good neighbor's 6th Annual Design Camp
"FROM BALTIMORE TO THE WORLD"
september 14 - 19
Our 6th annual Design Camp is back from September 14th to 19th for another year of deep conversation, community connection, and endless inspiration.
This year's theme, "From Baltimore to the World," is a celebration of our city as a global design hub. Free and open to the public for learning, and connection, Design Camp '26 highlights the design diversity in Baltimore through talks, art installations, community-building events, and workshops. In keeping with this year's theme, we will bridge design cultures from around the world.
Each morning, we will listen to a curated live broadcasted DJ set with Elissa Blount Moorhead, Xavier Walker and special guests from Perfect Memory Radio.
Each evening, we will highlight luminary voices in the fields of art, design, film, photography, and textiles diving into their processes and connecting the craft.
daily camp activities
PHILLIPINES & PUERTO RICO - BALTIMORE
9a - 12p
Perfect Memory Radio - Harbours, Harana & Bomba at guesthouse by good neighborA journey through the music, stories, and shared artistic traditions of the Philippines and Puerto Rico, tracing how island cultures, migration, and performance continue to shape Baltimore's creative landscape.
7p - 9p
Evening Inspiration w/ Anna Davinagracia, Ana Teixeria & Ciarra Walters at good neighborFilmmakerAna Teixeria in conversation along with photographer & artist Anna Davinagracia moderated by visual & performance artist Ciarra Walters.
KOREA - BALTIMORE
9a - 12p
Perfect Memory Radio - Mountains, Moons & Memory at guesthouse by good neighborFrom Korean folklore and contemporary art to Baltimore's own traditions of storytelling and community-making, PMR explores how memory travels across generations and geographies via textiles and ancient craft
6p - 8p
Evening Inspiration w/ Rosa Chang, An-Phuong Ly & Kenya Miles at good neighborBlue Light Junction's Kenya Miles brings together natural textile dye artists An-Phuong Ly and Rosa Chang.
EGYPT - BALTIMORE
9am - 12p
Perfect Memory Radio - Songs for Sirius at guesthouse by good neighborInspired by the star that guided ancient and contemporary Egyptian cosmology, this conversation connects Egyptian music, visual culture, and diasporic imagination to Baltimore's artists, musicians, and makers
6pm - 8pm
Evening Inspiration w/ Jackie Milad, Ayman and Osama Abdeldayem, & Sharif Farag at CARPET CAFE by good neighbor (100 E North Ave)Egyptian artists unite at Ayman and Osama's flagship Carpet Company store and cafe by good neighbor, sharing stories and culture with Baltimore-based artist, Jackie Milad, and LA-based ceramicist, Sharif Farrag.
SUDAN - BALTIMORE
9am - 12p
Dust to Water: Afro Blue at guesthouse by good neighborEach morning listen to a live broadcasted DJ and conversation with host Elissa Blount Moorhead and a special guest each day. Following the path of the Nile to the Chesapeake, this program explores Sudanese music, poetry, and cultural memory alongside Baltimore's rich traditions of Black artistic expression, escape, care and sanctuary.
6pm - 8pm
Evening Inspiration w/ Atheel Elmalik and Fatima Wardy at good neighborAtheel Elmalik is a Sudanese artist, curator and cultural thinker interested in exploring liberated relationships of people to land and one another through stories of movement and migration, intergenerational healing and connection to the sentience of the more than human world. In conversation with Fatima Wardy, a Sudani filmmaker raised in the UK and currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work centers on mothers and motherlands: matriarchal tethers as sites of becoming.
INDIA & PAKISTAN - BALTIMORE
9am - 12p
Perfect Memory Radio - Color of Frequencies: Bashment at guesthouse by good neighborFlowing between the Indus, the Ganges, and Baltimore's harbor, this broadcast examines how music from Bhangra and Bmore Club and artist such as Charanjit Singh to Ultra Nate film, poetry, and migration create new cultural rhythms across South Asian and Black diasporas in the city
6pm - 8pm
Evening Inspiration w/ Noormah Jamal, Shradha Kochhar, Joya Mukerjee Logue at good neighborTextile artist and educator Shradha Kocchar is back this year, and invites her friends and artists Noormah Jamal and Joya Mukerjee Logue to a conversation on their practices
Special menu, Chaat Night by good neighbor's food and bar team.
OPEN HANDS DAY
A day celebrating and Baltimore's designers. A studio crawl of our favorite makers at designers across the city from 9:30a to 6p including 2 paper lamp making workshops with New York's COMO DEMO.
9:30am - 11:00pm
Parkdale Studios (3500 Parkdale Avenue)11:30am - 1pm
Lunch break at Mera Kitchen Collective (1301 North Calvert Street)12pm- 2pm
COMO DEMO Paper Lamp Workshop, 1st session (at Library19, 606 S Ann Street)
Get tickets here.1:30pm - 3pm
BLifted Art Stvdios3:15pm - 5pm
Reference (at Library 19, 606 S Ann Street)3:30pm - 5:30pm
COMO DEMO Paper Lamp Workshop, 2nd session (at Library19, 606 S Ann Street)
Get tickets here.5:30pm - 7pm
Closing party featuring food & bar by good neighbor and an Open Film Screening, Library19 (606 S Ann Street)
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Design Camp is a community event that expresses our love of creative practices and our on our commitment to create a new narrative about what’s possible in a community through a design-forward perspective.
Each year we continue to bring in top-
caliber speakers, educators, and creatives
from disciplines ranging from design
and furniture to cinema to commercial and
fine art—while keeping our program free to
the public.
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