Baltimore Clayworks invites you to Fire Fest on Saturday, October 15, from 5:00-8:00 pm. Come for an evening of fiery celebrations including Clay Olympics, music, food, drinks, and live kiln firings. Tickets are $10 for students with valid ID, $25 for members, and $30 at the door. Fire Fest is an exciting celebration of fire – one of a ceramic artist’s most important tools. Fire is essential to create ceramic wares, and can be seductive and dangerous. During the FireFest evening, artists will lead live Raku kiln firings and CCBC Essex Professor Trisha Kyner will lead her students in a […]
“Kill Move Paradise”
Rep Stage, the professional regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College, continues its 27th season with the regional premiere of “Kill Move Paradise,” by James Ijames. “Kill Move Paradise” takes the Elysium of Greek antiquity and flips the script. Set in a cosmic waiting room in the afterlife prepared for its newly deceased inhabitants, we follow Isa, Daz, Grif and Tiny as they try to make sense of the world they have been untimely ripped from. Inspired by ever growing list of slain unarmed black men and women, “Kill Move Paradise” is an expressionistic buzz saw through the contemporary myth […]
Black Love Experience
Join Mars Arts D.C. and Nubian Hueman for The Black Love Experience, a multi-sensory experience of artistry and inventiveness geared towards creatives, revolutionaries, kindred souls, and fearless visionaries celebrating all things Black. This event connects Black excellence and love through expressions of music, art, wellness, and creative commerce, but most of all it’s good vibes and togetherness. A portion of the proceeds goes towards organizations and schools in the Southeast Washington, D.C. community.
SIMAETHA: a Dreambaby Cabaret
SIMAETHA (pronounced sigh-mee-thuh) is an experimental witch cabaret written and performed by Jacob Budenz (a.k.a. Dreambaby), featuring dance and performance by Alexander D’Agostino. Through poetry, storytelling, music, and ritual, the show weaves together real and conjured memories, using mythology to rewrite identity. Simaetha, the angry witch in Idyll 2 by the Ancient Greek poet Theocritus, becomes the inspiration for an ageless, genderless creature navigating the seductive and double-edged gifts of demons, family ghosts, lovers, legends, and lonely yearnings of immortality. At once meditative, surreal, and darkly funny, SIMAETHA: a Dreambaby Cabaret explores myths invented and reimagined through theatrical vignettes, tied […]
SIMAETHA: a Dreambaby Cabaret
SIMAETHA (pronounced sigh-mee-thuh) is an experimental witch cabaret written and performed by Jacob Budenz (a.k.a. Dreambaby), featuring dance and performance by Alexander D’Agostino. Through poetry, storytelling, music, and ritual, the show weaves together real and conjured memories, using mythology to rewrite identity. Simaetha, the angry witch in Idyll 2 by the Ancient Greek poet Theocritus, becomes the inspiration for an ageless, genderless creature navigating the seductive and double-edged gifts of demons, family ghosts, lovers, legends, and lonely yearnings of immortality. At once meditative, surreal, and darkly funny, SIMAETHA: a Dreambaby Cabaret explores myths invented and reimagined through theatrical vignettes, tied […]
Book Launch: SHINE OF THE EVER
By turns tender and punk-tough, SHINE OF THE EVER (Interlude Press, 11/5/19) is a literary mixtape of queer voices out of 1990s Portland. This collection of short stories explores what binds a community of queer and trans people as they negotiate love, screwing up, and learning to forgive themselves for being young and sometimes foolish. CLAIRE RUDY FOSTER is a queer, trans writer from Portland, Oregon. Their work on sex, identity, relationships, and recovery appears in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and McSweeney’s, among others. Foster is the author of I’ve Never Done This Before. Their essays and fiction have been recognized for […]
“Frauenhaus” Exhibition Opening Reception
Solo Exhibition Explores the World of Joan Cox’s Narrative and Symbolic Portraits of Women Sharing their Lives Together Catalyst Contemporary presents Frauenhaus, an exhibition showcasing the work of Baltimore painter, Joan Cox, whose vibrant, textural, and richly painted works validate the presence of dynamic, complex, sensual, sexual and loving relationships between women, giving warrant to their permissibility. The selections featured in the show highlight narrative portraits of lesbian relationships and references their lack of presence in Western art history even though visibility and accessibility of the community has increased. Cox’s entrancing portraits, a mixture of large scale oil paintings and […]
MICA Weekend
MICA Weekend, which takes place October 4-6, is a new expansive event at MICA, and encapsulates the college’s mission to thrive with the city. The three-day program is made up of a number of events and is open to current and future students, families, alumni and the greater Baltimore Community. Most events that would be of interest to the Baltimore Community are free and do not require registration. For access to the entire weekend’s schedule of events, paid registration is required. You can register online, or do so in person during the weekend. Visit www.mica.edu/weekend for more information.
Reclaimed Creations
This fall, explore the amazing sculptures of Sayaka Ganz which the artist describes as “3D impressionism.” Ganz utilizes reclaimed plastic objects, such as discarded utensils, to create sculptures of animals, birds, and sea creatures in motion which are rich in color and energy. Although the works are pieced together from many disparate materials, when viewed from a distance, they appear visibly unified, as if they were painted with brush strokes. The exhibit explores how harmony can be perceived even in situations that appear chaotic from the inside. Experience how your perception can change when you step back from current problems […]
Mount Vernon Place Plein Air Art Show
View and purchase paintings of Mount Vernon Place by members of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA). During the summer months, artists from the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association bring their easels to Mount Vernon Place to capture its magnificent history, landscape, and architecture. For the September show, the en plein air artists (“en plein air” refers to painting outdoors) will display their work for view and purchase in the enclosed courtyard of the Garrett Jacobs Mansion. Tickets include a wine and cheese reception that will accompany the exhibition. The event is a partnership between Baltimore Heritage, the Garrett-Jacobs […]