Memorialize your 2018 with the NextNOW Time Capsule. Housing photos and notes from attendees, and relevant music and items, this capsule will offer future students insight as to what was happening, as well as alumni the opportunity to reminisce. They say the college years fly by, so help us save a moment of them with the time capsule!
Designed for all artist levels (from novice to DaVinci himself), this workshop revolves around the human form. A clothed model will be staged for your artistic interpretation during a 75-minute drawing session.
Satisfy your inner child and get messy by making your own customized slime. Even better, you get to take home the beautiful gloop you make with your own two hands. Presented in partnership with Artsphere.
On display through May 2019, this exhibit showcases five digital prints of works of art from 1616 illustrating the 1615 Ommegang pageant in Brussels. These were primary sources for the study of festive culture and the history of street performance in early modern Europe.
Painted during NextNOW Fest 2017, the Unity Mural project brought together students and faculty from Bowie State University and University of Maryland, College Park to create a mural that takes a stand against divisiveness. View the completed mural and reflect on its themes of peace, justice and unity.
Post a photo on Instagram or Twitter with the #NextNOWFest hashtag and pick up a free printout at this Photoboxx Station. All photos left at the station at the end of the festival will be added to the NextNOW Time Capsule.
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 to check out human “books” for a 20-minute conversation and learn about their point of view. We will have 11-14 books each night. A sample of our book titles include "Arab," "But You Don't Look Sick," & "Token Black Girl."
Osman Koç is a creative artist who uses technology as a medium for artistic expression. Directed by his curiosities, Koç’s works touch many different fields such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, biosensors, kinetic sculptures, reactive lighting, audiovisual performances, and games with alternative physical controllers.
Experience immersive and interactive projections that create real-time, sound-reactive visual performances.
What does sound look like? Named after the phenomenon in which simulation of one sensory pathway elicits another sensory experience, Synesthesia is an abstract representation of how music travels through space. Enter the installation and become enveloped in lights whose colors and rhythms are generated in response to ambient tones and sounds. This installation celebrates the manifestation of sensory feelings and creates a playground of light and sound. Synesthesia premiered at Light City Baltimore 2018.
UMD students will perform a 30-minute shortened version of The Vagina Monologues. The episodic play, originally performed in 1996, will explore women and their - you guessed it - vaginas.
The Vagina Monologues showcases a diverse range of women, experiences, and emotions in a politically-charged performance, exploring women from around the world and what their gender means to them. The New York Times called this play “probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade.”
