Free Fall Baltimore through October 31

15 DAYS REMAINING FOR FREE CULTURAL ARTS EVENTS DURING FREE FALL BALTIMORE

The citywide arts celebration events for October 16 through October 31

The fourth annual Free Fall Baltimore celebration offers residents and visitors an array of free creative arts events in venues throughout Baltimore City.  More than 70 organizations have joined to provide entertaining free activities including stilt walking, clay and glassblowing workshops, Latin, African and ballet dance lessons, jazz and classical music concerts, films, lectures, history tours, Edgar Allan Poe themed theatrical shows and free admission to top area attractions.  Families that are looking for activities can enjoy more than 100 fun and educational events at local venues until Saturday, October 31.  A project of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, the fall arts celebration is sponsored by media partners Maryland Public Television, WBAL-TV 11, WJZ-TV 13, WMAR-TV 2, WUTB-TV 24, Fox45/ CW Baltimore, The Baltimore Sun, City Paper, Urbanite, WYPR 88.1 FM, Radio One (92Q, Magic 95.9, Spirit 1400, WOLB 1010) and CITYpeek.com.

Free Fall Baltimore is a promotional collaboration designed to make art and culture more accessible to area residents and visitors, while introducing young adults and families to a wide variety of cultural experiences. 

For a complete schedule of free events for Free Fall Baltimore, call 1-877-BALTIMORE or visit www.freefallbaltimore.com.

FREE FALL BALTIMORE EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS 2009

Friday, October 16 – Sunday October 18

School 33 Art Center Open Studio Tour

A self-guided, two-day tour of more than 100 participating artists throughout Baltimore City on October 17 and 18 from 10am-6pm (studio times vary).  A kick-off reception takes place Friday, October 16 from 6pm-9pm at School 33 Art Center, 1427 Light Street.   New for 2009: an online GPS map for all studio addresses to print and use for the tour: www.school33.org

Saturday, October 17

Carroll Museums, Inc and Star Spangled Banner Flag House

Make a fun historical day of it and enjoy the Free Family festival at the Flag House with the Free Fall Scavenger Hunt at the Carroll Mansion.  Flag House is open from 10am-4pm; Carroll Mansion is open from noon-4pm.

Saturday, October 17 from 12pm-5pm

Baltimore Clayworks – Clayfest!

Guided studio tours, artist demonstrations, exhibitions, collaborative participation in the creation of a community mosaic, children’s activities, “clay Olympics” and more fun at Baltimore Clayworks, 5707 Smith Avenue.  Registration required at 410-578-1919.

Sunday, October 18 from 1-4pm

Baltimore Classical Guitar Society – Guitar Master Class

Franco Platino, international performer, recording artist and master teacher at 4748 Shelbourne Road.  Reserve in advance at www.bcgs.org or call 410-247-5320.

Sunday, October 18 at 7:30pm

Community Concerts at Second – Chamber Concerts

Chamber Music by Candlelight. Planned and performed by members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at 4200 St. Paul Street.

 

Monday, October 19 at 7:30pm

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University – Opera Potpourri: Opera in French

Peabody Opera Workshop presents a trio of one-act opera including Rameau’s erotic myth Adonis, Gluck’s L’Ivrogne corrige and Donizetti’s Rita at Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, 17 E. Mount Vernon Place.

Wednesday, October 21 at 8pm

Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium with Elizabeth Edwards

Attorney and health care advocate, wife of former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards speaks, at Shriver Hall, Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus, 3400 N. Charles Street.

Thursday, October 22 at 6:30pm

Baltimore Architecture Foundation – Lewis Lecture with Witold Rybczynski

Architectural writer and lecturer, Witold Rybczynski, joins the Baltimore Architecture Foundation for Architecture Week at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive.

Thursday, October 22 at 7pm

Baltimore Heritage, Inc. – Baltimore's Historic Theaters

Wally Coberg, an award winning designer and filmmaker by trade and avid Baltimore theater researcher by inclination, will be speaking about Baltimore’s Historic Theaters at the Baltimore School for the Arts Auditorium, 712 Cathedral Street.  Free passes may be reserved by calling 410-332-9992 or email hopkins@baltimoreheritage.org.

Saturday, October 24 from 10am-4pm 

The Walters Art Museum – Free Family Festival of Champions

Discover your inner superheroes and explore famous characters from ancient Greece to modern times.  Celebrate local Baltimore heroes and create artwork honoring champions.  Enjoy imaginary journeys with storytellers, musicians and theater groups at The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St.

Saturday, October 24 at 2pm

Baltimore Choral Arts Society – Family Concert and Community Sing-Along

An interactive performance designed for the whole family at the Central Enoch Pratt Library, Main Lobby- 400 Cathedral Street.

Saturday, October 24 at 3pm

Shriver Hall Concert Series – Christopher Taylor, Piano

An innovative musician who brings an active imagination coupled with intensity and grace to music of the past 100 years.  The program includes Beethoven, Bermel and Rzewski, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive.

Saturday, October 24 at 8:30pm

Dance Baltimore – Thrill the World with Dance Baltimore at the Harborplace Amphitheatre

Dance Baltimore is joining with organizations across the globe to break into the Guinness World Records with the largest performance of one dance by the most people at the same time.  With the title currently held by the “hokey pokey,” all efforts are on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

Saturday, October 24 at 7pm

Creative Alliance and CityLit Project – Spooky Stories & Creepy Creations at The Great Halloween Lantern Parade.  Get in the spirit by creating scary stories with Citylit starting at 3pm and then join friends, bands, stilt walkers and performers parading at 7pm at Patterson Park (Linwood and Eastern avenues). Advance reservations are required for the lantern workshops online at www.creativealliance.org or call 410-276-1651.

Sunday, October 25 from 10am-6pm

American Visionary Art Museum/ Bashi Rose – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

A Celebration through a variety of performing arts media of the museum’s current exhibition: “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” featuring performances from the Maryland Correctional Training Center by Baltimore-based playwright Bashi Rose.  American Visionary Art Museum located at 800 Key Highway.

Sunday, October 25 from noon-2pm

Baltimore Women’s Film Festival – “She Should Have Gone to the Moon”

The remarkable story of the pilot and pioneer, Jeri Truhill, who was trained in 1961, as part of NASA’s top secret Mercury 13 program, to become one of the First Lady Astronauts, Landmark Harbor East Theater, 645 S. President Street.  Reservations required at www.bwfilmfestival.com.

Wednesday, October 28 at 8pm

Dance Rink – Dracula

Adapted from a vintage Orson Welles radio play, Director/Choreographer Scott rink re-inagines the familiar Dracula tale as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy on Halloween eve, 1950—a unique dance/theatre experience, Baltimore Theatre Project 45 W. Preston St.  Free passes must be reserved by calling 410-752-8558. Photo available.

Thursday, October 29 at 7:30pm

Theatre Morgan, Morgan State University

Theatre Morgan presents Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” set in the 1940s during a time of racial and political upheaval, Murphy Fine Arts Center, Turpin-Lamb Theater, 1200 Argonne Drive.

Thursday, October 29 – Saturday, October 31 at 8pm

Strand Theater Company – Halloween Theater Weekend

Graves in the Water, conceived by Alex Hewett & Lynn Morton, and adapted from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, the play invokes the spirit of the season by taking place in a cemetery and speaking for the dead. Special Halloween extra on Saturday, October 31 at 11pm with David Keltz performing Edgar Allan Poe, Strand Theater, 1823 N. Charles Street.

Thursday, October 29 – Saturday, October 31

Single Carrot Theatre – Poe Project

Poe Project  is an interactive new work derived from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.  The audience will have the opportunity to interact with artists and each other.  Thursday, October 29 – Sat Oct 31, 7:30pm, Single Carrot Theatre, 120 W. North Avenue.  Reservations recommended at singlecarrot@gmail.com or 443-844-9253.

Friday, October 30 from 5-8pm

Maryland Science Center – Fridays After Five for Free

Tour the exhibit halls, see a planetarium show, take in a live science demonstration--all for free.

(IMAX not included), Maryland Science Center, 601 Light Street. All admissions on a first-come, first-served basis--no advance tickets.

Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31 at 8pm

Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre – The Prevalence of Mrs. Seal

Can all the money in the world buy you happiness?  You bet it can.  Ask Mrs. Seal.  Spoof of the 1950 horror/suspense thrillers at Spotlighters Theatre, 817 St. Paul Street.  Advance reservations required at www.freenightoftheater.net. 

Saturday, October 31 at 2pm

Baltimore Composers Forum – Sound and Motion II

A collaboration of shared visions between the Baltimore Composers Forum and area choreographers – a dramatic synthesis of dance and music, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive.