Here’s what’s coming up!
FRI JUN 6 | 6pm Vendors & Dancing | 7pm Drag Show
FURROCITY Pride Show
w/ Pretty Rik E & Music by GRL PWR
Dance your paws off with lovers and besties to the sounds of GRL PWR! Enjoy spectacular performances from top notch Baltimore Drag talent along with Special Guests from DC, Hosted by Pretty Rik E! Explore the Queer Art Market along the First Friday Highlandtown Art Walk!
Featuring Purrformances by: Beth Amphetamine, Bratz LaVëy, Jinxx Demon, Leatherette Ultrasuede Interior, Luna Rei, Ovaltine Wakefield Jones, & Queenie Iman Z. Glamazon!
SAT JUN 7 | 7PM | MORTIFIED: PRIDE Edition
w/ Special Guest SUNRIZE
As we celebrate Pride in Baltimore, this edition of Mortified features childhood and adolescent diaries, poetry, etc., exploring sexual and gender identity, coming out, and other LGBTQ+ stories. Hailed as a “cultural phenomenon” by Newsweek, this is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as teens.
FRI JUN 20 | 8pm | Essential Tease: Burlesque Student Showcase
Featuring Guest MC Sitara Sin
Essential Tease instructors Jacqueline Boxx, Ruby Rockafella, and Tempete La Coeur are proud to welcome a bevy of brand-spanking-new burlesque performers to the stage! After completing an 8-week-long workshop that transformed them from the inside out, these students are ready to bring their acts and assets to the stage for the first time ever!
THU JUL 17 | 7:30pm | Black Assets: A Soul Stage, Summer Edition
Black Assets returns with a special summer edition of A Soul Stage. This edition will be a special celebration of the soulful R&B style blending hip-hop, jazz, opera, and spoken word of Jill Scott, and the 25th anniversary of her first album, the masterpiece that is “Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol.1”.
VISUAL ARTS:
Climas Malsanos | Hoesy Corona Exhibition
On View: MAY 16 – JUN 21, 2025 | Main Gallery & View Online
Artist Talk: MON JUN 16 | 6PM | FREE
Hoesy Corona (Baltimore, MD) is a Latinx Queer artist of Mexican descent creating uncategorized and multidisciplinary art spanning installation, performance, and sculpture. In the studio, Hoesy’s work highlights the complex relationship between humans and the environment by focusing on our changing climate and its impact on habitation and migration patterns. Climas Malsanos brings together a diverse collection of works from the artist’s Climate Immigrants (2017-Present) series that highlights the complex relationship between humans and the environment by focusing on our changing climate and its impact on habitation and migration patterns.
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Third Annual Charm City Burlesque & Variety Festival
September 26 – September 27
FRI SEP 26 | 8PM | Filthy Gorgeous Variety
A celebration of the weird and twisted side of Baltimore area’s burlesque and variety scene.
SAT SEP 27 | 8PM | The Tell-Tale Masquerade
Don your finest attire and join the sinister mischief makers and the dreamers as we take you on a journey into all that is dark and whimsical. Let us entice you and titillate your senses with bewitching acts of burlesque, belly dance, sideshow, circus, and drag!
