Alejandra Nuñez • Tong Liu • Will Yager

FREE (donations accepted)

Zero-proof cocktails by Dallas

Bring your own comfy seating: yoga mats, cushions, etc

Ami Dang • Jamal Moore • Susan Alcorn & Julius Masri • Lexie Mountain & Dominique Diglio • John Hoegberg Trio

$10-20 NOTAFLOF

all proceeds to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

A free, annual evening of words and music, of and for Baltimore, in honor of Freddie Gray

Friday, April 19, 2024, 2640 Space
Doors at 7:30pm, event at 8:00pm

Featured artists: 
musicians Ephraim Dorsey and Scott Patterson
poets Josephilosophy and Obsidian
dancer Ui-Seng François

Lisa Snowden, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Beat

Named Best Concert in Baltimore Magazine's 2017 Best of Baltimore issue
"This yearly performance, which recognizes the anniversary of Freddie Gray's death, gathers artists—from Peabody professors to hip-hop ingénues—who represent a cross section of our city." -Baltimore Magazine

Free and open to the public
Reservations encouraged at http://bit.ly/risebmore_2024

Details at www.risebmore.com
Follow @risebmore + #risebmore

Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce that we will kick off our 61st year by traversing the Northeast and Eastern Seaboard with a brand-new play created with our director, Peter Schumann, for the exact moment at hand. Of the show–The Hope Principle Show: Citizens’ Shame and Hope in the Time of Genocide–director Peter Schumann says, “With mother dirt prologue, citizen despair gymnastics, massmurder victim’s traditional dance of death celebration, absentee humanity dance. Featuring a flock of disaster ravens and hope principle caribou and exorcism rites for the genociders.”

The company will play cities from Rutland, VT to Washington, DC, with the full tour schedule available at BreadAndPuppet.org/Tour. 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.

Ticket note: We at Bread and Puppet aim for money never to be an obstacle to seeing our shows. Anywhere that B&P is ticketing a show ourselves (as in the tickets are for sale on our website directly), no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please email breadandpuppetreservations@gmail.com and we will happily assist you.

Founders Day is an annual celebration honoring the foundation Fusion is built on and celebrating the collective future we are moving toward.

Join us to honor the founders of Fusion, all 120 fiscally sponsored Partners, and how much more we can do together than we can alone.

It will be a great event emceed by Sheila Gaskins, with comedy by Mia Musa and Zach Zwagil, line dancing, food & drink, and dancing with a DJ from Ridiculous Entertainment.

Help out Jamal Moore, hard working musician and member of the High Zero Collective who was robbed of his gear recently by listening to music on the fringe of music. None of us completely gone to abstraction but exploring the foothills of the mountains of madness. Join us! Friday 29 March at 8pm at 2640 St. Paul. With DJ Lexie Mountain!

The Baltimore City Democratic State Central Committee is hosting a U.S. Senate Democratic Forum.  This is an opportunity to meet the candidates and submit questions to ask the candidates.  An RSVP is requested, as space is limited.  The forum will be moderated by Karenthia A. Barber.  

Join the Baltimore Jewelry Center on March 9th, 2024 for Ornamenta, our annual fundraising event. Every year, Ornamenta provides the BJC with the opportunity to raise much-needed funds while sharing our love of metalsmithing and art jewelry with the broader Baltimore and DMV communities.  By attending Ornamenta, bidding in our auction, buying raffle tickets, or by contributing to our fund-a-need, you are directly supporting a range of programs including our residency, workforce development, scholarships, and kids and teens programs.

Ornamenta is a night of celebration that includes dining, dancing, a silent auction, and a raffle. This year we’re excited to continue our fundraising in person while continuing to provide engagement opportunities for the broader jewelry community. This year, we are inspired by Sapphires for our theme!

https://baltimorejewelrycenter.betterworld.org/events/ornamenta-2024

Sam Wells, Adam Vidiksis, and Scott Miller are touring in support of their new release, Human Capital, on Scarp Records.

The rest of the bill will include Sam Pluta/Will Yager and a solo set from Rachel Beetz.

Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm

$10-20

HEAR new classical music from the dynamic virtuosities of PIQUE COLLECTIVE.

SEE arrays of high-speed art lasers from aesthetic scientist ZAK FORREST.

EXPERIENCE wondrous marionettes from the legendary BLACK CHERRY PUPPET THEATER.

Come on out to 2640 Space this March 2 at 8:00pm (doors at 7:30) - We’ll take a cool adventure together.

TICKETS HERE: via Universe : https://www.universe.com/events/pique-collective-zak-forrest-black-cherry-puppet-theater-tickets-PQYR2F

$10 cover

"Take off Your Blank"

This show is an assortment of moments punctuated by movement exploring what it means to remove. Through a variety of disciplines and styles, Take Off Your Blank will (re)move you to the core. Clothing being exchanged, anarchistic lives getting older, an overabundance of props interrupting a conversation, and a serious humor/sexiness surrounding dancing guitarists, we are exploring tender human moments in short scenes. The scenes could have dance and could have song and could have blank.

"Future's Future"

“Future’s Future” by Rae Red is a multimedia installation and performance using video projection, scrim and visual poetry to explore the future’s future, the great (queer) unknown. We will enter the portal into a world where we get to encounter the ancestors we will become in a time when it is easier to imagine the apocalypse than the end of late stage capitalism. In the future we are dust.

Doors at 7:30pm, tickets available at the door and online through Eventbrite

Sliding scale $10-15 cover

The Jewish Museum of Maryland presents a theatre dybbuk production written and directed by Artistic Director Aaron Henne at 2640 Space.

What can a play from sixteenth century England tell us about how antisemitism and other prejudicial beliefs operate in our world today? What perceived truths does a play reveal about the society in which it was created, and what ideas within that society does it reinforce?

​William Shakespeare likely wrote The Merchant of Venice between 1596 and 1598, only a few years after plague had temporarily closed London's theaters. This was a period of great uncertainty in English society, with ongoing conflicts taking their toll, concerns about the government's stability under an aging leader, and significant economic stresses. The anxieties associated with these societal pressures can perhaps be seen in Merchant in its portrayal of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender.

Bringing together elements of Merchant with Elizabethan history and news from the 21st century, The Merchant of Venice (Annotated), or In Sooth I Know Not Why I Am So Sad takes a kaleidoscopic view of the ways in which members of a society displace their fears on the "other" during times of upheaval.

theatre dybbuk creates provocative new works that blend physical theatre with poetry and music for exciting, utterly singular live events. The company explores the rich world of Jewish history, building lyrical performances that illuminate universal human experience for contemporary audiences. With an in-depth development process that can range from a few months to three years, Artistic Director Aaron Henne builds each piece with a cast of dedicated professional actors, designers, musicians, and scholars. 

This event is co-sponsored by Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum which is presenting the production’s companion performance piece, The Villainy You Teach, on January 26. You can learn more and register for that event here.

This program is supported in part by a grant from The Covenant Foundation. You can learn about more JMM and other events with theatre dybbuk during their week-long residency in the region here.

Admission is free, but registration is highly encouraged. You can register using the form here.

Kosher refreshments will be served indoors. Masks are recommended, but not required for this event. Complimentary masks will be available at the event.

2640 Space is wheelchair accessible, and street parking is available near 2640 Space.

For any questions related to this event, please contact Noah Mitchel at nmitchel@jewishmuseummd.org or 443.873.5178.

An evening of contemporary solo and chamber music by Timothy McCormack featuring Ty Bouque

Sliding $10-20 cover

Janel Leppin, Anthony Pirog, & Mike Kuhl

$10-20 sliding scale

Doors at 4:30

$10 per person

Caroline Davis brings her Alula project to Baltimore with local luminaries Konjur Collective opening!

Doors at 7, show at 7:30pm

$10-20

Missive is Al Jones, Zach Rowden, and Jocelyn Beausire.

Zach Rowden is a musician based in Middletown, Connecticut. His work is focused in the areas of drone, repetitive structures and noise. Collaborators and projects include – Tongue Depressor (with Henry Birdsey), Hyperion Ensemble under the direction of Iancu Dumitrescu, Red Yellow Blue Green Black (with Austin Larkin),  Leila Bordreuil, Aki Onda, Arien Wilkerson, and Paul Flaherty.

Jocelyn Beausire is a performance artist, musician, and spatial researcher who splits her time between Seattle, WA and Princeton, NJ, where she is pursuing her Masters of Architecture. 

Alan F. Jones is a Dallas-born, Washington-based musician, composer, and sound designer. Current and past projects include ‘what’, Telescoping, Steerage, MANKINDA, and Buck Young. Jones manages and operates Laminal Audio, a mastering and sound design studio located in Tracyton WA, in the West Puget Sound. His most recent film is the acclaimed What Is Man and What Is Guitar?: Keith Rowe.

https://zachrowden.bandcamp.com/

https://af-jones.com

http://www.jocelynbeausire.com/h

It’s that time of year when the Dan Meyer Choir digs up stories of folks who’ve died in Baltimore over the centuries and tells them in four-part harmony. Don’t miss this unique Halloween tradition brought to you by Baltimore’s most original community chorus!

Tickets available here!

About the album:

Carrier Records presents Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi, an album-length work from composer Ian Power and Bay Area-pianist Anne Rainwater. Power unwinds the original melody of Scelsi’s 1972 hymn, over and over, into an obsessive meditation for performer and listener alike. What begins as lush chords and hammering bells is interrupted by a bizarre ritual where the pianist must perform an impossible task and be held musically accountable for their mistakes. Ave Maria’s relentless repetitions and uncannily tonal harmonies probe, exalt, and challenge religious concepts of devotion and interiority.

Purchase the album here!

Doors at 7:30, show at 8

$10 at the door

Presented by Logan Perry, with an opening set by Steve Olson.

Doors at 6:30pm Show at 7pm

sliding scale $