MAR 31-- APR 6 EVENTS CALENDAR

Thursday, March 31 at 5:30 PM GRIOT
Herstories
There are wonderful story-tellers keeping a great tradition alive in Maryland. For those who enjoy humor, wisdom, and great entertainment, the Griots' Circle of Maryland. Free
http://www.pratt.lib.md.us/
Walbrook Branch, Enoch Pratt Free Library
3203 West North Avenue
410-396-0935

Friday, April 1 at 7:30 PM THEATRE
Theatre Serenissima
Rick Shelley has been performing shadow puppet theatre in his Reservoir Hill home to appreciative audiences for a number of years. He writes, scores, and narrates plays using a miniature stage, sets, and puppets he created. These are literally fabulous entertainments, which were enhanced by the intimacy of his crowded auditorium/living room. Like Fluid Movement, Theatre Serenissima is reason alone to live in Baltimore.
Given that the audience size is limited to 28 for these performances, his work should lose none of its magic at AVAM. Also showing at 7:30 on April 3, 8, 10, 15 and 17; and at 2 PM on April 9 and 16. $20, make reservations and arrive early for a good seat.
http://www.avam.org/cgi-bin/Events.cgi
American Visionary Arts Museum
800 Key Highway
410-244-1900

Friday, April 1 at 5:45 PM MUSIC
Lukasz Kuropaczewski
Solo guitar at Homewood House will be a relaxing way to end the week and start the weekend. $15, reservations required.
http://www.jhu.edu/~hwdhouse/events.html
Peabody at Homewood Concert Series
Homewood House
3400 North Charles
410-516-5589

Saturday, April 2 thru April 9 VISUAL
Lotta Art Preview Exhibition
School 33 invites artists to donate a work (in any medium) to be raffled at its fund-raising auction. The fun part of the auction is that each ticket holder selects the work she or he wants in the order that her/his ticket number is selected. (The number of tickets sold is limited to the number of artworks donated.) Even the year Jimbo's number was called very near the end, he was able to get one of his top ten 'picks.' Times vary by day. Free, excluding benefit
http://www.school33.org/
School 33 Art Center
1427 Light street
410-396-4641

Sunday, April 3 at 7 PM ELECTRONIC
Double Concerto for Two Composers
Keith Kramer and Mark Williams compose accompanied by the visual art to Fred Merrill. There's marvelous, largely ignored, electronic music in this town thanks to George Peabody. $5
http://www.andiemusik.com/
An die Musik
409 North Charles
410-385-2638

Monday, April 4 at 7:30 PM FILM & TALK
Documentary Shorts
Per title, plus a discussion afterward lead by Scott Calonico who directed three of the films which will be shown ("lively tours of weird U.S. history" Lee Gardner in the City Paper). Jimbo's adding a Maryland Film Fest link. $10
www.mdfilmfest.org/documentary.html
Falvey Hall, Brown Center, mica
1301 Mt. Royal Avenue
410-752-8083

Wednesday, April 6 to Friday, April 8 HANG FREE
Out of Order
Maryland Art Place invites all area artists to hang a piece (one artwork) from 9 AM Wednesday through 9 AM Thursday. Then, at its annual gala on April 8 from 8 PM to 1 AM the works are sold as priced by the artist, who split the proceeds with MAP. The work is exhibited from 11 to 5 on Thursday and Friday. Free (excluding gala)
www.Mdartplace.org
Maryland Art Place
8 Market Place, Suite 100
410-962-8565

LAST CHANCE: Richard Cleaver and Joyce Scott

Through Saturday, April 2 Mixed Media Busts
Dirtwork: Joyce Scott
If you haven't seen this exhibition at C. Grimaldis Gallery, make time and go! It is spectacular, beautiful, disturbing, thought-provoking, complex, and sublime. Yes, I don't know if this is mainstream or fringe, but these distinctions aren't important. And yes, I remember my promise not to mention Tour de Clay exhibitions. [Disclosure: Scott is a friend of Jimbo's.] Free
http://www.cgrimaldis.com/
C. Grimaldis Gallery
523 North Charles Street
410-539-1080

Through Sunday, April 3 Installation
Richard Cleaver: Gathering at the Latrobe Spring House
If you haven't seen this exhibition at the BMA, make time and go! Richard Cleaver speculates on slavery at Oakland, the orginal location of the Spring House. His work (and Joyce Scott's) offers insightful perspectives on the roots of Maryland contemporary life. Mystical, historical, beautiful, and sublime. Yes, I don't know if his art is mainstream or fringe, but I do know that readers of this blog will greatly appreciate this exhibition. [Disclosure: Cleaver is also a friend of Jimbo's.] Admission $7
www.artbma.org/
The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
410-396-7100

MAR 17 -- MAR 23 EVENTS CALENDAR

Thursday, Mar 17, Doors open at 7 CELTIC ROCK
O'Malley's March with the Crawdaddies
Supposedly this is the last St. Patrick's Day that Baltimore's Mayor will be performing with his band, O'Malley's March. And there's absolutely no other city in the USA with a Mayor better at Celtic Rock. $12 in advance, $15 at the door
http://www.omalleysmarch.com/
http://www.rechertheatre.com/index.cfm
Recher Theater
512 York Road, Towson
410-537-7210

Friday, Mar 18 from 7 to 10 PM ARTISTS' RECEPTION
American Al2O3SiO2 2H2O: Contemporary Sculpture
One of many Tour de Clay exhibitions, this features eighteen artists whose works are based on non-traditional and contemporary philosophies. Exhibit through April 2. Free
www.area405.com
Area 405
405 East Oliver Street
410-528-2101

Friday, Mar 18 at 8 and 10 PM IMPROV MUSIC
Elliot Sharp and Bobby Privite
An Die Musik brings another great night of improvisational music to Baltimore with guitarist Elliot Sharp and drummer Bobby Privite. Make reservations. $18
http://www.bobbyprevite.com/
http://www.nndb.com/people/117/000036009/
www.andiemusiklive.com
An Die Musik
409 North Charles Street
410-385-2638

Saturday, Mar 19 at 9 AM - 1 PM SCREEN PAINTING
Workshop
Screen painting is yet another peculiarly Baltimore practice. To maintain privacy in their right-on-the-street row houses and still have air circulation, many home-owners commissioned artists to paint their front door screens and sometimes their first floor window screens, often with idyllic country cottage scenes. Dee Herget, one of the finest screen painters still practicing, conducts a workshop on screen painting. $40, registration required.
www.mdhs.org
Maryland Historical Society
207 West Monument Street
410-685-3750

Saturday and Sunday, Mar 19 & 20 at 8 PM DANCE/THEATER
Mathnavi
DC's Open Theatre offers an adaptation of this work by Jelaluddin Rumi, the "Shakespeare of the Middle East" and "America's bestselling poet." (Who knew that Americans had such good taste in Muslim poetry!) Directed and designed by Joe Martin with original live Persian music by Kasem Davoudian. Billed to encompass movement, sacred Indian dance, parables of peace and unity, tragedy, amazing reversals of fortune, laughter and visual delights. And I believe it! General public $16, members $12
http://opentheatre.org/
www.creativealliance.org
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
410-276-1651

Monday, Mar 21 at 7:30 PM FILM/TALK
Don't Look Back/D.A. Pennebacker
This is a great 16mm documentary from 1965 about Bob Dylan early in his career. Director D.A. Pennebacker presents it. $10
www.mdfilmfestival.com
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
1301 Mt. Royal avenue
410-752-8083