Live Virtual Program (Zoom)

Join us on October 18th at 7:00PM when Baltimore Narratives guest speaker, Kate Livie, will share the history of tomato packing on the Eastern Shore, and how the region’s produce fueled industry, sparked innovative technology, shaped culture and transformed the landscape. This program will be hosted on Zoom. Access provided after registration.

FREE for all audiences. Donations encouraged.

Acclaimed judicial commentator Elie Mystal will present “The Constitution and the Right to Privacy” at this talk which is open to the general public and the region’s academic communities.

Mystal will discuss Supreme Court jurisprudence over the years and especially the right-ward lurch that the current Roberts Court has taken most recently with the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Hop on in with your little froggers for a sweet story time from 12:00 P.M. to 1:00P.M. on Thursday 10/20/22! This month's stories include, Corduroy's Best Halloween Ever!, The Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk, and How to Catch a Monster.

After the stories, children can get a $4 kids cup of yogurt. What a sweet story with a happy ending!!

Hop on in with your little froggers for a sweet story time from 1:30 P.M. to 2:30P.M. on Thursday 10/20/22! This month's stories include, Corduroy's Best Halloween Ever!, The Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk, and How to Catch a Monster.

After the stories, children can get a $4 kids cup of yogurt. What a sweet story with a happy ending!!

Independent creatives, consultants, & freelancers are invited to this monthly networking event, to get you out of your PJs, out from behind the Zoom, and meet others in person to exchange know-how and connections. We'll kick off with attendee introductions, followed by a discussion topic that varies each month and freeform networking.

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Spend your Thursday evening with musician, instrument-maker, and composer Melissa Foss as she leads a hands-on workshop on musical instruments made across Central and South America for thousands of years. Foss will lead a tour of instruments in the museum’s Indigenous Arts of the Ancient Americas collection and engage us in the sophisticated ways these cultures have used sound, music, iconography, and sculpture to express their world visions. Learn to build your own clay flute using ancient pottery-making techniques and contemplate the relevance of ancestral wisdom in our world today.

Spend your Thursday evening with musician, instrument-maker, and composer Melissa Foss as she leads a hands-on workshop on musical instruments made across Central and South America for thousands of years. Foss will lead a tour of instruments in the museum’s Indigenous Arts of the Ancient Americas collection and engage us in the sophisticated ways these cultures have used sound, music, iconography, and sculpture to express their world visions. Learn to build your own clay flute using ancient pottery-making techniques and contemplate the relevance of ancestral wisdom in our world today.

A Poetry and Prose open mic hosted by Patti Ross aka little pi each third Thursday of the month starting August. The open mic is for community wordsmiths to share their work and love for language and performance. There will be a sign in sheet at the door 15 minutes before start. Each reader will have five minutes to share their work. The evening lasts from 6pm to 7:30pm. Every other month you can expect a featured reader/performance artist!

UMBC’s 12th annual Livewire festival — Livewire: Flow — presents Dream Prayer Observatory, a multidisciplinary collaboration between Dan Bailey (photography and video), Linda Dusman (composer), Brian Jones (technical director), Sandra Lacy (choreography and dancer), Alan Wonneberger (recording and audio design), and Airi Yoshioka (violin).

Maryland schools have had a unique role in the history of segregation and integration, often due to the efforts of pioneering legal activist Thurgood Marshall. Both at the university and K-12 levels, Marylanders have been at the forefront of pushing for equal access to quality public education. Participants will explore case studies in the Passion and Purpose: Voices of Maryland’s Civil Rights Activists exhibition, and model historical investigation for students using primary source collections from the H. Furlong Baldwin Library.

UMBC’s 12th annual Livewire festival — Livewire: Flow — presents a concert featuring UMBC music students.

The program will feature works by Sonia Borenstein, John Cage, Alexander Lepak, Jeffrey Martin, and La Monte Young:

John Cage — 4’33”

John Cage — Living Room Music — UMBC Percussion Ensemble