Learn classic and modern Middle Eastern style belly dance. Both a social dance and a form of entertainment, belly dance is a great way to meet amazing people and learn about Egyptian history and culture. Pick up the foundational moves and vocabulary of belly dance, while learning about ethics, etiquette, music, and history of belly dance. And be ready to MOVE! We'll explore isolations, spatial awareness, strength, flexibility, and some use of props. All experience levels welcome!
Located at Creative Alliance Creativity Center, Open Minds After-School Art Club youth create awe-inspiring artwork. We teach students creative problem-solving techniques and use the arts to develop critical thinking skills.
In this two day workshop, you will learn how to turn reclaimed materials into powerful imagery that moves your message through the community. Participants will explore a brief history of street puppetry and gain hands-on experience in up-cycling and scavenging free materials to create large-scale puppets and expressive masks for street performance.
Get your freak on and hit the dance floor for a night dedicated to the iconic sounds of Missy Elliott! From “Work It” to “Lose Control,” this high-energy DJ dance party celebrates the groundbreaking hits, unforgettable videos, and genre-defying style that made Missy a legend. Expect nonstop beats, throwback anthems, remixes, and a packed dance floor all night long.
Join Alexandra Hewett for an interactive creative workshop including writing prompts, improv, movement, and collaborative writing exercises. Writing can be a lonely process, come to connect and create…TOGETHER!
No preparation is necessary. Please note we will take a short walk to Patterson Park during the workshop. Please dress comfortably, bring a notebook and pen, and your sense of adventure and curiosity.
Bharatnatyam is one of the oldest dance forms in India and the root of Indian dance. Bharatanatyam weaves emotions, “Bhava”, with complex footwork, “Nritta”, to depict our cultural stories through dance, “Natya.” The form has a rich tradition of narrative elements that are intertwined in different aspects of our performances. Abhinaya is the art of expression in Bharatanatyam. It involves facial expressions, eye movements, and body language to portray the emotions and narrative of a dance piece. Through abhinaya, dancers bring characters and their stories to life, evoking a range of emotions in the audience.
As a roux slowly turns and thickens, deepening in color and warmth, it becomes a foundation you can feel. Materialized and compounded by every shared meal, teaching, and setting, our routes move with that same intention, shaping stories that root us. Join us in reflecting on the wisdom, tastes, and memories stored in food, and how they serve as intimate tellings of our journeys thus far.
In this fun and engaging day-long course, you will be introduced to the world of the tarot, a centuries-old system of divination and self-knowledge. You will learn how to read the cards through a simple, highly visual system and get direct, hands-on experience from a knowledgeable professional instructor. Best of all, there is no memorization required—just a willingness to engage with these powerful symbols through your active imagination.
Located at Creative Alliance Creativity Center, Open Minds After-School Art Club youth create awe-inspiring artwork. We teach students creative problem-solving techniques and use the arts to develop critical thinking skills.
Located at Creative Alliance Creativity Center, Open Minds After-School Art Club youth create awe-inspiring artwork. We teach students creative problem-solving techniques and use the arts to develop critical thinking skills.
In this figure drawing class taught by Lydia Ethem, students will be inspired by the flowing lines and elegant forms of the Art Nouveau era. Inspired by the works of Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, and other masters of the movement, this course explores the human form through the lens of ornamental design, organic motifs, and stylized beauty.
Located at Creative Alliance Creativity Center, Open Minds After-School Art Club youth create awe-inspiring artwork. We teach students creative problem-solving techniques and use the arts to develop critical thinking skills.
The Many Americas film series celebrates the multitudinous identities, experiences, and stories that exist from Brazil to Canada—from urban centers to rural communities, from immigrant journeys to intergenerational wisdom. Through compelling short and mid-length films, we platform authentic voices that challenge narratives. Join us for screenings that explore identity and belonging, cultural intersections, dreams and resilience, and the evolving landscapes of our many Americas. This is a series that reflects on the complexity, diversity, and richness of who we actually are.
Located at Creative Alliance Creativity Center, Open Minds After-School Art Club youth create awe-inspiring artwork. We teach students creative problem-solving techniques and use the arts to develop critical thinking skills.
Learn classic and modern Middle Eastern style belly dance. Both a social dance and a form of entertainment, belly dance is a great way to meet amazing people and learn about Egyptian history and culture. Pick up the foundational moves and vocabulary of belly dance, while learning about ethics, etiquette, music, and history of belly dance. And be ready to MOVE! We'll explore isolations, spatial awareness, strength, flexibility, and some use of props. All experience levels welcome!
There is a particular kind of knowing that lives in a dinner table—in the grain of the wood, the weight of the chairs, the smell of a meal that no longer exists but somehow never leaves. Baltimore-based twin artists Hope & Faith McCorkle have built an entire exhibition around that knowing, and what it means to carry it long after the table and the person who set it are gone.
You Can Always Come Back Home is an immersive, multidimensional installation that asks one of the most profound questions we can hold: where is home when the world keeps moving and the people who made it are no longer here? Working across large-scale mixed-media scrolls, domestic objects, inherited furniture, and participatory installations, Hope and Faith construct a gallery environment that breathes like a living room—layered, intimate, and full of presence. Rooted in Black feminist thought and bell hooks' concept of homeplace as a site of resistance, the exhibition positions home not as a fixed location but as a space where memory, spirit, and ancestry live as one.
Movies in the Lounge is a launchpad for emerging and mid-career filmmakers, providing not just a screen, but an engaged community eager to discover new voices and participate in meaningful dialogue about cinema.
Joe Keyes will be the first to tell you that he is a late bloomer. A lifelong musician who got his start DJing in middle school, it wasn’t until 2009, as he was approaching his 50s, that Keyes found his band, and his true sound. The Freehold, NJ, native formed Joe Keyes & The Late Bloomer Band around an ensemble of young musicians equally adept at playing the funk, R&B, soul, rock and jazz flavors Keyes throws at them.
As we celebrate Pride in Baltimore, this edition of Mortified features childhood and adolescent archives exploring sexual and gender identity, coming out, and other LGBTQ+ stories.
Mortified Baltimore, produced by Alex Hewett and Adam Ruben, stars everyday adults sharing their most embarrassingly real teenage diary entities, poems, love letters, lyrics, and locker notes…in front of total strangers.
Painted screens are a unique Baltimore folk art. This workshop will include a short film on the history of the painted screen and early painted screen artists and a demonstration of the painted screen technique. Paint a small screen to take home with you based on provided designs or create your own!
The Baltimore yoyo club is a fast paced and vibrant hobby that combines insane yoyo tricks, with music, creativity, and problem solving skills! It is a vast and diverse hobby with room for everyone learn and try something new!
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