Playwright, storyteller and researcher Nayatara Nayar will present a talk, Water Logs: A Study of Theatre and Water Crisis. Her work focuses on the intersection of research, creative writing and the study of theatrical texts centering on storytelling about the water and the water crisis in Tamil Nadu.
With an eye to local Baltimore developments, like the Eager Park and UMB BioPark projects, Davarian Baldwin will discuss what he calls the rise of UniverCities—higher education’s growing control over the economic development and political governance of urban America. From housing and wage labor to health care and even policing, colleges and universities have become big business and our communities their company towns. He will explore the costs when our cities become campuses and how we can think through a more liberatory way forward. This event, a collaboration with the University of Baltimore's History Program, is part of the Spring 2024 Humanities Forum.
Jen White-Johnson ’08, visual arts, will discuss her work and experiences as a Black professional in design and discuss her contributions to the recently published Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design. After her talk, White-Johnson will sign books for the audience.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka. Students in the UMBC Chamber Players perform a wide variety of instrumental chamber works, ranging from Baroque, Classical, Romantic to contemporary repertoire.
Join us for an evening with editors and contributors from Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design for a panel discussion and interactive Q&A session, featuring Jillian Harris, Jen White-Johnson, Terresa Moses, Omari Souza, and Jacinda Walker.
UMBC Theatre presents Green Theatre Revolution, directed by Susan McCully and Katie Hileman, a festival of new plays and devised works about climate justice. Student-created work will be performed alongside excerpts from Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff Tick Tock While Saraswati Saves the World by Susan McCully and Lost Waters by Nayantara Nayar. A special performance of student works will take place at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) in downtown Baltimore.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra and the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Philip Mann. The performance will feature works by Benedetto Marcello, Anton Arensky, José Bragato, Jean Sibelius, Samuel Barber, D'Juan Moreland, and Stephanie Berg, with soloists Juan Sebastian Delgado and Julia Plumer.
UMBC Theatre presents Green Theatre Revolution, directed by Susan McCully and Katie Hileman, a festival of new plays and devised works about climate justice. This event, a special performance of student works expressing climate science through theatrical representation, will take place at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) in downtown Baltimore.
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.
The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert, featuring the Jazz Guitar Ensemble, the Jazz Small Groups, and the Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Baldwin, Tom Lagana, and Matthew Belzer.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Carlin Truong. A small choral ensemble consisting of auditioned singers from across the university. Camerata performs a wide variety of works drawn from the expansive choral repertoire: including Renaissance motets and madrigals, folksongs, German part songs, Russian sacred liturgies, American spirituals, and new American concert works.
Join us for the opening reception of Meet the Elements, a collaboration between design students from the Department of Visual Arts and the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. This series of posters explores the periodic table of elements through creative and surprising visual connections of life, history, and culture at the atomic level.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Patrick Crossland.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Donahue.
