3rd Annual Django Festival
The Charm City Django Jazz Fest returns for another weekend of virtuosic musicianship, collaboration, and goose bump inducing surprises, all in the spirit of Django Reinhardt.
The Charm City Django Jazz Fest returns for another weekend of virtuosic musicianship, collaboration, and goose bump inducing surprises, all in the spirit of Django Reinhardt.
Our People, Our Land, Our Images
January 29 – March 18
UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Opportunities to view indigenous peoples through the eyes of indigenous photographers are rare and recent. This photographic exhibition features the work of indigenous artists from North America, Peru, Iraq, and New Zealand. Distinctive in its historical reach, the exhibition includes newly discovered 19th-century trailblazers, members of the next generation of emerging photographers, and well established contemporary practitioners.
Mixed Media Lecture Series: Anna Cutler of Tate Exchange
MICA is hosting Anna Cutler who is responsible for the conception and direction of the Tate Exchange. Anna's visit is an opportunity to think together about publicly-facing/publicly-engaged space and initiatives in relation to art and design education and the Baltimore community.
The Poet’s Brush: Chinese Ink Paintings by Lo Ch’ing
February 1 – March 17
UMBC Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
Preschoolers will love this program just for them. Explore the museum’s galleries through stories, songs, crafts, and pint-size tours with a different theme each week.
WHEN Tuesdays through June 19, 2018 / 10:30am-11:30am
COST Kids: Free; Adults: $5; BMI Members: Free. Advance registration suggested, contact [email protected] or 410.727.4808 x132
Preschoolers will love this program just for them. Explore the museum’s galleries through stories, songs, crafts, and pint-size tours with a different theme each week.
WHEN Tuesdays through June 19, 2018 / 10:30am-11:30am
COST Kids: Free; Adults: $5; BMI Members: Free. Advance registration suggested, contact [email protected] or 410.727.4808 x132
Lend your voice and get to know the leaders of a growing movement working to connect diverse communities to the outdoors, inspiring them to care for and protect our ocean planet.
A 2003 ANIMATED FILM from Sylvain Chomet. An elderly grandmother must rescue her grandson in a complicated tale told mainly through music and pantomime. Mme. Souza is helped by the Triplets, who were once music hall singers in the style of Django Reinhardt and Josephine Baker! Stylish and unique. (Subtitled)
The Sikh Project, in collaboration with the talented British photographers Amit and Naroop, captures the beauty of the Sikh faith and the depth of the Sikh American experience. The exhibition will be on display at the Sandy Spring Museum from February 14-March 24, 2018.
The exhibit, which launched to critical acclaim in 2016, includes 38 portraits of turbaned men and women that embody the diversity of the Sikh community and recognize the challenges and triumphs of what it means to be Sikh in the United States.
Audrey Andrist and Lisa Emenheiser
Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Audrey Andrist and Lisa Emenheiser, two of the busiest pianists in the Washington, D.C. area, have performed together on occasion for twelve years. They have presented four-hand and two-piano concerts at the Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum and at the Garth Newel Festival in Virginia, and were featured in a two-piano program for the Phillips Collection’s 75th Anniversary concert in 2016.
We offer FREE admission to the museum on the first Thursday of each month!
ONCE UPON A TIME, THE ANIMALS REVOLTED
A passion for exploration comes naturally to Xylouris White, a ruggedly visionary duo with Cretan lute player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White. For their debut album, 2014’s Goats, Xylouris White compares themselves to titular animals that wander fearlessly through rough-hewn terrain. Two years later, they show how far their horizons can reach with 2016’s expansive album Black Peak, which they named after a mountaintop in Crete. In 2018 they will release their third project, Mother, named to denote “new life”.
SLAPSTICK JUKEBOX
By Happenstance Theater
March 1 – 4
Happenstance Theatre’s award-winning company presents a suite of comic material old and new. Noted for their physical comedy and precise ensemble work, the company recasts free-standing material from their repertoire along with new works informed by great comedy of the past: 19th Century European Circus entrées, Vaudeville, silent film, and early television. A playful new format will structure the material and enhance the audience experience.
Appropriate for all ages.
Grammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane will talk about the history and music of the lute, and its place in European culture throughout the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. *This event is free of charge. Ticket required.
Ronstadt Brothers Y Los Tucsonenses (formerly Ronstadt Generations), led by multi-instrumentalists Michael and Petie Ronstadt along with Alex Flores and Aaron Emery, present a new and fresh take on the traditional Southwestern and Mexican folk songs and offer innovative original material to millennials discovering the treasure of roots music.
UMBC Jazz with Ben Allison
Friday, March 2, 7:30 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
The UMBC Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz with special guest artist Ben Allison.
Just in time for Women’s History Month, we bring back one of our favorite events and celebrate two of the most important voices in musical history. Akua Allrich, a jazz treasure, has a vocal style that is fluid and ever evolving. Her musical roots run deep into blues, soul, and rhythm and blues, with a clear grounding in jazz and pan-African music. She sings in many languages, including Portuguese, French, Spanish, English, Xhosa, and Twi.
Based on a classic game where YOU are the detective, this new original comic farce gathers a group of colorful suspects at the scene of the crime to be. As the evening unfolds in an homage to the great American detective movies of the past, dark secrets are divulged, motives are revealed, red herrings are abound, and the body count rises as the hilarious action spirals into a climactic whodunit determined by you, the audience playing the 4D game, resulting in a different surprise ending every night.
Explore five thriving New England communities as they work to balance cultural traditions with life in a modern world. This hands-on exhibit takes visitors through four New England seasons and shares stories, songs, and cultural materials that illustrate strong and enduring connections between tribes and their traditional homelands. Toboggan down a winter hill, learn about daily life at the Nuweetooun Tribal School, experience the sights and sounds of Pow Wow and explore a natural cranberry bog on Martha’s Vineyard!