Make your own creation at NextNOW Fest 2023! Materials will be provided.
Started in 2014, 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.
Soul & Ink will provide a fun screen printing activation that blurs the line between art and audiences. Participants can a custom design created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of NextNOW Fest!
Started in 2014, 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.
The Clarice’s Costume Shop is 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!
Enjoy Terp DJ sets courtesy of WMUC!
WMUC is the official radio station of College Park broadcasting at 90.5 FM in luscious stereo, with an increased broadcast power of 30 watts! So lock in 90.5 FM on your radio and on your portable listening device. "Turn on, tune in and let us groove."
Support businesses run by students, alumni and members of our community! Stay tuned as we announce 2023 vendors!
This year's vendors include:
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.
Comedy Bonfyre and NextNOW Fest come together for a night of laughter featuring Netflix's Emma Willmann, with Late Late Show's Dylan Adler and hosted by D.C. comedian Kim Villamera.
Comedy Bonfyre is a D.C. based comedy and storytelling production, produced by Ambi Narula and Lyka Miranda. Comedy Bonfyre shows bring the heat, laughter and good vibes just like a real bonfire.
This show is open to the public and will be ASL-interpreted.
A dialogue on puppetry and object performance as a powerful means of resistance to the objectification of Black bodies. Nehprii Amenii, writer and director of Food for the Gods and Dr. Paulette Richards, author of Object Performance in the Black Atlantic will ground the audience in the historical development of African-American puppetry and discuss the power of puppetry to redress cultural erasure and foster community healing. Light refreshments will be available.
Venture into the "haunted" corridors of the Paris Opera House as the University Orchestra brings one of the most iconic musicals to the concert hall for their final performance of the year. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera tells the tale of a young opera star and the mysterious masked figure who becomes obsessed with her. The longest-running show on Broadway, the musical is presented here by full orchestra and narration.
This program has something for everyone, including orchestral masterworks, opera and musical theatre.
