A Day in the Life of a Hip Hop Heroine: A Free Fall Baltimore Event: The Baltimore I Knew (Tonight @ the BMA)

Free Fall Baltimore features 75 participating arts groups presenting 180 events. Here's a sampling of the variety. Some events require reservations. For a complete schedule, go to freefallbaltimore.org.

Baltimore Museum of Art: North Charles and 31st streets.
* The ArtBlast outdoor festival, with performances by Mambo Combo and Alligator Zydeco, runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.
* Year-round free admission begins today.
Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. 8 p.m. Thursday. Elizabethan Theatre at St. Mary's Outreach Center, 3900 Roland Ave. Reservations through 410-366-8596 or balti moreshakespeare.org.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Open rehearsal for Heavenly Beauty. 10 a.m. Nov. 9. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St. Reservations through 410-783-8122 or balti moresymphony.org.
Enoch Pratt Free Library: Hip-Hop Live! with Bossman and other professional hip-hop artists. 2 p.m. Oct. 14. 400 Cathedral St. Reservations through branch libraries or www.epfl.net.
Everyman Theatre: Opus. 8 p.m. Oct. 13. 1727 N. Charles St. Reservations through box office or Everyman Theatre.org.
Hippodrome Foundation: 12 Angry Men. 11 a.m. Oct. 26. 12 N. Eutaw St. Reservations through 410-727-7787 or olivew@hippodrome foundation.org.
Murphy Fine Arts Center at Morgan State University: Dance performance by Ailey II. 4 p.m. Oct. 15. Reservations in person. 2201 Argonne Drive.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture: 830 E. Pratt St.
* Free admission. Noon-5 p.m. today and Oct. 15.
* Free admission and screening of The Prize Then, the Prize Now: A Community Forum on Civil Rights History and Horizons. 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday and Oct. 10.
Theatre Project: 45 W. Preston St. Reservations through 410-752-8558.
* Self at Hand: 8 p.m. Oct. 19.
* Einstein's Dream (it's about time ... ): 8 p.m. Oct. 26.
* Demotic: 8 p.m. Nov. 2.
* Agents + Assets: 8 p.m. Nov. 9.
Walters Art Museum: 600 N. Charles St.
* Wide Open Weekend: Performance by the Campbell Brothers and a film screening, 5 p.m.-midnight Friday; Elvis impersonators, puppeteers and storytellers, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Oct. 8.
* Year-round free admission begins today.
Shriver Hall Concert Series: Reservations through 410-516-7164 or shrivercon certs.org.
* Pipa virtuoso Wu Man; 3 p.m. Oct. 21, BMA.
* Imani Winds quintet: 8 p.m. Nov. 14, University of Baltimore Student Center, 21 W. Mount Royal Ave.

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The Baltimore I Knew: A Living History Roundtable REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FILLED. However, unclaimed tickets will be released to the public at 6:45 PM. Please call 410-685-0095 for more information.

October 5, 7:00 PM at the Baltimore Museum of Art's Meyerhoff Auditorium. This event is FREE and open to the public

Four famous Baltimoreans will return from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to join WYPR talk show host Marc Steiner in a lively discussion about the joys and challenges of living in Charm City. Sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council, this interactive event will bring together H. L. Mencken, Edgar Allan Poe, Thurgood Marshall, and Zelda Fitzgerald to provide their perspectives on issues of the past that Baltimoreans still struggle with today.

Join us for a unique opportunity to converse with distinguished time-traveling guests about the state of education, crime, culture, race relations, and politics. Find out what's changed - and what's remained the same - since the times that these historical figures strolled the streets of Baltimore.

The program is free and open to the public. Doors will open to the general public at 6:45 PM. Pre-registrants will be admitted beginning at 5:45 PM.

This event is part of Free Fall Baltimore and is made possible through a grant from Mayor Martin O'Malley and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts. The Council is pleased to join the Baltimore Museum of Art and media partner WYPR 88.1 FM in presenting this event.

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