Second Saturdays Free Family Art Making
Learn to weave with instruction from the Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore July 13 - learn radial weaving and August 10- make a bookmark or mug mat
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Crickets is a fun, play-based music and movement class for boys and girls ages 4 to 6. Trained teachers engage the body and the mind in joyful music-making through musical games and movement. Offered by Children’s Chorus of Maryland and School of Music (CCM), Crickets gently encourages young children to explore the voice as their first true instrument. Classes start Saturday, September 21st, 2019 starting at 9AM or 10AM in Towson. Classes are 50 minutes long, meet once a week, and last for 10 weeks. The tuition for the fall session costs $200.
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture newest exhibition, EMPOWERED! Black Action Figures, Superheroes & Collectibles, opens on Wednesday, August 21. The exhibition will run until February 23, 2020.
Spencer Finch’s impressive light installation Moon Dust (Apollo 17), first presented at the 2009 Venice Biennale, will illuminate the BMA’s majestic Fox Court for the next seven years. The work consists of 150 individual chandeliers with 417 lights. The chandeliers are hung individually from the ceiling and form one large, cloud-like structure. Although an abstract sculpture, the installation is also a scientifically precise representation of the chemical composition of moon dust as it was gathered during the Apollo 17 mission.
Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art offers a sweeping new perspective on the contributions black artists have made to the evolution of visual art from the 1940s to the present moment. Artists featured include pioneers of postwar abstraction once overlooked by history, such as Norman Lewis, Alma W. Thomas, and Jack Whitten, as well as artists from a younger generation such as Kevin Beasley, Mark Bradford, Martin Puryear, Lorna Simpson, and many others.
Returning for its 7th season, Christmas Village in Baltimore will once again transform West Shore Park at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor into an authentic German Christmas market! Starting from Thanksgiving and running until Christmas Eve (November 28th – December 24th, 2019), a large variety of weekday and weekend events designed to please young and old await to be explored! Also, make sure that you don’t miss our Preview Weekend on November 23rd and 24th.
Join us at the Sagamore Spirit Distillery for our Second Annual Holiday Tree Lighting! Enjoy festive live music, complimentary hot cider, family-friendly activities all evening. We will light the tree at 7PM sharp with holiday fun continuing until 9PM! Food and beverages available for purchase from Rye Street Tavern and other vendors. Lawn chairs and blankets are encouraged. This free family-friendly event does not require tickets. We look forward to celebrating the holiday season with you!
Be transported to a winter wonderland in this enchanting story of a young boy’s magical friendship with a snowman which comes to life and takes him on a trip to the North Pole. The animated film projected with live music performed by the BSO is sure to get you into the holiday spirit!
Join us in the lobby at 9:45 am for a range of interactive activities including face painting, crafts, BSYO Holiday Music Chamber Ensembles, an interactive Port Discovery activity and more!
Christmas Village is celebrating the beloved German American Weekend on December 7thand 8th! German American Clubs of the area will share German culture like Schuhplattler dances, German choir songs and much more with guests! Additionally, to all of these performances, the German American Weekend will feature a German Game contest for the first time ever. Christmas Village’s German Games will cover some well-known German competitions like beer mug lifting (“Bierkrugstemmen”), Bratwurst Eating Contest and a Costume Challenge! Already having some team mates in mind?
FIRST SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 7 at 7 p.m.
First Lutheran Church, Ellicott City
Elissa Edwards, Soprano
Jessica Renfro, Alto
Dr. Min Jin, Tenor
Lorenzo Zapata, Bass
The New Wave Singers of Baltimore, Maryland’s Premier GLBTS Chorus, performs music that celebrates all of humanity in its infinite variations. Tim Gillham, Artistic Director, is starting his second year at the helm of the 60+ member chorus. Joining him in his new position as Accompanist is Christopher Schroeder.
New Wave Singers will be presenting two Winter Concerts:
Saturday 7 PM December 7th at Epiphany Episcopal Church 2216 Pot Spring Rd. Timonium, MD 21093, and
Sunday 4 PM December 8th at Grace United Methodist Church 5407 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21210.
As part of Downtown Dollar Days, visit the museum and create a variety of arts and crafts activities in preparation for Hanukkah. Inspired by the current exhibition, Scrap Yard: Innovators of Recycling, crafts will be made using recycled materials. Activities are suitable for all ages and no artistic talent is required.
Rejoice in the sound of young voices in vibrant song as the three choirs of the Children's Chorus of Maryland, spanning ages 7-18, present their annual holiday concert, featuring a full performance of John Rutter's Dancing Day for choir and harp! CCM's 44th Annual Winter Concert REJOICE! takes place on Sunday, December 8th at 3PM in the beautiful Gordon Center for the Performing Arts in Owings Mills, MD. We cannot wait share this glorious and joyful repertoire with you! Reception to follow the concert. Children under age 5 cannot be admitted due to live recording.
FIRST SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES
Handel’s Messiah
Sunday, December 8 at 3 p.m.
St. Casimir, Baltimore
Elissa Edwards, Soprano
Jessica Renfro, Alto
Dr. Min Jin, Tenor
Lorenzo Zapata, Bass
Come join the Hunt Valley Wind Ensemble for an afternoon of holiday music performed live! A little something for all kinds of music lovers, featuring selections from the movies The Polar
Express and Nightmare Before Christmas, excerpts from How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Nutcracker and more. The concert is free! All ages are welcome!
Sundays are FUN days with FazaFam!
Join the Jam every Second Sunday till May 2020 from 5-5:45PM at City Arts 2! Games, music, and movement - what better way to spend time as a family?
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Evergreen Museum & Library's annual holiday open house invites visitors to explore the 48-room Gilded Age mansion decorated for the season with special displays of collection objects and live music. Festive fare will be served and the museum shop will be filled with unique gift ideas for sale at discounted prices!
This event is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council.
Take a break from the holiday hustle-bustle and join Howard Community College’s (HCC) Arts Collective’s “What Improv Group?!” (W.I.G.) for its fun-filled “It’s a Wonderful W.I.G.” – A Holiday Improv Show on Thursday, December 12, 2019.
HCC’s Arts Collective’s outstanding improv actors will perform in W.I.G.’s 90-minute holiday improv show, which will include joyful, hilarious, and sentimental on-the-spot storytelling, as well as fun prizes and audience participation for adults and children (ages 8 and up).
The Vienna Boys Choir, renowned as one of the finest vocal ensembles in the world, will fill the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall this holiday season with the angelic charm and pure sounds that have brought crowds to their feet for more than 500 years. Christmas in Vienna showcases these gifted musicians in an extraordinary program featuring Austrian folk songs, classical masterpieces, popular songs and, of course, holiday favorites.
The BSO is not performing on this program.
Troupe Vertigo’s acrobats, jugglers and high-flying aerialists join the BSO for this spectacular twist on Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic.