For Raveena, music is meant to be a “complete expression of the self.” It’s a truth she’s leaned on through a whirlwind couple of years, which saw a potent flurry of output and a pointed ascent into the conversation with her critically-acclaimed 2019 debut full-length, "Lucid," and 2020 follow-up, "Moonstone" EP.
Sketchup, UMD’s premier sketch comedy group, hosts a night of laughs and fun as they showcase both live and video sketches!
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.
Dance the night away with Ballroom at UMD! You'll learn the basics of ballroom dancing while getting an opportunity to win prizes throughout the workshop. Previous dance experience not required!
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.
Sudan Archives contains multitudes. She first emerged as an avant-garde violinist who channeled her playing through loop pedals. But she’s also much more than that: lovelorn songwriter, powerful vocal performer, and experimental beatmaker. She’s captivated audiences at festivals around the world with her hybrid sound, playing at Coachella, Pitchfork Midwinter and FORM: Arcosanti, and sharing stages with St Vincent, Ibeyi and Michael Kiwanuka while touring her trail-blazing EPs "Sudan Archives" (2017) and "Sink" (2018).
The Hysterics, UMD's comedy club for underrepresented genders, and The Bureau, UMD's only all purpose comedy group on campus that performs stand up, improv and sketch comedy, will make you LOL in this event!
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!
Director: Patrik Widrig
Stage Manager: Allison Bailey
Lighting Designer: Malory Hartman
Have a smashing good time and blow off some steam in the Mobile Rage Room!
Personal protective equipment will be provided. Signed waivers are required.
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.
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 projects will be showcased at The Clarice:
An audience’s initial interaction with a concert, a new play or a choreographer’s new dance piece does not always occur when performers first take the stage. Promotional posters and fliers—affixed to bare walls, stapled to telephone poles or handed out on the street—are often the first point of contact between an artistic work and audience members. In an 8 ½”x11” leaflet or a 27”x40” poster, graphic designers distill the core of a new work in letterform and illustration.
Capture your favorite memory of NextNOW Fest 2023!
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.
