BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
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<><><><><><><><>Parts and Pieces: Movement and Dance Works from Guest Artists
Tuesday, March 1st : 8pm
EMP Collective
307 West Baltimore Street : Baltimore 21201
Hosted by Noelle Tolbert* and Alex D’Agostino*. A night of movement and dance investigations from local movers and shakers. Experience new works and experiments, talk shop with the artists afterward.
Featuring
Peter Redgrave and Khristian Weeks
The duo are developing a set of provocations that build fluid theatrical events out of sparse components. 72 for Mother makes use of crowd-sourced lighting, the chair bit, and an offering to celebrate a new year.
Maggie Schneider
A trans-disciplinary artist based in Baltimore City performing Knees|Hips|Shoulders. Check out more of her work here: www.maggieschneider.com
Taboo and Others: Curated by Elijah Forrest and Anoushe Shojae-Chaghorvand
Tuesday, March 2nd : 8-9pm
EMP Collective
307 West Baltimore Street : Baltimore 21201
Elijah Forrest* and Anoushe Shojae-Chaghorvand are bringing TABOO from Maine back to Baltimore! Described as “bizarre, intense, and ritualistic”, the night also features music acts Malcriado (Baltimore), Sects (NYC), Trogpite (Baltimore), Sean Seaton & Elijah Forrest (Baltimore).
Taboo
“Next-cycle symbolists and polytheistic archetypists. Their music follows a proto/meta-atavisceral threas from bardic theurgy to romantic minestrelsy, performing intuitive warband tradtionals of their clan” Music preview here.
What more could you want?!
Beet Trip: Episode 49 – A Hip-Hop Cypher Event
Thursday, March 4th : 9pm
EMP Collective
307 West Baltimore Street : Baltimore 21201
LLAMADON* lays down the next installment of Beet Trip this Friday. Beet Trip is an open hip hop cypher event for freestyle rapping and beats. Join in or sit back and see some great talents in the city work their flow.
This episode is supported by
Jacob Marley
Butch Dawson
Urban Shaman
Tromac Pineapple
MFUNDISHi
Unreliable Lame
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Something Like Jazz Music – Opening Night + More Performances
Wednesday, March 2nd : 8pm
Single Carrot Theatre
2600 North Howard Street : Baltimore 21218
Secrets and stories, once packed away, take on lives of their own in this original production by Single Carrot Theatre. When workers in a Baltimore warehouse encounter a mysterious, magical container of luggage from the roaring ‘20s, they are swept into the dramatic lives of the cases’ former owners. As they uncover new layers of old stories, the workers’ desires and decisions begin to affect the past, even as the past changes them. World Premiere.
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Manufactured Beauty Spring Lecture Series : The SCIENCE of Beauty
Wednesday, March 2nd : 6pm
MICA Brown Center, Falvey Hall
1301 West Mt. Vernon Avenue : Baltimore 21217
For thirty-seven years, AIABaltimore has been hosting the only architecture lecture series in Baltimore. And for the second year the series is free. The public will have free admission to all five lectures between March and April, each taking place at Falvey Hall in the MICA Brown Center at 6:00 pm with a reception to follow.
This year, the series will take a critical look at Manufacturing Beauty.
Beauty has the power to arouse the senses and create a greater capacity for empathy. However, our modern understanding of beauty still tends to be limited and undervalued. We live in an era where everything is measured, material goods are prized and impersonal exchanges are the norm. And yet, beauty in the built environment can still move us and teach us something new about ourselves and the spaces we inhabit. At a time when efficiency, expense and the bottom line are often project drivers, has beauty for beauty’s sake become a lost model from a bygone era?
What is the value of beauty? This series highlights designers working to answer this question through science, details, place, process and innovation.
March 2 – The SCIENCE of Beauty
Featuring: Ed Connor, PhD, Director of the JHU Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Connor’s research is part of an emerging field called neuroaesthetics, which uses neuroscience to understand and explain perceived beauty within art, music, or any other contemplated or created object. In new studies funded by the Hopkins Brain Science Institute, Dr.Connor’s laboratory has begun to investigate the sensory basis of principles behind appreciation of beauty.
The human capacity for identifying, evaluating, and interacting with objects is remarkable. How do these neural processes determine visual aesthetics, and what is distinct and interesting about the neural activity patterns evoked by beautiful sculptures, paintings, and architecture?
Hamlet – Opening Night + More Performances
Friday, March 4th : 8pm
Church on the Square
1025 South Potomac Street : Baltimore 21224