A list of upcoming events organized or supported by Baltimore Sister Cities and our sister city committees (Changwon, South Korea; Gbarnga, Liberia; Kawasaki, Japan; Luxor & Alexandria, Egypt; Odesa, Ukraine; Piraeus, Greece; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Xiamen, China) and our affiliates. Events include:
September 2022 – October 2022
Applications Being Accepted from Overseas Companies to Maryland’s Global Gateway Program
Applications for the new Maryland Global Gateway program are now available. This program will provide incentives for the first 50 eligible companies, including:
- Funding towards rent costs for six months for more than 20 business incubators and accelerators across the state
- Assistance with business registration costs for foreign companies who choose to stay in Maryland
- Training, mentoring, matchmaking, and networking through both state government and local incubator programs
Applications are due by October 31, 2022.
See Press Release here.
Find info about the Maryland Global Gateway – Soft Landing Program here.
September 2022 – December 2022
Creative Confluence: South Asian Community Reflections, Connections, and Dialogue
Explore the rich array of creativity, cultures, and traditions expressed through the works of twenty-two South Asian artists from across the Greater Baltimore and Washington, DC area. Discover the intersecting and distinct experiences of these artists—with cultural roots in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Barbados, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Trinidad and Tobago—who share their perspectives on lineage, self-identity, ideas of homeland, spiritual traditions, sensory experience, and connections to the natural world.
Dates: Sep. 14 – Dec. 17 (Closed Nov. 23-27)
Location: Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts, Towson University; 1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD 21204
An Opening Reception Event will take place on Wednesday, September 14th at 7:30-9:30pm.
Register and donate here.
September 24, 27 & October 1, 6
2022 New American Leadership Institute (NALI)
The New American Leadership Institute (NALI) is an annual four-session civics academy for emerging immigrant and refugee leaders to learn about the structure of local government, hone leadership skills, network with peers, and identify opportunities for civic participation. These sessions prepare NALI participants to act as ambassadors for their communities!
Conversational English is required to apply. To apply, please complete the NALI application by Friday, September 9, 2022.
Visit here for more information.
September 29, 2022
Bulava Festival
Homestead Gardens invites you to stand with Ukraine. This festival will feature Ukrainian and American food, live music and entertainment, “Stand with Ukraine” merchandies, and a silent auction.
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: 743 W. Central Ave. Davidsonville, MD 21035
Tickets: $25 suggested donation
More information can be found here.
October 2, 2022
Japan Day (Aki Matsuri – Fall Festival)
Interested in Japanese traditional or pop culture? You are at the right place! Did you know that Maryland and Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan have been in a sister state relationship for more than 40 years? Celebrating the relationship, Maryland and Kanagawa Sister State committee along with Misako Ballet, Matcha Time Café, and UMBC welcome you to this cultural exploration event!
Our Japan Day/Fall Festival has many performances and hands-on activities for you to experience Japanese culture free of charge!
Date: Sunday, October 2, 2022
Time: 3:00-6:00pm
Location: The Meeting House, Oakland Mills Interfaith, Inc. 5885 Robert Oliver Place, Columbia, MD 21045
For more information and registration click here.
Co-organized by Baltimore-Kawasaki Sister City Committee.
October 2, 2022
Tvameva Music
Tvameva (meaning “you are” in Sanskrit) is a unique world fusion band based in the Washington DC Region. This presentation features founder-vocalist-producer, Arvind Venugopal, and award-winning guitarist, Rahul Mukerji. The group blends South Indian Carnatic music traditions with new age electronic, classic rock, and other musical sounds. The result is a sublime and spiritually-grounded new sound which respectfully balances tradition with fearless exploration.
Date: Sunday, October 2, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Howard County Center for the Arts; 8510 High Ridge Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043
To register and donate, visit here.
October 6, 2022
Is Globalization Dead? Or Alive, Well, and Rapidly Evolving?
World Trade Center Institute’s 2022 AGILE program continues with Today is Tomorrow: The Retreat of Globalization (event will be in-person and also live-streamed).
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has noted that neither World War stopped globalization. So, will things like the war in Ukraine, inflation, geopolitical uncertainty, technology acceleration, and a pandemic stop globalization? Or is it just rapidly changing?
On October 6th, BD Integrated Diagnostics Solutions President Brooke Story and Marlin Steel President and Owner Drew Greenblatt will share their perspectives on these questions.
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST
Location: The Center Club in Baltimore, 100 Light St. #16, Baltimore, MD 21202
Tickets: Free for WTCI Members, $50 for Non-members, $25 for Students; Live-streamed on LinkedIn
Purchase tickets here.
More info: AGILE event series
Baltimore Sister Cities is a member of World Trade Center Institute.
October 7, 2022
The Train “Odessa-Mama” Play
The “Train Odessa-Mama” is a tale steeped in authentic Odessa-based, Ukrainian-Jewish humor, and is about love between Misha Muhemzon and Natalka Horobetz. This story has it all – love, laughter, tears, memories, poetry, live music and dancing. Most people who have seen this performance would warn you to find your breath in between your countless laughs and to love as much as your heart may bare.
The proceeds from the play will be donated to the Baltimore-Odesa Sister City Committee’s (BOSCC) humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
Date: Friday, October 7, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: 6125 Montrose Rd. Rockville, MD 20852
Tickets: $45
Purchase tickets and learn more about the event here.
October 13, 2022
Night Market Untapped: A Social With Calligrapher Setsuhi Shiraishi
Uppu & OTS productions team up with Waverly Main Street to provide a space for Baltimore’s creatives, professionals and community to come together for this special cultural performance. This is an official event of the Night Market Untapped Series and Free Fall Baltimore.
The main performance is a collaboration between calligrapher Setsushi Shiraishi from Chiba, Japan and Shakuhachi player Hideo from Tokyo, Japan. After the performance, the artworks created by Setsuhi Shiraishi will be for purchase. We will also feature local food vendors, makers and additional performances. The event will be capped to 300 attendees.
Date: Thursday, October 13
Time: 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Peabody Heights Brewery, 401 E. 30th St. Baltimore, MD 21218
Tickets: Free, reservations encouraged
For tickets and updates, visit here.
October 20, 2022
Bamboo Lotus Illumination
Celebrate and learn about Diwali, the Festival of Light celebrated by Hindus around the world. Join artist, Adrianna Morgan, in the illumination of her site-specific installation honoring the Indo-Caribbean “bamboo bending” tradition of creating decorative forms to display sacred South Asian oil lamps (diyas). Listen to an artist talk to learn about this practice and the art installation from Adrianna and her production team, and explore Diwali customs with artist, Shanthi Chandrasekar.
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts, Towson University; 1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD 21204
To register and donate, visit here.
October 22, 2022
Sutradhar Institute of Dance and Related Arts
Visit this hub of Indian dance, storytelling, and visual arts in Silver Spring comprised of studios, open-air spaces, a yoga garden, and a sacred North Indian-inspired stage made with recycled materials. Learn kuchipudi hand gestures and basic foot stamped rhythms and observe an advanced dance lesson. Explore the yoga garden, landscaped with earthenware from India and a large mural of Princess Sita by a Silver Spring artist. Enjoy chai, samosas, and other light snacks while chatting with SIDRA’s founder, Nilimma Devi, and the passionate, inter-generational, bi-cultural Devi Dance performers.
Date: Saturday, October 22, 2022
Time: 11:00 am
Location: 1525 Forest Glen Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tickets: $15 general/$10 members
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit here.
November
Today is Tomorrow: Climate Change and Sustainability
World Trade Center Institute’s 2022 AGILE program continues with Today is Tomorrow: Climate Change and Sustainability at the historic Parkway Theater in Baltimore, MD (event will also be live-streamed).
More info: AGILE event series
Baltimore Sister Cities is a member of World Trade Center Institute.
November 5, 2022
Shanthi Chandrasekar
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia, multidisciplinary artist who has been drawing and painting since early childhood. Her interest in understanding different forms of visual media has led her to experiment with drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and papermaking. She has also been trained in the traditional art forms of kolam and Tanjore-style painting. While many of her works are influenced by her Indian heritage, her true inspiration comes from the mystery and majesty of the world around her; her muse lives where the scientific overlaps with the spiritual.
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Studio B; 7475 Wisconsin Avenue, Lower Level, Bethesda, MD 20814
Tickets: Tickets: $15 general/$10 members
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit here.
November 12, 2022
Discover Egypt’s Treasures
Celebrate King Tut, the Rosetta Stone and today’s Egypt. Why do we still get so excited by mummies and pyramids? Anthony T Browder, the first African American to coordinate an archaeological dig in Egypt, has some answers. He will also host a live Zoom conversation from Luxor, Egypt, with the son of the young boy who first found King Tut’s tomb.
Try your hand at deciphering codes like the Rosetta Stone, write your name in hieroglyphics AND Arabic, and make a royal necklace. See what’s happening in Egypt today and savor Egyptian street food with the Koshery Corner Food Truck.
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2022
Time: 1:00-4:00pm
Location: Enoch Pratt Central Library, 400 Cathedral Street Baltimore, MD 21201
More information can be found here.
Supported by Baltimore Luxor-Alexandria Sister City Committee.
November 12, 2022
Rhythm & Grace: Dancing through India
This performance and discussion introduces various styles of dance—from classical to folk to Bollywood—from the Indian subcontinent as represented in the local South Asian dance diaspora. It features multi-generational dancers from Maryland and explores questions about intergenerational transmission and maintenance and development of cultural heritage, such as What remains? What is sometimes lost? What gets further enriched in the entire process? Curated by dancer, choreographer, singer Shobha Subramanian, Jayamangala.
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Motor House; 120 West North Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201
To register and donate, visit here.
Note: due to the evolving worldwide COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, we advise you to check each event’s page or event organizers for the latest updates about the event, before you go to attend an event.
