NextNOW Fest 2023 Lineup & Schedule Announced!
NextNOW Fest: sounds for the (home) body with Naoco Wowsugi
Session 2: transcending the (home) body
In this gong sound bath session, we invite our bodies to rest and to find its center. We will allow sound to be the passage to travel into expansive possibilities within our bodies.
In this space, participants will re discover their (home) bodies. The (home) body refers to the communal experience of our emotional homes and its impact on the relationship with the physical body. We invite all bodies to breathe, move and rest to embody secure (home) bodies.
NextNOW Fest: Closing Night–Paint & Sip
Bring your friends and enjoy a night of artistic expression at our Paint & Sip at The Hall CP! Join local artist collective, Paint Amore, as they take you step-by-step through creating your very own masterpiece. No art experience required!
Registration includes materials, instruction and one drink ticket for a beverage of your choice (soda, beer, wine, rail mixed drink). Painting begins promptly at the scheduled start time, so we recommend that you arrive 15-30 minutes early to get settled. This event is recommended for individuals 18 years or older.
NextNOW Fest
Day 7 of NextNOW Fest at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union is presented in partnerhsip with the Contemporary Art Purchasing Program (CAPP) and Studio A!
Wednesday, September 13 Schedule:
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Day 5 of NextNOW Fest 2023 features two lively workshops at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. Registration for these events is required and will open on Monday, August 28, 2023.
Monday, September 11 Schedule:
NextNOW Fest: IMD New Works Incubator Showcase
Experience projects developed during the Immersive Media Design Program’s New Works Incubator, a six-week summer development program designed to support the creation of immersive media projects by students from across the UMD campus. The Incubator enables individual student creators and teams to explore new areas of immersive media and to create works based on their own interests and initiative.
NextNOW Fest: Printmaking with BookLab
Stop by UMD’s Farmers’ Market at Tawes Plaza and print a postcard with a socially relevant message on a traditional wooden printing press with hand set metal type—courtesy of the Department of English’s BookLab.
NextNOW Fest: Ari Melenciano's Symphosynthesis de Otzkö Kazo
Through sound, rhythm, and instrumentation, Ari Melenciano creates a portal into the world of Otzkö Kazo. The composition includes the bio-sonification of botanical quantum computers, an assemblage of spiritual harmonization methods across Earth and rhythmic structures that explore math and time in pursuit of sonically catalyzing entrance into the subconscious.
NextNOW Fest: Vital Signs Project Showcase
In an effort to support student voice and action related to the Black Lives Matter movement, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the UMD Office of Diversity and Inclusion and UMD Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy in partnership with Black Terps Matter award mini-grants to artists in the UMD community who are creating projects that affirm Black life and vitality and interrogate white supremacy and anti-Blackness.
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