2025 Baltimore Crankie Festival

Watch the world’s greatest stories unroll before your eyes! Baltimore’s beloved festival of scrolled panoramas, known as “crankies,” returns for its 11th year of fireside wonder!

The festival, the largest of its kind in the country, works with artists to showcase crankies from Baltimore and beyond! A crankie is basic in concept: it is a scroll that provides the visual narration to a story or song. Versions of the crankie have been around for hundreds of years, if not longer; their most recent iteration is directly linked to moving panoramas popular in the 19th Century. In recent years, artists have begun to embrace the intimacy of the format, creating multi-layered, immersive experiences for audiences.

On Sale:
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On Sale for Members: October 21, 2024
On Sale for All: November 4, 2024

In-person:
FRI FEB 7 – 8pm
SAT FEB 8 – 4pm
SAT FEB 8 – 8pm
SUN FEB 9 – 3pm
Virtual:
SAT FEB 8 – 8pm  

Open Crank: SUN FEB 9 – 11am

Artists will be announced in the coming weeks. All performances feature the same lineup of artists and musicians!