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Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters

Release date

September 2017

Hardcover

302 pages, 90 color photos, 83 black
& white photos, and color map

Upcoming Events

Friday 2/21/20
2-3:30 PM

Flickering Treasures at Goucher College

Author Amy Davis will present an in-depth slide show on Flickering Treasures as a guest lecturer at the Sage Academy for Lifelong Learning at Goucher. The presentation and discussion is open to the public, and there is an $18 registration fee. For more information on the event, please visit www.goucher.edu.

Saturday 2/15/20
1-3:00 PM

Unveiling of Flickering Treasures panels from the National Building Museum

Join us for the 98th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Royal Theater, then called the Douglass, at The Avenue Bakery. A new exhibition that includes a mural-size map, historic photos and vintage ads from 18 theaters in the Pennsylvania Ave. commercial district will be unveiled. Flickering Treasures author Amy Davis and entertainment columnist Rosa “Rambling Rose” Pryor Trusty will be on hand to sign their books. For more details visit the event page on Facebook.

Past Events
Exhibition at the National Building Museum

The Flickering Treasures exhibition was featured at the National Building Museum from November 2018 to December 2019.

 

View the exhibition trailer

Produced by the National Building Museum

Monday 11/18/19
6:30 PM

Flickering Treasures Reading with Amy Davis at Cross Keys

Book signing to follow. Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Marjie Goodman at (410) 323-1257, or email clubhouse@villagemanagement.net

Thursday 10/17/19
7:00 – 8:30 PM

Three Lenses on Architecture

Photography Panel with Bill Bamberger, Amy Davis and Alan Karchmer. This talk complements two current NBM exhibitions, Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters (Davis), and Hoops: Community Portraits by Bill Bamberger, and previews Alan Karchmer: The Architect’s Photographer exhibition, which opens 11/9/19.

More event details to come.

Saturday 9/28/19
5:30 PM

Imaginative Cinema Society

Slide show lecture with Amy Davis, followed by a book signing and free screening of Barry Levinson’s Avalon (1990). ICS is a Baltimore movie club for fans of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror films. Donations welcome.

More event details at icsfilm.net

Saturday 9/14/19
10 AM – Noon

Photography Tour: Historic Theaters of Downtown Baltimore

Author Amy Davis will lead a walking tour of downtown theaters, including inside visits to the Hippodrome and Everyman Theatres. This National Building Museum offsite tour requires pre-registration ($25). A one-day NBM admission pass is included with registration. Rain date: September 28.

More event details at nbm.org

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