Arts & Crafts by J at the Baltimore Visitor Center - Tissue paper, glue and an orange juice container to make a vase
Come to the Baltimore Visitor Center and join with your friends for arts & crafts with J, our resident artist.
Come to the Baltimore Visitor Center and join with your friends for arts & crafts with J, our resident artist.
Follow in the footsteps of Baltimore's literary luminaries and discover the elegant brownstone mansions and majestic cultural institutions built by Baltimore's successful 19th century merchants and industrialists. Learn how a neighborhood of scholars, struggling artists and authors, newspaperman, philanthropists and social reformers offered rich opportunities to discuss and debate ideas and open new literary avenues.
The Cherry Hill Arts & Music Festival (CHAMF) is a celebration of the performing and visual arts over the course of a daylong free event. CHAMF gives festival attendees the rare and special opportunity to enjoy live music performances and artist demonstrations, entertain their families with interactive “ARTivities” and learn about the cultural vibrancy of the Cherry Hill community while activating green spaces in Cherry Hill's Reedbird park.
Charmaine Michelle walks in the tradition of Miles Davis while bringing her own style of cool jazz to the band stand. Raised in Northern Virginia, she began her serious study of jazz at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory. She has played with the Dale Corn Big Band, Artists against War, Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes Musicians of Mercy and recently released her own EP "Love Takes Time" which is now playing on radio stations in DC and Baltimore.
Her band includes Charmaine on trumpet, Dniko Evans on sax, Justin Taylor on piano, Jaron Davis on drums and Eddie Hybrk on bass.
Mixing an incisive wit with scathing sarcasm, Greg Fitzsimmons has achieved success as a stand-up, Emmy Award winning writer and host on both radio and TV. Greg is host of The Greg Fitzsimmons Show on SiriusXM’s "Howard 101” and puts out the hugely popular FitzDog Radio podcast twice a week. A regular on @Midnight, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, and The Tonight Show, Greg has been on The Howard Stern Show more than 50 times.
Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original score, it tells the fictional story of DJ Huey Calhoun, a good ole’ local boy with a passion for R&B music and Felicia Farrell, an up-and-coming black singer that he meets one fateful night on Beale Street. Despite the objections of their loved ones (Huey’s close-minded mama and Felicia’s cautious brother, a club owner), they embark on a dangerous affair.
The Chesapeake Region Antique Automobile Club of America will showcase some of their antique, classic, and collector cars. Details at chesapeakeaaca.org.
WHEN Sun, Aug 20 / 10am—2pm
COST Free outdoor event
Mount Vernon began as a country estate for Revolutionary War hero John Eager Howard and grew to be the place to live for Baltimore's rich and famous in the mid-nineteenth century. The Garrett family, owners of the B&O Railroad, the Walters, founders of the Walters Art Museum, and the Thomases, owners of Mercantile Bank, are among the families that built handsome mansions along the four parks that surround the Washington Monument. The recent renovations to the 200-year old Washington Monument are the latest news from the revival of this historic neighborhood over the last decade.
We've added a fun new twist to brunch at Germano's. The mimosas and bloody marys won't be the only thing that could be bottomless at this show! Twisted Knickers Burlesque is back at Germano's Cabaret, performing to the lively New Orleans-inspired sound of jazz band Tongue in Cheek.
Sephardim (Jews of Spanish or Arabic descent) lived in numerous diverse environments and developed practices that were infused with local flare and distinct from those of the Ashkenazim (Jews of European descent). This talk will discuss wedding traditions followed by different groups of Sephardim in the past, as well as those still practiced today by some communities. The presentation will pay attention to music, dress, and minhagim (customs), and introduce some Ladino (the Sephardic language analogue to Yiddish) proverbs and sayings that relate to this festive occasion.
Tour the grounds and first floor of historic Tudor Hall, home of Maryland's famous family of Shakespearian actors including Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth. Tour starts at 1:00 pm and lasts about 45 minutes. Located at 17 Tudor Lane, Bel Air, MD 21015. $5.00 cash for those age 13 and older. For more info call 443-619-0008 or email us at [email protected]. For other tour dates go to http://spiritsoftudorhall.blogspot.com
Learn more about Junius Brutus Booth Sr, father of John Wilkes Booth. Presented by Jim Garrett. He is a life-long Lincoln Assassination and Booth enthusiast, a volunteer at Ford’s Theatre and a tour guide for Washington DC’s Old Town Trolley Tours. He is also a co-author of The Lincoln Assassination: Where Are they Now? and The Flags of Ford’s Theatre. Talk starts at 2:00 pm and lasts about 45 minutes. Located at Tudor Hall, 17 Tudor Lane, Bel Air, MD 21015. $5.00 cash for those age 13 and older.
Jordan Carlos is a stand-up comic and television personality who is best known for his work as a writer and on-air contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, The Colbert Report, MTV’s Guy Code, Girl Code and Guy Court. He has also appeared on hit series such as HBO’s Girls, Showtime’s The Affair, and Comedy Central’s Broad City. Jordan lives in Brooklyn, NY and continues to perform his insightful and hilarious stand-up comedy in venues across the country.
Every year, we hear from our teachers that one of the barriers in providing quality arts learning is one simple thing: supplies.To get ready for the school year, you can support Baltimore City teachers and students during our School Art Supply Week August 21-25, 2017! We are partnering with the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap so that teachers can access FREE art supplies year round. Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap equips teachers, schools, and educational programs with classroom supplies.
There are two ways to donate:
Donate Supplies.
Join David London on a journey to someplace else.
Combining magic with storytelling, comedy, puppetry, surrealism, philosophy, and that which cannot be defined, David's Magic Outside The Box Cabaret Show presents an original show of magic unlike anything you have experienced before.
Featuring excerpts from his previous theatrical productions, this show 75 minute show is packed full of laughs, mystery, and the unexpected!
Recommened for ages 16+.
Presented in association with Rapid Lemon Productions.
McDaniel hosts the premiere of a major exhibition highlighting the cultural and historical significance of the circus. Rice Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., and Saturday, noon–5 p.m.
Join Aww BABY Organics for Federal Hill's Third Thursday Event. Mention Third Thursday and enjoy $5 off your purchase of $40 or more.
Experience the museum’s collections in new ways as artists provide unique soundscapes in the galleries for one-night only. In the third and final installment of this year’s series electronic artist Jimmy Joe Roche will highlight the connections between mysticism, religion, and music, focusing on humans as imperfect resonate chambers, in the museum’s Baroque galleries.
Experience the museum’s collections in new ways as artists provide unique soundscapes in the galleries for one-night only. In the third and final installment of this year’s series electronic artist Jimmy Joe Roche will highlight the connections between mysticism, religion, and music, focusing on humans as imperfect resonate chambers, in the museum’s Baroque galleries.
Join the Y in Druid Hill for a Back to School celebration! Enjoy games, food and music to send summer off in style and get your children ready to go back to school. This event for the whole family includes school supplies giveaways! This is a free event and open to the public, but space is limited. All attendees must register in advance at ymaryland.org/register (search for Back to School).