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The Tea: VeVe Marley
In this new online series, women musicians perform original work on the first Friday of the month. Conducted over a cup of tea, each session includes a short interview exploring the artist’s creative process. Join us and local singer and songwriter VeVe Marley.
VeVe Marley is a D.C.-based singer/songwriter and guitarist whose music blends elements of folk, Afrobeat, R&B and hip-hop to create dreamy, soulful vibes while speaking on issues of identity, spirituality, racism and the Black experience. Marley has performed and recorded since 2013. Her most recent project, with her band VeVe and Tha Rebels, is entitled The EP.
WHERE:
Online, streaming on Facebook and nmwa.org
WHEN:
Friday, December 4, 12–1 p.m.
PRICE:
Free. No reservations required.
BMA x NMWA: America
Join us for BMA x NMWA, a livestreamed monthly talk show presented by The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). In this virtual program, educators from both museums consider America through the lens of works by Native American visual artists. We will discuss art by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and welcome special guest Dare Turner, curator of the BMA’s Stripes and Stars: Reclaiming Lakota Independence.
WHERE
Online on both BMA and NMWA Facebook pages
WHEN
Tuesday, December 8, 12–12:45 p.m.
PRICE
Free. No reservations required.
Floral Design How-To: Holiday Blooms
Celebrate the holiday season with a floral arrangement full of luxuriously rich colors and festive blooms.
This program will cover principles of floral design, a step-by-step guide to create your own arrangement, and ample time to ask questions. It is limited to 60 participants. Supplies are not included, but a materials list will be shared with all registered users prior to the program, should participants wish to follow along at home.
OPTIONAL MATERIALS FEE
For an additional fee of $60, participants will receive all necessary materials, including:
- White spray roses (5 stems)
- Burgundy carnations (5-7 stems)
- White tulips (5-7 stems)
- Red Roses (5 stems)
- An assortment of winter greens (boxwood, incense cedar, magnolia leaves, Carolina sapphire, noble fir tips, and seeded eucalyptus)
- A low compote bowl
- Chicken wire (to secure stems)
Exact supplies may vary based on availability due to coronavirus-related supply chain issues. Participants will also need water, and pruning shears strong enough to cut through greens such as fir tips. Participants may also like floral shears or scissors.
Interested participants must pre-order their materials by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, December 1, and collect them from Hillwood the day of the program. Contact-free pickup is available on Wednesday, December 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and on Friday, December 11, 10 a.m.-noon.
CONNECTING WITH ZOOM
This virtual workshop is presented live via Zoom. The online “waiting room” opens at 12:30 p.m. and the workshop begins at 1:30 p.m. Participants are encouraged to join with video; questions can be submitted via the chat feature. Please note that this workshop will be recorded.
Registered participants will be emailed a link to join this Zoom program.
In anticipation of its upcoming digital production of All the Devils Are Here, join STC Affiliated Artist Patrick Page (Othello, The Tempest, Hamlet; Tony Award nominee, Hadestown) and Professor Deborah C. Payne (Associate Professor of Literature, American University) as the theatre delves into all of Shakespeare’s most conniving, dastardly villains. From Iago and Claudius to Lady Macbeth and Prospero, the villains are often the most interesting and complex characters in each play.
In the spirit of previous episodes on Shakespeare’s Clowns and Heroines, this episode will explore the wide-ranging characteristics of the Bard’s baddies.
Registration is just $10. Reserve your access today!
Floral Design How-To: Holiday Blooms
Celebrate the holiday season with a floral arrangement full of luxuriously rich colors and festive blooms.
This program will cover principles of floral design, a step-by-step guide to create your own arrangement, and ample time to ask questions. It is limited to 60 participants. Supplies are not included, but a materials list will be shared with all registered users prior to the program, should participants wish to follow along at home.
OPTIONAL MATERIALS FEE
For an additional fee of $60, participants will receive all necessary materials, including:
- White spray roses (5 stems)
- Burgundy carnations (5-7 stems)
- White tulips (5-7 stems)
- Red Roses (5 stems)
- An assortment of winter greens (boxwood, incense cedar, magnolia leaves, Carolina sapphire, noble fir tips, and seeded eucalyptus)
- A low compote bowl
- Chicken wire (to secure stems)
Exact supplies may vary based on availability due to coronavirus-related supply chain issues. Participants will also need water, and pruning shears strong enough to cut through greens such as fir tips. Participants may also like floral shears or scissors.
Interested participants must pre-order their materials by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, December 1, and collect them from Hillwood the day of the program. Contact-free pickup is available on Wednesday, December 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and on Friday, December 11, 10 a.m.-noon.
CONNECTING WITH ZOOM
This virtual workshop is presented live via Zoom. The online “waiting room” opens at 12:30 p.m. and the workshop begins at 1:30 p.m. Participants are encouraged to join with video; questions can be submitted via the chat feature. Please note that this workshop will be recorded.
Registered participants will be emailed a link to join this Zoom program.
Santa is pulling into The Station! Join Santa’s crafting workshop and unleash your inner elf with a Letter to Santa watercolor workshop. Pick up your complimentary crafting kit at The Station PLUS a $10 gift card from participating restaurants at The Station.
Pick up your free watercolor kit at The Station on Saturday, December 19 from 11 AM – 2 PM and then tune in for a workshop at 4 PM with local artist and maker. Can’t make the workshop live? We’ll send a recording to all registrants.
Santa will be here before you know it! Drop off your letter to Santa at participating restaurants at The Station and share on Instagram (tag @thestationrp) to be included in a drawing for a $50 gift card to Burtons Grill at The Station.
Free kits are limited to the first 50 registrants. Don’t miss your chance to join the workshop live on Zoom!
BMA x NMWA: Here and Now
Join us for BMA x NMWA, a livestreamed monthly talk show co-presented by The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA).
For the first episode of 2021, educators from both museums consider artworks grounded in a particular place at a specific moment in time. They welcome UK-based, Nigerian-born artist Mary Evans to discuss her ephemeral, site-specific silhouettes. Evans’s works often reference historical events, including the Atlantic slave trade and enslaved labor, and their impact on contemporary culture. Her work Prospect was included in NMWA’s special exhibition Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020.
WHERE
Online on both BMA and NMWA Facebook pages
WHEN
Tuesday, January 12, 12–12:45 p.m.
PRICE
Free. No reservations required. Add to your calendar here. For more information, email education@nmwa.org.
The Tea: Courtney Dowe
In this online series, women musicians perform original work on the first Friday of the month. Conducted over a cup of tea, each session includes a short interview exploring the artist’s creative process. Join us and local singer Courtney Dowe.
Courtney Dowe is a unique combination of human rights advocate, vocalist and lyricist. Whether she is exposing the persecution of Falun Gong under the communist regime in China or denouncing police brutality in the United States, her love for life and dedication to her craft emanate from every note she sings. Find out where her latest journeys have taken her in this performance.
WHERE
Online, streaming on Facebook and nmwa.org
WHEN
Friday, February 5, 12–1 p.m.
PRICE
Free. No reservations required.
On Thursday, February 11 at 7:30pm EST, the Folger’s O.B. Hardison Poetry Series presents poet Maurice Manning sharing his work alongside recent Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for a virtual reading from President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington D.C.
Tickets for this virtual event are currently on sale. The suggested ticket price is $15, with a minimum, pay-what-you-can price level at $5. Tickets can be purchased at the Folger Box Office at 202.544.7077 or by visiting www.folger.edu/poetry.
After the virtual tour of the Cottage, Manning and Smith will read from their work in a round-robin
fashion (a few poems each in response to the other poet). Manning’s latest collection Railsplitter is
told in the posthumous voice of President Lincoln. Smith’s most recent book, Wade in the
Water takes an unflinching look at the ravages of slavery, the lives of Black Civil War soldiers and
America’s history on race, gender, immigration, and more.
Tracy K. Smith is the author of Wade in the Water; Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize; Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award; and The Body’s Question, winner of the Cave
Canem Poetry Prize. She is the editor of an anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time,
and the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, a finalist for the National Book Award. From 2017 to
2019, Smith served as Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University.
Maurice Manning’s first book, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, was selected by W.S. Merwin for
the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Manning’s other collections include The Common Man, a finalist
for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, and One Man’s Dark. His current book, Railsplitter, is his seventh
collection of poetry. A former Guggenheim fellow, Manning teaches at Transylvania University in
Lexington, Kentucky and for the MFA Writer’s Program at Warren Wilson College.
Single tickets and subscriptions to the 2020/21 season of Folger Poetry—through May 2021—are
currently on sale. Subscribers have virtual access to all 2020/21 readings and to the archive of those
readings.
