Steel Magnolias - Spotlighters
STEEL MAGNOLIAS - Spotlighters
by Robert Harling
Directed by Fuzz Roark, with Paul Saar
June 21 - July 14, 2019
Fri & Sat at 8:00pm and Sun at 2:00pm
STEEL MAGNOLIAS - Spotlighters
by Robert Harling
Directed by Fuzz Roark, with Paul Saar
June 21 - July 14, 2019
Fri & Sat at 8:00pm and Sun at 2:00pm
Artists from around the region will gather in Historic Ellicott City June 27-July 1 to participate in Paint It! Ellicott City, an annual plein air painting event. Spectators are invited to spend the summer weekend strolling the streets and shops of the picturesque mill town and watching the artists at work. Community artists are encouraged to grab their easel and brushes and join the fun as Open Paint-Out participants.
Baltimore Enters the Industrial Age Lecture with Jack Burkert
June 28 | 12:00 noon
FREE
Presented by the Baltimore National Heritage Area
This is a one-hour presentation that takes the attendee through the 19th century, from an agrarian town to a center of commerce and industry.
Join us for an exclusive first look preview of Dark City Beneath The Beat, a musical documentary highlighting the rising Baltimore club music and dance culture.
Rhythmic and raw, Dark City Beneath the Beat directed by TT The Artist, is an audio visual experience re-imagining the narrative of Baltimore, a city rising above social and economic turmoil to develop a vibrant and close knit community for the arts through it’s homegrown sound Baltimore club music.
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a well-known gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village. In response, the city’s LGBT community rose up in protest in what became a critical turning point in the nation’s struggle for LGBT rights.
Currently a local presence in the New Orleans music scene, GeovaneSantos, a native Brazilian from the city of Belo Horizonte, is a guitarist, composer, arranger, vocalist, educator, and awardee of the 2017 Louis Armstrong Foundation Jazz Composer Award through ASCAP in association with the University of New Orleans (UNO).
Perhaps William Shakespeare’s best-known play, Romeo and Juliet is THE classic of youth on the cusp of adulthood, and star-crossed love torn apart by passion and vengeance. Like life, it’s a play that’s half comedy and half tragedy; Romeo and Juliet will make you laugh out loud before it breaks your heart.
CLAWS UP, WALLS DOWN
Charm City Kitty Club
June 28 & 29
The Charm City Kitty Club, Baltimore’s premiere queer cabaret, presents: Claws Up, Walls Down. The intrepid CCKC reporters are broadcasting live as they explore a variety of wall-related themes, including the racial and economic walls between us in Baltimore, Stonewall, the Berlin Wall, the border wall, and more.
Featuring special performances by:
Sarah Jennings with comedic puppetry
Unique Robinson with drag performance poetry
Closing out a month of jazz, Baltimore-born, award-winning saxophonist, Birckhead steps away from the Lauryn Hill touring band to present his own group.
“ONE OF THE MOST RIVETING YOUNG IMPROVISORS IN NEW YORK” -NY TIMES
The Encounter, magicians Annie Montone and Brian Kehoe, are in residence at The Elephant!
Catch the show at 8:30 or 10:00 p.m. No tickets and no cover!
The Elephant is located in an iconic 1850’s midtown mansion in the city’s historic Mount Vernon neighborhood. Adorned with decorative arts by Tiffany, De Forrest, Waterford, and Rinehart, The Elephant serves globally inspired cuisine and handcrafted cocktails with a vibe that is chic and casually elegant.
Interview show BIG Time invites the influential people behind the businesses, charities, and city you love. Their stories inspire comedy!
How do you know when you've truly succeeded? The answer is when the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) invites you to have your life memorialized in a series of made up, totally unprepared comedy scenes celebrating you! Come join a hand picked cast of BIG's best improvisers as they comedically revere some of Baltimore's most important movers and shakers.
Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) offers FREE COMEDY SHOWS every night of the week!
Book of Flowers
RYAN SYRELL
JUNE 8 – JULY 27, 2019
Opening Reception June 8th, 7 – 10pm
Night equalizes, it de-centers, and affirms that we are unstable and floating; unmoored from constructed time. It encourages wild oscillations between anxiety and ecstasy. A sense of porosity is amplified as sensation, perception, and memory wash together in nocturnal space.
Sprout Films returns to the Columbia Festival of the Arts for an evening of poignant, beautiful, humorous and thought provoking short films featuring people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Sprout Flim Festival showcases films related to the field of developmental disabilities, fulfilling its mission to make the invisible visible.Ten (10) films will be featured. Post-screening Q&A with Sprout Founder and Executive Director, Anthony Di Salvo.
On Saturday, June 29th from 2-4PM the public is invited to participate in Sondheim Prize Applicant Amanda Burnham’s inclusive workshop Everything and Anything: Creating Shared Space alongside Make Studio artists. Attendees will be adding to the perimeter of the installation for the exhibition Everything Else (A Market-Space) and have the opportunity to draw inspiration from live animals from the Drawing Zoo. The workshop is free with all materials and instruction provided.
Baltimore Clayworks is proud to showcase the work of our four resident artists through a culminating exhibition extravaganza celebrating their past year in our studio. A diverse offering of styles and surfaces will be display: refined functional vessels in jewel-tone glazes, monolithic, rustic sculptures, narrative figurative sculptures, and quiet, slip-cast installations. The Main Gallery will be shared by Wes Brown's "Momentum" and Jason Piccoli's "Resonance".
Mark Kraemer is an extraordinary musician, saxophonist, composer and recording artist, specializing in bebop, R&B and gospel styles. Mark’s sound and approach exemplifies his musical influences and life experiences. He plays alto, soprano and tenor saxophones, piano and wind controller. Mark comes from a family of accomplished musicians. His aunt taught him to play piano at age 6. His father taught him clarinet at age 7 and at 8 years of age he performed his first jazz piece with an upright bassist, piano and drummer. He attended Peabody Institute where he studied clarinet.
Casually Dope invites you to start your Saturday night with us. Turning the stories of our community into comedy, each show we'll invite a guest or just chop it up with audience and use those discussions to create a show like none other. You might learn something, you might not, but you'll definitely leave full of laughter.
In the best of Baltimore traditions, enjoy an evening of swing, jazz, blues, and bebop with Cam Sterrett and the Camz Soundz & Vibrationz quartet. Featuring Cameron Sterrett on trumpet, Jeron White on bass, Yawn Jones on guitar, and Julian Berkowitz on drums.
Doors at 7:30pm; concessions available before and during the show. Tickets $20 at the door so save money by purchasing yours in advance!
#SOULFULSETLIST
Merriweather Post Pavilion
JUNE 29, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Soulful Symphony takes the stage June 29 with #soulfulsetlist. Continuing its mission of exploring the rich diversity of American Roots Music, Soulful Symphony captures the magic and wonder of one of the most iconic stages in the country with a mash-up of American anthems covering every conceivable style and genre – original orchestral arrangements, magnificent vocal performances and spectacular dancing. It’s the ultimate Remix. This is what makes Soulful Symphony unlike any orchestral ensemble in the world.