Community Calendar

Every Saturday is Orange Out Saturday

Fans are encouraged to wear their best orange O's gear. Enjoy live music at the Coors Light Stage at Legends Park, orange-themed food and beverages, and more!

And to cap it off, the return of the iconic all-orange uniforms will be featured on select Saturday home games.

Paddle Races on the Susquehanna River followed by music and beer festival with food trucks, vendors, games and prizes.

Announcing the 7th Annual Dam Bridge Challenge hosted by Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association on September 20, 2025! This highly anticipated event not only showcases the beauty of our River but also highlights the vital work we are doing to protect it.
This event brings together water enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels with three exciting paddle races: a 10-mile, a 3-mile, and a ¼-mile kids’ race, plus a 1-mile guided recreational paddle for those who want a more leisurely experience. All races will start and finish at Lemon Street Launch.
Stick around for the awards ceremony as we honor our participants and celebrate the power of community coming together to protect clean water.
After the races, the celebration begins! Join us for beer & wine, live music, food, vendors, and fun. Bring your family and friends to enjoy an afternoon of community spirit, laughter, and good times — all for the River!
Bonus Event Alert! Grab your friends and family and enter the Sprint for the Susquehanna Fundraiser. This is a 50/50 split event benefiting LSRA and fun way to have fun and maybe win some extra dough!
The Dam Bridge Challenge is more than just a race — it’s a festival of fun, friendship, and community pride, uniting us in support of the river we all love.
👉 For more details and to register, visit our website.

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.

Experience the power of voices united as the Harmonia Festival Choir, a single-day gathering of more than 100 singers, comes together for a free community performance.

For the Beauty of the Earth brings you breathtaking choral works exploring the beauty of nature by John Rutter, Shawn Kirchner, Craig Hella Johnson, Susan LaBarr, and more.

Reserve your free tickets today, and join us on Saturday, September 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Towson United Methodist Church.

THE SHARK IS BROKEN

BY IAN SHAW and JOSEPH NIXON
DIRECTED BY Gené Fouché

SEPTEMBER 12 – OCTOBER 5

Preview September 11
ASL Interpreted performance September 19

It’s 1974 and the hit movie JAWS is being filmed. Well, it would be, if the prop shark wasn’t a mechanical mess. In this laugh-out-loud comedy, testy, feuding costars Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy Scheider take center stage as booze flows, egos clash, and tempers flare. The actors pray for an end to the shoot, not knowing it will change their lives forever.

Keith Killgo [drums & vocals]
Joe Hall [bass]
Roberto Villeda [keys]
Paul Spires [vocals]
Thad Wilson [trumpet]
Tom O’Grady [keys & trombone]
Marshall Keys [saxophone]
Sean Anthony [percussion]
Charles Wright [guitar]

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of THE BLACKBYRDS' Billboard Hot 100 & Hot Soul Singles chart topper “Rock Creek Park!”

THE BLACKBYRDS was formed in 1973 as part of the legendary jazz trumpeter Dr. Donald Byrd’s brainchild to expose college students to the real world of music. In his own words to “bridge the gap between academia and the real world.” Byrd envisioned taking active students at Howard University in Washington, DC on a real world field trip which would expose them to ins and outs of the music business. The Blackbyrds went on to create an everlasting musical style that combined Classical, Jazz, Funk, R&B, and Gospel which introduced musical terms such as "crossover", "urban contemporary" and "easy-listening" to the music dictionary.

Keystone Kards will not be accepted for this show.

Playwright Paula Vogel wrote "The Baltimore Waltz" in the late 1980s during the height of the AIDS crisis in response to the loss of her brother to the disease. It is a poignant — and very funny — look into the confusion and guilt that surrounded the early years of the epidemic.

When Anna is diagnosed with ATS (Acquired Toilet Syndrome), which she contracts by sitting on a toilet seat in the elementary school in which she teaches, she and her brother Carl set off on a wacky, sexy adventure across Europe searching for a cure. Is any of it real, or is Anna just trying to deal with the guilt and trauma of another, very real, disease?

This is Ardeo Theatre Company's second major production (after last year’s stunning production of Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie) and is being co-produced by the Humanities Council at Hood College. The production features three of the DMV’s most celebrated actors: Jeremy Myers, Evan Crump, and Ardeo’s co-artistic director, Gillian Shelly. It is directed by Aaron Angello.

Lightning Round is an improv comedy game show where the contestants find out the rules as they’re playing. Come see what’s up and who will win!

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/