The Department of Music presents a Halloween Spooktacular — a varied program with humor, fun, and more than a few surprises. Come in costume and enjoy an afternoon musical spectacle! Pre- and post-concert events will combine with the family-oriented program for all ages.
View Full Event Details and Register for Halloween Spooktacular, Saturday, October 31, 2026
Mary Celenza, a showrunner, director, and writer with over 25 years of experience in television and audio production, will discuss her extensive career. She is currently the Head of Current and Executive Producer at Treefort Media, where she oversees series for Audible, Wondery, Netflix, and Focus Features.
Indians on Indian Lands unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy.
In conjunction with Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll, the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents an artist roundtable on experimental praxis moderated by Ernest Shaw in conversation with Ada Pinkston and Lehna Huie.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Faculty String Sextet in a performance of two of the keystone Romantic works for string ensemble — the String Sextet No. 2 by Johannes Brahms, and the String Sextet “Souvenir de Florence” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Faculty String Sextet, Sunday, November 8, 2026
Interdisciplinary visual artist Stephanie J. Williams will tell us about her artistic practice, which bridges sculpture and animation. Her work navigates hierarchies of taste, unpacking how “official” histories are constructed in order to understand contemporary social coding.
This talk by Natanya Duncan, director of the Africana Studies Program and associate professor of history at Queens College, will examine how the women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) set the stage for W.E.B. Du Bois’ expanded ideas on gender and nation building in the 20th Century.
Join us as pianist Grigorios Zamparas performs masterworks spanning the Romantic and Impressionist eras. The program features Franz Liszt’s 1849 dramatic "Dante Sonata," a formidable piece inspired by the Divine Comedy, Ludwig van Beethoven’s 1804 "Waldstein” Sonata, known for its grand scope and technical brilliance, and selections from Maurice Ravel’s Miroirs, a vivid five-movement suite written in 1904–05 and dedicated to his contemporaries in the Parisian artistic circle.
View Full Event Details and Register for Grigorios Zamparas, piano, Wednesday, November 11, 2026
The Department of Dance presents the annual First Works Concert, featuring new works by dance majors.
View Full Event Details and Register for First Works Concert, Thursday, November 12, 2026
The Department of Music presents the Walt Weiskopf Quartet, featuring Walt Weiskopf, saxophone, Harry Appelman, piano, Amy Shook, bass, and Steve Fidyk, drums. Their program will include music by Cole Porter, Wells & Segal, and contemporary original jazz works by Weiskopf.
View Full Event Details and Register for Walt Weiskopf Quartet, Sunday, November 15, 2026
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka. Students in the UMBC Chamber Players perform a wide variety of instrumental chamber works, ranging from Baroque, Classical, Romantic to contemporary repertoire. This concert will also feature the premiere of student works.
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Chamber Players, Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Puerto Rican history has been a contested space ever since its early days. From Fray Íñigo Abad y la Sierra’s 1788 book to Paul G. Miller’s Historia de Puerto Rico in the early twentieth century, the production of history has served different political purposes. This lecture will explore the ways that history teaching and writing gave way to racialized tropes of Puerto Rican docility and laziness.
In conjunction with Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll, the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents an artist talk about memory, communal and familial photographic archives, and land sovereignty, moderated by Jasmine Washington in conversation with Darrius Fox and Kelvin Bulluck.
The Department of Music presents UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Walter Harley, with clarinet soloist Natalie Groom. The program features an eclectic mix of wind band classics and engaging new works, including Nathan Daughtrey's Twitch for clarinet and band.
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Wind Ensemble, Friday, November 20, 2026
The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Lisa Cella in a performance of Frederic Rzewski's Attica and other works.
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC New Music Ensemble, Saturday, November 21, 2026