Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryLost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore is the first career retrospective of artist Amos Badertscher in the United States. Between the 1960s and 2005, Badertscher documented hustlers, club kids, go-go dancers, drag queens, drug addicts, friends, and lovers who were part of LGBTQ+ life in Baltimore.
States of Becoming
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents States of Becoming, an exhibition curated by Fitsum Shebeshe and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). States of Becoming examines the dynamic forces of relocation, resettling, and assimilation that shape the artistic practices of a group of 17 contemporary African artists who have lived and worked in the United States within the last three decades, and informs the discourse on identity construction within the African Diaspora.
Fall Dance Showcase
Proscenium TheatreThe Department of Dance presents the Fall Dance Showcase, featuring a new repertory work by Brandon Russell and five senior capstone works that explore the past, present, and future of the human experience through movement.
UMBC Percussion Ensemble
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Donahue.
Student Composers Recital
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents a concert featuring premieres of works by student composers.
UMBC Camerata
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe 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.
UMBC Opera Workshop
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh.
Department of Music Honors Showcase
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.
UMBC Improvisation Ensemble
The Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Improvisation Ensemble, directed by Patrick Crossland.
Brandon Patrick George, flute, and Parker Ramsay, harp
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Shriver Hall Concert Series presents elegant flutist Brandon Patrick George, a “knockout musician with a gorgeous sound” (Philadelphia Inquirer) joined by harpist Parker Ramsay, hailed as “remarkably special” (Gramophone) with an artistry that is “marked by a keen musical intelligence” (Wall Street Journal) for an unforgettable duo recital. Together they perform a lyrical program spanning centuries and continents.
Sharon Isbin, classical guitar
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents multiple Grammy winner Sharon Isbin. Acclaimed as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time,” Isbin was named Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year, the first guitarist in their 59-year award history.
Petra Poláčková and Lovro Peretić, classical guitar
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents classical guitarists Petra Poláčková and Lovro Peretić. “A guitarist of extraordinary ability” (The American Federation of Musicians), Poláčková recently released her debut CD featuring music by Sylvius Leopold Weiss. Peretić is an award-winning guitarist from Zagreb, Croatia, who has received top prizes in various guitar competitions and has performed widely throughout Europe.
Slime by Bryony Lavery
Proscenium TheatreUMBC Theatre presents Slime by Bryony Lavery, directed by Nigel Semaj. Welcome to the Third Annual Slime Crisis Conference! Seven grad students, all fluent in animal languages, linguistics, and culture, join delegates of almost every species to save life on earth from a toxic slime. As they debate and translate for dolphins, seabirds, and polar bears, they ask, “Who is coming to save us?” The answer might surprise you….
Green Theatre Revolution
Black Box TheatreUMBC Theatre presents Green Theatre Revolution, directed by Susan McCully and Katie Hileman, a festival of new plays about climate justice, including stagings of plays by guest playwrights Annalisa Dias and Nayantara Nayar, together with short works by student playwrights. A panel on Sustainable Stage Design will accompany the production.
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Inclusion Imperative spotlights six years of innovation in community-engaged humanities research and teaching
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Lighting design to flu treatment: UMBC students share research and creative work at URCAD 2023
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Michelle R. Scott illuminates the lives of Black Vaudeville performers and their broader social impact in Jazz Age America