FazaFam Family Jam
FazaFam Family Jam is BACK at City Arts 2 with more music, movement, and FUN for families.
FazaFam Family Jam is BACK at City Arts 2 with more music, movement, and FUN for families.
Join Team FazaFam from the comfort of your own home for our monthly online Family Jam!
Every 3rd Sunday we are live at 5PM! Bring your whole family together for music, games, dancing and lots of family fun:)
You'll make memories that will last all month as you Dance & Bmore Fit, Fun, and Free!
Bring your lunch to this free lecture and learn how education for black girls was necessary for social advancement in southern society. Literacy was recognized in the post-Civil War period as a means of subverting the white institutional belief that black girls had no right to access notions of domestic femininity and womanhood that governed white women during the 19th century. Through education, women defined themselves and their relationship to their family, community, and the larger civil society.
Everyone needs a crown! Create a custom royal headpiece just for YOU using shiny tape, faux flowers & more! Part of AVAM’s monthly series of drop-in art workshops. All ages are welcome, though under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. $5 plus museum admission. No reservations necessary. Just drop in any time 1-4pm.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture and the Society for History & Graphics with support from the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) present an informal gallery walk through A Designed Life, an exhibit that discusses three U.S. government-sponsored design exhibits that were circulated through postwar Germany in an attempt to promote the growth of democratic government. The contents of these exhibits are now associated with American modernism.
Jules Rosskam is an award-winning filmmaker, educator and interdisciplinary artist interested in liminal spaces: the space between male and female, between documentary and fiction, between moving image and still. His interdisciplinary practice works to induce a perceptual shift in our understanding of how and what bodies mean in the context of documentary film, toward an apprehension of multiplicities. He is the director, producer, and editor of transparent (2005), against a trans narrative (2009), Thick Relations (2012), Something to Cry About (2018), and Paternal Rites (2018).
InterPlay, a joint venture of UMBC and the Peabody Institute, began in 2016 as a way to connect UMBC undergraduate music majors with Peabody graduate students for their mutual benefit. Since that time, the partnership has evolved to include an innovative, interactive performance in Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, and a four-session teaching project, which to date have included master classes, chamber music coaching, audition preparation seminars and mock audition panels. For this performance, tenor Daniel E. Sampson will collaborate with pianist Natasha Talukdar.
Join us at the Sagamore Spirit Distillery for our First Annual Holiday Tree Lighting! Enjoy festive live music and complimentary hot cider all evening. Brian Treacy, President of Sagamore Spirit and Patrick Petrides, GM of Rye Street Tavern, will illuminate the tree at 7PM sharp! Additional food and beverage available for purchase. Lawn chairs and blankets encouraged. The first 30 guests through Sagamore Spirit’s Visitor Center will receive a special holiday treat! We look forward to welcoming the holiday season with you.
Get the wiggles out as you learn about healthy activities and habits for your little one – and your entire family! Dance, sing and get active with Faza Fam Family Jam. Learn about science at our STEM Station, and help Port Discovery kick-off birthday celebrations in birthday-themed Pop-Up Art stations and Mother Goose on the Loose® programs. Plus, join in a fun holiday tradition as you decorate gingerbricks with the fantastic chefs from McCormick! Use icing, candy and more to decorate gingerbricks that will be used to create our custom, kid-made Port Discovery gingerbread house!
KWANZAA FAMILY DAY
SAT DEC 1 | 12-3PM
Celebrate and honor the seven principles of Kwanzaa through family-friendly art activities, face painting, performances, and local vendors. Open Minds participants present their mosaic and ceramic work for sale in new Kids’ Corner Gallery. FREE reception!
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In 1177 B.C., after centuries of cultural and technological evolution, the civilized and international world of the Mediterranean regions came to a dramatic halt, resulting in the world’s first recorded Dark Ages. In this lecture, based on his award-winning book of the same title, Eric H. Cline of the George Washington University explores why the Bronze Age ended and whether the collapse of those ancient civilizations might hold some warnings for our current society. A reception will follow the talk. This program is generously supported by the Boshell Foundation.
The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert under the direction of Matthew Belzer. Featuring all of the UMBC jazz groups, large and small and spotlighting student compositions.
Admission is free.
The UMBC Wind Ensemble, directed by Brian Kaufman, presents a concert and conversation, moderated by Tom Hall, host of WYPR’s Midday, on navigating the current polarization in America. Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and UMBC Professor Linda Dusman’s Solstice will serve as catalysts for an interactive discussion with performers, audience members, and to-be-announced guest panelists.
Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign, temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational employees and their families face significant migration and visa constraints.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble, which explores and performs Western chamber music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Every first Thursday of the month visit us for free and take a collections highlights tour. Tours take place at 11 a.m. Explore the galleries with a member of our staff, hear the stories behind the artifacts on display and learn about Maryland’s rich history.
The history of the London theaters during Shakespeare’s lifetime is a fascinating field of study that can help us better appreciate Shakespeare’s stagecraft. Come learn about the Theatre, commonly credited as the first permanently built theatre, the Red Lion, the Rose, the Curtain, the Hope, the Swan, and the two theaters most closely associated with Shakespeare: the Globe and the Blackfriars.
This event is FREE.
Beer, wine, and snacks provided!
The Opera Workshop (Sammy Huh, director) and the Collegium Musicum (Paula Maust, interim director) present a program of baroque opera scenes from Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen, and Francesco Cavalli’s La Statira, principessa di Persia. Join them for an hour of exquisite music and action-packed drama that spans the gamut of human emotion. UMBC students will showcase Euridice’s joy followed by Orpheus’s despair, the merriment of fairies and a drunken poet, and a complicated love triangle laced with humor.
Create the perfect holiday gift at this fused-glass workshop designed for kids (with help from a grown-up). Participants make 3 seasonal or holiday ornaments in a design of their creation. From snowflakes to winter fairies, the only limit is your imagination! The ornaments are fired by the artist and returned to Creative Alliance for pickup the following week.
SAT DEC 8 | 11AM - 1PM | $10 per participant. Includes all materials.
Join us for a free Family Second Sunday drop-in activity. This month, learn about tin toys that were imported from Germany and sold for a single penny between 1890-1935. Create your own version of a penny toy to take home. Also, view a special display of historic toys from the Maryland Historical Society’s collection.