NextNOW Fest is an arts festival for Terps, by Terps. Co-curated with student groups and on-campus departments, this artistic playground amplifies the voices of intriguing, inventive performing and visual artists from around campus and the country.
Come hear the powerful testimony of Rose Mapendo, a genocide survivor, refugee, and human rights activist. Learn from her journey as a refugee to better understand the mind, heart, and challenges of refugees. Then, learn of specific ways you and your church can begin serving, empowering, and resourcing refugees in Riverdale, MD for Kingdom impact.
Come to MilkBoy ArtHouse every third Sunday of the month for Songwriter Sundays! Curated by local songwriter Annette Wasilik, each performance showcases three incredible songwriters and includes a short opening set from a local rising star.
Laura Baron, Annie Sidley and Billy Coulter are our guests this month.
From soul to folk to roots rock, we've got it all for you tonight!
Since 2002 the UMD Summer Chorus has given college students, community singers, and high school choristers the opportunity to perform major works in a friendly, stress-free setting. We're excited to announce this year's performance of Haydn's Harmoniemesse on Saturday, July 28 at 8PM.
The Harmoniemesse, or “Wind Band Mass” of 1802, is Haydn’s last major composition. Symphonic in scope, the mass encapsulates the essence of the classical era while also looking forward to the harmonic developments to come in the 19th Century.
Lost Sons
This hip-hop theater piece explores the impact of mass incarceration in the black community. The effects of an imprisoned father ripple throughout the entire family and community, and the play highlights the sharp differences in families with and without a father figure around. It also demonstrates differences in how white men and black men are sentenced.
Rockfish
Hell is a Bubble Tea Shop
What do eggs, bubble tea, and mooncakes have in common? This is a staged reading of the new play that explores identity, family, and mental health from an Asian-American perspective.
Fuse is a dance work that dissects the juxtaposition of minimality and maximality.
“Sometimes I shut my eyes,
A room with walls fills the darkness.
My current state decides the fate
Of the surroundings that besiege me.
In calmer times the walls are bare.
Nothing fills the space,
Nothing’s in the air.
But in polar moments of anger and stress,
The room is disgusting,
The room is a mess.
I haven’t found an in-between,
and I wonder what feeling would cause that scene.”
Hapa
This original theater piece follows two souls who are repeatedly reincarnated in Black women’s bodies during feminist movements of the past, present and future. As these embodied souls reconnect with one another across three distinct time periods, they struggle to reconcile the realities of their race, gender and sexuality within societies that seek to deny their humanity.
Sonic Infusion is a social refreshment that will energize, recharge and inspire your creative circulation for the week ahead. Cultivating a soothing ambiance necessary on Sundays, Sonic Infusion blends familiar and obscure soundscapes by DJ Kryptk, an artistic installation by Shyama Kuver of Heart Over Crown, and tarot reading by Malaya "StarShine" Nicole of the Honeypot Hangout.
Hamilton de Holanda is one of the most acclaimed Brazilian contemporary musicians, known for his tour-de-force compositions and stunning command of his instrument–the bandolim, or mandolin. “Virtuosic,” “brilliant”, and the “Jimi Hendrix of the mandolin” are some of ways that this musician who sets world audiences ablaze has been described.
“He is the personification of everything we want in a musician…. He has depth of soul and feeling.
He is a national treasure!” — Wynton Marsalis
