Take NextNOW Fest home to your family! This year, we're working with Studio A and Graduate Student Life to make puppet-making art kits available for graduate student families. Just stop by and grab your kit free of cost! Limited quantities available.

Kits will be available until supplies last from the Graduate Student Life lounge in Stamp Student Union during the following hours:

• Tuesday, September 6 - Thursday, September 8: 9AM-6:45PM

• Friday, September 9 . 9AM-5PM

TerpsVote will be part of NextNOW Fest 2022 to help students register to vote in the November 8 election and to answer any questions that students have about voting. TerpsVote will share lots of resources to make sure Terps are prepared to vote!

The TerpsVote Coalition is a nonpartisan group of students, staff and faculty at the University of Maryland whose mission is to increase civic engagement at the University of Maryland by providing educational resources and institutionalizing positive voting behavior.

Create art that beautifies dark spaces with this blacklight painting workshop! All supplies are included. Registration will open Monday, August 29, 2022. Limited space available.

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, all playing totally different musical styles. This silent dance party is surreal, bizarre and outrageously fun.

New this year! It’s the silent dance party you know and love, with even more added to your experience:

The 72-hour Composition Challenge is a student initiated event (TEMPO) that is part of the NextNow Fest presented by The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the beginning of each academic year. 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. Committing to participate means that you have a performer or a group of performers who have agreed to perform your piece under the conditions noted above (36 hours to prepare).