This Week&#x27;s Arts Events in Baltimore

Featuring: Shari Puorto Band, Shari Puorto, Doug Woolverton, Benjie Porecki, Dan Leonard, Matthew Tebo

The Shari Puorto Band performs two shows at 49 West in Annapolis on Saturday, October 24. The evening features sets at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., with limited seating available. Reservations can be made through the QR codes on the event poster or by calling the venue.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Livewire 16 — Zohn Collective: Songs of Ourselves

Featuring: Zohn Collective

Livewire 16 concludes with “Songs of Ourselves,” a contemporary-music concert by the Zohn Collective at Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall. The program brings together works by Chen Yi, Edgar Meyer, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Kenji Bunch, Daniel Pesca, and Lou Harrison, and a pre-concert talk is offered before the performance.

First Evangelical Lutheran Church

Brahms: Schicksalslied

3604 Chatham Road, Ellicott City, MD

Featuring: Columbia Pro Cantare, Laura Lee Fischer

Columbia Pro Cantare presents Brahms’s *Schicksalslied*, a choral concert centered on Johannes Brahms’s setting of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry. Laura Lee Fischer conducts the performance.

JHU Museums (Evergreen and Homewood)

OAK Trio (Baltimore Debut)

Sat, Oct 24, 2026

3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Evren Ozel, Nathan Amaral, Leland Ko

The OAK Trio makes its Baltimore debut with a chamber music program centered on the shared humanity expressed through cultural songs and dances. The ensemble features pianist Evren Ozel, violinist Nathan Amaral, and cellist Leland Ko, three young soloists whose contrasting musical personalities come together in works by Haydn, Gabriela Lena Frank, Paul Schoenfeld, and Dvořák.

Baltimore Theater Project

The M.A.K.A.Do: Make America Kingly Again!

45 West Preston Street, Baltimore, MD

The M.A.K.A.Do: Make America Kingly Again! is an operatic political satire based on Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, with new English texts by Bari Biern. Set in a lavishly gilded Oval Office, this comic reimagining takes aim at tyranny, would-be kings, cancel culture, and political absurdity from all sides. The production combines music, comedy, elaborate costumes and scenery, and physical theatricality, with added musical strains of John Philip Sousa. Its creators use laughter and music to satirize the things audiences may be thinking but rarely hear expressed.

Key Auditorium

Halloween Spooktacular!

19 Saint Johns Street, Annapolis, MD

Featuring: Naptown Philharmonic Orchestra, Marcolivia Duo

Halloween Spooktacular! is a family-friendly concert presented by the Naptown Philharmonic Orchestra, bringing the Halloween season to life through thrilling orchestral music and a costume contest. The program includes selections inspired by *Wicked*, *Beetlejuice*, *The Nightmare Before Christmas*, *How to Train Your Dragon*, Holst’s *The Planets*, Mussorgsky’s *Pictures at an Exhibition*, and other classical and contemporary works.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Young People’s String Program Halloween Concert

Featuring: Young People’s String Program

Young musicians from Peabody’s Young People’s String Program perform in a Halloween-themed concert. The event is presented as a livestream from Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Student Recital: Will Beardslee

Featuring: Will Beardslee

Will Beardslee presents a livestreamed viola recital as part of the Graduate Performance Diploma program. The performance takes place in Peabody’s Hilda and Douglas Goodwin Recital Hall and is scheduled for 70 minutes.

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Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Student Recital: Vanessa Yu

Featuring: Vanessa Yu

Student Recital: Vanessa Yu is a livestreamed piano recital presented as part of the Doctor of Musical Arts program at the Peabody Institute. The event features Vanessa Yu in a solo student recital.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 – Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Mozart Meets Latin Masters

Featuring: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, Jonathan Carney

Mozart Meets Latin Masters brings the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra together with conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and violinist Jonathan Carney for a program shaped by dance rhythms, folk traditions, tango, jazz, and expressive symphonic writing. The concert moves from Alberto Ginastera’s Argentine-inspired dances and Astor Piazzolla’s urban Buenos Aires sound world to Max Bruch’s lyrical Scottish Fantasy and Mozart’s expansive “Paris” Symphony.

Abbegael Greene

Featuring: Abbegael Greene, Lara Saldanha

Mezzo-soprano Abbegael Greene presents a classical vocal-and-piano recital with pianist Lara Saldanha. The program features music by Gustav Mahler, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Manuel de Falla, exploring wayfaring, belonging, and human connection during times of transience.

Second Presbyterian Church

Awadagin Pratt, Piano

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 3:30 PM

4200 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Awadagin Pratt

Awadagin Pratt presents a solo piano recital built around monumental works and the piano’s contrasting grandeur, lyricism, and poetic character. The first half features music by César Franck, François Couperin, and Johannes Brahms, followed after intermission by spirituals and contemporary American works, including pieces by Julius Eastman, Nathaniel Dett, Jeremy Jordan, Fred Hersch, and Mikael Darmanie.

UMBC

CONCERT: SoloDuo (UMBC)

1028 Hilltop Circle, Catonsville, MD

Featuring: Matteo Mela, Lorenzo Micheli

SoloDuo—guitarists Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli—perform a classical guitar concert at UMBC’s Linehan Concert Hall. The duo has toured extensively across Europe, Asia, North and South America, and has received international acclaim, including praise from *The Washington Post* for its exceptionally expressive and memorable musicianship. Since 2015, Mela and Micheli have served as artists in residence at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Student Recital: Celina Chen

Gordon Center for Performing Arts

Featuring: Celina Chen

Student cellist Celina Chen presents a livestreamed Bachelor of Music junior recital through the Peabody Institute. The performance takes place in Leith Symington Griswold Hall and is scheduled for approximately 70 minutes.

Wordsmith & Meira Silverstein

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 7:30 PM

3506 Gwynnbrook Avenue, Owings Mills, MD

Featuring: Wordsmith, Meira Silverstein

Wordsmith & Meira Silverstein present *Chords & Cadence: Resilience, Love & Hope*, a dialogue between spoken word and classical music. Baltimore multidisciplinary artist Wordsmith and violinist Meira Silverstein shape the performance in real time, with narration and music responding to one another.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Mike Dawes

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Featuring: Mike Dawes

Mike Dawes brings his intricate solo fingerstyle guitar performance to Rams Head On Stage. The English guitarist is known for composing, arranging, and performing multiple parts simultaneously on a single instrument, combining original material, inventive arrangements, viral performances, and mainstream collaborations.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Conversations in Time and Color

Featuring: Towson University Department of Music faculty

Conversations in Time and Color brings together faculty members from Towson University’s Department of Music for a concert featuring chamber works. The performance is presented as part of Towson University’s Arts & Culture programming and is open to students and the general public.

Oboe Department Recital

The Oboe Department Recital is a Peabody Institute recital presented as a livestream. The event features oboe performers from the institute’s Oboe Department and takes place in Hilda and Douglas Goodwin Recital Hall.

Jaime Laredo, violin and Sharon Robinson, cello

Featuring: Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson

Violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson, a 1972 Peabody violoncello alumna, lead an intimate chamber concert with a collection of Peabody faculty artists. The performance is presented as a livestream and is supported by the Levi Family Distinguished Artist Fund.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 – Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Midweek - The Conductor's Spellbook

Featuring: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Tatiana Pérez-Hernández

Join young Tony Stradavarius on a field trip to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in this interactive Midweek Education Concert. As he discovers the magic of the symphony, audiences are introduced to orchestral music, the instruments of the orchestra, and the art of conducting in a kid-friendly experience designed for students and families.

The Engineers Club

Thirsty Thursday

11 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Opera Baltimore

Thirsty Thursday is Opera Baltimore’s signature live performance and beverage-tasting series, presented in the historic Engineers Club in Mount Vernon. The event combines operatic highlights with a relaxed, social atmosphere and specially selected drink pairings.

Agustin Muriago performs Piano Music from Latin America

Featuring: Agustin Muriago

Agustin Muriago presents a solo piano recital devoted to music from Latin America. The program travels across Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Uruguay, and Paraguay, combining established composers with more contemporary voices and featuring dances, lyrical pieces, and character works.

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 12:30 PM

Friday Noon:30 Recital Series: Strings

Friday Noon:30 Recital Series: Strings is a livestreamed recital presented by the Peabody Institute. The program focuses on string performance and is scheduled for an hour at Leith Symington Griswold Hall in Baltimore.

Organ Spooktacular

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Organ Spooktacular is a free recital presented at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. The event is scheduled for an evening performance in Leith Symington Griswold Hall.

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 – Sun, Nov 1, 2026 · 7:30 PM

The Pirates of Penzance

Featuring: Annapolis Opera

Annapolis Opera presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic adventure *The Pirates of Penzance*, a story of romance, deception, and divided loyalties. Frederic believes his apprenticeship with a band of pirates has ended, allowing him to pursue Mabel, the Major-General’s daughter. An unexpected revelation puts both his freedom and his relationship at risk, while the production explores the surprising tenderness beneath the pirates’ tough exterior.

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 – Sun, Nov 1, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Psycho in Concert

Featuring: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Hersh

Psycho comes to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a live film-concert presentation for Halloween. Bernard Herrmann’s iconic, strings-only score is performed by the BSO while the classic thriller plays on screen, heightening the film’s suspense through live musical timing, sharper silences, and intensified attacks. Dialogue and sound effects are delivered through the hall’s sound system, and subtitles are provided.

Current Space

Katey and Jessie

Through Sat, Nov 7, 2026

421 North Howard Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Katey, Jessie

No additional event-specific details were found on the source page. Venue: Current Space When: 2026-09-25 Price: Price not available

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Shari Puorto and Doug Woolverton performing @ 49 West 10/24

Featuring: Shari Puorto, Doug Woolverton

Shari Puorto and Doug Woolverton bring a live blend of blues, roots rock, and Americana to 49 West in Annapolis. Puorto is an acclaimed national touring singer, songwriter, and performer known for her powerful, expressive vocals and energetic stage presence. She performs with Woolverton, a two-time Grammy-nominated and one-time Emmy-nominated New England musician who plays trumpet with the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 2:00 PM

GALLIMAUFRY: OMFUG in Baltimore

GALLIMAUFRY: OMFUG in Baltimore is an unconventional afternoon concert bringing seven accomplished musicians into An die Musik Live’s intimate listening-room setting. Rather than adhering to a single genre, the program blends concert music, experimental sounds, jazz, funk, theatrical elements, and other deliberately hard-to-classify styles.

Jeff Cosgrove Quintet

Featuring: Dave Ballou, Darryl Brenzel, John Lee, Tom Teasley, Jeff Cosgrove

The Jeff Cosgrove Quintet presents a concert built around new compositions by drummer Jeff Cosgrove, emphasizing improvisation, musical development, and expressive interaction. The music draws inspiration from Ornette Coleman’s Double Quartet and the ensemble Old & New Dreams, combining clear, simple rhythmic structures with room for the musicians to explore.

CFG Bank Arena

JOURNEY – Final Frontier Tour (An Evening With)

201 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: JOURNEY, Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Arnel Pineda, Deen Castronovo, Jason Derlatka, Todd Jensen

JOURNEY brings its Final Frontier Tour to CFG Bank Arena for an evening of arena-scale rock, featuring more than five decades of hits and performances. Led by founding guitarist Neal Schon, the band continues its long-running catalog of anthems with a live show built around fan participation and songs that have connected across generations.

Gordon Center for Performing Arts

Melvin Seals & JGB

3506 Gwynnbrook Avenue, Owings Mills, MD

Featuring: Melvin Seals & JGB, Melvin Seals, John Kadlecik, John-Paul McLean, Jeremy Hoenig

Melvin Seals & JGB bring a spirited blend of blues, funk, rock, jazz, R&B, and gospel to the Gordon Center. Led by longtime Jerry Garcia Band organist Melvin Seals, the group is known for spontaneous, high-energy performances with an often psychedelic edge that keeps audiences dancing and engaged.

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Death Of Summer: Part 6

Featuring: Fullminator, Muscipula, Red Brick, Pesterer, Barbell, Malignancy, Scissorhash, Immortal Form, Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre

Death of Summer: Part 6 is a two-day extreme-metal showcase presented by Infinite Terror at Metro Baltimore. The weekend combines grind, goregrind, slam, technical death metal, thrash, hardcore, and related styles with an intentionally goofy, over-the-top atmosphere.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Saturday Nite Shockrave: The Happy Hour Spooky Bash

Featuring: Avidd Mindset

Avidd Mindset’s Saturday Nite Shockrave returns for a Halloween-themed happy hour rave at Ottobar. The event features energetic dance music, creepy cocktails, and a spooky-season atmosphere, with costumes strongly encouraged.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 10:00 PM

Division Chief, TheMoldmen, Early American

Featuring: Division Chief, TheMoldmen, Early American

Division Chief, TheMoldmen, and Early American share the bill for a live show at Ottobar. The event is open to all ages, with doors opening late in the evening.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 10:00 PM

Panda Den

Featuring: Pangelica

Baltimore native DJ and “prince of fallen angels” Pangelica presents Panda Den, a late-night gathering centered on deconstructed club music and other unusual sounds.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Susto -Solo (Matinee) w/ Daniel Ray Hilsinger

Featuring: SUSTO, Justin Osborne, Daniel Ray Hilsinger

SUSTO’s Justin Osborne brings his solo performance to Rams Head On Stage for an intimate matinee centered on his voice, songwriting, and storytelling. Osborne founded SUSTO in 2013 while living in Havana, Cuba, and has developed a wide-ranging body of work influenced by Southern Gothic, folk, rock, country, and psychedelia.

Pig Destroyer

Featuring: Pig Destroyer, Erode, Bandit, Malform, Visceral Disgorge, Goetia

Pig Destroyer headlines two nights at The 8x10 in Baltimore, with a different supporting lineup each evening. The band’s extreme metal combines cutting guitar work, forceful percussion, and stark vocals, with lyrics focused on dark self-loathing, disturbing imagery, and the vulnerability of human experience.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Intimate Jazz Series Presents: Midiri Brothers Trio

Featuring: Midiri Brothers Trio

Intimate Jazz Series Presents: Midiri Brothers Trio is a live jazz performance at 49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar & Gallery in Annapolis. The event is scheduled for an evening performance lasting two hours.

BCCC Liberty Heights Campus

Celebration

2901 Liberty Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Celebration is a musical tribute to the late Randolph Smith, honoring his legacy through music and heritage. The production features feel-good songs and party-ready tunes in a lively celebration.

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Horowitz Center (Howard Community College)

5th HCC Music Alumni Spotlight Concert

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 4:00 PM

10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD

Featuring: HCC music alumni

The 5th HCC Music Alumni Spotlight Concert celebrates former Howard Community College music students and the musical paths they have pursued since graduating. Alumni will perform in a special showcase presented as part of the HCC Concert Series, followed by a question-and-answer session featuring stories, insights, and reflections on their experiences beyond HCC.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 – Sun, Oct 25, 2026

Cindy Blackman Santana

Featuring: Cindy Blackman Santana, Ravi Coltrane, Aurelien Budynek, Benny Rietveld, Zaccai Curtis

Cindy Blackman Santana comes to Keystone Korner Baltimore to celebrate the release of her album *Coherence*. The project is described as a wide-ranging musical journey blending jazz, rock, fusion, and spirituality, shaped by Santana’s work as a virtuoso drummer, bandleader, and boundary-pushing sound innovator.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Student Recital: Spooky Piano

Featuring: Steven James, Andrew Kadar, Crucible

Student Recital: Spooky Piano returns to Peabody for a second year with a program of eerie, intense, and experimental music. The recital features three amplified basses, a new organ fugue inspired by J.S. Bach, and Kylan Hillman’s unsettling sound sculpture *Append!*.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 7:00 PM

He Is Legend w/ Excide and Consumer Culture

Featuring: He Is Legend, In Angles, Excide, Consumer Culture

He Is Legend brings its heavy rock sound to Metro Baltimore, combining thick guitar riffs, swampy grooves, melodic hooks, and vocals that shift from crooning to roaring. The North Carolina band’s music balances sludgy weight with memorable melodies, while Excide and Consumer Culture join the bill.

Coco Live-to-Film Concert

Featuring: Orquesta Folclórica Nacional de México, Esin Aydingoz

Disney and Pixar’s *Coco* comes to the big screen in a live-to-film concert celebrating family, music, memory, and the traditions of Día de los Muertos. The film will be presented in its entirety while Orquesta Folclórica Nacional de México performs Michael Giacchino’s complete score live, precisely synchronized with the movie. The program includes the Oscar-winning song “Remember Me” and combines symphonic writing with folkloric influences.

Nevermore Hall

Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE: Home on the Range Tour 2026

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 8:00 PM

34 Market Pl, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, Harrison [Surf Gang], Lerado Khalil

No additional event-specific details were found on the source page. Venue: Nevermore Hall When: 2026-10-25 at 20:00 Price: Price not available

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Sunbloc, Special Guest, Grudge, Grow Blind & Radium Girl

Featuring: Sunbloc, Grudge, Grow Blind, Radium Girl

SV Records presents an all-ages live music show featuring Sunbloc, a special guest, Grudge, Grow Blind, and Radium Girl. The concert takes place at Ottobar, with doors opening at 7 p.m.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Eric Johanson (Matinee)

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Featuring: Eric Johanson

Eric Johanson brings a guitar-forward blend of rock, roots, blues, and contemporary influences to Rams Head On Stage. His sound ranges from New Orleans swamp grooves to heavy, fuzzed-out textures, pairing forceful guitar playing with carefully crafted melodies and lyrics. His live performances are known for their intensity, spontaneity, and strong connection with the audience.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Eddie 9V

Featuring: Eddie 9V

Eddie 9V brings a gritty, energetic mix of Southern soul, blues, rock, and funk to Rams Head On Stage. The Georgia-born artist’s 2024 album *Saratoga* helped propel him from cult favorite to national recognition, with songs such as “Halo,” “Saratoga,” and “Love Moves Slow” receiving attention on SiriusXM’s Spectrum channel.

Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Rehaash- The Cars

Featuring: Rehaash

Rehaash – The Cars is a live event at 49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar & Gallery in Annapolis. The page lists the performance for October 26, with an evening schedule from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 7:30 PM

The Dunham/McCarthy Quintet

Featuring: The Dunham/McCarthy Quintet, Ben Dunham, Aidan McCarthy

The Dunham/McCarthy Quintet brings together vibraphonist Ben Dunham and bassist Aidan McCarthy as co-leaders of an adventurous jazz ensemble. Their lively improvisation honors the jazz tradition while pushing it forward, drawing on their work with artists including Aron!, Etienne Charles, Jazzmeia Horn, John Daversa, and Camille Thurman.

Onelinedrawing w/ American Motors and Knub

Featuring: Onelinedrawing, Jonah Matranga, American Motors, KNUB

Onelinedrawing, the project led by Jonah Matranga, comes to Metro Baltimore with a full band to perform Far’s *Tin Cans With Strings to You* in its entirety. The set revisits the album’s mix of melody, vulnerability, and post-hardcore intensity, while also drawing from *Thriller* and *RAINBOWMACHINE*. American Motors and KNUB join the bill for an evening that pairs a landmark record with newer, forward-looking music.

Dat Feel Good Jazz Jam

Featuring: Clarence Ward III, Rufus Roundtree

Dat Feel Good Jazz Jam is an open live-music session at Motor House hosted by Clarence Ward III and emceed by Rufus Roundtree. Musicians are invited to bring their instruments, while listeners can come enjoy the atmosphere. The jam blends jazz with funk, hip-hop, and R&B/soul.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Seth Mitchell Band

Featuring: Seth Mitchell Band

Seth Mitchell Band performs at 49 West Coffeehouse in Annapolis for an evening live-music set.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Lucas Netto Sextet presents The Epic

Featuring: Lucas Netto Sextet, Lucas Netto

Lucas Netto Sextet presents *The Epic*, a jazz performance built around 10 original compositions by saxophonist and clarinetist Lucas Netto. The music draws on classic jazz traditions while incorporating influences from Indian classical music, hip-hop, Afro-Cuban music, Western classical music, Brazilian music, and other contemporary sounds.

The Larry Brown Quintet

Featuring: Larry Brown, Kent Miller, Greg Holloway, Thad Wilson, Peter Fraize

The Larry Brown Quintet brings a straight-ahead jazz program to Keystone Korner Baltimore, led by DC-area pianist Larry Brown. The quintet unites seasoned musicians from the DMV jazz scene: trumpeter Thad Wilson, saxophonist Peter Fraize, bassist Kent Miller, and drummer Greg Holloway.

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Aborted w/ Party Cannon, Scum Sedition and B!cep

Featuring: Aborted, Party Cannon, Scum Sedition, B!CEP

Aborted brings a night of technical death metal and deathgrind to Metro Baltimore, opening Halloween week with blastbeats, horror-inspired intensity, and crushing riffs. Scotland’s Party Cannon joins the bill with a brutal slam sound and a deliberately playful party aesthetic, while Scum Sedition and B!CEP complete the lineup.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Dave Chappell & Friends- AKA HippieHappy Hour

Featuring: Dave Chappell, Jimmy Jacobs, Rurik Reshetiloff

Dave Chappell & Friends, also known as HippieHappy Hour, is a live music gathering featuring Dave Chappell, Jimmy Jacobs, Rurik Reshetiloff, and additional guest performers. The event takes place at 49 West Coffeehouse.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Mr VCR & Friends- The Blues Brothers Halloween Spooktacular

Featuring: Mr VCR & Friends

Mr VCR & Friends present “The Blues Brothers Halloween Spooktacular,” an evening event at 49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar & Gallery in Annapolis. The performance is scheduled for two hours on October 28.

The Karen Briggs Experience

Featuring: Karen Briggs, Luke Carlos O’Reilly, Gerald Veasley, Tim Hutson

The Karen Briggs Experience brings violinist Karen Briggs to Keystone Korner Baltimore for “The Soulchestral Groove,” an ensemble performance blending her contemporary violin work with piano, bass, and drums. Briggs is widely regarded as one of the leading violinists of her generation. Her profile grew substantially through her appearance on the record-breaking PBS broadcast “Yanni: Live at the Acropolis,” following a career rooted largely in jazz settings.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Skeleton Crewe

Featuring: Skeleton Crewe

No additional event-specific details were found on the source page. Venue: The 8x10 When: 2026-10-28 at 19:30 Price: Price not available

Javier Nero 18-piece Jazz Orchestra

Featuring: Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra

The Javier Nero 18-piece Jazz Orchestra continues its exceptional monthly concert series at An die Musik Live. The ensemble presents original compositions and inventive interpretations of jazz standards, drawing on jazz, blues, funk, Latin, and world-music influences for a varied and energetic performance.

Baltimore Soundstage

Hawthorne Heights – 20th anniversary of If Only You Were Lonely

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 7:00 PM

124 Market Place, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Hawthorne Heights, letlive, Creeper

Hawthorne Heights celebrates the 20th anniversary of *If Only You Were Lonely* with a live performance at Baltimore Soundstage. The bill also features letlive and Creeper.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 7:00 PM

ZO! & Tall Black Guy featuring Debórah Bond

Featuring: ZO!, Tall Black Guy, Debórah Bond

ZO! and Tall Black Guy join vocalist Debórah Bond for a live performance at Keystone Korner Baltimore. Their music brings together soul, funk, jazz, and hip-hop, reflecting a shared emphasis on musicianship and storytelling.

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Computer Music Department Recital

The Computer Music Department Recital is a Peabody Institute recital featuring work from the Computer Music Department. The event takes place in Joe Byrd Hall in Baltimore.

Spookey Ruben w/ Fetcher, Salon and Monkey

Featuring: Spookey Ruben, Fetcher, Salon, Monkey

Spookey Ruben brings psychedelic pop, progressive ideas, colorful songwriting, and elaborate arrangements to Metro Baltimore. The performance features playful, melodic songs with an experimental art-pop sensibility, supported by Fetcher, Salon, and Monkey.

Kendall Street Company

Featuring: Kendall Street Company

No additional event-specific details were found on the source page. Venue: The 8x10 When: 2026-10-29 at 20:00 Price: Price not available

Baltimore Soundstage

Uncle Kunkel’s One Gram Band

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 11:30 PM

124 Market Place, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Uncle Kunkel’s One Gram Band

Uncle Kunkel’s One Gram Band performs at Baltimore Soundstage as part of the BMFS After Party. The event takes place late at night, with doors opening before the performance.

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Fairies, Foes, and False Lovers: A Celtic Halloween

Featuring: Letitia VanSant

Fairies, Foes, and False Lovers: A Celtic Halloween is a live music performance with Letitia VanSant. The Halloween-themed evening brings together Baltimore fiddlers, singers, and other musicians for a darkly festive program of songs about murder, ghosts, fairies, and other spooky subjects.

Divas of Soul

Featuring: Angelica Baylor, Mia Samone

Divas of Soul brings Angelica Baylor and Mia Samone to Keystone Korner Baltimore for a live tribute to Alicia Keys, Angela Winbush, and Toni Braxton. The performance features songs associated with all three artists, including “You Don’t Have to Cry,” “Angel,” “Your Smile,” “No One,” “A Woman’s Worth,” “You Don’t Know My Name,” “If I Ain’t Got You,” “He Wasn’t Man Enough,” “Seven Whole Days,” and “Love Shoulda Brought You Home.”

Le Mondo

Clown Rave 2: Coulrophobia (The Fear of Clowns)

406 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD

Clown Rave 2: Coulrophobia is a themed queer clown party from QueerClownHouse celebrating the playful, bizarre, and whimsical side of Halloween. Guests can expect dancing, drinks, a drag show, vendors, and plenty of clown-inspired revelry, with the night designed as a delight for clown enthusiasts and a nightmare for anyone afraid of clowns.

Labiahead: Radiohead Tribute

Featuring: Labiahead, Charlene Kaye, Lena Hall, Meg Toohey, Lexi Bodick, Paige Durr

Labiahead is a Radiohead tribute collective led by musician and comedian Charlene Kaye and Tony Award winner Lena Hall. The band brings together female musicians and Radiohead devotees, including Meg Toohey on guitar and synths, Lexi Bodick on bass, and Paige Durr on drums. The group has been featured by The New York Times.

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The Downtown Cultural Arts Center

T.A.T "A NU HOPE" CD Release Party

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 7:30 PM

401 North Howard Street, Baltimore, MD

T.A.T celebrates the release of its debut EP, “A Nu Hope,” with a Halloween party in Baltimore. The event features a costume contest with a special prize, live performances by a large local lineup, and CDs for sale that include two remixes and a new single as bonus tracks.

CFG Bank Arena

Billy Strings

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 – Sat, Oct 31, 2026 · 7:30 PM

201 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Billy Strings

Billy Strings brings his acclaimed, high-energy bluegrass performances to CFG Bank Arena for two Baltimore dates. Raised in Michigan and now based in Nashville, Strings is recognized for boundary-pushing musicianship and electric live shows that blend traditional bluegrass and folk influences with a broader, contemporary sound.

Nevermore Hall

Leftover Salmon 2-Day Ticket (10/30-31)

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 – Sat, Oct 31, 2026 · 11:30 PM

34 Market Pl, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Leftover Salmon

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M&T Bank Exchange

Words, Wings & Wine

Through Fri, Dec 11, 2026

401 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Ephraim Nehemiah, Black Assets

Words, Wings & Wine is a multidisciplinary live showcase bringing together poetry, singing, lyricism, comedy, music, and visual art for an elevated evening of culture and entertainment. This special Baltimore edition features Ephraim Nehemiah and Black Assets in a live performance at M&T Bank Exchange. Attendees are encouraged to dress to impress.

Comedy

_____'s Love Story

_____'s Love Story is an improvised comedy show built around a mystery: the performers do not know whose love story they will tell. The audience can expect a humorous, spontaneous story created around an unknown central character.

BIG Time

Featuring: Baltimore Improv Group

BIG Time is a one-hour improv comedy performance from Baltimore Improv Group, featuring a special guest and promising a particularly funny, high-energy show.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Indie Hour: Bees and A++

Featuring: Bees, A++, Baltimore Bodega

Indie Hour: Bees and A++ is an indie improv comedy show featuring the teams Bees and A++. The performance takes place at Baltimore Improv Group in Baltimore.

Baltimore Soundstage Sold Out

Jordan Jensen

124 Market Place, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Jordan Jensen

Jordan Jensen brings her stand-up comedy to Baltimore Soundstage. She is known for hosting the “RIP Jordan Jensen” podcast and co-hosting “Bein’ Ian with Jordan,” with television and live appearances including “The Late Late Show with James Corden” and the Comedy Cellar.

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Charles McBee: You Had To Be There Tour

Featuring: Charles McBee

Charles McBee brings his stand-up comedy tour, *You Had To Be There*, to Baltimore for a nostalgic night centered on life before smartphones, social media, and group chats. Drawing on memories of mixtapes, LimeWire, Saturday morning cartoons, and hazardous childhood toys, McBee revisits the simpler, stranger, and more carefree experience of growing up in the 1980s and 1990s.

Illusions Bar & Theater

Mischief & Deception Comedy Magic Show

1025 South Charles Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Spencer Horsman

Mischief & Deception is an interactive, intimate comedy magic experience led by Baltimore magician Spencer Horsman. The show combines sleight of hand, mentalism, comedy, and elements of danger while guests enjoy craft cocktails at Illusions Bar & Theater. Admission includes any two drinks from the cocktail list and bar, or magic tricks to take home.

Jiaoying Summers

Featuring: Jiaoying Summers

Jiaoying Summers brings her bold, globally minded stand-up comedy to Magooby’s Joke House. Born in China and based in Los Angeles, Summers draws on cultural clashes, immigrant identity, motherhood, and dark humor for sharp, personal material. Her online work has earned more than 1 billion views and a following of over 4 million, including viral sketches such as “Uber Karen” and her comedic riffs on the meaning of English names in Chinese.

Comedian Jim Norton: Stupid Smile w/ Caitlin Austin & Leah Lemarr

Featuring: Jim Norton, Caitlin Austin, Leah Lemarr

Jim Norton brings his stand-up show, *Stupid Smile*, to Rams Head On Stage with Caitlin Austin and Leah Lemarr. Norton is a comedian, radio host, actor, and two-time New York Times bestselling author. He hosts *Jim Norton Can’t Save You* and co-hosts *The Anthony and Jim Show*, while his comedy specials are available on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, and Amazon.

Baltimore Comedy Factory

DeRay Davis ~ Special Event

5625 O Donnell Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: DeRay Davis

DeRay Davis brings his sharp, sardonic stand-up to Baltimore Comedy Factory for a special-event comedy weekend. A Chicago native, Davis developed material drawn from race, poverty, family, and his experiences growing up in the city’s projects before breaking through at Atlanta’s Laffapalooza Festival. He later won the Comedy Central Laugh Riots Competition and appeared at the Montreal Just for Laughs and Cedric the Entertainer festivals.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Carlos Sanchez

Featuring: Carlos Sanchez

Carlos Sanchez presents a special stand-up comedy performance at Magooby’s Joke House. Sanchez is a Dominican comedian based in Santo Domingo who has toured internationally and released several comedy specials. He has performed at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival, Miami es un Chiste, and other events throughout the United States. He also created *Esto No Son Horas*, one of the Dominican Republic’s most successful comedy shows, and won the Stand-Up Comedian of the Year award at the Premios Soberano.

Magooby's Joke House Sold Out

Ray Lau

Sun, Oct 25, 2026

Featuring: Ray Lau

Ray Lau brings a playful, lighthearted stand-up comedy performance to Magooby’s Joke House. A Cantonese American comedian, Lau is known for his unique and relatable style, including his viral “Chipotle Bean Scheme” joke, which has been viewed millions of times. He regularly performs across Southern California at venues and shows including Don’t Tell Comedy, The Hollywood Improv, and Flappers. His debut on Don’t Tell Comedy’s digital platform premieres this Summer.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Art of Comedy Open Mic

Featuring: Jamar Taylor, Lyric Marie, Zach Zwagil

Art of Comedy Open Mic is billed as Baltimore’s longest-running comedy open mic. The weekly event features as many as 25 comedians performing in Motor House’s West Bay of Showroom, with hosting duties shared among Baltimore comedians Jamar Taylor, Lyric Marie, and Zach Zwagil. Ivan Martin produces the series.

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Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Comedian Charlene Kaye Tiger Daughter: Or, How I Brought My Immigrant Mother Ultimate Shame

Featuring: Charlene Kaye

Charlene Kaye’s solo comedy show, *Tiger Daughter: Or, How I Brought My Immigrant Mother Ultimate Shame*, blends humor, emotion, and rock ’n’ roll. Presented by Margaret Cho and directed by Jennifer Monaco, the show explores Kaye’s relationship with her Chinese immigrant mother and the fallout from rejecting her mother’s vision of a Carnegie Hall-bound daughter.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Indie Hour: Big Worm and Filipino American History Month!

Featuring: Big Worm

Indie Hour presents an hour of independent comedy featuring Big Worm, along with a special performance celebrating Filipino American History Month.

Conservatory Night: Antique Birding Society & First Date

Featuring: Antique Birding Society, First Date

Antique Birding Society and First Date, two Baltimore Improv Group Conservatory teams, share the bill for this Conservatory Night performance. The show is scheduled for one hour at BIG’s Baltimore venue.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 – Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Jason Salmon

Featuring: Jason Salmon

Jason Salmon brings his stand-up comedy to Magooby’s Joke House for two special-event performances. The Texas-born, New York City–based comedian is known for a style likened to receiving excellent advice from the least sensible person you know. His credits include appearances in *Red Dead Redemption 2*, *Orange Is the New Black*, HBO and Comedy Central productions, *At Home with Amy Sedaris*, Hulu’s *Wu-Tang Clan* series, and *30 Rock*. His stand-up special, *Biscuits and Gravity*, is available on YouTube.

Law & Order: Special Improv Unit

Featuring: Baltimore Improv Group

Law & Order: Special Improv Unit is an improv comedy show that draws on the familiar conventions of legal-drama television series. Expect an original, unscripted performance inspired by the suspense, courtroom theatrics, and investigative atmosphere of your favorite law shows.

House Teams: Hamsterjam & MVA

Featuring: Hamsterjam, MVA

House teams Hamsterjam and MVA take the stage for an evening of improvised comedy at the BIG Theater. The performance features two comedy teams known for bringing a funny, spontaneous show.

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Baltimore Improv Showdown!

Featuring: Baltimore Improv Group

Baltimore Improv Showdown! is a competitive improv performance where the audience helps determine which team wins. The show is presented by Baltimore Improv Group and runs for one hour.

Illusions Bar & Theater

Mischief & Deception Comedy Magic Show

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 – Sat, Oct 31, 2026 · 8:00 PM

1025 South Charles Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Spencer Horsman

Mischief & Deception is an interactive, intimate comedy magic experience at Illusions Bar & Theater, featuring magician Spencer Horsman. The performance combines sleight of hand, mentalism, comedy, and elements of danger, with craft cocktails available from the venue’s extensive bar menu.

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Baltimore Comedy Factory

Cocoa Brown ~ Special Event

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 – Sun, Nov 1, 2026 · 7:30 PM

5625 O Donnell Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Cocoa Brown

Cocoa Brown brings her high-energy stand-up to Baltimore Comedy Factory for a special-event weekend. Brown, a Newport News native whose given name is Farah Brown, draws on personal hardship, survival, and redemption to create comedy that is candid, forceful, and uplifting. Her performance career has included BET’s “Comic View” and “One Mic Stand,” “Showtime at the Apollo,” Tyler Perry’s “For Better or Worse,” film work including “Lakeview Terrace,” and a leading role in Perry’s “The Single Moms Club.”

Dance

Church of the Redeemer

Sharon McKinley Memorial Service and Dance

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 10:30 AM

5603 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Jonathan Jensen, Paul Oorts, Susan Brandt, Canticle Singers of Baltimore

The Baltimore Folk Music Society presents a memorial gathering honoring Sharon McKinley at Church of the Redeemer. The event begins with a memorial service, followed by English dancing, refreshments, and a mixed English and contra dance. Friends from different parts of Sharon’s life are expected to attend, with members of the Canticle Singers of Baltimore also scheduled to perform.

Le Mondo

¡Cel!ebration

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 9:00 PM

406 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: ¡ceL!, DJ BBL, Mooncrumb, JABXLANI

¡Cel!ebration is a Caribbean-influenced dance party marking DJ ¡ceL!’s “big quarter rotation around the sun.” The night brings Caribbean and global club sounds to Baltimore, including Miami bass, bouyon, baile tech, amapiano, gqom, and more. Guests are encouraged to come ready to dance, bring their country’s flag, and represent where they are from.

Floozy Carmichael's Pleasure Planet

Featuring: Floozy Carmichael

Floozy Carmichael’s Pleasure Planet is a Halloween self-love soiree celebrating self-love, Halloween, pleasure, desire, and fantasy. The evening is described as featuring dancing, dress-up, debauchery, sex demons, drag performances, pole dances, music showcases, and more.

Slow Balboa Workshop with Amanda Gerken and David Lee

Featuring: Amanda Gerken, David Lee, DJ Zak Kneeland

Slow Balboa Workshop with Amanda Gerken and David Lee is designed for dancers who want to feel more comfortable when a slow jazz ballad comes on. The workshop welcomes dancers who know some Balboa as well as those who have begun exploring Slow Balboa and want a refresher before Stardust Slow Balboa Weekend. Drawing on the dance’s historical development while incorporating contemporary ideas, Amanda and David will help participants develop tools for creating their own Slow Balboa and enjoying it on the social dance floor.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 5:00 PM

I Wanna Dance With Somebody….before 9pm…An Early Bird Dance Party!

Featuring: DJ Bomb Trax

An early-evening dance party at Ottobar celebrates 1980s and 1990s music with DJ Bomb Trax. The event is designed for an early night out, running from 5 to 9 p.m., and a portion of ticket proceeds supports Marian House, which provides a safe, sober, and supportive environment for women transitioning to stable, independent lives.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Chicago Steppin Set: Soulful Vibes

Featuring: DJ Lloyd Moss

Chicago Steppin Set: Soulful Vibes invites dancers to spend Sunday afternoon learning Chicago Steppin, strengthening their fundamentals, meeting new people, and enjoying an extended dance set. The workshop is intermediate-level while remaining welcoming to beginners, followed by music from DJ Lloyd Moss.

The Lyceum

GWCC Monthly Céilí

17801 Meeting House Rd, Sandy Spring, MD

Featuring: Matt Mulqueen, Laura Byrne, Patrick Winch, Seamus Wade

The Greater Washington Céilí Club’s monthly Irish social dance party brings traditional Irish sets and céilí dances to The Lyceum in Sandy Spring. The afternoon begins with a workshop on the Claddagh Set, followed by an evening of dancing to live traditional music. Beginners, experienced dancers, listeners, and anyone curious about Irish dance are welcome.

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Church of the Nativity

English Country Dance

Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 8:00 PM

6112 York Road, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Kappy Laning, Marty Taylor, Emily Aubrey, Francine Krasowska

An evening of English country dancing presented by the Baltimore Folk Music Society, with Kappy Laning calling the dances. The music features Marty Taylor on recorders, whistles, and concertina; Emily Aubrey on violin; and Francine Krasowska on piano. The dances are taught and walked through, making the event welcoming to beginners and experienced dancers alike.

Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 5:30 PM

Jóvenes en Acción 2026

Featuring: Jóvenes en Acción 2026

Jóvenes en Acción 2026 is a dance program and performance troupe for Latin American teens. Through traditional Mexican and Latin American dance, participants develop self-expression, teamwork, and stronger connections within Southeast Baltimore.

Monday Night Swing & Lindy Hop

Monday Night Swing & Lindy Hop is a welcoming weekly dance night at Mobtown Ballroom and a longstanding part of Baltimore’s Lindy Hop community. The event offers a more intimate alternative to the venue’s busier Friday nights, with extra room for dancing and conversation. A beginner lesson is included before the open dance, and no partner or prior experience is required.

Heels Performance Class

Heels Performance Class is an all-levels workshop focused on the technique, movement, and stage presence of performing in heels. Participants will work on commanding walks, footwork, performance styling, body movement, choreography fundamentals, and performing with confidence and intention. No dance experience is required, and the class welcomes beginners as well as students looking to refine existing skills.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 8:15 PM

Burlesque 101

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 10:15 AM

Featuring: Aquarius Moon

Burlesque 101 is an introductory workshop led by Aquarius Moon that explores the glamour, history, and self-expression of classic burlesque. The October session focuses on glove peels, with instruction in bumps, grinds, shimmies, showgirl stance, stage presence, and burlesque walking. It is designed for participants of all experience levels and celebrates a supportive, inclusive approach to performance.

Chesapeake Arts Center

Arts on Stage Presents...Story of Dia de Muertos

194 Hammonds Lane, Brooklyn Park, MD

Featuring: Calpulli Mexican Dance Company

Arts on Stage presents *Story of Día de Muertos*, a colorful educational performance by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company. Through theatrical dance, movement, and music in *Time of the Marigold*, the production traces Día de Muertos from its Mesoamerican origins to its modern expressions. Audiences encounter figures such as La Catrina and learn about marigolds, ofrendas, and other traditions that honor the connection between the living and those who have died.

Lovely Lane Church

Contra Dance

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 8:00 PM

2200 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Penelope Weinberger, Baltimore Open Band

The Baltimore Folk Music Society presents a spooky-themed Wednesday contra dance led by caller Penelope Weinberger, with live music from the Baltimore Open Band. Contra dancing is open to all, and no partner is required; a beginner lesson is offered before the evening’s dancing.

Friday Night Swing and Lindy Hop

Friday Night Swing and Lindy Hop is an open social dance at Mobtown Ballroom. No previous experience or dance partner is required, and attendees may simply walk in for the beginner lesson before the evening dance. Friday events often feature live music.

Talk/Lecture

Back to School with BAM: Abolition 101, Part 4 (Alternatives & Futures)

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Back to School with BAM: Abolition 101, Part 4 (Alternatives & Futures) is a free political education event hosted by the Baltimore Abolition Movement (BAM). As the fourth and final session in the four-part “Abolition 101” series, it offers a welcoming, supportive space for community members to learn together about resistance to policing and prisons, with a focus on alternatives and possible futures.

Mike Fabricant presents "The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism: Hope at Dusk"

Featuring: Mike Fabricant

Mike Fabricant presents *The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism: Hope at Dusk*, an examination of democracy’s weakening amid growing tensions between market freedom and citizens’ rights. The discussion explores the decline of the welfare state, the expansion of radical-right politics, and the political and economic forces driving efforts to dismantle public supports.

Hammond Harwood House

Full Moon Tour

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 5:00 PM

19 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, MD

Full Moon Tour is a one-hour historic walking tour exploring how early American families responded to the dangers and anxieties of nighttime. Under the light of the full moon, visitors will learn about the Loockerman family’s early-19th-century practices for securing their household during periods of limited lighting and heightened fears of crime, theft, wandering travelers, superstition, and unruly behavior.

Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Humanities in the Village, featuring Patrick Connolly: Newton’s Metaphysics of Substance: God, Bodies, Minds

Featuring: Patrick Connolly, Tim Jankowiak

Humanities in the Village returns in October with Patrick Connolly discussing his new book, *Newton’s Metaphysics of Substance: God, Bodies, Minds*. Connolly presents a systematic account of Isaac Newton’s thinking about substance, God, material bodies, human minds, causation, dependence, and related questions of modality. Drawing on both published and unpublished sources, he places Newton’s ideas within early modern philosophy and considers their significance alongside Newton’s work in mathematics and physics.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 1:30 PM

Virtual Artist Talk with Jacob Estevez

Julio Fine Arts Gallery (Loyola)

Featuring: Jacob Estevez

Virtual Artist Talk with Jacob Estevez is part of Baltimore Clayworks’ Artist Talk series, a virtual conversation offering insight into the artists connected with the organization and the work they create. The program highlights the central role of ceramic artists in Baltimore Clayworks’ mission to inspire the community and strengthen the region’s contemporary ceramic arts scene.

Artist Talk

4501 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Nate Larson

Nate Larson, Loyola’s 2026–2027 Artist-in-Residence, discusses his artistic practice and the subjects and ideas explored in his current exhibition, *Nate Larson y El Puente: On Juvenile Incarceration in Argentina*. The talk is presented as part of the exhibition, which is on view October 8–November 14, 2026.

M. K. Thekkumkattil presents "The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals"

Featuring: M. K. Thekkumkattil

M. K. Thekkumkattil presents *The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals*, an essay collection that combines memoir and manifesto to examine critical-care work, queer kink practices, and the possibility of transforming—or ultimately abolishing—the hospital system while preserving and expanding care.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Skye Perryman: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times

Featuring: Skye Perryman

Skye Perryman visits The Ivy Bookshop to discuss *Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy*. Held as Election Day approaches, the conversation focuses on reclaiming civic power through speaking up, building community, protecting the future, and making everyday choices that strengthen democracy.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 1:30 PM

Virtual Artist Talk with Clarissa Pezone

Featuring: Clarissa Pezone

Virtual Artist Talk with Clarissa Pezone is part of Baltimore Clayworks’ Artist Talk series, offering an online presentation about the artist and her creative practice. The program highlights the role of ceramic artists in Baltimore Clayworks’ mission and explores the work Pezone creates across sculpture and installation.

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Subodhana Wijeyeratne with Karina A. Vado: Triangulum

Featuring: Subodhana Wijeyeratne, Karina A. Vado

Subodhana Wijeyeratne visits Bird in Hand to discuss *Triangulum: An Epic of the Nine Worlds of Surya*, his science-fiction novel about three young humans navigating a far-future galaxy on the brink of war. Wijeyeratne, who has also written an academic history of Japan’s space program, will be joined by Karina A. Vado for a conversation about the book and its ideas. The novel has been described by *Publishers Weekly* as an elegant, richly layered space opera.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Arts Alumni Spotlight: Hannah Kelly and Franki Graham

Featuring: Hannah Kelly, Franki Graham

Arts Alumni Spotlight features UMBC arts graduates Hannah Kelly ’17, theatre, and Franki Graham ’13, dance, discussing how their careers have developed since graduation. The conversation explores the varied paths available in the arts, the ways personal experiences shape creative work, and how artistic careers can intersect with education, administration, family, and community leadership.

Virtual Information Session: Students Speak!

Join current Peabody Conservatory students for a virtual conversation about life at Peabody. They will discuss their journeys to the Conservatory, classes, ensembles, and other aspects of student life, with an opportunity for prospective students to ask questions.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 9:00 AM

BRED Solidarity Economy Breakfast: Denzel Mitchell Jr.

Featuring: Denzel Mitchell Jr.

This breakfast is part of the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy’s series on Black-led and Black-centered solidarity-economy enterprises. The series highlights work that puts people, ecological well-being, and justice ahead of private profit. The October program features Denzel Mitchell Jr., a farmer, educator, organizer, advisor, and advocate for food sovereignty and the next generation of Black farmers.

Jim Emison presents "Murder on the Hatchie" in conversation w/ India Artis

Featuring: Jim Emison, India Artis

Jim Emison presents *Murder on the Hatchie* in conversation with India Artis, exploring the 1940 lynching of Elbert Williams in Brownsville, Tennessee. Williams, a founding member of the local NAACP, was murdered while trying to register Black voters—decades before the better-known killings of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers. The event examines how the crime helped expose the violence underlying voter suppression and how the federal government failed to prosecute those responsible.

Earl Swift and Dan Rodricks: Up on Cove Mountain: Adventure, Tragedy, and a Quest for Meaning on the Appalachian Trail

Featuring: Earl Swift, Dan Rodricks

Earl Swift and Dan Rodricks meet at The Ivy Bookshop to discuss Swift’s *Up on Cove Mountain: Adventure, Tragedy, and a Quest for Meaning on the Appalachian Trail*. The book recounts Swift’s 2024 end-to-end Appalachian Trail hike and his effort to confront a traumatic memory from an earlier trek: two friendly and experienced southbound hikers he once met were later murdered at a Pennsylvania mountaintop campsite. The conversation will consider wilderness risk, human violence, grief, memory, and the act of commemorating those lost.

Baltimore Museum of Art

BMA Violet Hour: Lawrence Burney and Ellis Marsalis III (t.p. Luce)

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 6:30 PM

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Lawrence Burney, Ellis Marsalis III

BMA Violet Hour brings writer and critic Lawrence Burney and photographer, writer, and visual artist Ellis Marsalis III, who works under the name t.p. Luce, together at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Presented in connection with the exhibition *Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography*, the evening includes a reading from Burney’s debut essay collection, *No Sense in Wishing*, a preview of his documentary-in-progress *Revisiting Ramona*, and a conversation between Burney and Marsalis.

Diane Williams with Jeannie Vanasco: I Liked Rex

Featuring: Diane Williams, Jeannie Vanasco

Diane Williams presents *I Liked Rex*, her twelfth book of fiction, in conversation with Baltimore writer Jeannie Vanasco. Williams’s compact stories, often only about two pages long, begin in ordinary or playful situations and take unexpectedly disorienting turns. The program offers a closer look at her distinctive syntax, imagination, and influence on contemporary flash fiction.

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Maryland Hall Monthly Book Club (October Edition)

Featuring: Kate Myers

The Maryland Hall Monthly Book Club’s October meeting focuses on Janice Hallett’s mystery novel *The Appeal*. Hosted by author Kate Myers, the book club brings readers together each month for a new selection and thoughtful conversation in a welcoming community setting. Meetings are held on the last Thursday of each month.

Boris Johnson

Murphy Fine Arts Center (Morgan State)

Featuring: Boris Johnson

Baltimore Speakers Series: Boris Johnson features former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussing geopolitics and the war in Ukraine from a European perspective. Known for his distinctive wit, Johnson offers a firsthand account of international affairs.

Creating Justice in a Multiracial Democracy

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 9:00 AM

2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore, MD

Creating Justice in a Multiracial Democracy is a free, day-long symposium examining the legacy of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report and its relevance to the future of American democracy. The event will bring together scholars, civic leaders, students, policymakers, and community advocates to discuss democratic institutions, civil rights, voting access, civic engagement, truthful public discourse, and strategies for strengthening a multiracial democracy.

Cooperatives in and against capitalism

Featuring: John Duda

Cooperatives in and against capitalism is a free talk led by Red Emma’s worker-owner John Duda. The program examines the incomplete global history of cooperatives as democratic alternatives to capitalism, along with their connections to political movements pursuing justice and liberation. It is part of the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy’s month-long celebration of cooperatives and its tenth anniversary.

GirlTREK Book Club: Bloom How You Must by Tara Pringle Jefferson

Join the GirlTREK book club at The Ivy Bookshop for a welcoming discussion of Tara Pringle Jefferson’s *Bloom How You Must*. The gathering is open to readers at any point in the book, including those who have read every page, just begun, or simply want to enjoy thoughtful conversation and community.

Wisp by Jan Wagner: An Event with Translator David Keplinger

Featuring: David Keplinger

David Keplinger presents his new translation of Jan Wagner’s poetry collection *Wisp*, a bilingual work translated from German into English. The event explores impermanence as a source of beauty and considers how close observation, lyrical expression, and poetic collaboration can cross the boundaries between languages.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Freedom Ship: Stories and Songs of Maritime Liberation in the Chesapeake With Marcus Rediker and Karen Somerville

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 6:15 PM

Featuring: Marcus Rediker, Karen Somerville

Freedom Ship is an immersive program combining historical scholarship, personal reflection, storytelling, and live music to explore how enslaved people used maritime routes across the Chesapeake and beyond in their pursuit of freedom. Marcus Rediker draws from his award-winning book *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*, while Karen Somerville performs spirituals and coded songs that illuminate the hidden history of liberation by water.

Between the Sheets: Dangerous Game

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Between the Sheets Book Club returns for a Halloween-season discussion of Stephen King’s *Gerald’s Game* and its film adaptation. Participants should read the novel and watch the movie before gathering to discuss the story’s dark, unsettling, and complicated details.

Everyman Theatre

Cast Conversations

Through Thu, Nov 5, 2026

315 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Joseph Ritsch

Cast Conversations are post-show discussions at Everyman Theatre that extend the theatrical experience beyond the stage. Audience members can hear behind-the-scenes stories, gain additional perspective on the production, and engage with the artists who created it. The conversations are led by Everyman’s Director of Education, Joseph Ritsch.

Hotel Indigo

Artist Talk

Through Fri, Nov 13, 2026

24 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: VILLAGER

Maryland Art Place, in partnership with Hotel Indigo Baltimore, presents an artist talk with Baltimore-based artist VILLAGER. The program accompanies VILLAGER’s solo exhibition at Hotel Indigo and offers an opportunity to learn more about the artist’s work.

Theater

Colonial Players of Annapolis

CP presents The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

108 East Street, Annapolis, MD

CP presents an inventive, humorous, and suspenseful theatrical adaptation of Washington Irving’s supernatural tale. The production follows Ichabod Crane as he enters the foggy woods of Sleepy Hollow, where unsettling sounds, shadows, and hoofbeats suggest that the legendary Headless Horseman may be near. Its autumn atmosphere and heartfelt ghost-story approach make it suited to audiences looking for seasonal thrills with comedic touches.

Slayton House

Matilda

10400 Cross Fox Lane, Columbia, MD

Roald Dahl’s *Matilda The Musical* follows an exceptionally intelligent young girl whose psychokinetic powers and vivid imagination help her withstand cruel parents and the brutal headmistress Miss Trunchbull. As Matilda develops a friendship with her compassionate teacher, Miss Honey, her courage and cleverness give the schoolchildren hope and begin to transform their lives. The production features high-energy dance numbers, catchy songs, and a story celebrating childhood anarchy, imagination, and the power of a determined girl.

Vagabond Players

Launch Pad: Scenes from New Plays

806 S Broadway, Baltimore, MD

Launch Pad: Scenes from New Plays is the Baltimore Playwrights Festival’s Fall 2026 sampler, featuring staged readings of entertaining scenes from eight new plays by area playwrights. Local directors and performers bring the selections to life with movement, props, comedy, drama, and stories about lives changing in unexpected ways.

Chesapeake Arts Center

Arts on Stage Presents...Grace for President

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 10:15 AM

194 Hammonds Lane, Brooklyn Park, MD

Featuring: Arts on Stage

Arts on Stage presents *Grace for President*, a children’s theater production inspired by Kelly S. DiPucchio’s book. After third-grader Grace Campbell learns that no woman has ever served as U.S. president, she launches a school election and faces competition from the most popular boy in class. Through campaigning, pep rallies, service projects, and poster-making, Grace and her classmates explore what makes a strong candidate while discovering the humor and excitement of the political process.

Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric

Marvin: The Marvin Gaye Musical

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 – Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 7:00 PM

140 West Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Je’Caryous Johnson presents *Marvin: The Marvin Gaye Musical*, a new musical tracing Marvin Gaye’s rise at Motown, his innovative artistry, influential relationships, and the personal struggles that shaped his life and legacy. Set during a period of national change, the story explores love, loss, faith, family, and Gaye’s determination to pursue artistic truth, with musical numbers featuring Motown’s greatest hits.

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Through Sun, Nov 1, 2026

7 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein follows Victor Frankenstein as his ambition drives him to create life from death, only for the abandoned Creature to seek revenge. Framed by the legendary night when Mary Shelley and her friends challenged one another to invent a frightening story, this adaptation places Shelley and her act of creation at the center of the drama. The production blurs the boundaries between author, storyteller, and story as an ensemble brings her gothic masterpiece to life, exploring creation, ambition, love, loss, and the consequences of abandoning what we make.

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Hippodrome Theatre (France-Merrick PAC)

Six

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 – Sun, Nov 1, 2026

12 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, MD

Six is a high-energy musical concert in which the six wives of Henry VIII reclaim their narratives through pop music. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr take the microphone and compete to determine who should be remembered as the leading voice of Henry’s story. The production transforms five centuries of royal heartbreak into a celebration of female power and contemporary pop performance.

Current Space

Folks at Intimate Play

Through Sat, Nov 7, 2026

421 North Howard Street, Baltimore, MD

No additional event-specific details were found on the source page. Venue: Current Space When: 2026-09-25 Price: Price not available

Colonial Players of Annapolis

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Through Sun, Nov 8, 2026

108 East Street, Annapolis, MD

The Colonial Players of Annapolis presents *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow*, a theatrical adaptation by John Heimbuch and Jon Ferguson of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story. In the superstitious village of Sleepy Hollow, nervous schoolteacher Ichabod Crane pursues Katrina Van Tassel while contending with romantic rivals, village gossip, and the possibly real—and deeply frightening—Headless Horseman. The production combines comedy, folklore, suspense, and stylized theatrical scares.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 – Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 7:30 PM

the serpent under’t

Baltimore Theater Project

Featuring: UMBC Theatre

UMBC Theatre presents *the serpent under’t*, an experimental dance-theatre interpretation of Shakespeare’s *Macbeth*. Conceived and directed by Nigel Semaj, the production combines movement, dance, and spoken text with the horror-inspired, macabre atmosphere of Edgar Allan Poe. It explores ambition, guilt, fate, and the supernatural through the darker aspects of the human psyche.

Barococo

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 – Sat, Nov 14, 2026

45 West Preston Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Happenstance Theater

Happenstance Theater’s *Barococo* is a collaboratively devised physical comedy about aristocratic privilege at the edge of collapse. Loosely inspired by Olivier Blanc’s *Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution*, the production plunges into the late Baroque and Rococo worlds of elaborate costumes, wigs, panniers, ornamental gestures, and extravagant behavior.

Everyman Theatre

Different Words for Happiness

Through Sun, Nov 15, 2026

315 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD

Different Words for Happiness is a world-premiere drama by Everyman Theatre Resident Company Member Katie Kleiger, directed by Laura Kepley. The intimate, humorous play follows Ava after a late-night call from an ex-lover compels her to face unresolved parts of her past. She meets Eleanor, an accomplished older woman wrestling with unfulfilled ambitions and a subdued midlife crisis. As their lives become connected, the two women confront blame, forgiveness, resilience, agency, and the difficult choices that shape happiness.

Laurel Mill Playhouse

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 – Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · 8:00 PM

508 Main Street, Laurel, MD

The Hound of the Baskervilles brings Sherlock Holmes’s most chilling mystery to a modern setting. Adapted and dramatized by Tim Kelly, the production combines suspense, humor, and terror as Sir Henry inherits the Baskerville fortune—and the family curse that threatens him with death from a monstrous creature stalking the moor.

Vagabond Players

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Through Sun, Nov 15, 2026

806 S Broadway, Baltimore, MD

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is Stephen Sondheim’s darkly comic musical thriller about a wronged barber who returns to London seeking revenge. With a book by Hugh Wheeler adapted from Christopher Bond, the production features grim twists, dramatic music, violent spectacle, and the story’s notorious barber-and-pie-shop partnership.

Film

You Can See Everything

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Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, invites a doubtful film crew to record her life just 34 days before she is due to enter prison. What starts as an intimate documentary portrait develops into a surreal, three-year examination of Holmes and the aftermath of her downfall.

A Talent For Murder

A mysterious young man from a New York publishing house travels to Switzerland to persuade renowned author Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment in her Ripley series.

The History of Concrete

The History of Concrete follows filmmaker John Wilson as he tries to turn an unlikely subject into a documentary. After completing a workshop on writing and selling Hallmark movies, Wilson attempts to apply its formula to a film about concrete, pursuing the material through New York construction sites, crumbling roads, public spaces, a massive industry convention, environmental concerns, and conversations with eccentric specialists. His investigation also leaves room for the many unexpected digressions that capture his attention.

The Devils

In seventeenth-century France, Father Urbain Grandier attempts to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu. His efforts are threatened when a sexually repressed nun accuses him of witchcraft.

Naza

Naza is an investigative documentary filmed at night from rooftops in Tel Aviv. It examines civilian casualties resulting from Israel’s military operations in Gaza and investigates the systems involved in the targeted killings of Palestinians.

Sense and Sensibility

Three sisters and their widowed mother are forced to leave their family estate and settle in a modest cottage. There, the sisters navigate the pleasures and pain of love, including romance, disappointment, and heartbreak.

Wildwood

Wildwood is a handcrafted fantasy adventure from LAIKA, set in a secret forest teeming with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and dangerous enemies. The story follows a girl who ventures into the forbidden wilderness to rescue her baby brother, becoming caught up in a high-stakes struggle that could determine the fate of an entire hidden realm.

The Social Reckoning

Featuring: Jeremy Allen White, Betty Gilpin, Mikey Madison

The Social Reckoning is an R-rated film following Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer who recruits Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz to expose the social network’s most closely guarded secrets. It is directed by Aaron Sorkin and stars Jeremy Allen White, Betty Gilpin, and Mikey Madison.

Whalefall

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Whalefall is a PG-13 survival thriller following a scuba diver who is searching for his father’s remains when he is swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale. Trapped inside the whale with his oxygen running out, he has only one hour to escape.

You Can See Everything

You Can See Everything is an R-rated documentary-style film centered on Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos. Just over a month before reporting to prison, Holmes invites a skeptical crew to record her life. The project grows from an intimate character study into an unsettling, reality-bending examination spanning three years.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 6:00 PM

STARSTRUCK! w/ Cast & Crew Q&A

Starstruck! follows a once-prominent actress, Lauren Maiden, who is living in isolation and fighting to survive after the stalker who haunts her nightmares discovers where she is. The screening is advertised with a cast and crew question-and-answer session.

Portal to Hell (Dark Circuit Series)

Portal to Hell is the October installment of Dark Circuit, a monthly screening series presented in partnership with Four Time Film School Dropout. The series highlights festival discoveries, independent films, and emerging voices. This month’s screening has been moved to the end of the month to launch Halloween week.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 – Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Curse of the Demon

Curse of the Demon, also known as *Night of the Demon*, is a vintage British supernatural thriller about Dana Andrews’s skeptical American investigator. Although he initially dismisses the idea of a devil-worshipping cult operating in the English countryside, the threat eventually turns toward him. The film is praised for the way its atmosphere, suspense, and other elements come together, and it is also recommended for Kate Bush fans.

Everybody to Kenmure Street (followed by panel discussion)

Featuring: Mayrene Benítez Mena, Dr. Peter Smith, Mark Jeevaratnam, Perla Hernandez

Everybody to Kenmure Street is a documentary about a remarkable act of community resistance in Pollokshields, Scotland. In May 2021, a dawn raid by the UK Home Office to detain people for deportation prompted hundreds of residents to take to the streets and prevent the removal of their neighbors in one of the area’s most diverse communities.

Fjord

Thu, Oct 29, 2026

Fjord follows a Romanian immigrant family living in Norway as they become the subject of an investigation and face intense scrutiny from the local judicial system.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Possession

Andrzej Żuławski’s intense psychological film follows a couple whose marriage disintegrates into paranoia, desperation, and disturbing transformations. Blending the emotional volatility of a domestic relationship drama with Lovecraftian horror and Cold War unease, *Possession* is known for its feverish energy and extreme performances. The screening is presented as a one-night engagement.

Everest: The Other Side

Thu, Oct 29, 2026

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Everest: The Other Side follows elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson, whose relationship and shared passion for extreme climbing lead them toward an unprecedented objective: ascending and skiing the direct North Face of Mount Everest. Although thousands have reached Everest’s summit by Nepal’s southeast ridge, only a small number have climbed the North Face, and no one has successfully skied back down it. Already celebrated for remarkable achievements and familiar with the risks and losses of mountaineering, Morrison and Nelson put everything on the line for this exceptionally dangerous challenge.

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

Thu, Oct 29, 2026

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York follows Harry Lehman, an aging pickpocket whose livelihood is disappearing as cash-filled wallets give way to easily canceled credit cards. While struggling to support and care for his disabled wife, Rosie, Harry inadvertently steals and sells a valuable USB drive. He must then find a way to recover and return it before a vengeful crime family catches up with him.

CARRIE (1976)

Brian De Palma’s *Carrie* (1976) follows Carrie White, a withdrawn and sensitive teenager subjected to bullying by her classmates and abuse from her fanatically religious mother. As Carrie begins to realize she may possess supernatural abilities, her difficult life takes a dark and violent turn. This special big-screen screening celebrates the film’s 50th anniversary.

Wild Horse Nine

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 – Sat, Oct 31, 2026

Wild Horse Nine is an early access screening set shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup. CIA agents Chris and Lee are sent from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. There, amid the island’s famous statues, their buried histories and new conspiracies emerge. Chris’s growing connection with two rebellious students further unsettles the mission and threatens to derail the group’s stay in the remote paradise.

M&T Bank Exchange

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Screening

401 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD

Join a live, audience-driven screening of the cult classic *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* in a new 4K restoration. The presentation includes a live shadow cast, audience participation, a costume contest, and more.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 – Mon, Nov 2, 2026

Rosemary’s Baby

Rosemary’s Baby is part of the Senator Theatre’s Revivals series, which presents classic films on the big screen in the theatre’s restored main auditorium. Roman Polanski’s 1968 psychological horror film follows a young woman who begins to suspect that her neighbors have sinister plans for her pregnancy.

Exhibition

Fall Member Show

Fall Member Show is a juried exhibition presented by the Maryland Federation of Art at Circle Gallery. The show features original two- and three-dimensional works submitted by MFA members living in the United States, its territories, Canada, and Mexico. The selected works represent a broad range of media, techniques, subjects, styles, and perspectives, with the juror noting themes that include nostalgia, isolation, shared humanity, vivid color, unusual forms, and compelling compositions.

Uh Huh Her + Making a Video Installation

Featuring: Dina Fiasconaro

Uh Huh Her is a four-channel video installation by Baltimore filmmaker and multimedia artist Dina Fiasconaro. The work examines privacy, control, recovery, and the way a single moment can come to define an entire story. Visitors may experience the installation continuously during the afternoon.

Museum Opening Late

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Museum Opening Late marks the Walters Art Museum’s return to operations on an adjusted schedule following its annual Gala and Party fundraiser. The museum will be open to visitors on Sunday afternoon while accommodating the fundraising event and its support of the museum’s programming.

Through Wed, Oct 28, 2026

Lights to the Lamp: An Exhibition of Alchemy Curated by Ernest Shaw

Lights to the Lamp: An Exhibition of Alchemy is an exhibition curated by Ernest Shaw, a resident artist at Motor House. It presents work by visual art teachers and instructors from Baltimore City and Baltimore County, exploring the theme of alchemy. The listed artists include Raymond Bennett and Jainson Cedillo.

Shino Odyssey

Shino Odyssey is a juried ceramics exhibition at Baltimore Clayworks celebrating the depth and diversity of Shino glazes. Juried by studio potter and educator Matt Hyleck, the exhibition examines how Shino’s results change according to the clay body, glaze application, kiln atmosphere, firing duration, drying conditions, kiln placement, reduction cycle, and other variables. The works demonstrate the glaze family’s range, from white and orange surfaces to red and pink coloration, carbon spotting, haloing, and lining.

Shared Offerings

Shared Offerings is a solo exhibition by Ali Saunders, Baltimore Clayworks’ 2024–27 Long-Term Resident Artist. The exhibition explores parallels between relationships among objects and people through ceramic works arranged in pairs, sets, and groupings. These arrangements suggest familial connections and invite viewers to notice links between objects. Patterns on the vessels reflect exchanges between mothers and children, while images serve as containers for emotion, conversation, and legacy.

Oktoberfest 2026

Oktoberfest 2026 is an invitational exhibition at Baltimore Clayworks featuring ceramic artists from across the country. Each participating artist offers a personal interpretation of traditional beer steins and wine goblets, ranging from classic to contemporary designs and emphasizing both practical use and artistic expression. The exhibition celebrates the craftsmanship, creativity, and social ritual associated with raising a glass.

Maryland Art Place

Threshold of Stone Exhibition: Exploring the Physical, Political and Artistic Multiplicity of Walls

218 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore, MD

Threshold of Stone: Exploring the Physical, Political and Artistic Multiplicity of Walls is a collaborative photographic exhibition presented by C. Grimaldis Gallery and Catalyst Contemporary. Bringing together Dimitra Lazaridou, Ben Marcin, Brian P. Miller, Bernd Radtke, and Leland Rice, the exhibition considers walls as physical structures and as political, psychological, and artistic symbols. The works explore how walls can divide, protect, isolate, preserve memory, conceal history, and record evidence of human contact through weathering, graffiti, repair, erasure, and time.

Unearthing Foundations, Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition

Through Sun, Nov 1, 2026

Unearthing Foundations is a Hispanic Heritage Month exhibition featuring Latinx and Hispanic artists from the DMV region. The exhibition considers how personal and cultural histories shape the future, exploring the ways place, family, rituals, and nature accumulate as layers in an ongoing timeline.

Dandelion Black Women Artists

Through Sun, Nov 1, 2026

225 Holliday St, Baltimore, MD

Dandelion Black Women Artists is an exhibition by a collective of nine Black women artists whose abstract and figurative works explore the theme of rebuttal. The presentation includes collaborative works, collages, and mixed-media pieces that respond to current events while drawing on the artists’ personal and historical experiences.

The Peale Museum

Off The Page

Through Sun, Nov 8, 2026

Off The Page is Jessica Damen’s solo multimedia exhibition at The Peale. The exhibition explores the connections among painting, poetry, sound, and storytelling through immersive works inspired by literary texts, folk tales, and spoken word. Expressive imagery and layered soundscapes transform language into a visual and sensory experience.

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Area 405

Sweaty eyeballs: sweaty everything

Through Fri, Nov 13, 2026

405 East Oliver Street, Baltimore, MD

Sweaty Eyeballs: Sweaty Everything is a group exhibition at Area 405 that treats animation as a way of seeing rather than only a medium. The exhibition considers how people instinctively imagine life, movement, interaction, and narrative in the world around them, connecting animation to sequence, storytelling, embodiment, and everyday human behavior. Its starting point reaches back to prehistoric cave imagery, where depictions of moving animals, people, and gestures may have functioned as an early form of cinema.

Hotel Indigo

Villager | Hotel Indigo

Through Fri, Nov 13, 2026

24 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: VILLAGER

Maryland Art Place, in partnership with Hotel Indigo Baltimore, presents a solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist VILLAGER. The exhibition is displayed at Hotel Indigo on West Franklin Street and remains on view through November 13, 2026.

Through Sat, Nov 14, 2026

The Patricia Massey Momentum Award Exhibition

Through Sat, Nov 14, 2026

The Patricia Massey Momentum Award Exhibition showcases work by three emerging immigrant visual artists living in Maryland whose practices reflect cultural heritage, migration, identity, and lived experience. The exhibition features finalists Madyha Leghari, Bao Nguyen, and Ghazal Mojtahedi, bringing their distinct approaches to performance, sculpture, installation, film, digital media, and interdisciplinary storytelling together in a group presentation.

Fleckenstein Gallery

Stuart Stein On View Through Nov 14

3316 Keswick Road, Baltimore, MD

Stuart Stein’s exhibition at Fleckenstein Gallery features his artwork, including *The Bone Collector*, a gouache on paper measuring 22.5 by 30 inches. The show is on view from September 19 through November 14 and concludes with a closing reception in November.

Julio Fine Arts Gallery (Loyola)

Nate Larson y El Puente: On Juvenile Incarceration in Argentina

Through Sat, Nov 14, 2026

4501 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD

Nate Larson y El Puente: On Juvenile Incarceration in Argentina is a community-based documentary photography exhibition at Loyola University’s Julio Fine Arts Gallery. Larson’s photographs explore the lives of juveniles living within carceral systems near La Plata, Argentina, focusing on their experiences, relationships, tensions, and moments of joy. The project uses photography to encourage empathy, conversation, and community building.

Through Sun, Nov 15, 2026

Jeremy Wright

Through Fri, Nov 20, 2026

Jeremy Wright is an exhibition by Canadian-born, Cree-descended ceramicist and sculptor Jeremy Wright. The work explores identity and the tension between what is real and what is perceived, encouraging viewers to look beyond immediate appearances for subtler meanings. Wright identifies as a trans-cultural artist, and his imagery often includes totem spirits such as bears, eagles, and bison.

Goya Contemporary

Paul Daniel: Altered Course

3000 Chestnut Avenue, Suite 214, Baltimore, MD

Paul Daniel: Altered Course is an exhibition of Paul Daniel’s work at Goya Contemporary Gallery in Baltimore. The page presents installation views and selected works from the exhibition; no further artistic background or description is provided.

Through Fri, Nov 20, 2026

MFA Candidate Erin Barry-Dutro: Sacred Wonder

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Erin Barry-Dutro’s *Sacred Wonder* presents a vibrant, psychedelic, and playfully nostalgic world filled with everyday saints, cat ladies, and moments of small joy. Drawing on somatic healing and Barry-Dutro’s Burning Man community, the artist’s often collaborative projects create temporary, gentle spaces for facing difficult experiences.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 – Sat, Nov 21, 2026

Fiber Options

Howard County Arts Council

Fiber Options is a juried exhibition at the Maryland Federation of Art’s Circle Gallery featuring original two- and three-dimensional works that use textiles, fabric, and fiber techniques as artistic media. The exhibition explores fiber’s long history as a vehicle for storytelling and cultural tradition, while also highlighting contemporary approaches such as mixed media, recycling, and the repurposing of textile waste. Eligible work may incorporate natural or synthetic textiles, weaving, embroidery, sewing, appliqué, quilting, and related techniques; artwork that merely depicts fiber art in another medium is not eligible.

Art Maryland 2026

Through Sat, Nov 21, 2026

8360 Court Avenue, Ellicott City, MD

Art Maryland 2026 is a biennial juried exhibition showcasing artists from across the region. The exhibition is juried by Lou Joseph, an artist and arts administrator who serves as the Arts, Culture and Events Coordinator for Baltimore County Recreation and Parks. Juried awards will be presented during the exhibition reception.

Howard County Arts Council

By A Thread

Through Sat, Nov 21, 2026

8360 Court Avenue, Ellicott City, MD

By A Thread is an exhibition of vivid, fiber-based artwork by Patricia Cooke, Traci Johnson, and Julia Muench. The show explores gender, identity, sexuality, nature, culture, and the expressive possibilities of textiles and repurposed materials.

The Peale Museum

Jones Falls 2076

Through Sun, Nov 22, 2026

225 Holliday St, Baltimore, MD

Jones Falls 2076 is an exhibition imagining radically different futures for Baltimore’s Jones Falls in the year 2076. The show considers how the river might be unburied, restored, reconnected, and recentered as an ecological, social, and civic force in the city. It responds to the river’s long history as a foundation of Baltimore’s industrial growth, as well as its decades of concealment beneath I-83 and the elevated highway’s projected end of life.

Through Tue, Nov 24, 2026

Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly

Featuring: Brandon Woody, Angela N. Carroll, Brianna Faulkner, Jeffrey Kent, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, Shan Wallace, Ernest Shaw, Jasmine Gabrielle Washington

Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly is an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll and presented by the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture. Bringing together artists based in or connected to Baltimore, the exhibition explores the city’s cultural landscape through experimental and interdisciplinary approaches. Its title draws from the narrative poetry of multidisciplinary artist NIA JUNE.

Unidos En El Arte

Through Fri, Dec 4, 2026

Unidos En El Arte is Creative Alliance’s fourth annual exhibition celebrating Latino artists from Baltimore and beyond. The exhibition brings together work that blends craft and fine art, honoring cultural heritage while embracing experimentation. It has grown from a single show into an ongoing community tradition supported by artists, families, and neighbors in Highlandtown and throughout Baltimore.

Exhibition: Even Our Oddkin

Through Sat, Dec 5, 2026

Mitchell Gallery (St. John's College)

Even Our Oddkin is a group exhibition about the interconnected lives of humans and the animals, plants, microbes, machines, materials, weather, chemicals, and infrastructures that surround us. The participating artists consider “more-than-human” relationships and imagine how we might understand forms of life and presence beyond our own. Their work treats nature as something shaped by technology, politics, industry, and everyday experience, blurring the distinctions between natural and cultural, organic and manufactured.

Miguel Braceli: Unburial

Through Sun, Dec 6, 2026

60 College Avenue, Annapolis, MD

Miguel Braceli’s *Unburial* considers the absence of Annapolis’s Liberty Tree from the front lawn of St. John’s College as a starting point for learning, remembrance, and reflection. Working with community partners, Braceli transforms the space left by the tree into a site for celebrations that ask what freedom means today.

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Mitchell Gallery (St. John's College)

Surveilled or Seen: Sinew of Trust in the Video of Marina Abramović and Lynda Benglis

Through Sun, Dec 6, 2026

60 College Avenue, Annapolis, MD

Surveilled or Seen: Sinew of Trust in the Video of Marina Abramović and Lynda Benglis examines the difference between being looked at and being truly witnessed. The exhibition brings together two significant video works: Marina Abramović’s *Rest Energy* (1980) and Lynda Benglis’ *Monitor* (1999).

Through Sat, Dec 12, 2026

Exhibition: Encounter 해후(邂逅)

Featuring: Myungsook Ryu Kim

Myungsook Ryu Kim’s *Encounter 해후(邂逅)* explores connections among East Asian art, Western media, nature, spirituality, poetry, painting, and Korean history. Through richly layered colors, textures, and dimensions, the exhibition considers change and impermanence, the interdependence of heaven, earth, people, and nature, and the ways artistic traditions and cultural perspectives meet.

Through Mon, Dec 14, 2026

After Dark

Through Tue, Dec 15, 2026

After Dark is a virtual exhibition from the Maryland Federation of Art exploring the atmosphere of twilight and nighttime. The show considers how darkness changes perception through paintings, photographs, installations, and mixed-media works that use limited palettes, softened forms, restrained contrasts, light, shadow, silence, and ambiguity to create an immersive, reflective experience.

Atrium Artspace

Beyond The Shadow of Doubt

2029 Maryland Ave., Baltimore, MD

Beyond The Shadow of Doubt is a 20-year retrospective by Sean Dackermann, an internationally published multimedia artist, writer, and creative director. The exhibition brings together his documentary, street, and editorial photography, while also reflecting his exploration of mixed media, 3D, and industrial design. His work examines the meeting point between form and function.

Through Fri, Dec 18, 2026

Lewis Hine in Maryland

Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents *Lewis Hine in Maryland*, a photography exhibition examining Lewis Hine’s 1909 documentation of child labor in Maryland and placing that work within his broader career as a documentary photographer. Drawn from UMBC’s Photography Collections, the exhibition focuses on children Hine photographed at Bottomley berry farms in Anne Arundel County and at the J. S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore.

She Speaks: Black Women Artists and the Power of Historical Memory

Through Sat, Jan 16, 2027

84 Franklin Street, Annapolis, MD

“She Speaks: Black Women Artists and the Power of Historical Memory” examines 250 years of United States history through a Black Feminist perspective. The exhibition brings together work by 17 Maryland-based and internationally recognized Black women artists, considering how historical memory shapes the present and how art can imagine Afrofuturist possibilities for the future.

Baltimore Museum of Art

Jerrell Gibbs, Come home with me

Through Sun, May 2, 2027

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD

Jerrell Gibbs: *Come home with me* is an exhibition of 32 new paintings by Baltimore artist Jerrell Gibbs. Inspired by the people, places, and experiences that have shaped his life, the exhibition explores memory, family, community, and the lasting feeling of belonging.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum

TITAN | The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis

Through Mon, Aug 2, 2027

830 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD

TITAN: The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis is a commemorative exhibition honoring the Baltimore icon and namesake of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. The exhibition presents Lewis as a barrier-breaking figure and iconoclast, and celebrates the museum’s 20th anniversary as well as its 100th exhibition.

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American Visionary Art Museum

Flaunt

Through Sun, Sep 5, 2027

800 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD

Flaunt: When Appearance Speaks is the American Visionary Art Museum’s 31st major thematic exhibition. It brings together 100 works spanning drawing, portraiture, photography, fiber, wearable art, and sculpture, including pieces made with transformed everyday materials such as buttons, pipe cleaners, and bark.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum

The Lines We Cross: 250 Years of Maryland Forging America

Through Sun, Oct 31, 2027

830 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD

The Lines We Cross: 250 Years of Maryland Forging America is a multi-floor exhibition examining how Black Marylanders navigated geographic, social, and political boundaries while building communities and shaping American history and culture. Set in Maryland’s border-state landscape, where freedom and slavery existed alongside one another, the exhibition explores resistance, craftsmanship, creativity, and the ongoing pursuit of liberation.

Market/Fair

Maryland Renaissance Festival

2026 Festival Dates

1821 Crownsville Road, Annapolis, MD

The Maryland Renaissance Festival’s 2026 season is a family-friendly outdoor celebration set in the forested Village of Revel Grove. Guests can experience a Renaissance-themed village with costumed characters, artisans, live stage entertainment, musicians, food, and the atmosphere of sixteenth-century Europe, including traditional festival favorites such as jousting, crafts, and turkey legs. The 2026 season marks the festival’s 50th anniversary.

Ottobar’s 7th Annual Halloween Market

Historic Towson Courthouse - Center Gardens

Ottobar’s 7th Annual Halloween Market brings together more than 30 vendors offering handmade oddities, vintage finds, art, and other unusual Halloween-themed treasures. The market also features food from Animal Boy and spooky tintype portraits by PentaxJane, making it a gathering focused on supporting local artists, makers, and small businesses.

Arts in the Park

Through Thu, Oct 29, 2026

400 Washington Avenue, Towson, MD

Featuring: The Music Space

Arts in the Park is an outdoor community gathering at the Historic Baltimore County Courthouse, bringing together juried local artists, live music, food, beverages, and neighbors in the courthouse gardens. The Towson Arts Collective presents the event in partnership with Towson Main Street, with performances from The Music Space and refreshments available from Charles Village Pub.

American Visionary Art Museum

Bazaart - Annual Holiday Craft Market

Through Sun, Nov 29, 2026

800 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD

BAZAART is AVAM’s annual holiday marketplace, featuring original work by 50 regional artists and craftspeople. The market offers a wide range of handmade and one-of-a-kind gifts, including paintings, sculpture, jewelry, handmade clothing, and accessories, and has become a Baltimore holiday-shopping tradition.

Interactive

Baltimore Museum of Art

Family Art Adventures: Latinx Heritage Month

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD

Family Art Adventures: Latinx Heritage Month invites young children and their grown-ups to explore, play, and engage with art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This month’s program celebrates Latinx Heritage Month and marks the farewell to *Raúl de Nieves: and imagine you are here*, which closes December 31, 2026.

BMA Lexington Market

Scroll-Stopping Journalism with Krishna from The Baltimore Banner

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 1:00 PM

112 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Krishna Sharma

This workshop explores how journalism and social media intersect in the age of vertical video. Krishna Sharma, an award-winning audience engagement editor at *The Baltimore Banner*, will explain how he adapts reporting into engaging TikToks and Instagram Reels that reach millions of viewers. Participants will have the opportunity to pitch story ideas and record a video message for potential sharing on *The Banner*’s social media channels.

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Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Fall Member Show 2026 Closing Reception

Fall Member Show 2026 Closing Reception celebrates the artists and artwork featured in the Maryland Federation of Art’s Fall Member Show. Guests can view the exhibition in person while enjoying complimentary refreshments in a relaxed reception setting.

City Arts 2

Auditions! Bmore Broadway Show

1700 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Auditions are open for the annual Bmore Broadway Live Show. Actors, singers, dancers, and musicians ages 18 and older are invited to showcase their talents and should prepare a Broadway song, dance, or scene.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Doors Open Baltimore—Free Admission Day

Maryland Center for History and Culture Sold Out

Doors Open Baltimore is an annual citywide festival celebrating Baltimore’s culture and character through its neighborhoods, architecture, and distinctive spaces. The Maryland Center for History and Culture serves as the hub for the 2026 festival, welcoming visitors for free admission throughout the day.

Guided Tour—Strange Stories & Curious Collections

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Guided Tour—Strange Stories & Curious Collections explores the Maryland Center for History and Culture’s more unusual holdings through eerie objects and mysterious stories connected to Maryland’s past. The experience also includes a Halloween-themed postcard-making activity, with a postcard to take home.

Parent & Child – Kids Fused Glass Mosaic Dish

This one-day parent-and-child workshop teaches participants to cut glass and assemble a fused-glass mosaic dish. Each participant will create an individual 6-by-6-inch dish using recycled glass, pattern-bar pieces, and stringer. The class is designed for all skill levels, and the finished projects will be fired after the workshop and available for pickup the following week.

Painting with Sunlight: Cyanotype Workshop: Ages 11+

Painting with Sunlight: Cyanotype Workshop is a hands-on introduction to cyanotype, one of the earliest photographic printing processes. Participants ages 11 and older will use sunlight and light-sensitive materials to create blue-and-white images with natural objects, photographs, and found materials.

Knot It: Pearl Jewelry Workshop

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Knot It: Pearl Jewelry Workshop is a hands-on jewelry-making class at Maryland Hall. Participants will learn to string pearls and beads on silk thread, including how to tie knots between individual pearls, attach clasps, and create necklaces in multi-strand and endless designs. No prior experience is required.

Patterson Park

Great Baltimore Lantern Parade

27 South Patterson Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD

The Great Baltimore Lantern Parade is a community procession at Patterson Park featuring the Lion Turtle Island lantern puppet, created during volunteer build sessions hosted by Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Community members can drop in to help construct the lantern before joining the parade.

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Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Making Otherwise: Creative Practices for Liberation

Making Otherwise: Creative Practices for Liberation is a participatory workshop focused on developing personal, interpersonal, and collective tools for moving through uncertainty and building stronger community relationships. The session combines storytelling, reflective writing, collective ritual, sensory meditation, readings, conversation, and participatory art.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Doors Open Baltimore (Free)

Doors Open Baltimore is an annual citywide festival presented by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, celebrating Baltimore’s neighborhoods, architecture, and distinctive spaces. Participating sites—many of which are not ordinarily open to the public—invite visitors to explore and learn more about the buildings and activities they may have passed without seeing inside.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 12:01 AM

Museum Closed

The Walters Art Museum will be closed on Saturday, October 24, 2026, as part of an adjusted operating schedule for its annual Gala and Party fundraiser. The fundraiser supports the museum and its programming, with schedule changes in effect from Friday, October 23, through Sunday, October 25.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Gala & Party

Chesapeake Children’s Museum

One of Baltimore’s major arts and culture fundraisers, the Walters Art Museum’s annual Gala & Party brings together community leaders, arts supporters, and museum partners for an evening of dining, entertainment, dancing, and celebration. Proceeds support the Walters’ education programs, exhibitions, public programming, conservation work, and free admission for the community.

Instrument Petting Zoo with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 – Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 12:30 PM

25 Silopanna Road, Annapolis, MD

Explore the world of wind music at this family-friendly instrument petting zoo, presented by the Chesapeake Children’s Museum in partnership with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. Participants can discover how wind instruments work and have the opportunity to handle and try them.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Master Class: SoloDuo, Guitar

Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods

Featuring: SoloDuo

Master Class: SoloDuo, Guitar is a Peabody Institute master class focused on guitar. The page provides no further information about the class content, instructor, performers, or repertoire.

Downtown Columbia Maker Faire

10431 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD

Downtown Columbia Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration of invention, creativity, and hands-on learning. Engineers, artists, scientists, crafters, and other makers will share their hobbies, experiments, projects, and professional skills with the community.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 2:00 PM

BMore Queenside Chess: 10/25/2026

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BMore Queenside Chess is a welcoming chess gathering for women and gender minorities, created to address their underrepresentation in the chess community. Participants are invited to play, learn, appreciate chess, and connect with other chess enthusiasts in a safe, friendly environment.

Coffee & Connection w/ Trans Community Action Baltimore (Oct 2026)

Coffee & Connection with Trans Community Action Baltimore is a community gathering centered on organizing, connection, and empowerment. Attendees are invited to come together to build community and support collective action with Trans Community Action Baltimore.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 6:00 PM

S’more Making with Dustin Renwick and Flannery Fox: The Best American Food and Travel Writing

Featuring: Dustin Renwick, Flannery Fox

S’more Making with Dustin Renwick and Flannery Fox celebrates *The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2026*, featuring Renwick’s essay about the history of s’mores. Guests can gather in The Ivy Bookshop’s garden for a bonfire storytime, learn about the origins of this classic treat, and make s’mores using the shop’s new Solo Stove.

Village Learning Place

Scribente Maternum: Write Like a Mother Retreat

2521 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Christine Platt, Glory Edim, Jeanette Nazarian

Scribente Maternum is an immersive writing retreat for writers who identify as mothers. The retreat creates a supportive, down-to-earth community focused on the writing process rather than finished work, exploring the tension between motherhood and creative practice. Participants are invited to draw inspiration from the joys, exhaustion, distractions, and insights of parenting while making time for rest, mindfulness, nature, stillness, and sustained writing.

Le Mondo

Queer Karaoke Night

406 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: KDJ Chloe

Queer Karaoke Night invites guests to sing along to the songs they love in a welcoming LGBTQ+ community setting. KDJ Chloe supplies the backing tracks, with the event recurring on the second and fourth Monday of each month at Le Mondo.

The Colonial Players Annex

CP Open Auditions for When the Hurlyburly’s Done

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 – Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 2:00 PM

2132 Renard Court, Annapolis, MD

Free open auditions are being held for The Colonial Players’ production of Richard Nelson’s *When the Hurlyburly’s Done*, directed by Stacy Kessler. The drama follows six women in a traveling Ukrainian theater company in 1920 as they confront war while remaining committed to their art, families, and country. Set over one evening, the play explores how the artists sustain one another by sharing their personal experiences, with humor, hope, and optimism alongside the hardships.

Master Class: Jaime Laredo, violin

Featuring: Jaime Laredo

Master Class: Jaime Laredo, violin is part of the Levi Family Distinguished Visiting Artist Series. The event is presented as a livestreamed master class featuring violinist Jaime Laredo.

Master Class: Sharon Robinson, cello

Master cellist Sharon Robinson leads this installment of the Levi Family Distinguished Visiting Artist Series. The event is presented as a livestreamed master class at Peabody’s Cohen-Davison Family Theatre in Baltimore.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Karaoke with DJ Black Reignbow

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Make it a tuneful Tuesday at Motor House with Karaoke hosted by DJ Black Reignbow. Guests can sing with their friends while enjoying light bites and custom cocktails. The event is intended for adults age 21 and older.

Doula Care 101 w/ Baltimore Doula Project

Doula Care 101 with the Baltimore Doula Project is the first of an eight-session series introducing participants to the work, responsibilities, and practical ins and outs of being a doula. The session takes place at Red Emma’s in the Free School Classroom.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 5:30 PM

Oyster/ Scallop Shell Painting & Decoupage

Create personalized home décor in this hands-on oyster and scallop shell workshop. Participants will work with three shells, choosing to paint or decoupage them. The instructor will finish two favorite shells with resin and seal the remaining shell with Mod Podge.

Community Stitch Night

Community Stitch Night is a free, public gathering for community members to stitch together in a casual, shared setting. The event takes place in Creative Alliance’s Marquee Lounge and is part of a weekly series held throughout September and October.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Capoeira

Capoeira with Mestre Bohasha is a beginner- and family-friendly class introducing participants to the Brazilian art form’s combination of self-defense, acrobatics, dance, music, and rhythm. The class develops balance, coordination, and physical strength while also exploring capoeira’s language, culture, history, and movement traditions. Participants may attend on their own or bring the family.

Master Class: Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson, Chamber Music

Featuring: Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson

Master Class: Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson is a chamber music master class presented as part of the Levi Family Distinguished Visiting Artist Series. The event is offered as a livestream and features violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Exhibition Opening Reception—Celebrating Maryland’s Folk Art & Craft

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 11:00 AM

The Maryland Center for History and Culture hosts an opening reception for two exhibitions highlighting Maryland’s folk art, craftsmanship, and cultural traditions. Guests can be among the first to explore the galleries, enjoy light refreshments, and hear remarks from curators and special guests.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Golden Hour

830 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD

Golden Hour is a special Breast Cancer Awareness Month program presented by Kaiser Permanente. The event features a panel of medical professionals and breast cancer survivors discussing preventive healthcare, early detection, patient advocacy, and personal resilience. Attendees can also take part in a commemorative art workshop and explore the museum through self-guided tours.

FROM PAGE TO SCREEN TO STAGE - FOIA and Public Records Research as Documentary & Historical Practice

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This hands-on workshop examines how government records obtained through Freedom of Information laws can move across documentary, journalistic, historical, and theatrical forms. Participants will explore how investigative research and archival evidence can be presented in writing, interpreted visually for film, and adapted for live performance, while considering how each medium shapes the way audiences understand public records.

American Visionary Art Museum

Free Fall: Disco Ghost Workshop & Free after hours admission!

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 5:00 PM

800 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD

Celebrate AVAM’s annual Free Fall with an evening of Halloween-themed art and museum exploration. Guests can wander the whimsical Wonderland Campus and visit the newest exhibition during free after-hours admission, then make a “Disco Ghost” craft to take home in the Tall Sculpture Barn.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Conservatory Conclusion Jam

Conservatory Conclusion Jam is an open improv gathering at Baltimore Improv Group where everyone is invited to get onstage and participate. Audience members and performers can join this welcoming, free-form improv jam.

Craft and Cinema Night: The Craft

Craft & Cinema Night: The Craft is a relaxed, hands-on movie night for makers and film fans. Bring a current project—such as knitting, crocheting, embroidery, sketching, or another portable craft—and work alongside fellow creatives while watching a film. The theater lighting will remain low rather than fully dark, making it easier to see your materials, and participants of all experience levels are welcome.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 6:15 PM

Master Class: Manuel Barrueco, Guitar

Master Class: Manuel Barrueco, Guitar is a free guitar-focused master class featuring Manuel Barrueco at the Centre Street Performance Studio in Baltimore.

Die Laughing Presents: "Halloween Whodunit 3" - Comedy Murder Mystery

Featuring: Die Laughing Productions

Die Laughing Productions presents “Halloween Whodunit 3,” a Halloween-themed comedy murder mystery and the third installment in the series. The show takes place during an open casting call for M. Knight Shamalamashamalam’s latest horror film, “I Know What You Did Last Autumn,” where aspiring cast members may land a role—but are guaranteed to encounter dead people.

Express and Explore Tour: Death and the Afterlife

This 30-minute gallery tour explores how cultures around the world use art to interpret death and envision what may follow life. Through guided conversation and close engagement with museum artworks, participants will consider ideas about the transition from the living world to what comes next.

Halloweeen Whodunit 3 Comedy Murder Mystery

Featuring: Die Laughing Productions

Halloween Whodunit 3 is a Halloween-themed comedy murder mystery from Die Laughing Productions. Set during an open casting call for filmmaker M. Knight Shamalamashamalam’s horror movie, “I Know What You Did Last Autumn,” the show promises a playful investigation filled with theatrical surprises and “dead people.” Audience members may volunteer for roles, and everyone is invited to try to identify the killer.

Merriweather District / Chrysalis

Spook-tacular

10475 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia, MD

Spook-tacular is Merriweather District’s Sixth Annual Halloween celebration at Color Burst Park. Guests are invited to dress in either spooky or adorable costumes and enjoy an evening of treats, games, seasonal activities, and interactive entertainment.

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Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 9:30 AM

Common Tone Kids’ Music at The Ivy Bookshop: Fall Mini Music Session #2

Featuring: Beth, Mike, Common Tone

Beth and Mike of Common Tone lead an interactive music class for the youngest musicians and their caregivers. Through live singing, instrument play, dancing, scarves, and imaginative movement, participants are encouraged to explore music together, build confidence, and strengthen their connection. Classes take place on The Ivy Bookshop’s porch or back patio, weather permitting.

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 – Sat, Oct 31, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Conservation Window

Visitors can watch Walters conservators work on active conservation projects and speak with them as they work in a small studio adjacent to the museum’s laboratories. The Conservation Window offers a behind-the-scenes look at the care of the Walters’ historic collection, with connections to art, science, history, and culture.

Guitar Workshops: Jazz Chords for Folkies… from Cowboy Chords to Jazz Voicings

Through Thu, Nov 5, 2026

Musician Ken Avis leads this four-session guitar workshop series for students interested in expanding beyond basic folk and country guitar patterns. The sessions explore jazz chords, alternate chord fusions, musical history, and the relationship between jazz, folk, and country styles.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 – Wed, Dec 16, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Fundamentals of Improv: Level 2

Featuring: Highwire Improv

Fundamentals of Improv: Level 2 is a six-class adult training series led by Highwire Improv. Participants will build the core skills needed to create improv comedy as an ensemble, make confident and playful choices, collaborate in real time, and prepare for a professional-style student showcase. The course emphasizes community, openness, creativity, and making art together.

MFA Board and Staff at 49 West

Through Wed, Jan 6, 2027

MFA Board and Staff at 49 West is a group exhibition of work by artist board and staff members of the Maryland Federation of Art. The presentation brings together realistic and altered photography, watercolor, mixed media, oil, and acrylic works by eight participating artists.

Through Sun, Jun 20, 2027

A Year of Wreaths