Saturday, February 22, 2020 6:00-10:00pm $75

6th Annual MasquerAid Ball

To Benefit the Havre de Grace Arts Collective

Located at the HdG Community Center: 100 Lagaret Lane Havre de Grace, MD

Join us for our largest fundraiser of the year! This great event is an optional costumed event, annually celebrated prior to the Havre de Grace Mardi Gras Parade.

Music, Dancing, Wine, Beer, and a New Orleans-inspired Menu is included. Chance, Silent & Live Auction items will be featured.

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Everyone knows that jazz grew out of the blues, but not everyone knows that the blues never really left; the music just evolved beyond three chords and a moan. This special performance by Cold Spring Jazz Quartet shows how this evolution happened. Come along with CSJQ as they trace the blues from its roots in the early twentieth century, through its altered forms in bebop, hard bop, modal and Latin jazz, all the way to its presence in multiple styles today.

America’s leading Latino dance organization breaks new cultural ground, giving voice to the Hispanic experience.

There is a $3 per ticket fee online and at the box office JCC members and Seniors get 10% off ticket prices.

This exhibition is a visually stunning installation highlighting the extraordinary breadth of the Maryland Historical Society’s costume collection across four centuries and features nearly 100 examples of women’s and men’s clothing and accessories, as well as decorative arts.

Spectrum of Fashion tells an American social history rooted in Maryland. The clothing has connections to presidents and to the formerly enslaved, to the internationally famous, and to everyday Marylanders, all of whom have important stories to tell.

Never taken an improv class before? Well now is your chance to try it out with experienced Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) instructors!

Take an introductory workshop designed to give you an opportunity to experience improv first hand.

Through simple, fun and supportive games, explore basic concepts like playfulness, listening and agreement – all in a safe and comfortable group setting geared specifically toward those who are new to improv.

Lawrence Brownlee’s voice has been praised by The New Yorker for its “sweet tone, fastidious pitch, and poetic phrasing.” Hear this Grammy Award nominee’s Baltimore Debut in a program that pairs a new song cycle looking at what it means to be an African-American man in American today with Schumann’s beloved Dichterliebe.

SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe, Op. 48

TYSHAWN SOREY (b. 1980): Cycles of My Being (Baltimore Premiere)

The Mity Clarke Gann Memorial Concert

Join us for a very special virtual tour of the home of Anne Frank. Each tour lasts about 15 minutes and will give you an opportunity to explore the home of one of the most recognizable victims of Nazi persecution. Please note, that you must be 13 years or older to take the tour.

During this 6-week class, participants will have a blast taking on the challenge of African dance and Modern dance with their guide: Marquette Shaw. During the course of this program, you will bring out the best in yourself and your classmates as you learn some new moves together.

Tuesdays FEB 25 - APRIL 8 | 6:30-8PM (NO CLASS on MAR 24) | $70, $65 MEMBERS (+$5 service fee)
​($5service fee added to all ticket purchase. Avoid the fee by purchasing at Creative Alliance, in advance)

Gentle Temper is a new-age folk duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Ryan Meier and Marion Earley began their journey as a duo in the fall of 2016 and molded their sound into what Deli Magazine called “harmony-laced smokey folk”(1). They have toured the northeastern U.S. extensively over the last three years, opening for nationally touring bands the Ballroom Thieves, the Western Den, Honeysuckle, Bombadil, the Family Crest, LOLO, Town Meeting, and Julie Rhodes.

Richard Bell, Ph.D. teaches Early American history at the University of Maryland. He has received several teaching prizes and major research fellowships including the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award. Join us for a lecture on his most recent book, Stolen. The gripping true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South - and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice. Lecture starts at 6:30 PM with light refreshments to follow.

Quiet, reclusive and massively talented Billy Colucci’s name is known to Baltimoreans who really know their jazz.

The UMBC Jazz Faculty Ensemble will perform a selection of classic and original jazz compositions.