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God Couldn’t be Everywhere …That’s Why He Made Momma: Lendl Tellington & Salome Sykes Exhibition

As they realize they could lose their matriarch's home, Salome Sykes and Lendl Tellington turn the camera on their great-grandmother and her nine descendants in order to preserve their family’s legacy. As the brother and sister interview kinfolk, sift through albums, and wade through a century of family furniture, they reimagine these elements as a collection of sensory-driven installations, photography, and cinematic vignettes inspired by generational memories and revelations.

Taking Space Exhibition

Your voice is valid, and we need it in this world. Taking Space is an exhibition that celebrates Latino artists based in Baltimore expressing their love of their cultures and elevating the conversation of their cultures. Each artist has a unique perspective of the Latino community, or Latinidad, and their individual stories of hope, happiness, and history. The artists come from different backgrounds and experiences. Each artist will showcase painting, sculpture, and other mediums to dig deeper into the cultural diversity of Hispanic Heritage Month.  

Charm City Burlesque & Variety Festival

The first annual Charm City Burlesque and Variety Festival (CCBVF) runs Friday September 29 through Sunday October 1 at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, home to some of Baltimore’s first burlesque and variety shows.

CCBVF: Jacqueline Boxx–Pin-Up Posing for All Bodies

Essential Tease core instructor and international burlesque headliner Jacqueline Boxx (she/her) wants to show you that pin-up style posing can include all of the glamour and none of the discomfort or shame.

Art To Dine For 2023: Go Iberian!

Feast your eyes on a cooking demonstration of paella, and savor other Iberian favorites like gazpacho and ceviche! Enjoy the food you just watched someone else prepare as you sip on wine pairings from Portugal and soulful fado music plays in the background. Gaze upon the stunning views of Harbor East and imagine yourself carried away to the Iberian Peninsula!

CANCELED – CCBVF: Naimah–Saucy & Slinky: Belly Dance Inspired Choreography

Calling all Divas, Vixens, Sirens, Vamps, and Bombshells! This fun and empowering workshop is for non-belly dancers and belly dancers who want to explore a bolder side of themselves. This class was created to pull many out of their comfort zone and bring forth an all new level of self confidence with emphasis on style, grace & stage presence.

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SOLD OUT – ESSENTIAL TEASE: A Transformative Burlesque Class Series

Are you ready to finally take the leap and see what burlesque is all about? Or, are you a current performer who is thinking about reimagining your relationship to burlesque? 

Our team of experienced burlesque instructors will guide you through becoming a burlesque performer inside and out. We will progress through act creation from start to finish while incorporating mindful techniques for both on and off the stage. Essential Tease is the ideal starting point for truly transformative acts! This eight-week in-person workshop series is conducted at Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD, and concludes with a ticketed, live student showcase! 

Registration includes eight weeks of prepared lessons, out-of-class coaching and one-on-one mentorship, complimentary costume add-ons and crafting sessions, access to an online community with your peers, as well as the opportunity to rehearse and perform in a student showcase on the Creative Alliance main stage! 

Essential Tease welcomes ALL gender identities, abilities, ages, sexualities, races, religions, AND experience levels. All humans welcome, and all bodies are burlesque bodies!

CANCELED – CCBVF: James Taylor–Why We’re Here: An Overview of Variety’s Near-Past Origins

If you think “the good old days” of the “business of show” was the conclusion of the last century, oh, nay nay. Sideshow historian and museum creator James Taylor takes you on the wild ride that – in the “modern era” of the last several hundred years – is the broad picture of the industry, from circus to world’s fairs to dime museums to wild west shows to burlesque and beyond.

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SOLD OUT! Stilt Walker Workshop

Calling all NEW Stilt Walkers! Have you ever wanted to be a stilt walker? Now's your chance! Train with Baltimore’s best, Jes Raschella, of Baltimore Hoop Love.

We are putting together a large troupe of stilt walkers to walk together wearing illuminated costumes in the Great Halloween Lantern Parade. If you stilt walk already, we would love for you to be there with us! If you have always wanted to learn to stilt walk, we will be hosting workshops and meetups to learn and to practice. If you would rather not walk stilts and support us with your two feet on the ground, we would love for you to join us on the ground support team!

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Ukulele for Beginners Series

Ukulele is back! Join seasoned musician and teacher Bob Friedman in our NEW Creativity Center for one of our most popular classes! Bring your own instrument and learn two to three songs in each engaging lesson.

Kavita Shah & The Cape Verdean Blues Project

Award-winning vocalist, composer, and educator Kavita Shah’s latest album, Cape Verdean Blues, is the culmination of a diaspora’s quest to find a spiritual home. The carefully curated album of traditional Cape Verdean music is also a tribute to the charismatic and unapologetically individual artist Cesária Évora.

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BmoreTrivia Night

Join BmoreTrivia in the awesome Creative Alliance bar, the Marquee Lounge, for this super fun summer trivia series! General trivia featuring 4 fun rounds + final questions.

Art To Dine For 2023: Mystic Poetry: The Exuberant Art of Being a Person

The mystic poets wrote centuries ago, yet their message is still fresh and enduring. Author Geoffery Moore reads and comments on poems that provoke us to think more deeply, more playfully, and more generously about what it is to be a human. Snack on Middle Eastern finger foods, sip Rakı (the national drink of Turkey), and savor melt-in-your-mouth baklava, as the wisdom of the mystic poets inspires and delights you.

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Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror

We are taking it back to 60s’ fashion, dance, and of course, social climate with “The Rocky Horror 60s’ Show”. Dive into a wild night featuring live performances, innovative choreography, and crowd participation, that takes the Rocky Horror shadow cast experience to a whole different dimension.

This racy rendition encourages unity and reminds us all that we have greater enemies as a people. Since 2015, Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror has been a tribute to the queer experience while showcasing and exposing minorities to liberating art forms.

Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk

The Art Walk is FREE to attend, with drink and food specials at restaurants and bars like Snake Hill, Sally O’s, and IndoViet.

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In the Medium: A Creative Alliance Craft Night

Join us for In the Medium, a new craft night at Creative Alliance in the Marquee Lounge! Gather with fellow artists, makers, and crafters to work on current projects or start something new. Feeling uninspired? We'll have artist prompts to help you get started, and of course, the bar will be open for drinks! Worried that you aren't good enough...? You belong! This night is for everyone, from dabblers to professionals. Let's hang out and make something fun!

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Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror

We are taking it back to 60s’ fashion, dance, and of course, social climate with “The Rocky Horror 60s’ Show”. Dive into a wild night featuring live performances, innovative choreography, and crowd participation, that takes the Rocky Horror shadow cast experience to a whole different dimension.

This racy rendition encourages unity and reminds us all that we have greater enemies as a people. Since 2015, Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror has been a tribute to the queer experience while showcasing and exposing minorities to liberating art forms.

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Shake Out Your Sillies

Route 66 – A Journey to Learn About The Blues
This is one of the most popular blues songs of all time! Learn the history, sound and styles of blues singing. Then get ready to take a trip to learn how to sing the sound of the blues

Art To Dine For 2023: Between Layers – SOLD OUT!

Don’t miss this autumnal event of croissant making with Chef Idalee DiGregorio, who has been a cook since age nine and on the professional culinary scene for the past 20 years. Her career includes catering, head chef, pastry chef, and steward for the 14 West Hamilton Street Club, acupuncturist, food stylist, and chocolatier. Idalee is passionate about food made from scratch, making cooking fun, and using food as medicine for her patients, her family, and her culinary clients. Chef Idalee instructs you on how to make the perfect sourdough croissant in her Mount Washington kitchen, and you get to take a box of your creations home with you. After baking, relax with a delicious French lunch of Coq au Vin salad and chocolate mousse and enjoy art by painter Janna Morton, an award-winning illustrator and painter known for her vibrant and captivating artwork that explores themes of nature, inclusivity, overlooked beauty, grief, and joy.

Drop-In Lantern Making at Kerplunk!

Create a glowing lantern for The Great Halloween Lantern Parade & Festival! Create the next great lantern! This year we explore the animals that live in our beautiful park at night—think bats, owls, rats, foxes, moths, racoons, and night blue herons! Bring your lantern back to our spectacular parade on Saturday, October 21st (Rain Date: October 22nd), and you can shine bright through the night! 

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