The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Low Lecture, featuring Ana Lucia Araujo, professor of history at Howard University, who will speak on Slavery, and the Problem of Memory and Public History.
The Social Sciences Forum presents Ishan Canty Williams, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, who will speak on Understanding Dementia: The Vital Importance of Engaging Diverse Older Adults with Dementia and their Communities in Research.
The Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Legacies: Maurice Berger and Fred Wilson, a celebration of the life and work of Maurice Berger (1956–2020) upon the 20th anniversary of his curation of the exhibition Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations 1979 – 2000, and the 30th anniversary of his appointment as curator of the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC. The program also celebrates the 30th anniversary of Fred Wilson’s groundbreaking installation Mining the Museum with The Contemporary and the Maryland Historical Society, as well as Wilson’s sculpture Artemis/Bast, which is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Curator George Ciscle will moderate an intergenerational panel with Fred Wilson, Lee Boot, Symmes Gardner, and two Baltimore-based artists who see the work of Berger and Wilson as touchstones for theirs, Ashley Minner and Christopher Kojzar.
The Department of Music presents Symphony of Diversity: a Thousand Thunderbolts, a musical and spoken word performance that commemorates, testifies, and engages. Through the voices of Black American composers and historic Black civil rights activists, the chamber strings of Iowa State University honor the victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in centenary year of the tragedy.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Nicholas Currie. The UMBC Chamber Players perform a wide variety of instrumental chamber works, ranging from Baroque, Classical, Romantic to contemporary repertoire.
The Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Colette Searls, who will discuss research for her forthcoming book, A Galaxy of Things: the Power of Puppets and Masks in Star Wars and Beyond (Routledge Press, 2022).
UMBC Theatre presents She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, directed by Danielle Drakes. She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and ’90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
The Humanities Forum presents Melody Jue, associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who will speak on Theory Underwater: Diving into Wild Blue Media. What would media and literary studies look like, underwater? In her recent book, Melody Jue shows how the ocean can be a science fictional environment for defamiliarizing concepts in media studies.
The Department of Music presents an evening of vocal duets, featuring soprano Seyoung Jeong and tenor Seungwon Choi, who will perform art songs, opera arias, and love duets.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Daniel Pesca in a program featuring works by Moondog, Daniel Pesca, Chris Benna, Freya Lily, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich.
Expanding dance with visually stunning and collaborative works, Baltimore Dance Project returns to the stage, and invites audiences to join its first in-person concert since the start of the pandemic. The event features a feast of new dances and works-in-progress by directors Ann Sofie Clemmensen, Shaness D. Kemp, and Sandra Lacy. Guest performances include a solo work by San Francisco-based artist Erin Yen, and a new piece choreographed by UMBC Dance alumnus Ryan Bailey and performed by dancers from Peabody Preparatory.
For the Spring 2022 semester, Amadou Kouyate has been the inaugural Maryland Traditions Artist-in-Residence at UMBC where he introduced music and dance students to the rich tradition of Manding culture, demonstrating the role the music and the practitioners, the Djeli, occupy in the cultural community. The results of this work will be shared with the public in two free performances. Performers will include Chris Benna, Alfredo Ruiz-Malca, Valarous Lingham, A’mon Griffin, Connor Fuerst, Gretta Zinski, and Gina Beck.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan under the direction of Gina Beck.
The Department of Music is pleased to serve as host to the Handel Choir of Baltimore and its artistic director and conductor, Brian Bartoldus, for their program Charm City Goes Classical. The UMBC Camerata Chamber Choir, conducted by Stephen Caracciolo, joins the performance as collaborators in a program that includes Mozart's thrilling Mass in C, K. 317 ("Coronation") and Handel's eight-movement anthem My song shall be alway, HWV 252. The Handel Period Instrument Orchestra and vocal soloists will join the combined choirs on stage for this full-house performance.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony under the direction of Nell Flanders. The Symphony's program will feature Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor ("Unfinished"); a movement from Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, featuring Gaby Echiverri; Glow (2022) by Jeffrey Martin; Dances in the Canebrakes by Florence Price; and Great Is Thy Faithfulness by William M. Runyan, featuring the UMBC Gospel Choir and Jubilee Singers, directed by Janice Jackson.
