Pints + Poses: Yoga at MilkBoy ArtHouse

Enjoy an after work flow yoga class compliments of Numi Yoga and enjoy drink specials together afterwards at MilkBoy ArtHouse. Class will be approximately an hour long. Participants can expect to move through a range of poses to relieve stress, build strength and increase mobility - all ages and abilities welcome.

Some yoga mats will be provided but please feel free to bring your own. Class is free of charge and we will be accepting donations (cash or credit card) to support arts and music opportunities for local students.

Do Good Challenge Finals

The annual, campus-wide Do Good Challenge inspires students to pursue fearless ideas, spark innovative solutions, and create social impact for today's most pressing problems. Students from across campus spend the academic year advocating, fundraising, volunteering, supporting, and developing solutions for the social issues they care about. The Challenge culminates in a Finals event where six teams pitch their project or venture and the impact they've made for the chance to win a share of more than $20,000.

Legacy: A Three Part Canon

An evening length dance and theater work utilizing song, text and movement to explore coming of age, conceived of and created by Ronya-Lee Anderson with dancers, Rita Jean Kelly Burns, Josie Hoover, Angela Jones, Jessica McNube, Jenora Singh, and Stacey Smith.

Guest Artists: Tariq Darrell and the UNUM Dance Collective

Ronya-Lee Anderson's work is "very handsomely crafted, rich and beautifully performed." -Loretta Livingston (Dance Educator)

"She's amazing in terms of her deployment of energy."-Thomas Defrantz (Author and Dance Scholar)

Bach Cantata Series

Matthew Halls leads J.S. Bach's intimate cantata 204 from the keyboard as part of his weeklong UMD School of Music residency. Featuring UMD Choral Activities alumna Amy Broadbent as soprano soloist, this underperformed secular cantata brings to life contemplative Christian Friedrich Hunold texts about inner contentment and serenity through varied instrumental combinations with voice.

Opera Resonates

Evangeline Athanasiou, a musicology graduate student, and a panel of social and religious scholars from across campus explore the complex issue of religious persecution as framed in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites.  Premiered in 1957, Poulenc’s post-WW II opera tells of the martyrdom suffered by a group of Carmelite nuns by French revolutionary authorities in 1794.  The discussion will focus on how themes of these historical events continue to resonate today.

Twelfth Night

Come see the Maryland Shakespeare Player's production of Twelfth Night! The Bard's classic comedy grabs some giggle water and showcases some goofs and lollygags in the Roaring Twenties.

The 1920's in America were times of great precarity. Stuck between the First World War and the Great Depression, Americans enjoyed a period of unchecked wealth, culture, and social change.

Open Masterclass with Frank Morelli

Introduced to the bassoon in the Massapequa, NY public schools, Frank Morelli studied with Stephen Maxym at the Manhattan School of Music and later became the first bassoonist to be awarded a doctorate by the Juilliard School. He has made nine appearances as soloist in New York’s Carnegie Hall playing concertos, Sinfonias concertantes, and even a solo ballad with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.

Ballet Company M Spring Showcase

Come enjoy a culmination of Ballet Company's work this semester! This will be a show of ballet, contemporary, and jazz pieces. All of our work is student choreographed and produced, please come support our hard work!

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