Put your best foot forward and explore the best of Baltimore! Join the Heritage Area's Urban Rangers on a memorable walk through history featuring historic attractions, unique neighborhoods, and colorful stories that make Baltimore charming and unique. From the Inner Harbor to Fell's Point - we've got Baltimore covered!

MOUNT VERNON CULTURAL WALK

Mess Zone & Clay Play in the BGE Studio Workshop
Open daily during operating hours

Admission is free with museum entry, which is $15.95 for individuals two and up. Members and children under two enter free.

Visit the BGE Studio Workshop and spark your child’s imagination through fun, hands-on art projects that you work on together! This summer’s projects are designed to get you excited – and learning – as you explore art!

The Bethesda Film Fest is accepting submissions for the 7th annual festival in April 2019.

Short (5-30 minute), documentary films by filmmakers from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. will be considered. Films must have been completed within the last two years. All topics are eligible. A film by a young filmmaker, under age 18, may also be chosen. Submission deadline is Friday, January 11, 2019.

Howard County General Hospital Symphony of Lights, a drive-through spectacle of more than 100 larger-than-life holiday light displays, opens in Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods this November. Presented by M&T Bank, Symphony of Lights benefits Howard County General Hospital.

Light displays, both animated and stationary, glow with a total of 300,000 LED lights on a 1-mile scenic drive through downtown Columbia. Visitors can listen to seasonal music on the HCGH Symphony of Lights FM radio station while driving through the lights.

Design and make a mini-robot, build with giant life-sized building blocks, launch rockets towards the moon, create your own theatrical play and more in The Construction Zone in the Atrium at Port Discovery sponsored by M&T Bank!

· Design! Can a robot make real art? Find out when you design and build a mini-robot in the Prototype & Play area. Be an architect as you draft and draw plans for a new playground, building, and more with spirographs and lightboxes. Build and draw at building and art stations.

What is burlesque? It is sensuality, storytelling, and so much more! It is about being your authentic self on stage and sharing your story with the world. Welcome to Essential Tease: A Transformative Burlesque Class Series! This series guides students through act creation from start to finish through internal and external work, all the while incorporating mindful techniques for both on and off the stage. Join us to tell your story, cultivate your creativity, and celebrate your sexy. It is open to ALL gender identities, abilities, ages, sexual preferences, races, and religions.

Join us for Winter Restaurant Week! Lunch menu two courses for $20. Dinner menu three courses for $35. We'll be celebrating with a customized menu of delightful choices for an unbeatable price:

LUNCH APPETIZER CHOICES:

Mixed Greens Salad

Caesar Salad or Cup of Soup

LUNCH ENTREE CHOICES:

Surf & Turf Burger

Blackened Catfish Po' Boy

Tempura Fish Tacos or Seafood Cobb Salad

DINNER APPETIZER CHOICES:

Caesar Salad

Mixed Greens Salad

Cup of Soup, or Pear & Goat Cheese Crostini

Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy through fun, educational activities at Port Discovery’s “I Have a Dream Weekend.” Experience African-American history and heritage through interactive programs and performances designed to educate, inspire and help children understand the impact Martin Luther King, Jr. made on America and the world. Learn from the African American Quilters of Baltimore, take a step back in time during Living History performances featuring prominent African Americans and so much more! Educational activities are planned daily throughout the entire weekend.

In 1968, nine Catholic peace activists protested the Vietnam War in a fiery blaze in Catonsville, Maryland. “Activism and Art: the Catonsville Nine, 50 Years Later” examines one of the most iconic and written-about acts of political protest in 20th century American history. Through art created by Catonsville Nine activist Tom Lewis and elements of the documentary “Hit & Stay: a history of faith and resistance,” this exhibit explores the motivations and considers the consequences of civil disobedience, and contextualizes this protest in our present turbulent political climate.