Creative Alliance builds neighborhood engagement as a cultural hub anchored in Highlandtown. We produce award-winning workshops, exhibitions, and festivals with community members and partners to promote vibrancy and a sense of community in Baltimore’s most diverse neighborhood.
Our signature Youth Education program returns to the libraries! Teaching artists combine youth leadership, literacy, visual and performing arts twice a week into a youth club! Every summer we partner with the Enoch Pratt Free libraries and this year we present the theme, “A Universe of Stories!” Register today!
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Celebrate the Artesanitos! Over the last twelve months, folkloric traditions in Latin American arts and crafts have been passed down to the outstanding children of Artesanas Mexicanas.
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Teens organize, dance, sing, act, recite, and exhibit their work! Curated and produced by our 2019-2020 Teen Council.
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Join Colombian joropo band Cimarrón for an exciting percussion workshop! All the way from the plains of the Orinoco River in Colombia, these master percussionists draw from their Andalusian, Indigenous American, and African roots. During the session they will teach us to shake out intricate rhythms on the maracas and later this evening, Cimarrón will share their rhythms as they headline the Friends of Patterson Park Concert Series near the Pagoda!
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TACKA-TACKA-BOOM! Learn unique percussive dance from the plains of the Orinoco River in Colombia with our special guests, Cimarrón, in this FREE community workshop. Get your body moving as you embody this unique style of jaropo llanero stomp-dancing. Later, show off your new moves to the rhythmic beats of Cimarrón, at the Friends of Patterson Park Concert Series near the pagoda!
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