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NextNOW Fest: Ballroom Dancing Workshop

Dance the night away with Ballroom at UMD! You'll learn the basics of ballroom dancing while getting an opportunity to win prizes throughout the workshop. Previous dance experience not required!

About NextNOW Fest

Started in 2014, The Clarice’s annual NextNOW Fest is an inspiring arts experience that celebrates imagination, creativity and community. By amplifying the voices of intriguing, inventive artists from around campus and our community, NextNOW Fest creates a forward-looking microcosm where art transforms our future and connects us all.

NextNOW Fest: Sudan Archives

Sudan Archives contains multitudes. She first emerged as an avant-garde violinist who channeled her playing through loop pedals. But she’s also much more than that: lovelorn songwriter, powerful vocal performer, and experimental beatmaker. She’s captivated audiences at festivals around the world with her hybrid sound, playing at Coachella, Pitchfork Midwinter and FORM: Arcosanti, and sharing stages with St Vincent, Ibeyi and Michael Kiwanuka while touring her trail-blazing EPs ​"Sudan Archives"​ (2017) and​ "Sink"​ (2018).

NextNOW Fest: The Hysterics & The Bureau

The Hysterics, UMD's comedy club for underrepresented genders, and The Bureau, UMD's only all purpose comedy group on campus that performs stand up, improv and sketch comedy, will make you LOL in this event!

NextNOW Fest: NextDANCE

Experience a showcase of dance work choreographed, designed and performed by undergraduate and graduate students from the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies!

Director: Patrik Widrig
Stage Manager: Allison Bailey
Lighting Designer: Malory Hartman

NextNOW Fest: Mobile Rage Room

Have a smashing good time and blow off some steam in the Mobile Rage Room!

Personal protective equipment will be provided. Signed waivers are required.

About NextNOW Fest

Started in 2014, The Clarice’s annual NextNOW Fest is an inspiring arts experience that celebrates imagination, creativity and community. By amplifying the voices of intriguing, inventive artists from around campus and our community, NextNOW Fest creates a forward-looking microcosm where art transforms our future and connects us all.

NextNOW Fest: IMD New Works Incubator (The Clarice)

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.

The following projects will be showcased at The Clarice:

NextNOW Fest: Indelible Ephemera: Posters and Fliers from Special Collections in Performing Arts

An audience’s initial interaction with a concert, a new play or a choreographer’s new dance piece does not always occur when performers first take the stage. Promotional posters and fliers—affixed to bare walls, stapled to telephone poles or handed out on the street—are often the first point of contact between an artistic work and audience members. In an 8 ½”x11” leaflet or a 27”x40” poster, graphic designers distill the core of a new work in letterform and illustration.

NextNOW Fest: Festival Photobooth

Capture your favorite memory of NextNOW Fest 2023!

About NextNOW Fest

Started in 2014, The Clarice’s annual NextNOW Fest is an inspiring arts experience that celebrates imagination, creativity and community. By amplifying the voices of intriguing, inventive artists from around campus and our community, NextNOW Fest creates a forward-looking microcosm where art transforms our future and connects us all.

NextNOW Fest: Collaging, Scrapbooking & Coloring

Make your own creation at NextNOW Fest 2023! Materials will be provided.

About NextNOW Fest

Started in 2014, The Clarice’s annual NextNOW Fest is an inspiring arts experience that celebrates imagination, creativity and community. By amplifying the voices of intriguing, inventive artists from around campus and our community, NextNOW Fest creates a forward-looking microcosm where art transforms our future and connects us all.

NextNOW Fest: Printmaking with Soul & Ink

Soul & Ink will provide a fun screen printing activation that blurs the line between art and audiences. Participants can a custom design created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of NextNOW Fest!

About NextNOW Fest

Started in 2014, The Clarice’s annual NextNOW Fest is an inspiring arts experience that celebrates imagination, creativity and community. By amplifying the voices of intriguing, inventive artists from around campus and our community, NextNOW Fest creates a forward-looking microcosm where art transforms our future and connects us all.

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