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April 2026

Sat 18

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April 18, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Art Rysing 2026: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation

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Arts and Culture

Rita Rossi Colwell Center

Baltimore’s creative heart beats stronger than ever as we gather for Art Rysing 2026: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation — a citywide celebration of art, equity, and community healing through creative expression. Building on the legacy of previous Arts Rysing gatherings as a creative response to the murder of Freddie Gray in 2015, this year’s 11th convening expands its reach and impact, bringing together youth arts organizations, cultural leaders, educators, and community visionaries who use art as a catalyst for justice, belonging, and renewal.

View Full Event Details and Register for Art Rysing 2026: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation, Saturday, April 18, 2026

Sat 18

A group of musicians perform on brass instruments.

April 18, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!

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Arts and Culture
Music

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

The U.S. Army Blues, a component of the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” will perform a free concert at UMBC in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month. This special event will feature the 2025 Collegiate and High School solo competition winners from the Army Blues Young Artist Competition, alongside Naptown Jazz Kids, the premier jazz organization for young people in Annapolis.

View Full Event Details and Register for The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!, Saturday, April 18, 2026

Sun 19

A group of musicians pose, some holding instruments

April 19, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Inscape Chamber Orchestra

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Arts and Culture
Music

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Journey with the acclaimed Inscape Chamber Orchestra as they explore Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Richard Strauss’s Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, and Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring soloist Airi Yoshioka.

View Full Event Details and Register for Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Sunday, April 19, 2026

Mon 20

A Black woman with wavy hair and glasses, wearing a blue top and jacket, smiles at the camera.

April 20, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Hanna Garth — Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement

Arts and Culture
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Social Sciences

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Eckert Lecture on Health & Inequality, featuring Hanna Garth, assistant professor of anthropology at Princeton University, who will speak on “Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement.”

View Full Event Details and Register for Hanna Garth — Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement, Monday, April 20, 2026

Tue 21

April 21 - April 23

UMBC BookFest ’26

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Humanities
Literary Arts

Various Venues

Join us on Tuesday, April 21 and Thursday, April 23 for UMBC BookFest ‘26, a celebration of writers, readers, makers, and advocates. Programs feature an outdoor market dedicated to bookishness, an evening focused on One Maryland, One Book, and a discussion on the dangers of censorship.

View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC BookFest ’26, Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Tue 21

Against a dark background, a Black woman holds a tuba.

April 21, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Brass Bash, featuring Brass for Uncommon Times

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Music

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Join us for UMBC's annual Brass Bash, this year featuring Brass for Uncommon Times, a brass and percussion ensemble including top players from across the region, directed by Brian Kaufman, associate professor of music. The Brass Bash will also feature international tuba soloist Velvet Brown, critically acclaimed percussionist Fran Vielma, and Latin Grammy-winning drummer Daniel Prim. Additionally, award winning film composer Greg Nicolett will be present for the Maryland premiere of his multimedia work Forbidden to Face the Natural Light.

View Full Event Details and Register for Brass Bash, featuring Brass for Uncommon Times, Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Sun 26

A group of singers in military uniforms perform before an audience.

April 26, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

The Soldiers’ Chorus

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Arts and Culture
Music

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

The Soldiers’ Chorus, the vocal complement of The United States Army Field Band of Washington, D.C., performs vocal works by Bellini, Bizet, Danielpour, Delibes, Donizetti, Handel, Massenet, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Strauss, and Verdi.

View Full Event Details and Register for The Soldiers’ Chorus, Sunday, April 26, 2026

Mon 27

Against a blurry green background, a white woman with blond hair, wearing a tan top with red flowers, smiles at the camera.

April 27, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Humanities Forum — Orianne Smith: Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic

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Arts and Culture
Humanities

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

The Humanities Forum presents Orianne Smith, professor of English at UMBC, who will speak on Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic. Smith embarks on an interdisciplinary reimagining of witchcraft, women's writing, religion, and social reform, providing original insights on the history of witchcraft and its influence on public discourse, literature and art.

View Full Event Details and Register for Humanities Forum — Orianne Smith: Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic, Monday, April 27, 2026

Wed 29

Against a cultivated landscape, a Black woman with short dark hair, wearing a gray shirt that says UMBC, and dark glasses, smiles at the camera.

April 29, 11:45 am - 1:30 pm

Guenet Abraham: Exploring and Bridging Ethiopia’s Indigenous Art, Design, and Innovation

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Arts and Culture
Visual Arts

216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in Arts (CIRCA) presents Guenet Abraham, professor of visual arts at UMBC, who will speak on “Exploring and Bridging Ethiopia’s Indigenous Art, Design, and Innovation,” a multi-year project for which she was awarded a 2025 CIRCA Summer Fellowship.

View Full Event Details and Register for Guenet Abraham: Exploring and Bridging Ethiopia’s Indigenous Art, Design, and Innovation, Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Wed 29

Five musicians — one pianist and four cellists — perform on stage.

April 29, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

UMBC Chamber Players

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Arts and Culture
Music

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka.

View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Chamber Players, Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Thu 30

In a vividly lit corridor, a man in black dances with a woman in a yellow top.

April 30 - May 1

Orange Grove Dance — Site/Unseen

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Arts and Culture
Dance

UMBC Arts District

Join us for a special event with Site/Unseen, a production by Orange Grove Dance that brings ten performers into dynamic partnership with sidewalks, stairways, and the UMBC amphitheatre. Through shared weight, timing, and physical negotiation, bodies and architecture collide and collaborate, revealing the unseen choreography woven into the spaces we pass through every day. This outdoor performance, directed and choreographed by OGD Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves, travels a short distance across campus, beginning at UMBC's Performing Arts and Humanities Building and concluding at the Fine Arts Building Amphitheatre.

View Full Event Details and Register for Orange Grove Dance — Site/Unseen, Thursday, April 30, 2026

Thu 30

In a dark and dimly-lit space, a person stands near a cylindrical object on the ground, surrounded by flat screens that are omitting blue images.

Featured April 30 - May 2

The Polar Ice Museum

Arts and Culture
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Visual Arts

Imaging Research Center

The Imaging Research Center (IRC) presents The Polar Ice Museum, a series of artworks and immersive, data-driven installations that transform polar data into meaningful public engagement experiences on sea level, climate, and related environmental issues. The Polar Ice Museum will be open April 30 through May 2, with an Opening Reception on Thursday, April 30, from 4 to 6 p.m.

View Full Event Details and Register for The Polar Ice Museum, Thursday, April 30, 2026

May 2026

Fri 1

Featured May 1 - May 3

User Agreement

Arts and Culture
All Events
Theatre

Black Box Theatre

UMBC Theatre presents User Agreeement by Ben Holbrook and directed by Sean DiGiorgio ’26. Set in the near future, Sy and Theo attempt to navigate their bond in a world enhanced by the wonders of artificial intelligence and the occasional talking octopus. Their budding romance is tested by an increasingly complex society driven by technology and capital, asking us to wonder if two simple souls can truly connect.

View Full Event Details and Register for User Agreement, Friday, May 1, 2026

Fri 1

A woman with a medium skin tone, black hair, and black outfit, holds a piece of artwork as she looks at the camera.

May 1, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Wei Leng Tay: Migratory Paths, from Photographic Representation to Materiality

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Arts and Culture
Visual Arts

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

In this lecture, artist Wei Leng Tay will discuss modes of narrative-making in her art, taking migration as a central premise. From her beginnings in journalism to her current practice, she will speak about shifting ideas and uses of representation and materiality in relation to the photographic medium. She will discuss ways migration moves through some of her works, from topic to medium to form.

View Full Event Details and Register for Wei Leng Tay: Migratory Paths, from Photographic Representation to Materiality, Friday, May 1, 2026

Fri 1

May 1, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

UMBC Gamelan Ensemble

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Arts and Culture
Music

The Music Box

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).

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April 2026

Art Rysing 2026: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation

The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!

Inscape Chamber Orchestra

UMBC BookFest ’26

Brass Bash, featuring Brass for Uncommon Times

The Soldiers’ Chorus

Humanities Forum — Orianne Smith: Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic

Guenet Abraham: Exploring and Bridging Ethiopia’s Indigenous Art, Design, and Innovation

UMBC Chamber Players

Orange Grove Dance — Site/Unseen

The Polar Ice Museum

May 2026

User Agreement

Wei Leng Tay: Migratory Paths, from Photographic Representation to Materiality

UMBC Gamelan Ensemble

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