Anne Arundel Cares Week

Friday, Sept.5-Thursday,September 11: Online Donations to CCM for AACares Week: Everyone wins with this friendly competition for online donations to our community’s charities. Your $10 or more donation will help CCM’s chances to come out on top with a $2,500 bonus if we get the most dollars for our budget category (under $100k per year). AND your donations can support CCM in so many ways:

Art supplies, exhibit fix ups, playground fund, visits for children whose families could otherwise not afford to come. Competition starts 12:01 am on Friday morning and closes Thursday at midnight.. Go to:www.aacares.org/chesapeake

Kunte Kinte Children’s Festival

Saturday September 27th :  10:00am-4:00pm

Travel in your imagination to the childhood home of Kunta Kinte to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of west Africa. CCM will host a festival just for children - and their accompanying grown-ups - to mark the anniversary of Kunta Kinte’s arrival in the year 1767 in Annapolis. Special guest Kwame Ansah-Brew will highlight the live entertainment with “A Journey to Africa” through storytelling and music. Join in making rhythms with drums and shakers. Step to the pulse of the music. You will be able to meet some animals from Africa, make a spirit mask, bottle cap rattle, Adinkra symbol headwrap and other traditional crafts. Free with museum admission. Extra charge for some activities.

Start School Later Meeting Saturday Sept. 20

Parents and others will discuss progress toward making changes in the public school daily schedules so that high schoolers are not at bus stops as early as 6:05 am.

Free. 9-10:30 am.

Hooray for Lighthouses!

Did you know lighthouses have their own national holiday? An act of Congress in 1789 provided for the funding for support, maintenance and repairs necessary to “render navigation easy and safe” in every bay, inlet, harbor or port. The Chesapeake Bay is specifically mentioned in the act. August 7, 1989 was its 200th anniversary and thus was declared a date for continued commemoration.

A slideshow of lighthouses (mostly near, some far, some haunted!) will be narrated by lighthouse expert, Bob Stevenson. You can use your new-found knowledge of lighthouse design types to make your own model of a screwpile, integrated, caisson, or tower with oatmeal boxes and other recyclables. Recommended for ages 5 and up

Dreams take Flight!

Curiosity, imagination and ingenuity have fueled the unending journey of human flight. Learn about some of the outstanding individuals who furthered aeronautical innovations to take us off the ground, around the planet, and beyond. There will be activities all day to let you try your hand at designing and testing flying objects, and special guests as follows: August 19

11 am Amelia Earhart portrayed by MaryAnn Jung

12 noon Maker Kidz flight tutorial and competition

1 pm Amelia Earhart portrayed by MaryAnn Jung

Recommended for ages 5 and up. Please register early for these presentations to help with our planning! 410-990-1993 / info@theccm.org

Kunta Kinte Children’s Festival

Saturday, September 27 10 am - 4 pm

Learn a game. Make a mask. Beat a drum. Travel to the childhood home of Kunta Kinte to celebrate the cultural heritage of west Africa. CCM will host a festival just for children and their accompanying grown-ups  to mark the anniversary of Kunta Kinte’s arrival in Annapolis.

Free with museum admission. Extra charge for some activities.