Livewire 14: Open Rehearsal of “bayou-borne, for Pauline“
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Livewire 14: Resounding new music festival presents an open rehearsal of "bayou-borne, for Pauline" by featured composer Annea Lockwood.
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Livewire 14: A Conversation with Annea Lockwood
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Livewire 14: Resounding new music festival presents A Conversation with Annea Lockwood, in which the composer will discuss her life and works with Linda Dusman, professor of music at UMBC.
Livewire 14: Annea Lockwood Portrait Concert
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe final event of the Livewire 14: Resounding new music festival presents the work of featured New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood, who brings vibrant energy, ceaseless curiosity, and a profound sense of openness to her music. Lockwood’s lifelong fascination with the visceral effects of sound in our environments and through our bodies — the way sounds unfold and their myriad “life spans” — serves as the focal point for works ranging from concert music to performance art to multimedia installations.
Humanities Forum — Dagmawi Woubshet
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryThe annual Daphne Harrison Lecture features Dagmawi Woubshet, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor, English, University of Pennsylvania, who will speak on James Baldwin and the Art of Late Style. James Baldwin has come back with full force in our era of Black Lives Matter. In the 100 years since his birth, he has become the most cited literary artist—living or dead—on matters of race on social media since the Ferguson Uprising, his words deployed to expose white power and innocence and to express black rage and ethics. Decades after his death, the fact that Baldwin’s words ring loud and true today not only testifies to his genius, but also offers an indictment of an America that continues to disparage, torture, and murder black people with impunity.
Stupid F*cking Bird
Proscenium TheatreUMBC Theatre presents Stupid F*cking Bird by Aaron Posner, sort of adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, with songs by Aaron Posner and James Sugg, directed by Gerrad Alex Taylor. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, art and life. Stupid F*cking Bird will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.
Special Collections Open House — A haunting Halloween afternoon!
Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery — Special CollectionsMark your calendars for a haunting Halloween afternoon of apparitions, psychic phenomenon, thoughtography and cartomancy in Special Collections and the Library Gallery! Special Collections will host an Open House from 12–3 p.m. on Thursday, October 31! Drop by the reading room to view selected highlights from the Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation collection, such as early Spiritualist texts, séance recordings, divination tools, and Gef the Talking Mongoose. You’ll also see how students and researchers use these items in their original scholarship.
Humanities Forum — Adrian De Leon
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryIn this Humanities Forum talk, Adrian De Leon, Assistant Professor, History, New York University, discusses Diaspora’s Boondocks: Hinterlands in Filipino American History. How were the native people from the margins of empire, from Christianized lowlands peasants to sovereign indigenous people in the mountainous highlands, thrust into the center of late Spanish and American imperial projects of race-making across the Pacific? In this talk, Adrian De Leon re-routes the history of Filipino American migration to its indigenous roots in the bundok (Tagalog: the hinterland) of Northern Luzon.
Juan Sebastián Delgado: Imaginary Tangos
216 Performing Arts and Humanities BuildingThe Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents cellist Juan Sebastián Delgado, faculty fellow for diversity in the arts, who will discuss Imaginary Tangos: Research, improvisation, and performance practice in contemporary tango music. In this talk, he will discuss and analyze different works featuring the cello by prominent living composers that showcase a distinctive style, musical narrative, and contemporary practices.
First Works Concert
Dance CubeThe Department of Dance presents the annual First Works Concert, featuring new works by dance majors.
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallInscape, praised by The New York Times, as "brilliant," performs a program featuring Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (arranged for chamber orchestra), and Osvaldo Golijov's Tenebrae.
46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture — Nikki M. Taylor
University Center BallroomThe 46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture, organized by the Department of Africana Studies, presents Nikki M. Taylor, professor of history at Howard University, who will speak on Seizing Justice with their Own Hands: Enslaved Women and Lethal Resistance. In this lecture, Taylor contends that enslaved black women carried deep and personal ideas about justice, which they exercised to resist slavery and ultimately end the tyranny of their enslavers. This event is part of the Fall 2024 Social Sciences Forum and Humanities Forum.
CANCELED — A Conversation with Jelani Cobb: The Half-Life of Freedom, Race and Justice in America Today
University Center BallroomJelani Cobb’s riveting, hopeful keynotes are up-to-the-moment meditations and breakdowns of the complex dynamics of race and racism in America. Whether speaking on Black Lives Matter and activism, the battle zones of Ferguson or Baltimore, the legacy of a black presidency, or the implications of the Trump era — or, more generally, on the history of civil rights, violence, and inequality in employment, housing, or incarceration in the US — Cobb speaks with the surety and articulate passion of only our best journalists.
New Bartók Quartet
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesJoin us as we embark on a mesmerizing journey through the masterpieces of two renowned composers, Mozart and Bartók, performed by the New Bartók Quartet, comprised of Wanchi Huang and Airi Yoshioka on violins, James Stern on viola, and Eric Kutz on cello. This ensemble of exceptional musicians will enrapture your senses with their skillful interpretation and heartfelt expressions.
UMBC Symphony Orchestra and UMBC String Chamber Orchestra
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra and the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Philip Mann, in a program of music by William Grant Still, Carl Nielsen, Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, Max Bruch, and Arturo Márquez.
UMBC Chamber Players
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka, in a program featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Borodin, and Brahms.