Creative Alliance

Creative Alliance Creative Alliance is a multi-faceted arts organization that hosts performances, exhibitions, artists in residence, festivals, education programs, and more!
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Food holds memory. Routes hold us.Routes and Roux: The Stories We ServeSun, May 31 | 1–4 PMPatterson Park (Corner of Eas...
05/29/2026

Food holds memory. Routes hold us.

Routes and Roux: The Stories We Serve
Sun, May 31 | 1–4 PM
Patterson Park (Corner of Eastern Ave + S Ellwood Ave)

As a roux slowly turns and deepens, it becomes a foundation you can feel. This gathering, an activation of Hope & Faith McCorkle’s exhibition You Can Always Come Back Home, invites us to reflect on the wisdom, tastes, and memories stored in food, and how meals become intimate tellings of our journeys.

Led by Garden of Nicola, expect intentional conversation starters, a live food demo, and an exploration of Southern African diasporic culinary roots, with flavors that transcend time and distance. Bring an optional dish of significance if you’d like.

The event starts promptly at 1 PM. Come hungry for story.

Get your freak on. 🛰️🖤Missy Elliott DJ Dance PartySat, May 30 | 7:00 PMWe’re turning the volume all the way up for a nig...
05/29/2026

Get your freak on. 🛰️🖤

Missy Elliott DJ Dance Party
Sat, May 30 | 7:00 PM

We’re turning the volume all the way up for a night dedicated to the icon, the innovator, the video-visionary: Missy Elliott. From “Work It” to “Lose Control,” expect nonstop hits, remixes, throwback anthems, and a dance floor that stays packed.

Come dressed in your boldest Y2K look, bring your crew, and dance to the music that changed hip hop, R&B, and club culture forever. Whether you know every lyric or you just want pure party energy, this one’s for you.

Ready to read tarot by the end of the day? 🔮Learn Tarot Reading: One-Day Intensive CourseSun, May 31 | 10:00 AMThis fun,...
05/28/2026

Ready to read tarot by the end of the day? 🔮

Learn Tarot Reading: One-Day Intensive Course
Sun, May 31 | 10:00 AM

This fun, interactive “boot camp” introduces you to tarot as a centuries-old system of divination and self-knowledge, with a simple, highly visual approach and no memorization required. You’ll learn to read any card in any deck, get hands-on practice, and leave able to confidently read for yourself and others.

Bonus: every student receives The Art & Magic of the Tarot Workbook for continued practice. Bring your own lunch or grab something nearby. Drinks available at the bar from 1–4 PM.

Limited spots, fills fast. Ages 16+.
Materials: bring a Rider-Waite tarot deck (easy to find online or in stores).
Register now to secure your seat.

Turn trash into a giant, moving message.From Trash to Puppets: Street Puppet Building Workshop is a two-day build where ...
05/28/2026

Turn trash into a giant, moving message.

From Trash to Puppets: Street Puppet Building Workshop is a two-day build where you’ll learn how reclaimed materials can become powerful imagery for street performance. We’ll dig into a brief history of street puppetry, then get hands-on up-cycling and scavenging free materials to create large-scale puppets and expressive masks that can travel through the community with purpose.

When: Sat, May 30 + Sun, May 31 | 10 AM–1 PM (two days for drying time)

Materials: Included (bring household items to up-cycle if you want)

Led by Tavia La Follette, a transdisciplinary conceptual artist and storyteller based in Baltimore. Come make something loud out of what gets thrown away.

Drag Dace Watch Party 🏁Every Friday | 8pm | FREE!! This is the watch party for the shady divas with a hot take, the big ...
05/27/2026

Drag Dace Watch Party 🏁
Every Friday | 8pm | FREE!!

This is the watch party for the shady divas with a hot take, the big brains who destroy dragrace trivia, and those who want to laugh cry and scream with kin and community!

Viewing party hosted in the Marquee Lounge at Creative Alliance 📍

Come support local drag while while cheering on your favorite Ru girl! 👯‍♀️

Hosted by the devilish duo dolls Bratz LaVey and Lula Lioness 💋 💋

Featuring drag performances and beverage specials (including non-alcoholic specials)🥂, have fun and share joy as a community 🌈

no bigotry or hate tolerated

accessibility info:
Creative Alliance is accessible with no steps to get into the lounge. gender neutral restrooms available.

05/27/2026

Make a puppet. Make a statement. Make it out of what the world threw away.

From Trash to Puppets: Street Puppet Building Workshop is a two-day build where reclaimed materials become large-scale puppets and expressive masks made for street performance and community storytelling. You’ll get a quick history of street puppetry, then jump into scavenging, up-cycling, and building imagery that can move through a crowd and carry a message.

When: Sat, May 30 + Sun, May 31 | 10 AM–1 PM (two days for drying time)
Cost: Pay what you can (suggested $30). RSVP required.
Age: 10+ (kids must be with an adult). Hot glue + blades will be used.
Materials: Included (bring household items to up-cycle if you want)

Led by Baltimore-based transdisciplinary artist Tavia La Follette. Come build something big.

Let’s play and write, together.Collaborative Writing RetreatSat, May 30 | 1:00 PMJoin Alexandra Hewett for an interactiv...
05/27/2026

Let’s play and write, together.

Collaborative Writing Retreat
Sat, May 30 | 1:00 PM

Join Alexandra Hewett for an interactive creative workshop that blends writing prompts, improv, movement, and collaborative exercises. Writing can be a lonely process. This is a chance to connect, create, and build something in community.

No prep needed. We’ll take a short walk to Patterson Park during the workshop, so dress comfortably and bring a notebook + pen (and your sense of adventure).

UPDATE ALERT: we extended the deadline.The Patricia Massey Momentum Award application deadline is now June 1. If you hav...
05/22/2026

UPDATE ALERT: we extended the deadline.

The Patricia Massey Momentum Award application deadline is now June 1. If you have been meaning to hit submit, this is your nudge.

This award exists to uplift emerging immigrant and refugee visual artists living in Maryland, with real support and real visibility at a pivotal moment. Do not wait. Get your application in now.

Questions? Email [email protected]

Bingo night, but make it R&B. 🎶🟦🟧R&B HipHop Bingo Night & Dance PartyFri, May 29 | 7:00 PMThis is not your grandma’s bin...
05/20/2026

Bingo night, but make it R&B. 🎶🟦🟧

R&B HipHop Bingo Night & Dance Party
Fri, May 29 | 7:00 PM

This is not your grandma’s bingo. We’re flipping the classic game into a music-first party with your favorite R&B hits, sing-along moments, and a hyped soundtrack courtesy of DJ Lampdawg. Expect fun prizes, a cash bar, light fare, and then an all-out dance party after the games.

Bring your thinking cap and your dancing shoes. Come ready to yell “BINGO” like it’s the chorus.

Calling all Ear Hustlers.Ear Hustle Live! is coming to Creative Alliance on Sat, May 23 at 7:30 PM with Nigel Poor and E...
05/19/2026

Calling all Ear Hustlers.

Ear Hustle Live! is coming to Creative Alliance on Sat, May 23 at 7:30 PM with Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, co-hosts and co-creators of the acclaimed podcast. Expect stories from inside and outside prison, musical performances, and never-before-seen visuals, all delivered with the honesty and surprise that made Ear Hustle a cultural force.

Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first podcast created and produced in prison, sharing daily realities from San Quentin. Since then it’s expanded to include stories from other prisons and what it means to get out and start over. Raw, often hilarious, and rarely what you expect.

Come be in the room for it.

You Can Always Come Back HomeExhibition On View: May 16 – June 26, 2026Opening Reception: May 16, 6-9PMMindful Movement ...
05/16/2026

You Can Always Come Back Home
Exhibition On View: May 16 – June 26, 2026

Opening Reception: May 16, 6-9PM
Mindful Movement & Sound Healing: May 23, 12-2PM
Community Potluck & Storytelling: May 31, 5-8PM
Artist Talk: June 5, 6:30-8:30PM
Closing Reception: June 26, 6-9PM

There is a particular kind of knowing that lives in a dinner table—in the grain of the wood, the weight of the chairs, the smell of a meal that no longer exists but somehow never leaves. Baltimore-based twin artists Hope & Faith McCorkle have built an entire exhibition around that knowing, and what it means to carry it long after the table and the person who set it are gone.

You Can Always Come Back Home is an immersive, multidimensional installation that asks one of the most profound questions we can hold: where is home when the world keeps moving and the people who made it are no longer here? Working across large-scale mixed-media scrolls, domestic objects, inherited furniture, and participatory installations, Hope and Faith construct a gallery environment that breathes like a living room—layered, intimate, and full of presence. Rooted in Black feminist thought and bell hooks’ concept of homeplace as a site of resistance, the exhibition positions home not as a fixed location but as a space where memory, spirit, and ancestry live as one.

At the heart of the exhibition is an altar built from their late mother, Tonya Wendell McCorkle’s dinner table, alongside a meditative labyrinth and scroll-based works that move between personal narrative and collective history. The gallery becomes what the artists have always sought to build: a sanctuary born from the grief of losing their mother at seventeen, and from the collaborative practice that became their way back to life.

The exhibition extends beyond the gallery through community programming, including a movement and sound healing workshop, storytelling gatherings, and a communal meal where participants bring dishes and the memories they hold. These are not simply add-ons. They are the embodiments of the exhibition itself.

This is what art can do at its highest purpose: transform a room into a refuge, and invite Baltimore’s community to remember that no matter how far you have traveled, how much has been lost, or how long you have been away, you can always come back home.

You Can Always Come Back Home is supported by a Rubys Artist Grant, a program of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

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