Co-sponsored by University Recreation & Wellness with student groups Skateboarding Club at UMD and WeSkate UMD as partners, The Clarice’s Kogod Theatre will be transformed into an indoor skate park! Skaters of all levels are welcome to participate or spectate. If you have a helmet and skateboard or roller skates, bring your own! We will also have skateboards and safety gear available to borrow. Helmets and signed waivers are required.

Schedule for Friday, September 9, 2022

• 7-8PM: Free Skate

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 works are being showcased at the Iribe Center:

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 for a 20-minute conversation with human “books” from our campus and local community, and learn about their point of view. 

“Book” titles include:

• Undocumented and Unafraid

• Baltimore Cop

• Russian Scientist in DC

Maryland Night Live brings together the University of Maryland's best comedians and musicians for a hilarious night of sketches, stand-up comedy and music!

Submergence is a large, immersive, walkthrough experience that uses many thousands of individual points of suspended light to create feelings of presence and movement within physical space. As you enter the piece, you are walking into a space occupied by both real and virtual components, and you can affect both!