Community Calendar

Poe Baltimore invites you to darken Poe’s chamber door at the 8th annual International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards, taking place October 3–5, 2025. This three-day celebration features Poe-themed performances, exhibits, tours, and special guests, with the free outdoor street festival taking place Saturday and Sunday only, October 4 & 5, in the shadow of Poe House on Amity Street in Baltimore.
Festivalgoers will enjoy vendors, booksellers, music, family-friendly activities, poetry, and art. Attendees can also explore Poe’s legacy with representatives from some of the nation’s leading “Poe Places,” including The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum (Baltimore), The Poe Museum (Richmond), The Poe Cottage (Bronx, NYC), and The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.
This year marks the 176th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in Baltimore, and the 180th anniversary of the first publication of The Raven. Programming will take place at multiple historic locations throughout the city, including Poe House, Westminster Hall, Carroll Mansion, and Green Mount Cemetery. Proceeds support the preservation and upcoming expansion of the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum.
For more event details, visit PoeFestInternational.org—many programs require tickets or advance registration. Winners of the 2025 Saturday 'Visiter' Awards announced festival weekend!

September 10 - December 6 (closed October 17 & November 26 -29)
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening reception Wednesday, September 10, 7:30 p.m.

How have recent upheavals—from the pandemic to global conflicts, amplified by media—reshaped our private lives? How do personal memories become collective history? In a world forever changed, how do we find our way forward? Elaine Qiu’s awe-inspiring installation of painting, video, and sound invites visitors into a multi-sensory exploration of communal consciousness, connection, and healing in a fragmented, post-pandemic world.
For parking information visit towson.edu/parking/visitors

On View: September 12 - October 11
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

In her work, Yaniv draws on patterns from nature and images from daily life, altogether forming landscapes which blur the line between the real and the imagined, the organic and the artificial, the chaotic and the orderly. For this exhibition, she takes her inspiration from Patrick Svensson’s "The Book of Eels," a mix of natural history, memoir, and metaphysical musings, fusing scientific mysteries with lived experience. The eel is born in the Sargasso Sea, a place of legend but also a fundamental part of the ocean, encompassing two million square miles in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean. A sea within a sea, it is enclosed only by several large rotating ocean currents. This large installation is a collaboration with the Department of Dance, and considers, in multi-modal ways, life and loss, journey, metamorphosis, complexity, and culture-nature (endangered).

Reception September 11 following the 6:30 p.m. lecture and dance performance.

On September 11, 12 and 13 experience dance and sculpture in dynamic interplay just before the Inertia dance performance.
For parking information visit towson.edu/parking/visitors

On View: September 12 - December 6 (closed Oct. 17 & Nov. 25 - 29)
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

The work in this exhibition compresses and expands expectations of depth as moderated by a post-image visual culture. The artists adhere to neither medium nor dimensional restrictions, but manipulate the viewer’s relationship to the image as a temporal document, compressed and fractured, through the singular eye of the lens. This expectation, no longer warranted in the age of computer generated images, becomes a fallacy of both the eye and of the language used to comprehend it. The image is untethered from representation and logical spatial association. Spatial continuity and discontinuity run amok in playful fracture--the work pushes and prods the amorphous opening left in the wake of this rupture; what was flat is unmoored of grounding, what was solid is now compressed.

Reception September 11 following the 6:30 p.m. lecture.
For parking information visit towson.edu/parking/visitors

“Echos of Old”, a one-of-a-kind concert and album release reception celebrating the timeless beauty of old English and Irish Celtic folk songs. This extraordinary afternoon will feature the American premiere of Alexina Louie’s acclaimed musical setting of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, performed by renowned tenor, David W. Cook, with his award-winning ensemble, The Rivers of Harmony. Celebrating the 180th anniversary of the first printing of Poe's most haunting poem.

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
by Juliany Taveras
Based on the book by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant

Directed by Julie Herber

Run time: Around one hour with no intermission
This show is appropriate for all ages.

About: Morris loves space adventures, painting, and especially the bright tangerine dress in his classroom's dress-up center. But when others question his choices, Morris must find the courage to stand tall in who he is. With the help of his vivid imagination – and the roar of space tigers – he shows everyone that bravery means being true to yourself.

In this captivating adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion by Sarah Rose Kearns, audiences are transported to a world of social intrigue, family drama, and enduring love. Anne Elliot's touching journey of resilience and second chances unfolds against the elegant and beloved backdrop of Regency-era England, laced with Austen's signature wit.

Persuasion will open September 26 with previews on September 24 and 25. The production will close on October 19. Thursday shows are only 10/9 and 10/16.
Visit www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com for more information or call the box office at 410-244-8570.

Bach in Baltimore opens the 2025–2026 season with a stunning program of Baroque brilliance! Experience the spiritual depth of Bach Cantata 7, celebrating the power of baptism alongside the vibrant charm of Telemann Concerto for Two oboes and violin and Concerto for Two Oboes with Bassoon. From sacred beauty to joyful virtuosity, this concert promises an unforgettable afternoon of rich harmonies and dazzling ensemble playing.

Noah Pierre [guitar & vocals]
Ricky Jefferson [organ]
Mike Paxton [saxophone]
Jordon Stanley [drums]

Noah Pierre Band is a Baltimore based collective of artists. Their debut album, “Frames” was released on all platforms in August of 2023 and embarked on a tour which included sold out performances at The Pocket & AG Studios. Noah Pierre Band mixes elements of jazz, soul, funk and rock. They are making their highly anticipated return to Keystone Korner Baltimore this October 5th!

Back for its second year, Abbott and the Big Ten Conference are hosting the We Give Blood Drive competition to entice students, alumni, fans, and community members to rally around their Big Ten school to donate blood, save lives, and address the country's ongoing critical blood shortage.

From August 27 to December 5, anyone eligible to donate blood can do so anywhere, anytime in the U.S. to count for their school. The school with the most donations at the end of the competition will receive $1 million to advance student or community health.

New this year, everyone who donates or attempts to donate blood throughout the competition will receive an exclusive, limited-edition, Homefield-designed T-shirt specific to their school. To receive the shirt:

1. Show up to donate
2. Submit your donation (or attempt to donate) at BigTen.Org/Abbott or by texting DONATE to 222688 (ABBOTT).
3. Click the link sent to your email
4. Use your redemption code
5. Your shirt will be shipped to the address of your choice. 

Last year, the University of Nebraska won, and is using the funds to advance student health on campus. The University of Maryland is competing this year and will host several blood drives on campus and in the surrounding area throughout the competition. To find a blood drive near you, please visit: https://bigten.org/abbott/maryland