Charm City Movement Arts

Tumbling is not just for kids, and Acrobatics is one of the best workouts you’ll find! This one time workshop allows you and your friends to find our just how talented you actually are! Learn the basics of all around circus arts. Bring a camera and get a great new photo for your Facebook profile.

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Enjoy the first of the Belvedere Square Concert Series with music by The Crawdaddies, whose music combines Louisiana’s cajun, zydeco and blues sounds with the North East’s rock, Americana and ska influences to create a unique sound all its own. The square will be open for food, drink and browsing. Join the fun!

Join the winners circle of racing luminaries as they discuss all things racing — from the Hunt Cup to the Preakness — at The Ivy Bookshop on Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. Enjoy refreshments and get the inside scoop on racing in Maryland and beyond.

The panel of experts includes:

Ron Turcotte, Hall of Fame jockey and rider of 1973 Triple Crown champion, Secretariat

Patrick Smithwick, Maryland jockey and author of Flying Change and Racing My Father

Steve Davidowitz, professional handicapper, reporter, editor, columnist, and author of Betting Thoroughbreds

Elizabeth Letts, bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation

No betting required!

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Friday, May 10th, 2013

From the Baltimore Fishbowl events page…

May 8 – May 12

(Opening night was last night, which featured short films. Screenings of full-length films will begin today, beginning at 4 p.m. and continue Friday, Saturday and Sunday beginning at 11 a.m., and continuing into the night. )

Charles Theater and MICA

Click here to view the schedule

The Maryland Film Festival is an annual five-day event that takes place in early May, presenting top-notch film and video work from all over the world. Each year the festival screens approximately 50 feature films and 75 short films of all varieties — narrative, documentary, animation, experimental, and hybrid — to tens of thousands of audience members.

For every North American feature film screened within the festival, a filmmaker attends the festival to present their work. The hundreds of filmmakers who have hosted screenings within Maryland Film Festival include such names as John Waters, Barry Levinson, Kathryn Bigelow, Jonathan Demme, Melvin Van Peebles, Alex Gibney, Matt Porterfield, Joe Swanberg, Lisandro Alonso, Todd Solondz, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Lena Dunham.

In addition to a wide range of contemporary N. American films, each festival also includes a sampling of cutting-edge international features (including such titles as Dogtooth and Syndromes and a Century), a vintage silent film with live musical accompaniment, a classic 3-D film, and a feature selected and hosted by legendary filmmaker John Waters (whose choices have ranged from Joseph Losey’s Boom! to Gaspar No’s I Stand Alone). Celebrity guest hosts from outside the world of film are also invited to present favorite films, including musicians such as Ian MacKaye, Branford Marsalis, Will Oldham, Jonathan Richman, Harry Belafonte, and Bill Callahan.

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Booker Prize-winner James Kelman comes to The Ivy all the way from Scotland to discuss his newest novel, “Mo Said She was Quirky”.

Mo said she was quirky tells the story of Helen – a sister, a mother, a daughter, a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky, but she is much more than that. Trust, love, relationships; parents, children, lovers; death, wealth, home: these are the ordinary parts of the everyday that become extraordinary when you think of them as Helen does, each waking hour. The novel begins with the strangest of moments, when a down-at-heel man crosses the road in front of her and appears to be her lost brother. What follows is an inspired and absorbing story of 24 hours in Helen’s life.

About the Author:

James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946, left school as the earliest opportunity and began working life in a factory aged 15. He emigrated with his family to California in 1963 and returned to Scotland in 1964. He began writing while living in London aged 22 and later met Texan writer Mary Gray Hughes. With her support his debut story collection, An Old Pub Near the Angel, was published in 1973. His fourth novel, How Late It Was, How Late, won the Booker Prize in 1994. His recent publications include story collections Busted Scotch and If it is your life, and novels You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free and Kieron Smith, boy. Kelman has taught at the University of Texas in Austin and San Jose State University, California. He and his wife live in Scotland, not far from their two daughters and two grandchildren.

Get a seat in front!

Man Booker Award-winning novelist James Kelman visits the Ivy Bookshop tomorrow night at 7 as the inaugural guest of the store’s new “front table” series that brings us face to face with amazing writers from around the world. Kelman, who received the Man Booker in 1994 for How Late It Was, How Late, writes books peopled with ultra-authentic working-class Scottish characters inspired by his native land. The author will discuss his newest, Mo Said She Was Quirky (Other Press), which depicts one single day in the life of an everywoman named Helen. In typically masterful Kelman narration, we are sometimes in Helen’s head, sometimes on the outside watching her shuffle past, watching her work the nightshift in a London casino. The single mom to a six-year-old daughter, Helen lives with her Pakistani waiter boyfriend, much to the chagrin of her narrow-minded neighbors. Thanks to Kelman’s well-honed craft and attentive imagination – and his own faith in his character – we believe in Helen from the start. And, in a novel critics have tagged Kelman’s most accessible to date, we feel grateful for the difficult hours of her life we’re invited to share. Read More →

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

Join Baltimore by Hand to celebrate the achievements of our city’s next generation of creative writers.

From prose to poetry, vignettes to dramatic scenes, our students have used the written word to explore what it means to be a youth growing up in Baltimore. These works have been anthologized in Baltimore by Hand’s second annual book project, Baltimore Triumphs, which we are now proud to share with you.

Family, friends, writers and community members alike are all welcome to a light dinner and special student reading at the Evergreen Museum and Library, with an introduction by Baltimore author Elisabeth Dahl.

For more information, visit the Baltimore Fishbowl Events Page