Community Calendar

Baltimore Clayworks is delighted to present the 2024-25 EMBARC Fellow Exhibition, featuring the thought-provoking work of Kashima Robinson. This exhibition highlights Kashima’s exploration of non-functional sculptural ceramic forms, where mosaics, tiles, and intricate containers reflect themes of self-discovery and transformation. Their work invites viewers to engage with moments of transition and ambiguity, challenging perceptions and offering insight into the spaces between defined forms.

Baltimore Clayworks is proud to present the 2024-25 Lormina Salter Fellow Exhibition, showcasing the work of Kristyn Rohrer. Kristyn’s compelling ceramic sculptures blend process, design, and storytelling, reflecting on their Mennonite heritage while reinterpreting the nostalgia of Pennsylvania Dutch culture through a contemporary lens. This exhibition invites viewers to explore themes of identity, tradition, and transformation expressed through Kristyn’s unique artistic voice.

A stunning exhibition of monumental paintings and works on paper, breathtaking films, and poignant child-size sculptures by artists exploring questions of history, power, climate change, and social and environmental justice.

As part of Summer Reading 2025, Harford County Public Library hosts The Fifty 7’s: Colorful World of Music on July 31 from 6 to 7 p.m. at Shamrock Park, across the street from the Bel Air Library, 100 E. Pennsylvania Avenue. Sing, dance and play along during this interactive music performance. Experience guitar, ukulele and percussion as participants explore many different styles of music. The program is supported by the Bel Air Friends of HCPL. For more information, visit https://programs.hcplonline.org/event/13361586.

Nduduzo Makhathini grew up in the lush and rugged hillscapes of umGungundlovu in South Africa, a peri-urban landscape in which music and ritual practices were symbiotically linked. This deeply embedded symbiosis is key to understanding Makhathini’s vision.

The legends of South African jazz are deep influences as well, Bheki Mseleku, Moses Molelekwa, and Abdullah Ibrahim. Through his mentor Mseleku, Makhathini was also introduced to the music of John Coltrane’s classic quartet with McCoy Tyner. “I came to understand my voice as a pianist through John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme,” he says. “As someone who started playing jazz very late, I had always been looking for a kind of playing that could mirror or evoke the way my people danced, sung and spoke. Tyner provided that and still does in meaningful ways.” Makhathini also cites American jazz pianists including Andrew Hill, Randy Weston and Don Pullen as significant influences.

In 2019, he made his debut appearances the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City, as well as Jazz at Lincoln Center where he was a featured guest with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on their 3-night musical celebration The South African Songbook in Rose Theater, and he has also collaborated with artists including Logan Richardson, Nasheet Waits, Tarus Mateen, Stefon Harris, Billy Harper, Azar Lawrence, and Ernest Dawkins.

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, JR.

Words and Music by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Book by Timothy Allen McDonald
Based on the book James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Directed and Choreographed by Julie Herber and Karli Cole
Music Direction by Angelica Ramos

JULY 31 – AUGUST 3

Please note, this show is presented through our Community Outreach Summer Production Series, meaning, the actors on stage are still in training.

Run Time: About one hour

When James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that grows a tremendous peach, rolls into the ocean and launches a journey of enormous proportions. James befriends a collection of singing insects that ride the giant piece of fruit across the ocean, facing hunger, sharks and plenty of disagreements along the way.

THE ROOTS OF CLASSIC ROCK
COFFEE HOUSE PERFORMANCE BY KATHY JONES
THURSDAY, JULY 31 AT CHT

Back by popular demand, Church Hill Theatre’s own Kathy Jones will take us on a journey through rock’s transition from Folk music and early Rock ‘n Roll to the Classic Rock era. Kathy performs with her guitar on a riser in the middle of the theatre, creating a cozy, warm vibe that’s interactive with the audience, even taking on a few requests. Her coffeehouses are pop-up, one-night only, and short notice events. This one is free to the public but donations to CHT will be accepted.

Kathy’s last coffeehouse sold out, so please make a reservation quickly. Table seating is available for small groups, but these go fast. Refreshments, including coffee, will be available for purchase. The show begins at 7:00 pm and will last approximately two hours. Ticket reservations for Thursday, July 31 are available at the CHT website: churchhilltheatre.org. The theatre is located at 103 Walnut Street in Church Hill, MD. Call the office at 410-556-6003 if you have questions.

Kathy has serious singing chops, from years with Sweet Adelines groups, gigs in Key West and St. Augustine, and lead roles in musicals such as Matilda, the Musical, Fiddler on The Roof, and The Little Shop of Horrors. You can catch her at The Ram’s Head in Stevensville on July 16 from 4 to 6 pm, singing with other CHT’s favorites at a Ram’s Head Give Back Night. Kathy is the Chairperson of the Church Hill Theatre. She resides on Kent Island with her husband, Bruce.

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.

A selection of approximately 40 paintings, prints, and drawings from the BMA’s collection explores the role of water and landscape in defining the early modern Dutch Republic.

The water’s edge was a site of rich and often fraught ideas, where environmental, economic, political, and social narratives came to the fore. It also served as a site of immense inspiration for Dutch artists such as Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Salomon Van Ruysdael, among many others. Landscapes depicting harbors, trade, travel, and leisure abounded, as did the production of maps, still lifes, and portraits. Together, these images offer insight into the identity of the young Dutch Republic.

This focus exhibition of 10 works explores the relationship between burning fossil fuels—namely, coal—and the emergence of European modernism. Drawing on research conducted by climate scientists and art historians, the exhibition presents a range of paintings and works on paper by Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler, and others to explore the ways that their artistic practices and style emerged, in part, in response to widespread pollution in London and Paris.
Presented as part of the Turn Again to the Earth environmental initiative.