SPRINGTIME events!!

As per usual, Baltimore has almost too many awesome things to do this spring! A few I’m looking forward to:

• Free lectures at the Village Learning Place. This Thursday, April 15: the Star-Spangled Banner and music in Baltimore around 1812, by David Hildebrand.
• The CityLit Festival at Enoch Pratt’s downtown branch, this Saturday April 17. Including the Letters About Literature awards and authors like Elizabeth Kostova.
• 7th Annual Baltimore Green Week, April 17-24. Featuring EcoFest at Druid Hill Park, 12-6 p.m. [Who doesn’t love Druid Hill this time of year?! So gorgeous!]
• The Local DanceMakers series sponsored by the Effervescent Collective. At Load of Fun on North Ave on April 17, 24 and May 1. If you missed their playful live action version of Dirty Dancing at the Annex last month, make sure you check this out. These young Goucher grads are making an impression on the Baltimore dance scene already.
• Gwen Ifill at Goucher on Tuesday, April 20. Tickets are free but must be reserved.
• The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival at Howard County Fairgrounds, May 1 & 2. I don’t even knit but can’t wait to check it out!
• Of course, the Kinetic Sculpture Race on May 1. Sponsored by the American Visionary Art Museum, this quirky parade of larger-than-life mobile sculptures is ridiculous and wonderful. I like to catch them as they go through Patterson Park, although they make their way through most of town!
• Sitting the park (any park, but especially Wyman Park, Druid Hill, or Sherwood Gardens) and enjoying the sunshine, and checking out the new cafe in Remington (inside Miller's Court on 25th and Howard) called Charmington's.


What are you doing this spring?

Also, has anyone ever been to Baltimore Clayworks in Mount Washington? I went there the other day and I must say, it was totally worth the $3 suggested donation for an awesome exhibit by local artists—plus an excuse to get some Taharka Bros ice cream down the street!! Clayworks is doing great things for our fair city.