Viva Brasil! Carnival Dance Party
Our annual mid-winter Carnival celebration is back, featuring concerts, dancers, capoeira, and more! Carnival dates back to the 1600s and is a celebration of Brazilian life and culture.
Our annual mid-winter Carnival celebration is back, featuring concerts, dancers, capoeira, and more! Carnival dates back to the 1600s and is a celebration of Brazilian life and culture.
The documentary film by Real News Network investigative reporters Stephen Janis and Taya Graham probes Baltimore's use of special tax incentives that the reporters found have mostly benefitted the wealthy and worsened the economic and housing inequities in the city. Join Stephen Janis, Taya Graham, and Jayne Miller in conversation with Ashley Esposito of Baltimore Renters United as we discuss the film in detail and how you can be involved in making change in Baltimore! We will engage in a town hall dialog inspired by the movie, generated by you!
Grab your friends and party the Irish way, at a traditional ceili! Learn social dances as the area’s finest Irish traditional music plays from the stage, and enjoy a great community experience!
Super City is back at Creative Alliance with an epic lineup of local special guests including Outcalls and Natural Velvet, as well as Sofaburn record label mates Quiet Hollers! Having released their first album with a record label in 2023, Super City is hitting the road again and starting the year off right in Baltimore. Their Sofaburn Records release, In the Midnight Room, is still traveling the airwaves across the country. Still bringing their melodic, guitar-driven sound to the stage, Super City is known for blending heavy rock elements and danceability, all with band choreography that results in striking live performances. This Baltimore band expertly crafts guitar and synth earworms that thrive on the creative tension between bombastic rock and roll and stylized movements. Their structures and melodies leave no room for a dull track.
Las Cafeteras has taken the music scene by storm with their infectious live performances and have crossed genre and musical borders. Their electric sound and energy has taken them around the world playing shows from Bonnaroo to the Hollywood Bowl, WOMAD New Zealand to Montreal Jazz, and beyond!
Ari and the Buffalo Kings are back at Creative Alliance celebrating the release of their sophomore album, In The All Together! In The All Together is an indie world folk romp through planes of consciousnesses, honoring the highs and lows of human experience and advocating for mindfulness and compassion at every turn. The band will be performing their sophomore album in its entirety, in addition to offering a short guided meditation with Ari leading into deep embodied listening of the band’s most tender tunes. Celebrate the album’s release with music, meditation, and special merch offered by the band.
Kerplunk! is great for younger kids and families! Join us in the Creativity Center every Saturday to create fun seasonal crafts and art projects based on current exhibitions! Kerplunk! is always free! Join us in the theater after you make your Kerplunk! creation for a screening of Peter Rabbit (2018), popcorn, and other concessions! This is a ticketed event. Be sure to purchase in advance or at the box office.
Can I Kick It? screens cult classics and contemporary martial arts/action favorites while DJ 2-Tone Jones live scores the film, scene-by-scene, with a blend of genres such as hip hop, soul, and funk.
Shout the lines, play games, imbibe glamorous drink specials, and win stuff! We’re making Death Becomes her into an interactive movie night. Prizes for the best costumes!
Special Guest Hosts: Betty O'HellNo & Fulla Regrets
Come early to mingle with your hosts, get your game pack, grab a drink, & get the BEST seat!
A limited number of game packs will be available at the door prior to the show. It includes everything you need to “play” the Death Becomes Her Movie Game (which we made up)!
Shout the lines, play games, imbibe glamorous drink specials, and win stuff! We’re making Death Becomes her into an interactive movie night. Prizes for the best costumes!
Special Guest Hosts: Betty O'HellNo & Fulla Regrets
Come early to mingle with your hosts, get your game pack, grab a drink, & get the BEST seat!
A limited number of game packs will be available at the door prior to the show. It includes everything you need to “play” the Death Becomes Her Movie Game (which we made up)!
Join us in The Marquee Lounge for the first edition of Noche Bohemia, an evening of food, drink, music, and dance! Noche Bohemia will be a night to hightlight local Latin talent in a variety of forms, but we're excited to have musicians Jorge Gutierrez and David Vass join us for this first foray!
QWANQWA uncovers lesser known traditional sounds from East Africa regions of Ethiopia and beyond—a trance-like chant of the Eritrean tribe of Blen, a psychedelic Somalian cover, an extended Amhara wedding medley, a Mahmoud Ahmed sing-a-long. With Selamnesh Zemene, the Azmari diva powerhouse, at the helm, QWANQWA is a conversation of virtuosos through tight arrangements and extended experimental moments. The live show ranges from intimate to wild, from whispery conversations to full blown rock show, and it is hard to believe these psychedelic sounds are coming from traditional harps, one string fiddle, and violin. Driving and powerful, QWANQWA proves we are living during another Golden Age of Ethiopian music.
Grab your friends and party the Irish way, at a traditional ceili! Kick off the Irish Trad Fest with social dances as the area’s finest Irish traditional music plays from the stage, and enjoy a great community experience!
Baltimore Irish Trad Festival is back! Some of the world's finest traditional Irish musicians will gather in Baltimore to teach workshops, perform, and lead sessions. Highlights include an all-star concert on Saturday evening at the Creative Alliance!
Caña Dulce y Caña Brava offers a performance which exhibits the music, poetry, dance and traditional attire of Veracruz, Mexico, interpreted by artists who are beneficiaries of the jarocho culture and noteworthy performers with years of experience on both national and international stages.
The wildly popular Mortified Baltimore, produced by Alex Hewett and Adam Ruben, stars everyday adults sharing their most embarrassingly real teenage diary entries, poems, love letters, lyrics, and locker notes...in front of total strangers. Witness a night of adults sharing the embarrassing things they created as kids in front of total strangers. This edition will celebrate National Poetry Month with sappy lyrics and bad poetry.
The wildly popular Mortified Baltimore, produced by Alex Hewett and Adam Ruben, stars everyday adults sharing their most embarrassingly real teenage diary entries, poems, love letters, lyrics, and locker notes...in front of total strangers. Witness a night of adults sharing the embarrassing things they created as kids in front of total strangers. This edition will celebrate National Poetry Month with sappy lyrics and bad poetry.
One of Dance Baltimore's most anticipated annual productions, Ageless Grace, is back and features dancers age 40 and over performing in a wide variety of dance styles--modern, tap, musical theatre, jazz, etc. Former professionals as well as community dancers will be featured.
A sell-out event for the past several years, the production annually demonstrates the healing powers and physical benefits of dance as a life time activity. Ageless Grace welcomes all ages to witness this inspirational evening.
For one night only at The Patterson, daring feats of escapism, disappearing acts, fortune telling, and mystical wonders abound. Step into a world where nothing is as it seems! Welcome to Marquee Ball: ILLUSION! Mysterious decor, captivating costumes, supernatural cocktails, and enchanting entertainment defy reality and invite you to be part of the magic! The Marquee Ball is Creative Alliance’s annual fundraiser gala that includes a VIP dinner, live and silent auctions, open studios, and a wild dance party that honors The Patterson’s history as a movie palace. The movie theme inspires party decor and costumes with eye-popping results! Baltimore’s wildest party supports Creative Alliance’s free youth education and community arts programs!
Musical instruments have helped us communicate and express ourselves since the beginning of human culture. Learning about the musical instruments of the ancient Americas and building and playing our own instruments helps us to awaken the memory of our connection to nature, cultivate presence through working with clay, and experience joy through sound and music-making. In this hands-on workshop, participants will get an in-depth introduction to the Ocarina, a type of globular clay flute that has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America. Over the course of four sessions, we will build understanding of and confidence with the skills needed to design, build, and decorate both simple and sculptural clay flutes.
Buy your tickets online, in person, or over the phone by calling 410-276-1651. Members save $3 on almost every show!
Our Box Office is currently open from Noon to 6pm on Fridays and Saturdays and one hour before all ticketed events. We accept cash, cards, and checks. Service fees are waived for in-person ticket purchases.
Creative Alliance supports area artists, promotes Baltimore as a center for creative production, acts as a positive force in our community, and advocates for cultural expression rooted in a sense of place.