Community Calendar

Consistently rated the best local scavenger hunt since 2016!

Puzzling Adventures are a cross between a scavenger hunt, an adventure race, and an informative self-guided walking tour. Each adventure consists of a series of locations that you are guided to where you are required to answer a question or solve a puzzle to receive your next instruction. Compete as a group, individually or create multiple teams and race each other. Almost all of our adventures are designed to be wheelchair and stroller friendly and all are carefully crafted to be entertaining and informative with something to appeal to all ages. Complete the adventure as quickly as possible to win first place or take your time and enjoy the journey. Price is per team, not per person. Groups can be any size, but small groups are recommended for the best experience.

Enter the code EVENTPASS on the payment page for a $10 discount!

Most locations are available daylight hours every day.

Come celebrate the holiday season with the gift of art for your loved ones! Our annual utilitarian ceramics holiday invitational, Winterfest 2024, features 14 established and emerging ceramic artists from 11 different states. This exhibition/sale is perfectly paired with Baltimore Clayworks’ Annual Holiday Sale, where resident and associated artists join together to fill the galleries and Shop with hand-crafted gifts. All items are available for immediate purchase and can be taken home right away—no need to wait until the end of the show. The items in Winterfest also become available through our Online Shop on Sunday, November 10.

Winterfest 2024 Invited Artists:
Andy Bissonnette (NE), Eric Botbyl (TN), Yael Braha (PA), Jeff Campana (GA), Matt Fiske (MT), Hiroe Hanazono (PA), Martina Lantin (VT), Joe Lee (CA), Simon Levin (IL), Matt Long (MS), Kip O’Krongly (MN), Yesha Panchal (GA), Sandra Torres (CA), Meghan Yarnell (OH)

Making Art for a Lifetime: Paintings & Paperworks by Paul Moscatt and Carlene Moscatt featuring paintings and other works by each artist is open to the public daily from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. from August 16- December 1, 2024 in the South Hall Gallery of the Broadmead Community Center. Parking is available for visitors in front of the Broadmead Community Center, 13801 York Road, Cockeysville, MD 21030. Guests are asked to check in at the reception desk upon arrival.

An opening reception to meet the artists will be held on September 22, 2024, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the South Hall Gallery of the Broadmead Community Center and is open to the public.

In need of help with your technology? If so, come in to the library for free tech help.

The VLP Librarian will assist patrons with the following skills:

– Email Help.
– Job application assistance.
– Learn basic word processing.
– Password reset help.
– Making appointments online.
– Help with online applications.
– Printing applications, forms, and other paperwork.
– Locating local services.
– Learn a new phone or personal device.
– Learn how to use search functionality.
– Help locating information online.

When: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3pm – 5pm

Appointments are recommended. Drop ins welcome, but may require a wait for patrons with scheduled appointments.

Event Description Enjoy Special Happy Hour Pricing from 4pm-6pm
$5 for your choice of: Chili Dog, Onion Ring Tower, French Onion Dip, Veggie Egg Rolls, or a Pub Pretzel

About this class:

Over six weeks, you will develop the core skills needed to host and perform a professional showcase of improv comedy. Highwire Improv's expert instructors will be with you every step of the way, holding the space to make silly choices, explore comedy, and learn how to create art together. By the end of the class, you will be an ensemble ready to host and put on a full student showcase!

Each class session will run from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET, with optional time available after class to discuss and debrief.

Week 1 (November 4): Review, Scenes, and Editing
Week 2 (November 11): A to C Thinking
Week 3 (November 18): Game of the Scene
Week 4 (November 25): Scenework
Week 5 (December 2): Openings, Initiations, Group Scenes
Week 6 (December 9): Putting a Show Together
Week 7 (December 16): Student Showcase!

This class is in-person, but Highwire Improv also offers online classes - check out our page for other offerings!

About your instructors:

Kristen McKenzie (she/her) is an improviser, educator, and founding board member of Highwire Improv. Originally from Charleston, SC, she has lived in Baltimore for more than ten years. She has trained with Baltimore Improv Group and the Magnet and PIT in NYC. She enjoys all kinds of improv, but dramatic improv has a special place in her heart. She believes improv is a consent-based art form and is passionate about creating improv spaces for everyone. She performs regularly with her troupes Babeprov, Local Spot, Important Screws, Topiary, and Whatever This Is. When not improvising she enjoys cooking, gardening, and spending time with her husband Barry and their three beautiful cats.

Brandin Bowden (he/him) “Brandin with an I” is a star on and off the improv stage! He performs with the local improv troupes Cakewalk and Scrapple in Baltimore and travels all over making people laugh. When he’s not making things up on stage, he teaches groups how to work better together through improv—connecting to make work fun! Brandin’s also into cooking up healthy food and snapping cool photos. He’s all about bringing creativity into everything he does!

Welcome to the wonderful world of improv comedy!

Could you imagine yourself:

More confident?
Connecting better with other people?
Comfortable in unexpected situations?
Making up things on the spot?

We know that you can, and this class will show you how! Learn the fundamentals of improv comedy with two skilled and supportive instructors. We'll play some very silly games, learn how to create characters, explore techniques to collaborate and create as a team, and even perform full improvised scenes together!

Of course, you won't be facing this new experience alone - you'll be learning these new skills with a team of new improvisers, and by the end you'll be ready to put on a showcase for your friends, family, and fans!

About this class:

Over six weeks, you will learn the fundamentals of improv comedy through a combination of warm-ups, games, exercises, and practice scenes. Highwire Improv's expert instructors will be with you every step of the way, holding the space to make silly choices, explore comedy, and learn how to create art together. No performance, acting, or comedy experience is required - but by the end you will be confident and ready to show off your new skills!

Each class session will run from 7:00-9:00pm ET, with optional time available after class to discuss and debrief:

Week 1 (November 5): Intro to Improv
Week 2 (November 12): Base Reality
Week 3 (November 19): Physicality
Week 4 (November 26): Characters
Week 5 (December 3): Emotion and Relationship
Week 6 (December 10): Putting it All Together
Week 7 (December 17): Student Showcase!

This class is in-person, but Highwire Improv also offers online classes - check out our page for other offerings!

About your Instructors:

Tashika Campbell (she/her) began improvising in Baltimore, Maryland in 2017. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, Tashika is a founding member of the award-winning independent troupe Cake Walk, and also performs with Dreamweaver. Tashika has headlined festivals across the US and coordinated the first improv festival dedicated to Black improvisers in the DMV. Tashika is also a sought after coach, teacher, and workshop facilitator.

Misty Letts (she/they) stepped into the improv pool 6 years ago and has not looked back. She got her footing at Baltimore Improv Group through curriculum and workshops from various BIG instructors of the form. Digging into opportunities to learn from so much talent including Don Fanelli (UCB), Kate Zelensky (UCB), and Travis Charles Ploeger (iMusical- WIT). She has also enjoyed playing with Maryland Improv Collective and can presently be found camped out on Highwire’s front stoop. Misty she’s and is also a they/them and can be found on two wheels tooling about town, so drive carefully!

About Highwire Improv:

Highwire Improv is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization based in Baltimore, Maryland. Our mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy, and justice — in Baltimore and around the world — through improvisational theater.

Can I Use Professional Development Budgets for This Class?

Yes, very often you can! We've even created a few email templates depending on what type of skills you'd like to highlight to your employer!

Obasi Akoto and prominent members of the Greater Baltimore & Washington, D.C. Jazz Community will lead us in world-class performances almost every Tuesday, 7-10pm. Surround yourself with great company, soul lifting music, and wonderful food!

"A jazz renaissance is happening right here and right now at Keystone Korner." - Obasi Akoto

Free admission, unless otherwise indicated. Reservations are required. Two item food & beverage minimum.

Paula Vogel’s thought-provoking play with music tells the story of the true events surrounding Sholem Asch’s controversial drama God of Vengeance, from its celebrated premiere in Berlin in 1907 through its European tour and arrival on Broadway in the 1920s– where it met with censorship and obscenity charges. Indecent is a tribute to the joy of theatre through the eyes of a Yiddish theatre troupe and the artists who not only dared to challenge the world, but also changed it in the process.

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s award-winning installation is the first of a series of exhibitions presented as part of the BMA’s Turn Again to the Earth environmental initiative. The installation celebrates Baltimore’s community health workers during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine through a series of portraits and related narratives mounted on 18 socially distanced, stainless-steel IV poles. This powerful and deeply evocative artwork offers an alternative approach to monument-making that challenges us to consider the nature of how and who we honor.