Peabody Jazz Ensemble
Tickets Available: April 2
Tickets Available: April 2
Blazing fiddle virtuosity with six of the region's most accomplished fiddlers in an evening of old-time, bluegrass, Irish, and Scottish music. Ken & Brad Kolodner, anchors of the area's burgeoning old-time music scene, will burn up the crowd with their brand of fiddling, hammered dulcimer, and banjo music. They’ll be joined by Rachel Eddy, who dazzles with her old-time fiddling prowess. The High & Wides deliver with their brand of rootsy, rockabilly, bluegrass-tinged music featuring Nate Grower on fiddle.
Based on a concept by Sherman Edwards
Winner of the Best Musical Tony Award
Director: Laurie Starkey
Musical Director: Chris Rose
The seminal event in American history blazes to vivid life in this most unconventional of Broadway hits. 1776 puts a human face on the pages of history as we see the men behind the national icons: proud, frightened, uncertain, irritable, charming, often petty and ultimately noble figures, determined to do the right thing for a fledgling nation.
Join us for a fun-filled day focused on kids’ literature about African Americans and people of other ethnicities. Enjoy author readings, illustration workshops, live performances, and art activities. Purchase hard-to-find titles in the Book Village.
CELEBRITY READER: Ilyasah Shabazz, Daughter of Malcolm X, Author - Betty Before X
NAMI Metro Baltimore invites current Baltimore City and County Sophomore and Junior High School students to participate in #IWillListen. This one-day event will help students better understand mental health- and learn how listening can be one of the most powerful ways to help a friend, classmate, or family member.
Spring 2018 – Fantastically Fun!
Events at The Studio at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Garden Festival, now in its 10th year, has become the most anticipated specialty plant, antiques and garden ornaments sale in the region, featuring an exclusive collection of over 45 unique vendors from throughout the eastern seaboard. In addition to enjoying the shopping opportunities and a complimentary lecture, guests can tour Ladew’s spectacular gardens, visit the historic home of Harvey S. Ladew, and stroll through the Nature Walk.
“The very best scenery near Baltimore,” remarked Frederick Law Olmsted after touring the Gwynn’s Falls Valley. In 1904, Olmsted urged Baltimore to preserve the impressive landscape, and today it is the largest urban woodland park on the East Coast. Join historian Dr. Ed Orser on a combination driving and walking tour of four beautiful sites in the valley.
Photographer David Lavine combines his love of toys with his love of nature in his playful, environmentally-sensitive photographs. The collection of work explores the possibility of our “natural” world being replaced by mechanized and plastic inhabitants born out of ecological conditions we are creating now through poor disposal habits.
In his artist statement Lavine writes:
Join us for a fun-filled day focused on kids’ literature about African Americans and people of other ethnicities. Enjoy author readings, illustration workshops, live performances, and art activities. Purchase hard-to-find titles in the Book Village.
Neil Feather, winner of the Sondheim Prize, Trawick Prize, and participant in the Venice Biennale, makes experimental musical instruments and kinetic sound sculptures out of motors, magnets, springs, strings, balls, and many other dynamic objects.
Five Classes: Saturdays, March 31 – May 5 (no class 4/28), 11am – 1pm and performance on Friday, May 11th, 8pm
Cost $225/$250 (member/non-member) – Full class only, no drop-ins
Be your most audacious, bold, confident and authentic self! Burlesque builds self-assurance and empowers you to EMBAWDY glamour, poise, purpose and oomph—whether on-stage, in the bedroom, or in the boardroom!
The Cinco de Mayo Celebration, May 5th from 11 am to 5 pm. General admission tickets are $30.00 and include a wine and sangria tasting with a tapas pairing, a souvenir glass of first winery visit, and 10% off bottle sales. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit http://gunpowderwinetrail.com/cinco-de-mayo-celebration.
UMBC Jubilee Singers
Saturday, May 5, 5 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson.
The performance will be followed immediately by the UMBC Gospel Choir at 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
Neil Feather, winner of the Sondheim Prize, Trawick Prize, and participant in the Venice Biennale, makes experimental musical instruments and kinetic sound sculptures out of motors, magnets, springs, strings, balls, and many other dynamic objects.
Cinco de Mayo is coming and with it the kickoff of margarita season! Come celebrate at Howl at the Moon with our Blue Margarita Buckets* because there's no better way to enjoy a holiday than with a bucket of booze with your friends, singing along to a live band on stage and dancing the night away!
Join Port Discovery’s professional knucklehead and silly circus scientist Gregory May as he takes you on a wacky tour of the scientific principles that make circus skills work. This hands-on experience explores juggling, rolling globe, lasso spinning, feather balancing, and much more—all within an atmosphere of play! Participants will also participate in a virobot activity, where they will build, test and even race simple robots!
Show Your Soft Side and Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) will hold the sixth annual Pawject Runway, presented by Pet Valu, on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at Royal Farms Arena. The fashion show features “Softies,” animal-loving professional athletes, entertainers and activists, who will strut the runway “modeling” a range of adorable and friendly dogs and cats in need of a home from BARCS.
Photographer David Lavine combines his love of toys with his love of nature in his playful, environmentally-sensitive photographs. The collection of work explores the possibility of our “natural” world being replaced by mechanized and plastic inhabitants born out of ecological conditions we are creating now through poor disposal habits.
In his artist statement Lavine writes:
Hop, skip or jump over to Healthy First Saturday and find ways to get active as a family! Take part in programs that encourage children to get active, make healthy choices, and understand how our bodies work! Get Kinderfit! with the Kindersinger, and stretch and learn new poses as a family during Life on Yoga Mountain. Plus, learn about service dogs with FIDOS for Freedom, take part in our early literacy program Mother Goose on the Loose®, and check out our fun and interactive art and science stations!