Light Up Your Block: A Community Lighting Workshop
- ALL AGES
Join the Neighborhood Design Center for a workshop to help break down the processes for improving neighborhood lighting conditions!
Date and time
Location
The Neighborhood Design Center
120 West North Avenue #306 Baltimore, MD 21201About this event
- Event lasts 2 hours
- ALL AGES
- Paid venue parking
Light Up Your Block: A Community Lighting Workshop🗓️ Thursday, July 17 | 🕠 6:00–8:00 📍 Neighborhood Design Center Conference Room, 3rd Floor of Motor House | 🎟️ Free | Light snacks provided
How can Baltimore neighborhoods creatively and collectively improve lighting on their blocks?
Join the Neighborhood Design Center for an interactive workshop exploring grassroots lighting projects, how to get your street light fixed, practical funding strategies, and ideas from our new Signal Station North Light Guidebook. Whether you're dreaming up a safer alley, brighter stoop, or a string-light glow on your block, this session is for you.
What to expect:💡 Learn from neighbors – Hear real stories from community lighting leaders📚 Explore the Guidebook – Dive into practical sections of the Signal Light Guidebook, including case studies like Brighter Baltimore, Smart City, and more.🗺️ Map your ideas – Share your lighting successes and brainstorm new ones in small-group breakouts led by local community leaders.💰 Get funding tips – Learn about available funding for communy lighting projects 🤝 Connect – Mingle with others working on public safety, placemaking, and community-led improvements.
Who should attend:Community association members, organizers, lighting enthusiasts, artists, planners, and neighbors looking to brighten their blocks.
Snacks and conversation included. Come ready to connect, dream, and plan.
👉 RSVP now to save your spot and help shape the future of neighborhood lighting in Baltimore!
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About Inviting Light:
Informed by the Station North Public Space Plan and Signal Station North, a two-year community engagement, planning, and prototyping process that sought to understand light's impact on the nighttime environment and our sense of comfort and place, illuminate the city's lighting history and infrastructure, and bring transparency and access to everyday citizens, Inviting Light’s five distinct artistic light installations will promote safety and further revitalization efforts in a historically disinvested area.
Inviting Light is sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies and facilitated by Central Baltimore Partnership in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and Senior Advisor for Arts & Culture, and the Neighborhood Design Center. Read more about the award here.
For any questions, please email Catherine Borg at cborg@centralbaltimore.com
Get updates at invitinglight.org and Instagram @invitinglightbaltimore
Photograph of string lighting in the Greenmount West Neighborhood during an NDC-led Community Light Walk, by Side A Photography, courtesy of Neighborhood Design Center
Frequently asked questions
There's paid parking in the lot behind Motor House, or street metered parking on Maryland Ave and 20th Street nearby.
An NDC staff person will be by the front entrance of Motor House on North Ave to greet attendees and let them into the building and up the elevator to the third floor.
There will be light refreshments and snacks that take into account allergy considerations
You will walk away with a better understanding of options to pursue neighborhood lighting projects, how to navigate common challenges, lighting project funding sources, and meet neighbors pursing similar efforst that can lend inspiration and encouragement!