It's cold outside, but the klezmer is piping hot! As the holiday season winds down, stay ahead of the winter blues with some chicken soup for the soul!
Join us for a break from the routine—no improv experience needed. Let's create together! Two great facilitators lead your intro to improv!
Join our 2-hour in-person workshop, "Embrace Spontaneity: Intro to Improv." It's a low-pressure, fun experience designed for newcomers. Connect with others through introductions, establish boundaries, and engage in energizing warmups, games, and collaborative scenes.
This 8-week class builds scene skills, group performance skills, and explores forms beyond the montage.
About this class:
Students will continue their growth from Fundamentals of Improv Level 2 to begin developing their own performance style and begin learning other forms beyond the Montage. By exploring a wide variety of improv skills, including game, character, walk-ons, tag-outs, openings, and callbacks, students will build a personal toolbox for their improv journey.
This 6-week class will introduce you to the fundamentals of improv in a safe, supportive, joyful environment! Includes a student showcase!
Welcome to the wonderful world of improv comedy!
Could you imagine yourself:
Explore what improv can be when playing for laughs isn't the only goal. Build acting, storytelling, and character skills through improv!
In this eight week class, you'll explore dramatic improv from a variety of perspectives. Develop acting skills, narrative and storytelling formats, and character exploration through improv.
Class will run 8 weeks, with a student showcase on March 10th!
Prerequisites: Highwire Improv's Fundamentals of Improv Level 3 or equivalent training from another school.
The Art Of Comedy is a flagship program that has been with Motor House since we opened! Created by Ivan Martin, this open mic is intend for comedians of all skill levels. Test out your 3 - 5min set in front of a crowd of comedy fanatics, performance veterans, and other aspiring comedians. It's free to attend and tons of fun for everyone.
Sign up starts at 8 PM, laughs start at 9 PM
If you can tie a knot, you’re in. A beginner-friendly macrame experience—part workshop, part creative hang—with a live DJ and a plant holder
Think macramé is intimidating? If you can tie a knot, you’re already halfway there.
Join us in the Macramé Room for a hands-on class led by Mandy, the creator of the space, where you’ll learn the basics and make a plant holder to take home.
If you can tie a knot, you’re in. A beginner-friendly macrame experience—part workshop, part creative hang—with a live DJ and a plant holder
Think macramé is intimidating? If you can tie a knot, you’re already halfway there.
Join us in the Macramé Room for a hands-on class led by Mandy, the creator of the space, where you’ll learn the basics and make a plant holder to take home.
If you can tie a knot, you’re in. A beginner-friendly macrame experience—part workshop, part creative hang—with a live DJ and a plant holder
Think macramé is intimidating? If you can tie a knot, you’re already halfway there.
Join us in the Macramé Room for a hands-on class led by Mandy, the creator of the space, where you’ll learn the basics and make a plant holder to take home.
Join the Human Growth Foundation (HGF) for a FREE Skeletal Dysplasia Family Day—an inspiring morning of expert insights, community connection, and support, plus a special National Aquarium experience for registered attendees! Don't miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and create lasting memories. We can't wait to see you there!
Join the Human Growth Foundation (HGF) for a FREE Skeletal Dysplasia Family Day—an inspiring morning of expert insights, community connection, and support, plus a special National Aquarium experience for registered attendees! Don't miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and create lasting memories. We can't wait to see you there!
Discover the artistry and community traditions of African American quilting in Baltimore and take part in a conversation about the cultural memory of “quilt codes” on the Underground Railroad. There will be children’s crafts, a guided program experience, and special tours.
Visit Port Discovery on January 17th for Stuffies Day Out! Bring your favorite stuffed toy for a fun-filled day of imaginative play, creativity, and adventure. Kids and families will love learning about the history of the Teddy Bear, competing in our Famous Teddy Bear Guessing Game, creating an art project for their plush friend to take home and more! Plus, enjoy a special visit from Danny Joe from Danny Joe’s Tree House, who will bring some bear-tastic excitement to the day.
Discover the artistry and community traditions of African American quilting in Baltimore and take part in a conversation about the cultural memory of “quilt codes” on the Underground Railroad. There will be children’s crafts, a guided program experience, and special tours.
When was the last time you received exactly what you wanted?
Can you remember the last time you asked?
Will you come practice with us?
Join Tunde J.O. and Jax in exploring how we practice embedding choice in our lives, relationships, communities, and work. Join us in an upcoming Intro to the Wheel of Consent® workshop. We’ll thread embodied practice, discussion and play together to provide you with tools to practice speaking up more clearly and consistently in situations spanning from the bedroom to the boardroom.
This 6-week class develops the core skills of improv comedy performance, including games, scenes, and a full show structure.
About this class:
Over six weeks, you will develop the core skills needed to host and perform a professional showcase of improv comedy. Highwire Improv's expert instructors will be with you every step of the way, holding the space to make silly choices, explore comedy, and learn how to create art together. By the end of the class, you will be an ensemble ready to host and put on a full student showcase!
Carlos Rafael Rivera will give an ONLINE class/lecture on “Composing for TV and Film” on Sunday, January 18, 2026, from 10:00 AM until 12:00 Noon (GMT-5). The class will only be streamed to registered users.
This 6-week class will introduce you to the fundamentals of improv in a safe, supportive, joyful environment! Includes a student showcase!
Welcome to the wonderful world of improv comedy!
Could you imagine yourself:
Rich in What They Can’t Measure examines value beyond systems that rely on visibility, productivity, and quantification. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices center care, labor, intimacy, interiority, and inherited knowledge—forms of wealth that resist easy measurement yet sustain life, culture, and community.
Gerhard Richter: A Lecture on the Exhibition at the Fondation Vuitton, Paris with Chris Boïcos, Art Historian and Director of Paris Art Studies