Baltimore’s own, Beach House, returns to the city this summer! On Tuesday, June 11, the legendary Hippodrome Theatre welcomes Beach House with special guests, Dan Deacon and William Cashion of Future Islands. Tickets can be purchased here.
Support One Love at the Valley Inn’s Charity Bartender Event
Join supporters of the One Love Foundation next Wednesday, June 5 from 6 to 10 p.m. for the Valley Inn‘s Charity Bartending Competition. The night will feature custom cocktails, great food, live music, guest bartenders and WBAL’s Keith Mills. Guests bartenders include Sharon Love, Alicia Matthai, Courtney Mullin, Erin Rothwell, Steele Stanwick, and Bill Sinclair.
Weekend Events Calendar: Italian Festival, Blockenstein, Taste of 3 Cities and more
Summer is here, so check out plenty of chances for outdoor festivals, running through the city or relaxing by the water. Plus, a massive yard sale in Highlandtown and the last Dr. Sketchy’s at Windup Space. Here’s a look:
The Church of the Redeemer VOICES Series: May 29
This May, join the Church of the Redeemer for their Spring VOICES Series. All events start at 7:00 pm and will be held at the Church of the Redeemer located at 5603 N Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland 21210.
Wednesday, May 29 7:00 pm
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. Written and directed by Aaron Woolf www.kingcorn.net.
Big River presents the “next step”: where do the chemicals go that farmers use to grow all that corn? Our plan for the evening is to screen both short films, and then have a discussion with the director and writer, Aaron Woolf.
An Evening of Art and Music with BMA’s Art After Hours Party
When the gallery lights go down, the party lights come up for Art After Hours, a lively series of evening events with activities, inspired by the BMA’s current exhibitions. Boost yourself with a beer & a bite, groove to music from house musician, Hans Berg, enjoy surreal games and pop-up performances and experience art in new ways.
With the closing weekend of two special exhibitions at the Museum: Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s and Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Delights of an Undirected Mind, the BMA will be celebrating by hosting a surrealism-inspired Art After Hours Party this Friday, May 24, from 8pm – 11pm. The party will include an evening of music, art-making, drinks and lite bites and late-night access to galleries and special exhibitions. Tickets are $25 ($20 for BMA Members), for ages 21+ and can be purchased here.
The BMA Hosts Surrealism-Inspired Art After Hours this Friday, May 24
Baltimore’s best art party is back this Friday, May 24, and celebrating the closing weekend of BMA’s special exhibitions Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s and Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg / Delights of an Undirected Mind. Come to Art After Hours for an evening of drinks, music, art-making, and late-night access to galleries and special exhibitions. Tickets ($25 adult or $20 BMA Members) include free admission to Monsters & Myths (regularly $15), as well as a free drink or food item, music, art-making, and late-night access to the galleries. Purchase your tickets here and kick off your summer at the best art party.
Five Speakers Not to Miss this Spring
From the battlefields of Iraq, to the politics of Washington, the speakers coming this spring will provide different perspectives of the past while looking to the future.
Sarah Hurwitz, Former chief speechwriter for Michelle Obama
Tuesday, June 4, 8:00 a.m. | The Suburban Club
At this year’s Jewish Professional Women’s LeadHERship event, Hurwitz will discuss her journey as a Jewish woman in the White House and her work while in the Obama Administration. REGISTER NOW
The Church of the Redeemer VOICES Series: May 22
This May, join the Church of the Redeemer for their Spring VOICES Series. All events start at 7:00 pm and will be held at the Church of the Redeemer located at 5603 N Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland 21210.
Wednesday, May 22 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
In partnership with the Pratt Library’s Writers LIVE series, we welcome Mark Bowden, discussing his latest book, The Last Stone. Mark Bowden is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down. He will be in conversation with Dan Fesperman, an award winning author and former foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. His latest novel is Safe Houses. For forty years the mystery of what happened to the Lyons sisters, aged 10 and 12, who disappeared in 1975 from the Wheaton Plaza shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C, haunted an entire community, including journalist Mark Bowden, who covered the story as a cub reporter. With The Last Stone, he now returns to the crime to cover the extraordinary effort by authorities to bring their kidnapper to justice and to try to answer the question he could never shake, “Who would commit such a crime? And, why?” Click here for more details.
Weekend Events Calendar: Preakness, MICA Art Walk, Maryland Craft Beer Fest and more
This weekend, Preakness brings plenty of events to town with fireworks on Friday right and the race itself on Saturday. Elsewhere, imbibe craft beer and mac ‘n cheese, or take a look at the work of MICA students before they graduate.
The Church of the Redeemer VOICES Series: May 14 & May 15
This May, join the Church of the Redeemer for their Spring VOICES Series. All events start at 7:00 pm and will be held at the Church of the Redeemer located at 5603 N Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland 21210.
Tuesday, May 14 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
In partnership with the Pratt Library’s Writers LIVE Series, we welcome Tommy Orange, author of There, There in conversation with Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. The event is presented in partnership with CityLit Project. There, There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. Here is a voice we have never heard – a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. Click here for more details.
Wednesday, May 15 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Rev. Tim Schenck, rector of St. John the Evangelist in Hingham, MA and son of parishioner Lois Schenck, author of Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith – From Dancing Goats to Satan’s Drink will join us to talk about his new book. Program with light refreshments in the parish hall. Click here for more details.
