The Riversdale House Museum is continuing its Twelfth Night Ball tradition in a modified format, offering viewers the chance to bring this treasured event into their living rooms. Don festive attire for an evening of dancing, with instruction and period music, take a peek at the candlelit home, plus learn about popular foods that are traditional […]
The awards are an honor recognizing Poe’s continuing legacy in the arts and literature globally. The prizes will honor media, art, performance, and writing that is an adaptation of or is inspired by Poe’s life and works. Works of any medium and genre released, printed, distributed, or first performed between January 1, 2018, and December […]
Planting an Empire is the only modern, comprehensive history of the Chesapeake colonies, but writing it wasn’t a simple task. While two colonies shared a geographic region, they differed in a number of fundamental ways, yet together they formed a prosperous and politically important region in British North America. Trying to balance two dissimilar narratives […]
Join Annapolis Maritime Museum for their 4th week of the Winter Lecture Series featuring speaker Pete Lesher, chief curator at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Pete will walk us through Maryland’s rich heritage of wooden shipbuilding over the course of three centuries developed with regionally specific designs, materials, & techniques. He will also review the […]
The William Paca House is famous for its reconstructed eighteenth-century garden. A place for leisure, experimentation, artistry, and the production of food and medicine, William Paca’s garden—and gardens elsewhere in Annapolis and the British Atlantic World—were integral to everyday life. Join Bethany McGlyn as she explores several eighteenth-century Annapolis gardens, their construction and design, and […]
An uplifting virtual event! Athletes for the Arts is an inspiring and entertaining evening of stories, live performances, and a chance to bid on a carefully curated silent auction of exclusive items. Support the arts, celebrate our youth and spend a night with celebrated professional athletes! Athletes for the Arts features former Navy, Washington Football […]
Join Annapolis Maritime Museum for their 5th lecture of the 2021 Winter Lecture Series, featuring speaker Jesse Iliff, River Keeper of South, West, and Rhode Rivers. The oyster has been a linchpin Bay’s ecosystem for millions of years and has impacted the politics and economy of the State of Maryland for centuries. Jesse will explain […]
The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates,20210202-Pirates the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating […]
Join Annapolis Maritime Museum for the 5th lecture of the 2021 Winter Lecture Series, featuring speaker Dr. Susan Langley. Learn about our Nation’s newest National Marine Sanctuary which encompasses more than 100 vessels constructed by the civilian U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. to ferry supplies to Europe during WWI, presenting the largest fleet of […]
Monarch Academy Annapolis, a public contract school serving pre-K to fifth grades in partnership with Anne Arundel County Public Schools, will hold a free, virtual Family EdCamp conference for school families and the community to help them support their children’s education. The conference will provide an opportunity for families to collaborate with Monarch Academy Annapolis […]
Open to all. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. For information contact [email protected]. Looking for people to join our am or pm feed shifts as well as many of our 'behind the scenes' opportunities. No experience necessary. At the orientation, volunteers will learn our specific feed shift routine, how to groom a […]
INTRODUCTION TO COPTIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE Coptic Art and Architecture Prof. Dr. Sami Sabri Shaker The lecture will briefly cover the following elements in Coptic Art: The Art of the Iota, the Fayum Portraits, iconography, wall paintings, textile, as well as the decoration of the manuscripts, of the woodwork and stonework. The lecture will also […]
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