Creative Alliance provides venue space for
Music, Performance & Film, Youth & Family, Festivals & Community, Exhibitions, Classes, Fundraisers, and Signature Events.
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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!
STEAM learning with Camp Puh’tok! How do you tell one tree from another? Together we will learn how to identify native species that you can find in your backyard or local park! Participants will then learn some sewing skills and create a felt pin of their favorite native leaf!
Shake out your sillies with song, nursery rhymes, puppet shows, instruments, and, of course, a dance party! Each class begins with a breathing exercise before transitioning into music and movement activities. Taught by Eliza Adams, a Maryland preschool teacher and musician, this class is designed for children 5 and under. Caretakers are welcome to join or watch!
Free Baltimore Yoga is a safe space grounded in community movement. Our sessions aim to be accessible trauma-informed, nervous- system -focused, and breath- centered. All ages!
Kerplunk! Family Art Drop-in class 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! Come make a mess at our house!
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!
Join Y.M.U. Yummy U! in partnership with the Creative Alliance for an afternoon of food, fellowship and community dining. In each session, Doc. J will lead cooking demonstrations showcasing a featured ingredient or theme and collaborate with participants to create a full community meal. Learn, cook, and break bread together in this cooking experience that brings back Sunday dinners!
Explore the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation, an open-ended form of dance that embraces the kinesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Build skills through exploring principles of weight sharing, embodied listening, and collaborative movement. Each session will be organized into two parts. The first half of each session will focus on a particular skill or principle. The second half of the session will move into an open jam (with some guidance), in which participants are able to integrate what they've been learning. All levels of experience are welcome.
Join BmoreTrivia in the Marquee Lounge to test your knowledge of everything! Featuring four riveting rounds of general trivia + final questions and the ultimate prize for the winning team: bragging rights (but also real prizes, too)! Follow us on Instagram @bmoretrivia for hints, updates, & ways to earn bonus points! The bar opens at 6pm, seating is first come, first serve. Trivia starts at 7:30pm! Let’s have some fun!
Your story is worth sharing. Because you've learned from it. Because others can relate. Because it's a story only you can tell. In each session of Write Here Write Now, learn a different writing technique to help you turn your truth into a tale. You'll have time to practice on the spot, and the option to receive feedback. Come eager to share your truth.
This drop-in figure drawing course is suitable for all skill levels. Untrained new artists will learn multiple approaches to figure drawing while seasoned artists will have the opportunity to hone their skills and further train their eye. Each class will feature a nude model and begin with quick gesture poses. The remaining time will be spent on the artistry of longer poses. The goal is to train all artists to more quickly and fluidly capture the gesture of the entire figure.
Painted screens are a unique Baltimore folk art. This workshop will include a short film on the history of the painted screen and the early painted screen artists, a demonstration of the painted screen technique, and painting a small screen. Multiple painting options will be available.
Step into Idalee's Fresh Kitchen, where Chef Idalee DiGrigorio teaches you to up your culinary skills with seasonal ingredients, top-notch techniques, and cultural connections of each session's meal. Sign up either individually or as a couple and forge an exquisite meal from scratch, with recipes and easy-to-apply skills that you can take home to freshen up your own kitchen! After strutting your culinary stuff, finish off with a full shared meal with your new culinary compatriots in this joyful, enlightening Friday evening experience.
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.
Shake out your sillies with song, nursery rhymes, puppet shows, instruments, and, of course, a dance party! Each class begins with a breathing exercise before transitioning into music and movement activities. Taught by Eliza Adams, a Maryland preschool teacher and musician, this class is designed for children 5 and under. Caretakers are welcome to join or watch!
Free Baltimore Yoga is a safe space grounded in community movement. Our sessions aim to be accessible trauma-informed, nervous- system -focused, and breath- centered. All ages!
Want to work with a diverse group of people to create performances? So do we! Move Move Collaborative artists will draw on years of experience to offer movement practices outside of traditional dance classes. The first four classes feature movement artists Peter Redgrave, Matt Williams, Ariel Foster, and more; sharing techniques that range from butoh to contact improv to clowning. These techniques come to a head in the fifth session, which centers around planning an original performance! Participants will learn about different ways to organize a performance—durational, score based, and choreographed modes will be explored. The final class will be an open sharing of our collective thinking. Please come and get expansive and get move moving!
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.
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.
