Grids Are Not Neutral: A Year on Zoom
On Lee Walton’s “Zeven Event Zcores for Zoom” and the online platform's subtle social ticks
Zeven Event Zcores for Zoom by Lee Walton, part of ‘sindikit’s Friday night performance series
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Pandemic Sounds: 12 Baltimore Albums Released Since the Start of Quarantine
Some of these records inevitably confront themes that are pertinent to our present circumstances and upheavals, some take the listener to places subterranean or extraterrestrial, and many others pull off an inventive combination of all the above.
Lynn Hunter’s ‘Grounded’ Considers the Ritual of Burial, Life, and Rebirth
The energy created in the space between her body and the audience is always charged
During the performance at The Shed, her breath inflated and deflated white balloons, one after another, while her body remained mostly covered by the earth.
Quarantine Diaries: Rappers & Collaborators
Chris Cassius, Baby Kahlo, Logicoma, Stoop Baby Mo, Infinity Knives, Brian Ennals, Eze Jackson, Bailey Straughn
Though the feeling of being in a crowd at a show cannot be replicated, maybe reading the words and listening to the projects of these artists can bring you some semblance of that adrenaline and joy.
Bringing You Back to You: The Acme Corporation Finds Its Audience Through the Mail
Nothing happens without the audience in The Institute for Counterfeit Memory, a play that arrives in a cardboard box
The experimental nature of this play is not simply for the sake of experiment but to highlight all of our assumptions that make us comfortable and therefore passive, forgetful, and complicit.
Seeing What Happens: High Zero Goes Virtual
How Baltimore’s storied experimental and improvisational music festival is solving problems in interesting ways
High Zero shows aren't just musically intense, they're also quite frequently outlandishly entertaining.
The Dissensus Convergence: Prairie WWWW, Non-Confined Space, and Horse Lords in Conversation
Democratic process and production, decolonization, and more
Musician Omnia Azar is a Divine Vessel for Healing
Spreading a message of Light, Love, Peace, Truth, Freedom, and Growth
Being a part of a regional symphony orchestra for several years instilled Omnia Azar's love for classical music
Pangelica and Amy Reid Imagine New Worlds in ‘Immortal Voices’
Part of the Walters' Art Sound Now series, the artists' piece finds inspiration in myth and conceptions of the afterlife
While Reid’s part of Immortal Voices hints at the heavens, Pangelica’s deals with darkness.
Going Inward: Cheyanne Zadia Givens on Home, Style, and Her New Album Vacants
Zadia's debut album is an ode to her hometown
Dwelling in Our Softness: Abdu Ali Conjures Space for Black, Queer and Trans Artists
Ali is a fluid performance and music artist, cultural worker, and organizer
Abdu Ali's nomadic curatorial platform as they lay includes sound and performance art, poetry, and more.
Juneteenth and MAWU
A Durational Performance Designed by Ada Pinkston
MAWU: TheEndisTheBeginningIstheEnd is an eight-hour durational performance that combines the history of Juneteenth with the legacy of Lucy Parsons, the revolutionary labor organizer who fought for the eight-hour workday.
Quarantine Diaries: Musicians
Bobbi Rush, Dyyo, Josh Stokes, Amy Reid, Ami Dang
Musicians who already survive precariously have lost gigs due to Covid-19 cancellations and have had to figure out how to hustle through a pandemic
Quarantine Diaries: DJs & Producers
Kotic Couture, DJ Diaspora, Jay Swann, Mighty Mark, and Logicoma
The art of the DJ is sorely missed while music venues are closed. Find out how five local DJs have adjusted to quarantine life and how to support them.
Musician, Rapper, Performer: Deetranada
In 2017 Baltimore rapper Deetranada starred in season 3 of the Lifetime reality series The Rap Game
"I knew I had a gift with words when I started getting in trouble for speaking my mind without being disrespectful or explicit, but simply for the fact I was speaking the truth that a certain group of people didn't want to hear."
Musician, Rapper, Performer: Mani Marino
Mani Marino's Overkill EP effortlessly fuses a combination of rap bars, lyrics, melodies, and inspiration from the past
Baltimore-based musicianr Marino is inspired by 90s/2000s R&B, to trap music, to storyteller raps, and beyond
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 7-13
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This week we are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch plus a few ways to get involved locally. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
Photos from Creative Alliance’s Sidewalk Serenades
Baltimore residents hired musicians to perform a few songs, stoop-side, at a safe distance for family, friends, and neighbors.
For a nominal cost, Baltimore residents can hire musicians to perform a few songs, stoop-side, at a safe distance for family, friends, and neighbors.