The Arm is somewhere between a beautiful brass chorale and a broken distortion pedal.

Jason Charney, guitar/flute/electronics
Sarah Manley, trombone/electronics
Patrick McMinn, trumpet/guitars/electronics

Nick Zoulek (Chicago) builds worlds out of brass, breath, and reeds. Based in Chicago, Zoulek is a saxophonist whose music feels physical, visceral, and urgent. Tender one moment, tectonic the next, his sounds are simultaneously alive and mechanized. Allan Kozinn wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “Zoulek’s performance, on saxophones in every range, is stunningly virtuosic, whatever the genre.” A musician of “pure mindfulness and talent” (PopMatters), his intuitive playing results in a “no-holds barred engine of avant-garde exploration.” (Portland Press Herald).

Waco Mammoth is James David Young (bassoon), Robin Rhodes (bass), and Rohan Parthare (electronics and video).

Variety show!

Suggested donation $10-15

performance by Theresa Columbus

noise by mod F

butoh by Enthyos

pipa and movement by Zhishu Chang, Peter Redgrave & Bao Nguyen

Hosted by Red Rae

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SÉANCE festival on 11/08/2025, 5:30pm-11pm at 2640 Space in Charles Village, raises awareness for the multiplicity of art mediums happening locally. Also, it will raise money for Rise With a Purpose , who "provides assistance to the homeless, social reform, community-based music projects & cultural exchange programs," according to the nonprofit's website. 

Alicia Astronomo, Alana McCarthy Light, and Avery Reeves-Williams , all artists themselves, organized the festival to follow up POLTERGEIST, their occult-meets-catharsis themed Day of the Dead extravaganza that has a similarly chaotic lineup. SÉANCE will have dream pop, rap metal, foraged plants, mythology-themed installations, DIY card games, embroidery workshops, and more in store for attendees. Alicia, Alana, and Avery chose 2640 because of their alignment with the venue's commitment to grassroots community organizing.

Music

1. Dogs (electronic punk) 

2. Strawbalien (dream pop) 

3. Quiet Room (alternative rock) 

4. Nova Koloso (psychedelic rock) 

5. Anxiety Monster (goth grunge) 

6. Throwdown Syndicate (rap metal) 

7. Gramma (emo)

    

Vendors

1. Dirt Vulture Apothecary (foraged medicinal plants, health-boosting tinctures, and stainless steel and chain mail jewelry)  

2. Grady Williams (surreal sculptures, cards, and paintings) 

3. Fruit Leather Fetish (gear and leather creations) 

4. DTTA Arts (oil paintings) 

5. Legend of Lyd (figure, myth, and horror-themed artwork) 

Activities

1. Grady Williams (DIY card/dice games) 

2. Staton Elisabeth (creative writing workshop)

3. Pop-up art gallery
   

RSVP Link: tinyurl.com/cswtownhall

Defend Filipino Seafarers!

Along the East Coast of the US, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is targeting and detaining Filipino cruise ship workers. Possessing valid work visas, these hard working seafarers report being forced by the CBP to sign documents withdrawing their application for admission. Several were baselessly accused of horrible crimes they did not commit. The seafarers were handcuffed, humiliated, and deported back to the Philippines, suffering immense financial loss.

On September 7th, four Filipino seafarers aboard the Carnival Pride were deported from Baltimore.

On October 19th, two more were deported using the same intimidation tactics.

Carnival Cruise Lines and the Philippine government have ignored pleas from migrants and their communities for support and refused to take meaningful steps to protect these workers against the Trump administration's draconian deportation campaign. Tanggol Migrante Movement DMV (https://www.tanggolmigrante.org ) calls on the Filipino community and allies to come together in Baltimore to learn more about the plight of Filipino seafarers and migrants and fight back!

Friday, November 7th at 2640 Space 

7:15PM Doors, 8PM shows

admission $5-$10

A special screening of the 16mm film More Beautiful Perversions, starring musicians zzzahara and Alli Logout (Special Interest), directed by environmental educator Pavli Serenetsky, and produced by the mutual-aid focused collective Purpose Repair Shop. The film is an ecological, queer spin of the "lost & scared in the woods" experience. 70 min, followed by a moderated conversation with the filmmaker(s) and special guests. 

Suggested donation: $5-15. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Screening and release party of Transformers: Terminal

Aidan (Russell Sorbello), an awkward fanboy, finally leaves his mother's basement to meet Sierra (Natasha Mercado), a bubbly vlogger fresh off a break up who needs help filming a new video series at Comic-Con. What happens when the orbiter gets promoted to co-content creator?

Free! DJs + costume contest

Dan Meyer Choir presents their annual “Baltimorgue” Halloween-themed concert.

FREE!

Drums of Life with Marc Miller

Celebrating the release of Drums of Life Live at Metro Baltimore.

$15 at doors

Baltimore’s 7th annual @bmorehorrorfest
Doors: 6:00
Screening: 7:00

FREE EVENT!!!!

Join @smalldollproductions and @majesticbehavior9 for the premiere of our 7th annual @bmorehorrorfest We watched over 500 films this year, come see the 17 that made us shriek while you shop the creepy works of local Baltimorean vendors!

🩸 17 Indie Horror Films

🩸 14 Local Vendors

🩸 Popcorn, Candy, and Soda!!!

🩸 Hauntingly Beautiful Hosting by @dreambabyjb

Join The Stoop for “Signs, Symbols & Strange Happenings: Stories about the weird, the magical, and the possibly otherworldly” on October 23rd, 7pm, at the 2640 Space.

With musical guest Glorian!

Severed (2025) film screening @ 4:30 PM

Discussion @ 5 PM

Market/Fair @ 5:30 PM

Proceeds go to direct relief.

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Come celebrate the big 4-0 with the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts at 2640 Space! Join us for a night of connection, music, and appreciation for the artists, volunteers, and partners who make our work possible.

Enjoy great vibes from Sounds by Seven, plus food and drinks from Corner Pantry and Sips of Soul. Leave with new connections and a deeper understanding of art and law's intersection.

In honor of this milestone, MdVLA's board members, staff, artists, volunteers, and partners have collaborated on a special book commemorating 40 years of impact. Through stories, reflections, and interactive elements featuring the community that makes us who we are, this limited edition publication celebrates the past, present, and future of MdVLA. Your ticket includes a copy!

Since 1985, MdVLA has made legal support accessible and affordable for Maryland’s creative community through free legal guides that actually make sense, free public workshops on topics relevant to creatives, and pro bono representation with dedicated attorney volunteers.

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Kommuna Lux: A Benefit for Ukraine

Come fall in love with Odesa, Ukraine, the Pearl of the Black Sea!  Kommuna Lux brings you the heritage music of their beloved hometown.  Klezmer, Balkan, and Urban Chanson, with a dash of Ukrainian Folk and powered by rocket fuel, Kommuna Lux impacts the crowd with a nostalgic, high-energy Big Band sound from the bygone days of speakeasies and rum runners.

Your donations at this fundraising event will support the Rotary E-Club of Ukraine's project to purchase special Burn Unit beds for hospitals at the front lines in Donetsk.

Alma Laprida from Buenos Aires, Argentina composes and plays pieces for trumpet marine, synthesizers, lyre and other non conventional instruments and objects such as megaphones, nylon bags, home appliances and toys. She works with sound using an intimate, contemporary language and explores the territories among composition, improvisation, performance and installation.

almalaprida.wordpress.com

Nikel is a quartet consisting of saxophone, electric guitar, percussion and piano.

A mix of traditional and contemporary, these instruments combine to form an alternative chamber music output where electric and acoustic sounds are fused into a unified sonic organism built on a wide, yet discerning musical vocabulary. The continual search for new musical ideas is not based on aesthetic prejudice or dichotomies of musical genres, but on passion and devotion to making and performing great music.

Founded in 2006, the ensemble is a frequent guest at many of the community’s most well known festivals of contemporary music: Donaueschinger Musiktage, International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, Wien Modern, Warsaw Autumn, Manifeste Paris, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Gaudeamus Utrecht & Impuls Graz to name a few. In recent years, they have increased their international presence with appearances in North America, South America and New Zealand, as well as continued appearances at major festivals throughout Europe.

Given its unique formation, the group’s repertoire is entirely based on music written for the quartet by both established and up-and-coming composers. Much of these works saw light in NIKEL’s 2017 release: A DECADE – 10 Year retrospective recordings, consisting of 4 CD’s of their repertoire joined by a DVD Documentation.

Nikel members are:

Brian Archinal, Percussion

Yaron Deutsch, Electric Guitar

Antoine Françoise, Piano

Patrick Stadler, Saxophone

Ticket Link - $25

We are masters of concealing our own feelings.  Whether motivated by shame, fear, or uncertainty, humans have become experts in masking and obscuring emotions.  We universally share in the experiences of anxiety, depression, desire, loneliness, and lack of fulfillment, yet we often keep them behind closed doors.  

DUALIS’s final concert of the 24-25 season, “what we hide”, seeks to address the sensations we choose to keep locked up inside. Each piece on the program represents a fragment of our shared emotional solitude. Joel Thompson's "America Will Be!" and Zanaida Robles’ “Can You See?” both reckon with the fallacy of the “melting pot” promised in the American dream. Magdalena Casulana’s madrigal, “Aura, che mormorando al bosco” laments the timeless feeling of unrequited love and desire. Nathaniel Parks’ "but sometimes I worry" gently unravels the quiet anxieties we carry around expressing love. These pieces and more will delve into the hidden spaces through which we navigate our lives. 

When we confront our inner thoughts, will we gain a better understanding of our collective experiences? What discoveries will we make along the way? Join us for “what we hide” on Saturday, May 24th at 7pm. The performance will be held at 2640 Space. Admission is $25, and tickets can be purchased online or 30 minutes ahead of the performance at the door.

A concert presented in the round featuring Inc Inc Inc, The Arm, and Curving Tooth (with Hanna Olivegren)– reprising a lineup from 2024!

$10 at the door

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Early music group Basso Celestia rounds out their spring season in Baltimore, MD, presenting a program of works by baroque Italian Women.

Basso Celestia rounds out their spring season by performing at home in Baltimore, MD, at 2640 Space! The group will present a concert of works by baroque Italian women. A $10-$30 suggested ticket price can be offered in person or by Venmo to offset tour costs, and additional donations will help support the future of the group as we build towards a 501c3 status. But most importantly - we just want you there!

Barbara Strozzi and Isabella Leonarda were both prolific composers, and noted as two of the first women to publish collections of music under their own names. Featuring an assortment of sacred and secular soprano duets, this program is a journey of women speaking through women, of navigating the complexities of life, and of finding passion and strength in extreme emotions.

With Leah Wenger and Morayo Akande as featured sopranos, Katerina Kotar on baroque cello, and Cameron Kuzepski on harpsichord, we will be joined by guest artists along the way to bring this exciting music to life!

EXCEPTET is a seven-piece pocket orchestra built around a virtuosic array of “chattering, post-minimalist sound” (New Sounds). The NYC-based ensemble is on tour with their debut album, featuring a new commission by Rome Prize winner Katherine Balch. Her composition, “Tree Lines” is an ode to old-growth trees, a phenomenon of nature that often live more than 400 years. Balch chose to divide the work into eleven short character movements, drawing a contrast between our lived experience and the tree’s expansive lifespan.

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tree-lines

“Someone once said friendship is the purest form of love and when I read KELLY XIO’s poems, I know that’s true. “Everything is what you can fit in that tiny pocket of denim jeans” Xio writes, and in her shimmering alchemy the moon, microdosing, girl dinner, aliens, creatine, aching joints, guns, humidity, the kid who just wants the fallen tree branch glued back--nothing, no one, gets left. The tiny denim pocket expands, a world.” - Kate Durbin on Kelly Xio

https://www.bruisermag.com/xio_twopoems



Hanna Olivegren, Greg Hatem, and Liz Downing present a budding project: THE CUPS. Cups, for our purposes, are short structures of sound forms who conjure places in the psyche, soundscapes. The purpose of a Cup is to hold vocal incantations and utterances, singing conversations in near-human language. Our hope is that when presented in this way, the Mother Cups may nurture our developing collective utterances and musical intuitions.

http://www.hannaolivegren.com
http://www.gregsaudio.work
https://lizdowningart.com

$12 at the door

Doors 7 PM/Screening 8:30 PM

Your Final Meditation (2024) – 52 mins.
Directed by Corey Hughes
Synopsis: Isolated in her warehouse apartment, Jodiiie plays a VR guided meditation video game to calm her escalating anxiety. The game, run by a next generation AI algorithm, adapts its gameplay to the player’s emotions as they navigate twelve levels on a quest to achieve the ultimate goal: transcendence. Jodiiie becomes increasingly consumed by the game as the meditation descends into a maze of real, virtual, and hybrid worlds. Ultimately, Jodiiie must transcend the game itself.

With musical performances by Midnight Sun, Amy Reid, and Herophon

Tickets available at Ottobar’s website. Please direct all inquiries to unbooking@gmail.com!

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm

All ages

About Cameron Winter: 
While on a grueling, year-long tour with his band Geese, Cameron Winter recorded the bulk of his debut solo album in a succession of hotel room closets, singing into the built-in microphone on his MacBook. Staying awake for several days at a time to keep up with his band’s non-stop schedule, Winter’s newest work recalls creative mania in the depths of night. 
   
Cameron Winter puts forth a hallucinatory combination of dreamlike imagery and crepuscular haze – not surprising, considering that the music was created while the Geese frontman was under the near-constant influence of, in his own words, “a crazy amount of extra-strength antihistamines and crushed up wellbutrin.” Winter purports that the inspiration for his first solo effort was supplied entirely by listening to 1967’s Songs of Leonard Cohen “maybe over two-hundred times” while hospitalized with double-mononucleosis. Upon listening to Heavy Metal’s patient arrangements, warm production and hypnagogic lyricism, it’s clear that the spirit of the greats has indeed rubbed off on the young singer-songwriter. 

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Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce our spring tour, traveling from Vermont down the Eastern Seaboard. As always, the show will include puppets large and small, music, up-to-the-minute politics, and spectacles not to be missed. After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.

Of our latest show, The Obligation to Live, director Peter Schumann reminds us that, “The obligation to be alive and act against the actors of death is just one of humanity’s many obligations. We also have the obligation to courage and the obligation to plant garlic in the rubble of the empire. Possibilitarians know this and bring giants, dragons, horses, sheep, butterflies, and the exact dance of death required for this exact moment.”

Baltimore, MD - March 28, 2025 - The Baltimore Chapter of the National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP Baltimore) is proud to announce Baltimore AAPI Night, a vibrant night market, an inspiring resource fair, and a lively social mixer, all rolled into one unforgettable evening to celebrate the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. The event will take place on April 10, 2025 from 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. at The 2640 Space (2640 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD). 

The AAPI community is one of the fastest-growing populations in Maryland, and the Baltimore region is where many are planting roots to live, work, and serve. This event promises an evening of networking, meeting more than a dozen AAPI-serving organizations, tasting delicious bites from local AAPI businesses, and enjoying family friendly fun, bringing together 100+ students, professionals, community leaders, and allies from across the Baltimore region. This year’s event spotlights upcoming local AAPI Heritage Month events and encourages guests to mark their calendars for a month of activities. 

Registration: Guests are encouraged to register early at bit.ly/baltimoreaapinight 

About NAAAP Baltimore: We cultivate a Baltimore region where AAPI professionals flourish in life, work, and service. NAAAP Baltimore is powered by passionate volunteers driven to foster a vibrant home for Asian American and Pacific Islander professionals. We know feeling seen and valued is vital, so we spark authentic connections where AAPI communities' unique experiences are heard and celebrated. Our approach: “Be Together, Build Together, Better Together.” 

Heather Hax leads a yoga class to benefit Ride for the Feast/Moveable Feast. Open to the public and all skill levels!

$15-20 sliding scale donation accepted

Please join us for an evening of music and remembrances in honor of Susan Alcorn. Her time in Baltimore may have been short, but her presence was immense!

If you would like to provide a musical offering or participate in anyway please reach out to Shelly Purdy at shelly@highzero.org

While this is an absolutely free event, we will be accepting donations for her husband David to help with funeral/burial and unexpected estate fees due to the suddenness of her passing. If you’d like to help sooner than April 5th please consider contributing to his gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/remembering-musical-great-susan-alcorn