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October 2025

Thu 23

October 23, 2025, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

A Harlem State of Mind: 100 Years of the Renaissance

Arts and Culture
Dance
Humanities
Music
Theatre
Visual Arts

Dance Cube

Join us for a special celebration of the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance from an interdisciplinary perspective focused on music, history, literature, and art. Moderated by Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, a panel of UMBC faculty will explore the impact and legacy of this intellectual, social, and artistic movement. The UMBC Jazz Ensemble will perform music selections from the Harlem Renaissance.

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Fri 24

October 24, 2025, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm

Queer Artists + Archives Symposium

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Arts and Culture
Visual Arts

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Long before institutions turned their attention to LGBTQ+ archives, Queer individuals preserved, shared, and celebrated their own personal and community histories. Celebrating Archives month and LGBTQ+ History month, the Queer Artists + Archives Symposium brings together artists, archivists, and historians — as well as those working across disciplines — to reflect upon the evolving role of archives in preserving and sharing the stories and histories of Queer artists. Participants include Rahne Alexander, Alexander D'Agostino, Leslie Cozzi, Kate Drabinski, Ben Egerman, Hunter O'Hanian, Joseph Plaster, James Smalls, and SHAN Wallace.

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Sun 26

Robert and Clara Schumann (public domain image).

October 26, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Faces of Love

Arts and Culture
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Music

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Join us for a special afternoon with soprano Seyoung Jeong, pianist Edwin Kim, and cellist DoYeon Kim, as they explore Faces of Love, featuring Robert Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe und -leben, Clara Schumann’s Drei Romanzen for Cello and Piano, and five of the most popular Korean contemporary art songs.

View Full Event Details and Register for Faces of Love, Sunday, October 26, 2025

Wed 29

Side by side images of UMBC alumni Ellington Carthan (who is seated at a piano) and Hannah Korangkool

October 29, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Arts Alumni Spotlight: Ellington Carthan and Hannah Korangkool

Arts and Culture
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Music
Visual Arts

216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

Please join us for presentations by two accomplished alumni, Ellington Carthan ’18, music (jazz studies and music technology), and Linehan Artist Scholar Hannah Korangkool ’15, visual arts (graphic design), who will tell us about their journeys from UMBC to their current careers. This event is hosted by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).

View Full Event Details and Register for Arts Alumni Spotlight: Ellington Carthan and Hannah Korangkool, Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Wed 29

October 29, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Special Collections Open House

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Arts and Culture

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Stop by the Library Gallery for a Special Collections open house with Lindsay DiCuirci’s English 243 class! Rare books, serials, pamphlets, and even comics from the historical publications collections in Special Collections will be on display. The student docents will be available to talk with you about each item.

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Thu 30

Artist Rich Zim holds a claymation model with a yellow head and segmented limbs.

October 30, 2025 - October 31, 2025

Rich Zim artist talk and workshop

Arts and Culture
All Events
Visual Arts

Various Venues

The Department of Visual Arts hosts Rich Zim, who is about to celebrate 40 years of professional stop motion animation, for an artist talk and claymation workshop. His notable credits include Gumby, Pee-wee's Playhouse, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Coraline, and The SpongeBob Movie. He is currently the CEO and president of Zim animation, where he has been making psychedelic oozing dripping clay animation sequences in his own studio for projects such as Smiling friends, Rick and Morty, Middlemost Post and many other TV shows and movies.

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Thu 30

October 30, 2025 - November 9, 2025

Shakespeare in Harlem

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Arts and Culture
Theatre

Proscenium Theatre

UMBC Theatre presents Shakespeare in Harlem by Langston Hughes, adapted and directed by Gerrad Alex Taylor, a special co-production of UMBC Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, and CSC's Black Classical Acting Ensemble. A rare gem from Langston Hughes, this collection of monologue poems revives the rhythms of jazz, the blues, and the pulse of the Harlem Renaissance—its love, struggles, and street-corner spirit. In director Gerrad Alex Taylor’s adaptation, Hughes’ words come alive in a dynamic full-length play, blending poetry, music, and dance for an immersive journey into the world he so vividly celebrated.

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November 2025

Sun 2

November 2, 2025, 11:30 am - 4:00 pm

UMBC Piano Day

The UMBC Department of Music invites you to the 2025 Annual UMBC Piano Day This event is FREE and open to all pianists, friends, family, and colleagues.

View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Piano Day, Sunday, November 2, 2025

Tue 4

Jayme McLellan, a white woman with brown hair, poses against a rocky background.

November 4, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Jayme McLellan: Fostering Sustainability in a Career in the Arts

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Visual Arts

Dance Technology Studio

Jayme McLellan is a curator, gallery director, artist, and educator. Over the past two decades, she has curated 150 solo, group, and thematic exhibitions of contemporary artists. In this presentation by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), she will share stories about successes and failures in her efforts to help artists carve out their own sustainable paths.

View Full Event Details and Register for Jayme McLellan: Fostering Sustainability in a Career in the Arts, Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Thu 6

November 6, 2025 - December 7, 2025

SPARK: Industrial Afterglow

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Arts and Culture
Visual Arts

The Peale

SPARK VII: Industrial Afterglow, a collaboration between UMBC and Towson University, brings together over twenty artists working across sculpture, installation, sound, photography, video, textiles, and ecological documentation to explore what lingers in the wake of industrial and technological systems.

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Sat 8

A string quartet poses with their instruments.

November 8, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Abeo Quartet

Arts and Culture
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Music

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents the Baltimore debut of the Abeo Quartet in a program featuring works by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Adolphus Hailstork.

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Sun 9

Several Theatre students pose with Theatre Department Chair, Eve Muson, on a staircase. They are smiling at the camera.

November 9, 2025, 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Fall 2025 Prospective Theatre Student Visit Day

Join us on campus to experience life a UMBC Theatre Major! Our Prospective Student Days usually sell out, so be sure to claim your spot early.

View Full Event Details and Register for Fall 2025 Prospective Theatre Student Visit Day, Sunday, November 9, 2025

Sun 9

A group of musicians pose, some holding instruments

November 9, 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Inscape Chamber Orchestra: Echoes of Paradise

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Arts and Culture
Music

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Journey beyond the earthly realm with Inscape Chamber Orchestra as they explore musical visions of the divine. This extraordinary concert weaves together three masters whose works touch the very essence of the sacred and sublime — Gustav Mahler, J.S. Bach, and Arvo Pärt.

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Mon 10

Ousseina Alidou, a Black woman wearing a white headwrap, smiles at the camera.

November 10, 2025, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Ousseina Alidou: Ecological Thoughts in Sahel West African Women’s Literary and Cultural Narratives

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Arts and Culture
Humanities
Social Sciences

University Center Ballroom

In the 47th Annual W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Lecture, Ousseina Alidou examines life and being human in West African Sahel women’s ecological thoughts as articulated in their literary and cultural narratives. Alidou’s aim is to expand our understanding of Sahelian women’s enduring contributions to ethical engagement with environmental concerns and preservation, climate change, vulnerability, migration, gender equity, and resilience.

View Full Event Details and Register for Ousseina Alidou: Ecological Thoughts in Sahel West African Women’s Literary and Cultural Narratives, Monday, November 10, 2025

Wed 12

Artist Eric Millikin stands with a laptop in front of a screen filled with abstract blue and green shapes.

November 12, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Eric Millikin: Mecha/Magical Marine Materials

Arts and Culture
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Visual Arts

216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts presents a talk by visual artist Eric Millikin. An assistant professor of visual arts, Millikin was awarded the 2024 CIRCA-IMET Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, during which he worked on Mecha/Magical Marine Materials, an ongoing series of wearable electronic and robotic sculptures based on marine biology for performances with live-coded ambient sound and spiraling video projections. The work is based in part on the work of IMET Assistant Professor Allison Tracy as well as on Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of sea-faring science and the supernatural, including depictions of necromancers creating mechanical sea monsters.

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