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NextNOW Fest: UMD Mutual Aid Workshop

UMD Mutual Aid is hosting an upcycling workshop where you can participate in patch making, embroidery, making handy reusable items, and more! We will also be teaching mending and darning techniques to salvage clothes in need of repairs.

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!

Program

  • Shekinah Brown: Anonymously Empty

  • Javi Padilla: the harder we fall

  • LiviJanae: Relations

  • Debanshi Chowdhury: Taala Re Naach

  • Carlo Antonio Villanueva

NextNOW Fest: Skate Jam

Co-sponsored by University Recreation & Wellness with student groups Skateboarding Club at UMD and WeSkate UMD as partners, The Clarice’s Kogod Theatre will be transformed into an indoor skate park! Skaters of all levels are welcome to participate or spectate. If you have a helmet and skateboard or roller skates, bring your own! We will also have skateboards and safety gear available to borrow. Helmets and signed waivers are required.

Schedule for Friday, September 9, 2022

  • 7-8PM: Free Skate

NextNOW Fest: Immersive Media Design 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.

The following works are being showcased at the Iribe Center:

NextNOW Fest: Costume & Prop Sale

The Clarice’s Costume & Prop Shops are emptying their storage closets with a doorbuster sale of items ranging from fashionable to wacky and weird. This is your once-a-year chance to own a unique piece of a production presented at The Clarice!

NextNOW Fest: Human Library

A worldwide movement for social change, the Human Library is designed to build a positive framework for conversations that can challenge stereotypes and prejudices through dialogue. Sign up in the Grand Pavilion for a 20-minute conversation with human “books” from our campus and local community, and learn about their point of view. 

“Book” titles include:

  • Undocumented and Unafraid

  • Baltimore Cop

  • Russian Scientist in DC

NextNOW Fest: Soul & Ink

Soul & Ink will provide a fun screen printing activation that blurs the line between art and audiences. Participants can choose between four custom design art pieces specially created for NextNOW Fest!

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