Baltimore Clayworks Clay Biennial Juried by Ching Yuan Chang
Celebrate love in the heart of Charm City with an intimate evening at Rec Pier Chop House with seatings on February 13 & February 14. Savor a specially curated tasting menu crafted for the occasion alongside contemporary live music. Signature dishes include a Caviar Tartlette, a Manhattan Strip aged with duck fat and Sagamore Rye, and pasta filled with pecorino, ricotta & pear, prosciutto, and 25 year balsamic.
Price: $135/pp, reservations required
Declared by The Huffington Post as “the real hero of sitcom TV,” Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) is a comedian, author, radio host, podcaster, and actress. Her critically acclaimed multi-Emmy nominated sitcom The Ms. Pat Show, produced by Lee Daniels and Brian Grazer, is entering its 5th Season. The R-rated series is streaming on BET+ and Paramount+ with an edited version airing on BET linear.
This Ghastly Galentine, join us for Night Bloom, a nighttime tea party steeped in petals and bittersweet charm. Bathed in candlelight at historic Carroll Mansion, guests will craft gothic bouquets with Bel Fleur Lakay, who will guide you through the language of flowers with a gothic, Poe-inspired twist. VIP upgrade to gothic arrangement in glass vase plus mystery gift and bonus raffle ticket.
Love alone, mourn a lost Lenore, or walk with mates of shared fate.
Calling all hilarious girls, gays and theys — come grab the mic at Peabody Heights!
Here we GOOOOO time for another show specifically for the girls, gays and theys at Peabody Heights Brewery! On Friday, February 13, you can grab the mic and tell some jokes or grab a seat in the audience -- we support you either way, superstar!
Hosted By THEY/THEM TY
Special Guest WOO WOO THE COMEDIAN
Once upon a Valentine, Dreary... Explore the enduring mystery surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's tragic end on a special Nevermore, My Valentine Edition of Poe's Life and Death in Baltimore Bus Tour. This darkly atmospheric experience is a decidedly un-romantic alternative to Valentine's Day, trading candlelight dinners for gaslight history, unanswered questions, and a poet whose final hours remain unresolved.
Learn about the rich history behind this monumental exhibition. Big Bang Baby transforms ancestral divinity, folklore, and science into a radiant universe of light, color, and controlled chaos. At its center are fantastical feminine figures creating universes and experiencing their own divinity. Inspired by Afro-Dominican spiritual traditions of “carrying a mystery,” as well as Native Taíno Zemi goddesses, LUSMERLIN celebrates the gift of spiritual presence and creation in women.
Join us for a magical evening at the Casey Cares Sea of Hope Gala, where elegance meets ocean-inspired enchantment. Casey Cares is a nonprofit organization that provides uplifting programs to critically ill children and their families.
It's time for another edition of WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?! the show that begs the question, who ARE these people?! Grab a seat and join the audience for a show full of hilarious original characters, written and performed by Baltimore's most hilarious comedians.
Show starts at 9 p.m. at the Baltimore Improv Group Theater. Street parking and nearby garages are available.
STARRING
Carlton Kearney
Kyle Hobstetter
Drew Hatter
Jesse staples
DIRECTED BY
Hannah Alden Jeffrey
The Lunar New Year Arts Festival is a three-week celebration of local AAPI artistry designed to ring in the Year of the Fire Horse. As the grand finale of the festival, the Artists Market invites the public to a day of community and craft. Visitors can explore the work of 21 featured gallery artists and shop from 17 local vendors.
On March 1 and 2, we are celebrating Read Across America Day with special story times from some very special guests. Join us in Junior Junction from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm to listen to prominent Marylanders read beloved children’s books. There will be a new reader every half hour, swag giveaways on both days, book giveaways on Monday, and a “book tasting” event!
Sunday, March 1
12:00–4:00 PM
Gourmet Girls Café, Pikesville
Join Darling & a Scholar for a cozy Pop-Up Community Book Market at Gourmet Girls in Pikesville!
Browse a thoughtfully curated selection of secondhand books across genres and age ranges—perfect for casual reading, book clubs, or discovering something new. Most books are affordably priced: $5 for small children’s books and $10 for adult titles.
Join Yellow Arrow Publishing as we celebrate ten years of empowering women-identifying writers! We will feature ten readers representing the diversity of storytelling we have shared through Yellow Arrow Journal, Yellow Arrow Vignette, and the Yellow Arrow chapbook series. We believe every writer has a story to tell, and every story is worth telling. Let’s honor these incredible stories in community.
Join us at Checkerspot Brewing for a celebratory evening of readings from current students of the MA in Writing (fiction and nonfiction) and the MA in Science Writing programs. Meet some of our students, alumni, and professors. Food and drink available for purchase.
Join local publishers at Baltimore’s famous Pickles Pub for a fun, fabulous celebration of more than 100 combined years of publishing some of the finest literary work!
Fun & games, great grub, outstanding readers, an open mic, and Pickles Pub is right across the street from the Convention Center, so people can kick off their Thursday night fun there, and then walk right across the street to catch John Waters’s keynote!
This memorial event, featuring contemporary poetry and a short historical talk, will honor the memory of thousands of people sold from Baltimore in the interstate slave trade between 1808, when the transatlantic slave trade was outlawed, and 1864, when Maryland abolished slavery.
FEATURING: Poets Abdul Ali, abdu mongo ali, Hayes Davis, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Reginald Harris, Taylor Johnson, Lauren Russell, and Stewart Shaw, along with scholar Lawrence Jackson.
Join us for the inaugural Wintergreen Women Writers Collective Reading at the 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Baltimore, MD. Light refreshments will be served.
FEATURING: Lauren K. Alleyne, Remica Bingham-Risher, Mahogany L. Browne, Carla DuPree, Latorial Faison, DaMaris Hill, Amanda Johnston and Patricia Smith.
Join trans and nonbinary writers J Brooke (I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side, 2026), Kelsey L. Smoot (SOULMATE AS A VERB, 2026), Jendi Reiter (Introvert Pervert, 2026), and Jackie Domenus (No Offense: A Memoir in Essays, 2025), for readings and an open discussion on work engaging with gender and the physical manifestation of it. Fun, free cocktails (yes, buried the lede there), and great music by Baltimore’s very own Queen HD.
FRUITCAKE is Baltimore’s quarterly queer reading series. This special AWP edition of the event brings 12 local and national readers to the stage for the biggest, queerest reading Baltimore has ever seen.
HOSTED BY: fifth wheel press
FEATURING: Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, Ashley Elizabeth, Romy Rhoads Ewing, Diamond Forde, Erika Gill, Axel B. Kolcow, Alison Lubar, Bleah Patterson, Caroline Ganci Patterson, Jessica Nirvana Ram, and nat raum.
Must Love Memoir is a New York City-based reading series dedicated to telling personal stories.
FEATURING: D/Annie Liontas, Ronit Plank, Arianna Rebolini, Chet’la Sebree, Hyeseung Song, and Jeannie Vanasco. HOSTS: Krystal Marie Orwig and Hope Elizabeth Kidd.