Events

Ntozake Shange’s highly influential 1976 choreopoem for colored girls… might well be the most performed and important piece of theater created expressly by and for Black women in the history of the United States.

Join us for an afternoon of extraordinary music celebrating cultural traditions, resilience and hope as a part of our Faculty Artist Series! Curated by Voice and Opera Lecturer and esteemed pianist Dr. Lester Green, this concert is a soulful collaboration among friends.

Learn to Tango this semester! Join the UMD Department of Mathematics and Tango Mercurio for a series of free Tango lessons this spring. Held each Monday in Kirwan Hall's Rotunda, these fun dance classes are open to all University of Maryland students, faculty and staff.

Clarice Presents' Jazz Jams, in partnership with Busboys and Poets, brings D.C.-based saxophonist Elijah Jamal Balbed to perform and lead a community-wide jam! Elijah's band will play a set starting at 7:30PM.

Clarice Presents' Jazz Jams, in partnership with Busboys and Poets, brings D.C.-based saxophonist Elijah Jamal Balbed to perform and lead a community-wide jam! Elijah's band will play a set starting at 7:30PM. Bring your instrument!

Join the UMD Department of English for a Writers Here and Now event featuring Karen Solie and LaToya Watkins.

Though he is signed to the venerable jazz-specialist Verve Records, the composer, percussionist and pianist Julius Rodriguez's speedy rise to fame among a set of younger fans seems the sort of glow-up you might expect from a DJ or rapper.

Heralded as Gustav Mahler's most sophisticated and yet most accessible work, the Fourth Symphony is likely the new listener's easiest point of access to the great composer.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s fifth symphony came about during a time of intense political persecution. The interpretation of this piece has been hotly debated since its premiere, as many saw it as a criticism of the then dictator, thinly veiled behind exuberant adoration.

Experience an evening of stories sonically told by the UMD Wind Orchestra! Björk’s Overture to “Dancer in the Dark,” arranged by Vince Mendoza, chronicles the story of Selma Jezkova, a Czech immigrant to the United States who is going blind due to illness.