Talk/Lecture Events in Baltimore

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 – Sat, Nov 28, 2026 (65 events)

BMA Violet Hour: Lawrence Burney and Ellis Marsalis III (t.p. Luce)

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Featuring: Lawrence Burney, Ellis Marsalis III

BMA Violet Hour brings writer and critic Lawrence Burney and photographer, writer, and visual artist Ellis Marsalis III, who works under the name t.p. Luce, together at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Presented in connection with the exhibition *Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography*, the evening includes a reading from Burney’s debut essay collection, *No Sense in Wishing*, a preview of his documentary-in-progress *Revisiting Ramona*, and a conversation between Burney and Marsalis.

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books

Diane Williams with Jeannie Vanasco: I Liked Rex

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 6:00 PM

11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore

Featuring: Diane Williams, Jeannie Vanasco

Diane Williams presents *I Liked Rex*, her twelfth book of fiction, in conversation with Baltimore writer Jeannie Vanasco. Williams’s compact stories, often only about two pages long, begin in ordinary or playful situations and take unexpectedly disorienting turns. The program offers a closer look at her distinctive syntax, imagination, and influence on contemporary flash fiction.

Maryland Hall

Maryland Hall Monthly Book Club (October Edition)

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 6:00 PM

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

Featuring: Kate Myers

The Maryland Hall Monthly Book Club’s October meeting focuses on Janice Hallett’s mystery novel *The Appeal*. Hosted by author Kate Myers, the book club brings readers together each month for a new selection and thoughtful conversation in a welcoming community setting. Meetings are held on the last Thursday of each month.

Meyerhoff

Boris Johnson

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 8:00 PM

1212 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Boris Johnson

Baltimore Speakers Series: Boris Johnson features former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussing geopolitics and the war in Ukraine from a European perspective. Known for his distinctive wit, Johnson offers a firsthand account of international affairs.

Murphy Fine Arts Center (Morgan State)

Creating Justice in a Multiracial Democracy

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 9:00 AM

2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore, MD

Creating Justice in a Multiracial Democracy is a free, day-long symposium examining the legacy of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report and its relevance to the future of American democracy. The event will bring together scholars, civic leaders, students, policymakers, and community advocates to discuss democratic institutions, civil rights, voting access, civic engagement, truthful public discourse, and strategies for strengthening a multiracial democracy.

Red Emma's

Cooperatives in and against capitalism

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 6:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: John Duda

Cooperatives in and against capitalism is a free talk led by Red Emma’s worker-owner John Duda. The program examines the incomplete global history of cooperatives as democratic alternatives to capitalism, along with their connections to political movements pursuing justice and liberation. It is part of the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy’s month-long celebration of cooperatives and its tenth anniversary.

The Ivy Bookshop

GirlTREK Book Club: Bloom How You Must by Tara Pringle Jefferson

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 6:00 PM

5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD

Join the GirlTREK book club at The Ivy Bookshop for a welcoming discussion of Tara Pringle Jefferson’s *Bloom How You Must*. The gathering is open to readers at any point in the book, including those who have read every page, just begun, or simply want to enjoy thoughtful conversation and community.

The Peale Museum

Off The Page Artist Discussion

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 4:30 PM

225 Holliday St, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Jessica Damen

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Wisp by Jan Wagner: An Event with Translator David Keplinger

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 6:00 PM

11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore

Featuring: David Keplinger

David Keplinger presents his new translation of Jan Wagner’s poetry collection *Wisp*, a bilingual work translated from German into English. The event explores impermanence as a source of beauty and considers how close observation, lyrical expression, and poetic collaboration can cross the boundaries between languages.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Freedom Ship: Stories and Songs of Maritime Liberation in the Chesapeake With Marcus Rediker and Karen Somerville

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 6:15 PM

610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Marcus Rediker, Karen Somerville

Freedom Ship is an immersive program combining historical scholarship, personal reflection, storytelling, and live music to explore how enslaved people used maritime routes across the Chesapeake and beyond in their pursuit of freedom. Marcus Rediker draws from his award-winning book *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*, while Karen Somerville performs spirituals and coded songs that illuminate the hidden history of liberation by water.

Red Emma's

Between the Sheets: Dangerous Game

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 6:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Between the Sheets Book Club returns for a Halloween-season discussion of Stephen King’s *Gerald’s Game* and its film adaptation. Participants should read the novel and watch the movie before gathering to discuss the story’s dark, unsettling, and complicated details.

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books

Ben Gucciardi with Edgar Kunz & Samuel Cheney: Arguments: Poems

Mon, Nov 2, 2026 · 6:00 PM

11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore

Featuring: Ben Gucciardi, Edgar Kunz, Samuel Cheney

Ben Gucciardi celebrates the release of *Arguments*, a poetry collection about the contradictions involved in forming a self, a family, and an ethical life within exploitative systems that demand complicity. Inspired in part by W. B. Yeats’s distinction between quarrels with others and the inward quarrel that becomes poetry, the event features readings by Gucciardi, Edgar Kunz, and Samuel Cheney, followed by a conversation shaped by the connections between their work.

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books

2026 Excellence in Undergraduate Writing Awards with the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:00 PM

11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore

Featuring: Hannah Zo, Satya Choudhary, Oliver Groft, Lulu Zhao, Carrie Qiu, Sharon Ouyang, Aden Huang, Eileen Chen, Perla Perez, Charlie Snellman, Beatrice Bustillo, Hailyn Lai, Stephanie Roussounis, Yingjun Zhao, Vanessa Leung

The University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins celebrates the recipients of its 2026 Excellence in Undergraduate Writing Awards. The program showcases individual and collaborative work from a broad range of academic disciplines, genres, and media through featured readings by the award-winning students.

Chesapeake Arts Center

Park Literacy Project & Park Books of Maryland Presents.. Author Tini Younger

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM

194 Hammonds Lane, Brooklyn Park, MD

Featuring: Tini Younger

Park Literacy Project and Park Books of Maryland welcome Maryland native Tini Younger for an evening celebrating her debut cookbook, *Today We Are Cooking: Recipes That Teach You to Think Like a Chef!*. A trained chef and widely followed food creator, Younger will prepare a recipe live, answer audience questions, and share her relaxed, practical approach to building confidence in the kitchen. Every attendee will receive a signed copy of the cookbook.

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Mary Celenza: Showrunner, Director, Executive Producer

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 12:00 PM

1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Mary Celenza

Mary Celenza, a showrunner, director, and writer with more than 25 years of experience in television and audio production, will discuss her career and work across documentary, talk, news, comedy, competition, and game-show formats. She is currently Head of Current and Executive Producer at Treefort Media, overseeing projects for Audible, Wondery, Netflix, and Focus Features. The talk is presented by UMBC’s Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Ken Lewis: Mixer, Producer, Musician

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 1:00 PM

1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Ken Lewis

Ken Lewis, a Grammy Award-winning producer, mixer, songwriter, arranger, musician, and finisher, discusses his wide-ranging career in music production. His credits include work connected to Taylor Swift, BTS, Kanye, Drake, NF, Khalil Fong, Alicia Keys, Ariana Grande, Vybz Kartel, NewJeans, Assi El Hallani, Mark Ronson, and Bruno Mars. Lewis has contributed to recordings earning 166 Gold records and more than 50 billion career streams.

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Leith Symington Griswold Hall

Music Education Colloquium: James Jordan

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM

1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: James Jordan

Music Education Colloquium: James Jordan is a symposium/lecture presented at the Centre Street Performance Studio. The event is scheduled for an evening program featuring James Jordan.

Leith Symington Griswold Hall

Virtual Information Session: Peabody Presents #2

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM

1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD

Virtual Information Session: Peabody Presents #2 is an online admissions event hosted by the Peabody Institute. The session is scheduled for one hour and is available virtually.

Magooby's Joke House

Life Afterlife: Medium Travis Holp

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 7:30 PM

9603 Deereco Rd, Timonium, MD

Featuring: Travis Holp

Life Afterlife: Medium Travis Holp is a special mediumship event featuring internationally recognized medium, author, and teacher Travis Holp. Certified by the Forever Family Foundation, Holp is known for helping people connect with loved ones in spirit through detailed, evidential messages delivered with warmth, compassion, and humor.

Red Emma's

Paris Marx presents "Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires"

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Paris Marx

Paris Marx presents *Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires*, an examination of the physical infrastructure behind AI, cryptocurrency, cloud storage, and other online services. Marx explores how massive, energy-intensive data centers are consuming power and water, exploiting vulnerable communities, and accelerating environmental crises as technology companies pursue growth and market dominance.

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Artist roundtable on experimental praxis

Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM

1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Karin Oen-Lee, Lehna Huie, Ada Pinkston

This in-person artist roundtable accompanies *Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly*, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll. Moderated by Karin Oen-Lee, the conversation brings together multidisciplinary artists Lehna Huie and Ada Pinkston to explore experimental artistic practices, research, memory, lineage, and the ways artists challenge established ideas about art and public history.

Red Emma's

andré carrington presents "Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic imagination"

Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: André Carrington

André carrington’s “Audiofuturism” traces the overlooked history of Black science-fiction and speculative radio drama from the 1950s through the present. The presentation examines how radio adaptations brought Black speculative writing to broad audiences and how voice, silence, sound effects, and performance transformed literature into an audible form of cultural memory.

The Peale Museum

Off The Page Artist Discussion

Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 4:30 PM

225 Holliday St, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Jessica Damen

Jessica Damen’s “Off The Page” is an informal artist discussion at The Peale about transforming written language into visual art. The conversation is part of a continuing series in which participants can share ideas, ask questions, and discuss Damen’s work.

Horowitz Center (Howard Community College)

Film Discussions: "The Shining" (1980)

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 7:00 PM

10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD

Film Discussions: “The Shining” (1980) is part of Howard Community College’s Fall 2026 Friday Film Discussions, a virtual series examining the strange, unsettling, and enduring history of horror cinema. The discussion focuses on a family staying at an isolated winter hotel, where a sinister force drives the father toward violence while his psychic son experiences terrifying visions connected to the past and future.

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Maryland Hall

Pre-Concert Lecture: Forces of Nature

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 6:30 PM

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

Featuring: Reinaldo Moya, Luke Soneral, Jonathan Palevsky

This pre-concert lecture explores the music featured in the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra’s *Forces of Nature* concert, with composer Reinaldo Moya and composer Luke Soneral discussing the inspiration behind their works. WBJC Program Director Jonathan Palevsky will also examine the personal circumstances and social movements that influenced the compositional styles of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky.

Red Emma's

Science Slam with Baltimore Under Ground Science Space (BUGSS)

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 3:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Science Slam with Baltimore Under Ground Science Space (BUGSS) brings local scientists to Red Emma’s for a lively showcase of research and scientific ideas. Speakers—including students, postdocs, and citizen scientists—will give brief presentations about their work or passions, making diverse projects from around Baltimore accessible to a broad audience.

SNF Parkway Theatre

Archive Fever & AI: Found Text and Creative Practice in the Age of Generative AI

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 9:30 AM

5 West North Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Victoria Keddie, Kyle Stine, Maria Antoniak, Tom Lippincott, Richard Marciano, George Oates, Liz Flyntz, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Eryk Salvaggio, Mark Shepard

Archive Fever & AI: Found Text and Creative Practice in the Age of Generative AI is a one-day convening about generative artificial intelligence, archival materials, and the question of who controls the historical record. Presented by Johns Hopkins University’s Program in Film and Media Studies and supported by the JHU Sesquicentennial Envisioning the Future Award, the event brings scholars, artists, archivists, and computational researchers together at the Parkway Theatre.

Walters Art Museum

Luxury & Loss Opening Day Artist Talks

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 3:00 PM

600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Amy Boone-McCreesh, Luci Jockel, Dany Chan

Luxury & Loss Opening Day Artist Talks celebrates the opening of the Walters Art Museum’s exhibition *Luxury & Loss: Feather, Shell, Tusk, Horn*. Exhibition curator Dany Chan, associate curator of Asian art, will moderate a conversation with Baltimore artists Amy Boone-McCreesh and Luci Jockel, whose distinct practices consider the impacts and meanings of materials. The program concludes with an audience question-and-answer session.

Red Emma's

We Slay Book Club: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 12:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

We Slay Book Club is an in-person Baltimore reading group welcoming new members and readers who enjoy books in any genre, particularly stories centered on bold, “kick-ass” protagonists. The club was established in November 2014 and occasionally holds virtual gatherings, but this meeting is scheduled in person.

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Stephanie J. Williams: Things That Don’t Have Names

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 5:00 PM

1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Stephanie J. Williams

Stephanie J. Williams presents a free talk on her interdisciplinary artistic practice, which connects sculpture and animation. Her work examines hierarchies of taste and questions how “official” histories are formed, using those inquiries to explore contemporary social coding. The event is presented by UMBC’s Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), and a reception will follow.

Red Emma's

Sarah Trembath presents "This Past Was Waiting for Me: A Chronicle at Quarter Century"

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Sarah Trembath

Sarah Trembath presents *This Past Was Waiting for Me: A Chronicle at Quarter Century*, a genre-crossing book and artistic work that combines poetry, visual art, personal memoir, and scholarly analysis. The event explores how Black history has been distorted, forgotten, and reconstructed, connecting historical events from the Middle Passage through the present with contemporary colonialism, wars abroad, and the ongoing gentrification of Trembath’s former Shaw neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

Red Emma's

Art & Labor Study Group: 9.5 Theses on Art and Class Section Three

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Art & Labor Study Group: 9.5 Theses on Art and Class Section Three is a study group focused on the history and theory of organized labor, working-class power, and the artist’s role in building that power. This session examines section three of Ben Davis’s *9.5 Theses on Art and Class*.

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Checkerspot Brewing Company

Seeking the Kinetic-Curious!

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:00 PM

1421 Ridgely Street, Baltimore, MD

Seeking the Kinetic-Curious! is an informational evening about Baltimore’s Kinetic Sculpture Race, hosted by the American Visionary Art Museum in partnership with Checkerspot Brewing Company. Previous race participants will share what it takes to join the Kinetic Sculpture Race, while attendees can learn about building kinetic vehicles, navigating race hazards, adding artistic decoration, and volunteering.

Jewish Museum of Maryland

More Than Religious Freedom

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:00 PM

15 Lloyd Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Eric Eisner

More Than Religious Freedom examines Maryland’s “Jew Bill,” a landmark 1826 law that allowed Jewish men to hold state and local office for the first time. The program considers why the legislation was controversial and how its debate exposed enduring questions about race, religion, Jewish identity, citizenship, and belonging in the United States.

Red Emma's

Alice Miranda Ollstein presents "Side Effects: How Abortion Bans Impact Everyone's Health" in conversation w/ Jaisal Noor

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Alice Miranda Ollstein, Jaisal Noor

Alice Miranda Ollstein presents *Side Effects: How Abortion Bans Impact Everyone’s Health* in a conversation with Baltimore journalist and educator Jaisal Noor. Drawing on Ollstein’s reporting for *Politico*, the event examines how the Supreme Court’s overturning of *Roe v. Wade* has affected the broader U.S. health-care system, far beyond abortion policy.

Baltimore Museum of Art

JJC Talks: JJC x MICA Artists in Residence

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 6:30 PM

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Dr. Yemonja Smalls, Dirk Joseph, Anna Divinagracia

JJC Talks presents a conversation with the 2026 JJC x MICA Artists in Residence: Dr. Yemonja Smalls, Dirk Joseph, and Anna Divinagracia. The artists will share work developed during the residency and discuss how the experience has influenced their broader artistic practices.

Meyerhoff

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 8:00 PM

1212 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Baltimore Speakers Series presents Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian celebrated for her compelling biographies of U.S. presidents. Goodwin frequently draws on presidential history to offer perspective on current events.

Red Emma's

Shawn Gude presents "American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs" in conversation w/ Lester Spence

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Shawn Gude, Lester Spence

Shawn Gude presents *American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs*, his biography of the railroad worker who became one of America’s most influential socialist leaders. In conversation with Johns Hopkins professor Lester Spence, Gude will discuss Debs’s transformation from a moderate labor organizer into a radical orator, cofounder of the Socialist Party of America, and presidential candidate who received nearly a million votes while imprisoned.

Towson University Center for the Arts

Fall 2026 COMM 131 Public Speaking Competition

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 7:00 PM

8000 York Road, Towson, MD

The Fall 2026 COMM 131 Public Speaking Competition takes place at Towson University’s Center for the Arts. The competition is scheduled for an evening presentation at 7 p.m.

Horowitz Center (Howard Community College)

Film Discussions: "The Sixth Sense" (1999)

Fri, Nov 13, 2026 · 7:00 PM

10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD

Film Discussions: “The Sixth Sense” (1999) is part of the HCC Film Program’s Fall 2026 Friday Film Discussions, a virtual series examining the strange, unsettling, and memorable history of horror cinema. The format is similar to a book club: participants watch the selected film on their own before joining an online conversation about it.

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Hotel Indigo

Artist Talk

Through Fri, Nov 13, 2026

24 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: VILLAGER

Maryland Art Place, in partnership with Hotel Indigo Baltimore, presents an artist talk with Baltimore-based artist VILLAGER. The program accompanies VILLAGER’s solo exhibition at Hotel Indigo and offers an opportunity to learn more about the artist’s work.

Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric

Theresa Caputo Live

Fri, Nov 13, 2026 · 7:30 PM

140 West Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Theresa Caputo

Theresa Caputo, widely known as the Long Island Medium, brings her live experience to Baltimore. Drawing on more than two decades as a renowned medium, Caputo combines personal stories, candid humor, and intimate accounts of communicating with people who have died. The presentation offers messages intended to comfort audience members and affirm that their deceased loved ones remain connected to them in another way.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Wye Oak Series—Political Appetites: The Power of Food in Revolutionary America with Nancy Siegel

Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 11:00 AM

610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Nancy Siegel

Nancy Siegel, PhD, explores the political meaning of food in revolutionary America. This Wye Oak Lecture Series presentation examines how meals, ingredients, beverages, and kitchenware helped Americans express ideas about democracy and participate in protest, persuasion, and celebration during the Revolution and Early Republic.

Red Emma's

Mass Meeting: DEFEND PROTESTORS AND ABOLISH ICE

Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 5:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Isaac

This mass meeting brings together people supporting the fifteen activists federally indicted for their participation in Minneapolis’s anti-ICE movement, which helped spark a general strike the previous January. The gathering will address efforts to intimidate and repress movements for immigrant justice while building opposition to ICE in Baltimore.

Red Emma's

Rodrigo Nunes presents "Anatomy of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right" in conversation w/ Mike McGuire

Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Rodrigo Nunes, Mike McGuire

Rodrigo Nunes presents *Anatomy of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right* in conversation with Mike McGuire. Using Jair Bolsonaro’s rise, defeat, and continuing political impact in Brazil as a starting point, Nunes examines why far-right movements are gaining ground internationally, including in the United States, Argentina, and India.

Red Emma's

Integrated Schools presents "Integration, Equity, and School Choice in Baltimore City"

Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 3:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Integrated Schools’ Baltimore chapter hosts a community conversation about school choice and its effects on Baltimore City Public Schools. The discussion will consider how families, neighborhoods, and schools can work together to strengthen local public education and advance access to well-funded, integrated schools.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Public Conversations | Liberated Mind: A Guide to Black Clarity with Dr. Timothy D. Goler

Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 1:00 PM

830 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Dr. Timothy D. Goler, Robert T. Parker

Public Conversations presents Dr. Timothy D. Goler discussing his book, *Liberated Mind: A Guide to Black Clarity*. The conversation examines liberation beyond physical freedom and considers how Black people have been taught to cope, adapt, survive, and silence themselves. Dr. Goler will explore how social systems influence Black consciousness through thoughts, identities, relationships, and choices, and how individuals and communities can reclaim agency within those systems.

Goucher College

Booked for Baltimore County Public Library: Jon Meacham

Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · 1:00 PM

1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, MD

Featuring: Jon Meacham

Booked for Baltimore County Public Library presents a special program with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, presidential biographer, and bestselling author Jon Meacham. Held at Goucher College, the event will explore America’s 250-year history through the people, ideals, leadership, and pivotal moments that have shaped the nation.

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Leith Symington Griswold Hall

Musicology Colloquium: Karen Leistra-Jones

Tue, Nov 17, 2026 · 5:30 PM

1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Karen Leistra-Jones

Musicology Colloquium featuring Karen Leistra-Jones, with a lecture titled “Sing, Rock, Walk, Repeat: The Nineteenth-Century Lullaby as Musical Care Practice.” The event examines the nineteenth-century lullaby as a form of musical care.

Red Emma's

Paul Prescod presents "Against Black Nationalism: Garvey, Randolph, and the Class Alternative"

Tue, Nov 17, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Paul Prescod

Paul Prescod presents *Against Black Nationalism: Garvey, Randolph, and the Class Alternative*, a historical and political examination of two influential approaches to Black liberation. The event compares Marcus Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association with A. Philip Randolph’s campaign to organize the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, asking why Garvey’s movement declined while Randolph’s labor organizing helped produce lasting gains for Black workers.

SNF Parkway Theatre

Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent FIlm (presented by MICA MFA Filmmaking)

Tue, Nov 17, 2026 · 6:30 PM

5 West North Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film explores the crucial role clothing played in shaping early Hollywood and the visual language of silent-film glamour. Presented by MICA MFA Filmmaking, the evening examines how fashion evolved from actors’ personal wardrobes into a deliberate storytelling tool and helped establish the foundations of modern movie costume design.

American Visionary Art Museum

Virtual Program: Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs

Wed, Nov 18, 2026 · 7:00 PM

800 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Bob Little, Roy Palmer

This virtual program offers a behind-the-scenes exploration of Vollis Simpson, the self-taught visionary artist whose enormous kinetic whirligig “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” is part of the American Visionary Art Museum’s outdoor art. The presentation will consider Simpson’s life, his early engineering inspiration, and the restoration of AVAM’s whirligig completed in 2022.

Leith Symington Griswold Hall

Virtual Information Session: Peabody Presents #3

Wed, Nov 18, 2026 · 7:00 PM

1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Peabody Admissions Team

Virtual Information Session: Peabody Presents #3 is an online information session led by the Peabody Admissions Team. The session covers applying to Peabody’s music and dance programs, the admissions process, and career-service and networking opportunities available to students.

Maryland Hall

Freedom of the Press: Community Conversation & Culminating Event

Wed, Nov 18, 2026 · 6:00 PM

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

Freedom of the Press: Community Conversation & Culminating Event is a special evening focused on the state of journalism and the importance of a free press in the United States. The program also offers an opportunity to explore the “Revolutionary Maryland: Freedom of the Press Then and Now” exhibition, learn about archaeology, and take part in hands-on activities.

Maryland Hall

Maryland Hall Writers’ Roundtable Presents: So You Want to Write a Memoir…

Wed, Nov 18, 2026 · 6:30 PM

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

Featuring: Nancy Murray

Maryland Hall Writers’ Roundtable presents “So You Want to Write a Memoir…,” an informative conversation with author Nancy Murray about the creative and practical realities of writing memoir. Murray will draw on her own experience to discuss finding the right level of personal detail, considering the role of people featured in your story, strengthening a draft, and navigating the memoir publishing market.

Red Emma's

Meg Berkobien and María Cristina Hall present "Goodbye, Ramona"

Wed, Nov 18, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Meg Berkobien, María Cristina Hall

Meg Berkobien and María Cristina Hall present *Goodbye, Ramona*, Montserrat Roig’s sweeping novel about three generations of women in one family across more than sixty years of twentieth-century Barcelona. The event explores the lives of three women named Ramona: a grandmother yearning for romance beyond her quiet marriage, a daughter enduring her husband’s volatility, and a granddaughter coming of age amid the social changes and revolutionary possibilities of 1960s Barcelona.

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Goucher College

The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship Series Presents: Bryan Stevenson

Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 7:30 PM

1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, MD

Featuring: Bryan Stevenson

The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship Series presents Bryan Stevenson at Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium. The series brings distinguished scholars, teachers, and practitioners to campus to encourage local and national conversations about pressing issues of the day. Stevenson will deliver this fall’s lecture.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Lecture—Cherokee Boarding School Experiences in the Mid–Atlantic

Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 12:00 PM

610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: David Armenti

This lecture explores the experiences of members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who attended boarding schools in the Chesapeake region. David Armenti, MCHC’s vice president of education and engagement, will share genealogical research tracing ancestors from the Big Cove community in North Carolina.

Maryland Hall

Maryland Hall Monthly Book Club (November Edition)

Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 6:00 PM

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

Featuring: Kate Myers

Maryland Hall’s November Book Club invites readers to discuss Lydia Kiesling’s *The Golden State*, a debut novel about motherhood, isolation, cultural and class divisions, and the struggle to find stability in a fractured world. The club is hosted by author Kate Myers and welcomes book lovers interested in thoughtful conversation and community.

Red Emma's

Isabella Weber presents "Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy" in conversation with Osita Nwanevu

Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Isabella Weber, Osita Nwanevu

Isabella Weber presents *Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy* in a conversation with Osita Nwanevu. Weber examines how inequality, inflation, corporate profiteering, and the affordability crisis can weaken democracy and create conditions for the resurgence of fascist politics. She argues for an economic model that prioritizes people’s needs, dignity, and access to essential goods rather than treating them as secondary to corporate profit.

Sandy Spring Museum

History Happy Hours: Political Appetites with Dr. Nancy Siegel

Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 6:30 PM

17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring, MD

Featuring: Nancy Siegel

History Happy Hours: Political Appetites with Dr. Nancy Siegel explores the political significance of food during the American Revolution and Early Republic. Culinary historian Nancy Siegel will discuss how ingredients, recipes, meals, and kitchen objects expressed identity, resistance, civic values, and national aspirations. Topics include colonial tea boycotts, homemade Liberty Tea, Election Cake, Washington Pie, and Mammoth Cheese.

American Visionary Art Museum

November Convening of BCAA: AVAM's New Flaunt Exhibition

Fri, Nov 20, 2026 · 1:00 PM

800 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Gage Branda

The Baltimore City of Accessible Arts (BCAA) partners with the American Visionary Art Museum for a convening focused on AVAM’s exhibition *Flaunt: When Appearance Speaks*. The program includes refreshments, remarks from BCAA leadership, a featured artist presentation, and an overview of the exhibition from AVAM curator Gage Branda.

Nevermore Hall

Grits & Eggs Podcast: Coming Thru America Tour (18+)

Sat, Nov 21, 2026 · 7:00 PM

34 Market Pl, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Grits & Eggs Podcast

No additional event-specific details were found on the source page. Venue: Nevermore Hall When: 2026-11-21 at 19:00 Price: Price not available

Red Emma's

John Washington presents "How To Close a Camp"

Sat, Nov 21, 2026 · 7:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: John Washington

John Washington presents *How to Close a Camp*, an urgent argument for dismantling the U.S. immigrant detention system. Drawing on conversations with veteran organizers, Washington examines successful campaigns that have closed detention facilities or prevented new ones from opening, offering practical strategies for weakening the infrastructure of detention and resisting xenophobic and authoritarian violence.

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Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Genealogy Program & Expo: “Looking For History In Family Trees”

Sat, Nov 21, 2026 · 12:00 PM

830 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Chris Haley, Dr. Martha Jones, Dr. Brian Morrison

Explore the importance of African American family history research at this program and genealogy expo, presented by the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in partnership with the Baltimore Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. Visitors can meet local genealogists and examine historical materials such as freedom papers, ancestral photographs, church founders’ records, Civil War service records, and stock certificates from a family-owned Northern Virginia telephone business.

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