Top 5 Events
(in no particular order)
Each week we round up the most fun goings-on in the city. Please submit your event to our calendar if you’d like to see yourself here! We are pleased to partner with car service Uber Baltimore to help you get to your events in style! Download the Uber app and get a free ride ($20 credit) when you sign up with code WhatWeekly. No subscription or obligation required! Just get the app, use the code and off you go!
1. Marissa Nadler with Terrence Hanum and Sterling Brothers at Metro Gallery
Folk meets Black Metal
We interviewed Marissa for this week’s cover story! She takes elements of heavy metal and experimental music mixed in with strains of folk and old-school country Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the great rising singer -songwriters, appearing with local experimental/metal artist Terrence Hanum of Locrian.
2. Wrongfest – Benefit for laid-off City Paper Employees at Ottobar
Wrong for so Long
The Baltimore media landscape is shifting and we’re sad to see one of it’s icons out of work. Come out to Ottobar and support Joe MacLeod, longtime creative director and writer of the infamous Mr. Wrong column. Baltimore creatives need to band together!
3. Carabella’s Fun Time Art Clearance at The Charles Theatre
Art Meets Gambling
“This work represents a wide range of drawing styles and mediums that I have worked in over the past six years. Some took 80 hours to create and others took only one hour. I want you to own a piece of the last six years of my life. I want everyone to enjoy the game.
This isn’t a traditional art show. It’s more like a gambling opportunity.”
4. Baltimore Rock Opera Society at 2640 Space
The BROS Production that Started it All – “Grundlehammer”
Our friends at the BROS bring it back to the start with this weird and wonderful production: “Gründlehämmer takes place in the land of Brotopia: a once-prosperous kingdom where the power of music can make crops grow, heal the sick, or smite an enemy. For 30 years Brotopia flourished and prospered – but a shadow has fallen across the land, cast by a tyrannical Dark King Lothario and an immortal cave-dwelling monster of unspeakable evil: the Gründle.”
5. Tia Nina’s Pitchin’ the Tent and Effervescent Collective’s Butterknife at Single Carrot Theatre
2 for 1 – Mesmerizing Performances
Pitchin’ the Tent will make you hoot, holler and bang your head while also making you think. Powerhouse dancers J. Van Stone (Leah Curran Moon), Sammy Rain (Ilana Silverstein) and Sticks (Lisi Stoessel) surprise audiences with wild, unhinged performance that simultaneously evoke gritty rock ‘n roll mayhem and poignant feminist critique. Tia Nina is a feminist punk-rock modern dance band that shatters expectations and surprises audiences with a gritty, physical, surreal experience that challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about rock performance, modern dance, gender and popular culture. Through a witty social critique of contemporary gender relations, the band delivers a celebration and a deconstruction of rock ‘n roll.
Butter Knife plays with manners, decorum, decoration, and decency. Butter Knife overlaps with our training in Systema, a low impact Russian martial arts form that teaches softness and energy manipulation for defense, health, and longevity. Effervescent Collective is an award winning Baltimore based dance organization that explores and promotes the power of movement, creating dance based wonders in collaboration with the many beautiful artists of Baltimore.For Effervescent, dance is a physical practice in connection to a groove.
