Kick off your fall with this new monthly jazz jam session led by D.C.-based saxophonist Elijah Balbed! The house band will play a set starting at 7:30PM. Bring your instrument! After enjoying their set, you’ll have a chance to call a tune! Participation in our jazz jams is free–no tickets required and all levels welcome.
This event is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
Kick off your fall with this new monthly jazz jam session led by D.C.-based saxophonist Elijah Balbed! The house band will play a set starting at 7:30PM. Bring your instrument! After enjoying their set, you’ll have a chance to call a tune! Participation in our jazz jams is free–no tickets required and all levels welcome. This month features Clarice visiting artist Brandon Woody on trumpet.
This event is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
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.
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 works are being showcased at the Iribe Center:
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
Polish your Hip Hop moves with Phunktions!
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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.
Terpoets is partnering with NextNOW Fest 2022 to host an open mic event for poets across UMD! All are welcome to listen to original works created by our Terrapin community, and to orators sharing their favorite published poems. Join us for an hour of poetic enrichment and entertainment, and meet with other writers on campus.
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.
The UMD School of Music's Terrapin Brass performs a pop-up concert on the McKeldin Mall Steps as part of NextNOW Fest 2022!
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