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Baltimore Playwrights Festival
Before The Baltimore Playwrights Festival, many new plays never had a chance of being produced and many unknown playwrights never had the opportunity to hone their craft. This festival represents a willingness to let go of the familiar and explore the possibilities. This is a place where the creative process begins by giving fledging playwrights a stage. And this is why events like this are vital to the growth of our culture.
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Vagabond Opera with Balti Mare
This band has restored my faith in the wonderment of live music. We’ve been bombarded by homogenized, over-produced, cog-rock and other manifestations of mass marketed melodic refuse for so long that we can truly appreciate the talents of a cabaret act with a well-refined wit, stand-out musicianship and the ability to earn applause without flaunting tits and ass every two minutes in order to keep our attention.
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Shodekeh with the B.S.O.
On Friday night we witnessed a man reach an important milestone in his life and career. While validation comes in many forms there are only a few moments in a person's life that pay dividends quite the way this one did for Shodekeh. Once an usher at The Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, he returned to astound those in the audience who had yet to experience his talent. For those of us who have watched him progress over the years, the moment conjured a sense of pride and inspiration. Shodekeh stood on that stage with many of the most respected musicians in the city because he made the necessary sacrifices to do so. The fact that he did it on his own terms was as impressive as the performance.
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Artscape 2010
By nature of being human you are an artist. The way you choose to engage with society in order to feed yourself is your art. Whether you're painting, writing, farming, cooking, caring for others or preparing someone's taxes, you are to a certain degree, exercising your imagination. If you were to try my grilled cheese sandwiches, you would swear that they were masterpieces and offer me an obscene sum of money for the recipe. I would tell you that your offer was an insult and demand that you double it.
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Wild Nothing and Future Islands
The world is changing so quickly that your perception of it is already outdated. The kids today are growing accustomed to an array of devices that they will use to create and ingest digital content at such a rate that the lines between the virtual and the tangible will become increasingly blurred. Social Networking, which allows us to interact with other real people, will make mediums like television and radio seem archaic and primitive.
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The Last Maynard Fest
Each of us have our circles. The social framework in which we exist is constructed with blood, geography and our tolerance for peculiar personality types. It's within these circles that resources are shared, ideas are exchanged and a culture is forged. This is the foundation for our tribes. It's hard to sculpt a culture in the far reaches of suburbia where mediocre media is mass marketed and shipped in. Once there, it's force-fed to kids who are so disconnected from anything that actually represents them that their identity is slowly whittled down into assimilation where each MTV haircut looks like the next one and no one questions why binge drinking is a rite of passage.
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Get A Mission
If you don't have a mission, get one. Contrary to the common belief of the Twentieth Century, we were not put here to admire ourselves and fulfill every desire that enters our pretty little heads. We certainly weren't put here to cater to every whim put into that same head by the hegemony that control mass media either. In truth, no one can say for sure that we're here for any discernible reason other than getting it on with one another simply to propagate the species.
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Normal?
In the seldom traveled nooks and crannies of every city across the world, there exist enclaves of lesser-known phenomena that may only reach those few locals who have found themselves in the know.
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Honfest 2010
We the people of Baltimore City hereby reserve the right to look ridiculous. We will plan street festivals that celebrate our decision to look ridiculous. We know that it is sometimes necessary to dress our pets in outfits that are more ridiculous than our own. We believe it is our duty to exemplify the most admirable of all traits; the willingness to laugh at ourselves.
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Ode to Joe
Ever accidentally walk into a brothel? It’s easier than you might think. Years ago, I was encouraged to go to a Korean restaurant on the corner of North Avenue after an evening of jamming with a friend at Hour Haus Studios. We walked in and the joint was empty, which is always a sure sign of impending culinary disillusionment.
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Sowebo Festival
There’s a rumor flying around about a third Arts District being designated on the west side of Baltimore that encompasses the Hippodrome, the new site of the Everyman Theater and the H&H Building. With that being said, any talk of a west side Arts District whose boundaries exclude Sowebo is a farce and an insult to a community that has volunteered their time and creativity in an effort to revitalize an otherwise neglected sector of our city.
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