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Say It Loud Film Festival at The Peale
Join us for a film festival that features numerous short films and live spoken-word performances. Door open at 5:30pm.
UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble
UMBC's Department of Music presents the UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble in concert, performing modern interpretations of classic and recent jazz compositions.
Candlelight Concert Society’s Hanzhi Wang and Steven Banks
Hanzhi Wang, the first accordionist in history to win first prize in the New York-based Young Concert Artists competition, will join saxophonist and composer Steven Banks, who also won Young Concert Artists’ first prize on his instrument. Wang and Banks join Candlelight Concert Society through a multidecade partnership between the society and Young Concert Artists. The concert is part of the Candlelight Concert Society’s 50th-anniversary season.
Paula Maust: Elizabeth Turner’s 1756 Lessons for Harpsichord
Harpsichordist Paula Maust will perform selections from Elizabeth Turner’s 1756 Lessons for Harpsichord, one of the earliest published collections of music by an Englishwoman. Be part of one of the first audiences to hear these pieces in the 21st century!
Peabody Dance! Festival
Peabody Dance! Festival
By Peabody Dance!
February 26
Peabody Dance! Festival is an annual celebration of Dance in the City of Baltimore, MD and beyond. Founded in 2018 by Peabody Institute’s Conservatory Dance Program, this year marks the 5th year of the festival, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with the Baltimore Black Dance Collective to curate a wonderful selection of performances and master classes.
Shriver Hall Concert Series: Dover Quartet & Joseph Conyers, double bass
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023 | 5:30 PM
Dover Quartet
Joseph Conyers, double bass
The Howard Family Concert & The Reiko T. and Yuan C. Lee Fund for Outstanding String Performers
Location: Shriver Hall
Dover Quartet
Joel Link, violin
Bryan Lee, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Camden Shaw, cello
Brass Bash featuring Velvet Brown, tuba
UMBC's Department of Music presents the annual Brass Bash, featuring internationally acclaimed tuba soloist Velvet Brown. The evening will include a solo set by Brown, faculty and student chamber music, and Brown displaying some of her virtuosity as soloist and collaborator with a large UMBC student/faculty brass ensemble.
Expressions '23: Infinite Journeys - The Art of Becoming
Join us for BSA's annual fundraising event, Expressions 2023: Infinite Journeys!
This year's Expressions is a celebration of possibility and the always-unfolding truth of our lives; the art, the artist, the art of being, and the art of becoming.
Chaired by BSA alum Rachel Hilson '13, the event will feature exhilarating performances and inventive works of art by students from Music, Dance, Visual Arts, Theatre, and Film.
Heathers The Musical
McDaniel College’s theatre arts department presents “Heathers The Musical,” based on the 1980s cult film classic “Heathers,” written by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe. The production at McDaniel is guest directed by Lynn Sharp Spears with Alison Shafer serving as musical director and Julie Herber, senior adjunct lecturer in theatre arts, as choreographer.
Note: the show contains adult material and is intended for mature audiences
An Evening with Sarah Kane
UMBC's Department of Music presents Sarah Kane, a Philadelphia-based, self-taught artist who seamlessly combines art and music, giving audiences the opportunity to see her artwork unfold while listening to music she has written and performed. She is fond of calling this process the delivery of an “art bomb.”
UMBC Jazz Ensemble with Jonathan Barber
The UMBC Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble with Jonathan Barber, and international recording artist, composer, educator and bandleader who was voted the #1 Up-and-Coming Drummer of 2018 in Modern Drummer magazine.
Harry Appelman Trio
Pianist Harry Appelman and his jazz trio, featuring drummer Eric Kennedy and bassist Jeff Reed, will perform original compositions and their takes on jazz standards and songs from the Great American Songbook.
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
The Inscape Chamber Orchestra returns to UMBC to perform works by Olivier Messiaen and Arnold Schoenberg.
Musical Lions: Bach, Handel & Mozart
March will come roaring in like a lion with a trio of lively instrumental works by Bach, Handel, and Mozart. The concert opens with Bach’s Cantata 112: Der Herr ist mein Getreuer Hirt (The Lord is my faithful Shepherd), featuring several of our talented “Emerging Artists.” The program also includes Handel’s enchanting Water Music, Suite No. 1. When it was first performed on the River Thames for King George I, Londoners covered the river in boats and barges to experience Handel’s newest work with the king.
Baltimore Improv Group improv comedy shows!
The Baltimore Improv Group has improv comedy shows every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7, 8 & 9 p.m. All Thursday shows are free. Friday and Saturday shows are $10.
Improv comedy shows are made up entirely on the spot using audience suggestions! No two shows are alike!
Bluey's Big Play!
This is Bluey’s Big Play, For Real Life.
When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag.
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music by Bluey composer, Joff Bush.