How can we balance our need for community with our desire for autonomy? In I Resist This, performers interface with squishy, body-like soft sculptures to explore the inherent tension between independence and interdependence. Invoking the movement language of children's games through weightsharing and improvisation, I Resist This activates this human dilemma in a striking and colorful performance.
Sketchup, UMD’s premier sketch comedy group, hosts a night of laughs and fun as they showcase both live and video sketches!
Start your engines, Terps! Drop by for an open play session of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Nintendo Switch! Gamers and spectators are alll welcome.
The 72-hour Composition Challenge features new work by students in the UMD School of Music. Composers who wish to participate have 36 hours to write a piece and another 36 hours to rehearse the music with the performers before it is premiered in concert as part of the NextNOW Fest.
Join Student Entertainment Events for their first lecture of the year!
Close out NextNOW Fest nights at The Clarice with Chase on Aux, DJ and producer from Prince George's County, MD. He differentiates himself with his unique approaches to local sound, remixing classic DMV tracks with mainstream beats.
Be on the lookout for special giveaways!
Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies is Crumpler's first solo show at The Driskell Center. Dewey Crumpler's current work examines issues of globalization/ cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video and traditional painting techniques.
Christina Perumattathil will be teaching a southie/kuthu style dance piece while representing Maryland Manzar 2.0, a South Asian fusion dance team trying to showcase cultural richness of South Asia through innovative choreography and storytelling.
Take a dance class with Phunktions, UMD's student hip hop dance company!
An ongoing partnership with Student Entertainment Events (SEE), the Silent Disc-Glo is a dance party, but with a twist! Through a set of wireless headphones, listen to one of three live DJs (including one from Terrapin Record Label!), all playing totally different musical styles. This silent dance party is surreal, bizarre and outrageously fun.
No entry will be permitted after 11:30PM.
