Community Calendar

Before Ballet Theatre of Maryland kicks off its performances in residence at Maryland Hall, the company will open its season with Ballet in the Garden at the historic Hammond-Harwood House on September 21st. Guests can enjoy complimentary wine, mingle in a welcoming setting, and experience a mix of beloved and rare dance works in an intimate atmosphere.

Music and spirituality have always been intertwined in the artistic vision of trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and activist Sean Jones. He has performed at and/or with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis ensemble, SFJAZZ Collective, Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Gerald Wilson, and Marcus Miller. He is president of the Jazz Education Network and holds the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair in Jazz Studies at The John Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in Baltimore. As well as artistic Director for the NYO JAZZ Program of Carnegie Hall.

Forging a deeply personal sound from a broad swath of the jazz landscape, internationally acclaimed saxophonist, educator, composer, arranger and Baltimore native TIM GREEN has emerged as a powerful voice, melding deftly swinging hard bop, fluid modernity and soulful gospel. Green returned to his native Baltimore, where he is a key component of the city’s burgeoning jazz, and music education community.

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ACTORS

with Soft Vein and DJ Hell O’Kitty

Sunday September 21, 2025

Doors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PM

All Ages

The High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music begins Thursday, Sept. 18th and runs through Sunday, Sept. 21. Now in its 27th year, the High Zero Festival is one of the most unusual music festivals in the country, presenting exclusively improvised performances featuring 22 invited artists in fresh ensembles each night, prioritizing combinations of performers that have never been heard before.

This year, 11 artists from Beijing, Tokyo, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and other cities will join 11 artists from Baltimore. Each artist performs three times during the four-night festival. See the full performer list here. Guests include experimental musicians, dancers, intermedia artists, performance artists, and more. Some artists come from traditional classical and jazz training, while others are entirely self-taught. Some use new instruments they’ve invented. All create music with strikingly diverse techniques that produce wildly varied performances.

Every year, the festival highlights Baltimore as home to highly unusual, risk-taking, and adventurous artists and productions, as the city becomes a fertile meeting ground for a large group of inspired players, drawn from a fascinating international subculture. HighZero unabashedly caters to adventurous audiences and prides itself on diverse rosters that celebrate local performers alongside international greats, offering a major challenge for the improvisers, who are put in contexts where their stock personal musical languages may not work, pushing them into terra incognita. The results are often magical.

Back for its second year, Abbott and the Big Ten Conference are hosting the We Give Blood Drive competition to entice students, alumni, fans, and community members to rally around their Big Ten school to donate blood, save lives, and address the country's ongoing critical blood shortage.

From August 27 to December 5, anyone eligible to donate blood can do so anywhere, anytime in the U.S. to count for their school. The school with the most donations at the end of the competition will receive $1 million to advance student or community health.

New this year, everyone who donates or attempts to donate blood throughout the competition will receive an exclusive, limited-edition, Homefield-designed T-shirt specific to their school. To receive the shirt:

1. Show up to donate
2. Submit your donation (or attempt to donate) at BigTen.Org/Abbott or by texting DONATE to 222688 (ABBOTT).
3. Click the link sent to your email
4. Use your redemption code
5. Your shirt will be shipped to the address of your choice. 

Last year, the University of Nebraska won, and is using the funds to advance student health on campus. The University of Maryland is competing this year and will host several blood drives on campus and in the surrounding area throughout the competition. To find a blood drive near you, please visit: https://bigten.org/abbott/maryland

The Town of Colmar Manor, in collaboration with local organizations “Operation ARTS Foundation” and “We Are Limitless Studios” are leading their Streets of Solidarity Mural & Neighborhood Revitalization Project. Brandon Bell, Chyna Mae and Renee Ackerson designed a unifying message for Colmar Manor and are teaching 10 upcoming artists how to paint murals through their guidance. These 10 local artists will receive a stipend for their participation, in addition to gaining invaluable experience, mentorship and merchandise. The word “solidarity” refers to people coming together to stand in support of one another and in this project we are working together to unify the neighborhood through art. This community-driven project was funded by a grant award from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development of $81,500. This 5,000 sq. ft. roadway mural will engage local residents in painting a vibrant message of cultural unity and anti-gun violence at the 4 road intersections of 38th Ave, 37th Ave, Newmark St, and Newton St, that is also adjacent to Colmar Manor’s historic Dueling Grounds site. Local residents and commuters please note important dates and traffic pattern changes from 9/2 - 9/25 and plan your travel accordingly to avoid transportation delays. If you are interested in learning how to paint murals and would like to volunteer with us from 7am - 8pm, Monday through Friday, please RSVP to the event page on Facebook. Join us in transforming a historic site into a symbol of peace and resilience!
Road Closures will be from 9/2- 9/25 but may end earlier.
Expect delays at the 4 road intersection of 38th Ave, 37th Ave, Newmark St, and Newton St.
For updates visit colmarmanor.org.
Event Page For Volunteers: https://www.facebook.com/events/1312333913928503/

Consistently rated the best local scavenger hunt since 2016!

Puzzling Adventures are a cross between a scavenger hunt, an adventure race, and an informative self-guided walking tour. Each adventure consists of a series of locations that you are guided to where you are required to answer a question or solve a puzzle to receive your next instruction. Compete as a group, individually or create multiple teams and race each other. Almost all of our adventures are designed to be wheelchair and stroller friendly and all are carefully crafted to be entertaining and informative with something to appeal to all ages. Complete the adventure as quickly as possible to win first place or take your time and enjoy the journey. Price is per team, not per person. Groups can be any size, but small groups are recommended for the best experience.

Enter the code EVENTPASS on the payment page for a $10 discount!

Most locations are available daylight hours every day.

On View: September 12 - December 6 (closed Oct. 17 & Nov. 25 - 29)
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

The work in this exhibition compresses and expands expectations of depth as moderated by a post-image visual culture. The artists adhere to neither medium nor dimensional restrictions, but manipulate the viewer’s relationship to the image as a temporal document, compressed and fractured, through the singular eye of the lens. This expectation, no longer warranted in the age of computer generated images, becomes a fallacy of both the eye and of the language used to comprehend it. The image is untethered from representation and logical spatial association. Spatial continuity and discontinuity run amok in playful fracture--the work pushes and prods the amorphous opening left in the wake of this rupture; what was flat is unmoored of grounding, what was solid is now compressed.

Reception September 11 following the 6:30 p.m. lecture.
For parking information visit towson.edu/parking/visitors

September 10 - December 6 (closed October 17 & November 26 -29)
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening reception Wednesday, September 10, 7:30 p.m.

How have recent upheavals—from the pandemic to global conflicts, amplified by media—reshaped our private lives? How do personal memories become collective history? In a world forever changed, how do we find our way forward? Elaine Qiu’s awe-inspiring installation of painting, video, and sound invites visitors into a multi-sensory exploration of communal consciousness, connection, and healing in a fragmented, post-pandemic world.
For parking information visit towson.edu/parking/visitors

On View: September 12 - October 11
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

In her work, Yaniv draws on patterns from nature and images from daily life, altogether forming landscapes which blur the line between the real and the imagined, the organic and the artificial, the chaotic and the orderly. For this exhibition, she takes her inspiration from Patrick Svensson’s "The Book of Eels," a mix of natural history, memoir, and metaphysical musings, fusing scientific mysteries with lived experience. The eel is born in the Sargasso Sea, a place of legend but also a fundamental part of the ocean, encompassing two million square miles in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean. A sea within a sea, it is enclosed only by several large rotating ocean currents. This large installation is a collaboration with the Department of Dance, and considers, in multi-modal ways, life and loss, journey, metamorphosis, complexity, and culture-nature (endangered).

Reception September 11 following the 6:30 p.m. lecture and dance performance.

On September 11, 12 and 13 experience dance and sculpture in dynamic interplay just before the Inertia dance performance.
For parking information visit towson.edu/parking/visitors