Kathleen Maher’s talk at the Peale was livestreamed on Sunday, April 8. You can see the live version on Facebook and an edited version including Maher’s slides will be coming soon.
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The B.I.T.R. Sisters Review HUMBUG
If you were wondering what HUMBUG: The Great P.T. Barnum Séance is like, look no further than the B.I.T.R. (Baltimore Independent Theater Review) Sisters’ review of the show – or simply get tickets and see for yourself! Thu-Sun, through April 20th.
David London, who created the show, is a storyteller and magician who presents original interactive magical experiences.
He has staged six original theatrical magic productions, including Magic Outside The Box, The Adventure to the Imagi Nation, Cerebral Sorcery, and …Art of Dreams, and authored eight manuscripts related to magic and illusion, including Daydreams, Borderland State, and Imagining the Imagination. He regularly presents his performances, talks, workshops and seances at theaters, museums, galleries, and festivals across the United States.
To learn more about David and his other magical creations, please visit www.DavidLondonMagic.com
DC Metro Interview: David London on ‘Humbug, The Great P.T. Barnum Séance’
by Chris Griffin, March 11, 2018
The sign of a good show is being able to announce you’re extending during your opening weekend. David London’s newest spectacular, Humbug, The Great P.T. Barnum Séance just extended through April 20. I went to his original Séance of the Creative Spirit in 2015 and had an eerily entertaining experience so I couldn’t wait to talk to him about his newest show. As you can see, he’s thoroughly done his homework on the subject. Read more…
HUMBUG Extended through April 20th
Due to popular demand, HUMBUG: The Great P.T. Barnum Seance has been EXTENDED through April 20th!!!
Nightly seatings Thursday through Sunday at 7pm. Additional seatings Friday at Saturday at 10pm.
Doors open 30 minutes prior to each seance.
Limited to 24 guests per seating
12 Inner Circle Guests will be seated at the seance table
12 Council Guests receive General Admission seats
Reserve your seats here: https://barnumseance.brownpapertickets.com/
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Peale Center awarded $15,000 by BNHA
On Friday February 16, 2018, Mayor Catherine Pugh presented the Peale Center with a $15,000 contribution to the capital campaign as part of the 2018 Baltimore National Heritage Area Small Capital Grant Awards. Through the Small Capital Grants, the City of Baltimore partners with the Heritage Area to invest in local institutions and structures through a professionally vetted, competitive grants program. This year, more than $107,000 were awarded to nine organizations, including the Peale.
Mayor to announce Peale and other winners of the FY2018 Baltimore National Heritage Area Small Capital Grant Awards
On Friday, February 16, 2018, Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Mayor Pugh will visit the Peale to announce the FY2018 Small Capital Grants awards, given by the Baltimore National Heritage Area with funds from the City of Baltimore. The public is invited with RSVP.
Stay after the ceremony to hear the free performance and talk from 12-1pm, “Learning Happened Here: Race and Education in Baltimore from the Colored School to Frederick Douglass High School.”
Be Here: EDU Workshop
High school students from the Baltimore area are invited to participate in a series of four workshops about the state of education in Baltimore and beyond. These are opportunities to share your voices and to produce a series of messages that express your views about your school and education.
We will hold monthly workshops beginning February 9, 2018. Each workshop’s conversation will build upon the previous month’s discussions.
We have space for a maximum of 30 students. Students must complete this application to be considered for participation.
Workshop participants will receive $20 for each full workshop you attend and an additional $20 if you attend all four workshops for a total of $100.
Special Gaslight Tours for Charter Members
Become a Charter Member of the Peale and tour the newly restored gas lights at the Peale, including our own “Magic Ring of Fire!”
You can make any size donation to the Peale through PayPal and book your tour.
No amount is insignificant to a cultural organization. We appreciate every dollar from people like you, and those dollars go directly to the top-quality programs for adults and children as well as preservation-minded restoration efforts that help bring the historic Peale building back to life, one brick, one stone at a time.
Find out more about our Capital Campaign.
H.T. Darling’s Incredible Store is now online!
If H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum won your heart, you can take home a souvenir from Submersive’s immersive theater production at the Peale. Selected specimens and personal items from H.T. himself are available to purchase online! All items are local pickup in Baltimore, MD only. If you have any questions about any of these items, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. Proceeds support the work of Submersive Productions. To Legacy!!!
Gas light reignited at the Peale just in time for #GivingTuesday!
Thanks to BGE’s Steve Pedri and Mike Borlie, and David Conrad of Conrad’s Ruth Villa, the Peale’s gas lights have been restored to their former brilliance! Two street lights in front of the Peale, and two in the historic back garden, once again shine brightly with gas light.
For #GivingTuesday, the Peale is offering special tours of the first museum purpose-built in the United States and its vintage gas lights. Any donation will help us restore the 1814 building and relaunch the Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture as a new kind of urban museum for the 21st century! Join our Charter Donor Family before January 1, 2018 and we’ll be in touch to arrange your visit.