba: Park Vibe Notebooks with Gerald Majer, Baba L'Salaam, and musical guests?
  - **A:** Vortex, Baba: Park Vibe Notebooks with Gerald Majer, Baba L'Salaam, and musical guests is organized by Rhizome DC.
- **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at Rhizome DC's events?
  - **A:** Attendees have given Rhizome DC a rating of 5/5 based on reviews from early attendees on AllEvents. Rhizome DC has a verified profile on AllEvents where you can read reviews and explore their upcoming events.

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