Baltimore Composers Forum - Intersegmental 38

Friday, March 14
8 p.m.

Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center
3740 Blenheim Blvd

Free

The Intersegmental 38 is BCF's collaboration with visual artist Mina Cheon by drawing inspiration from her work Dreaming Unification: Protest Peace and its 20 paintings of 17 flags. Word intersegmental, i.e. occurring between or involving two or more segments, is mostly used in medicine to describe spinal segments, and was befitting our idea of prompting unity and "composing global peace".

The 38th parallel, which runs through Maryland as well, is the official border between North and South Korea but can be understood as any boundary between territories where the conflict exists in today's world. The unification flags are figures, and they are raised high and in line, like a procession of a parade. Each flag painting is a symbolic new figuration, a body that parades in a procession for peace and poses as figures floating in space, as a means of protest.

This is also their first collaboration with the composers from Seoul, South Korea. Commissioned composers (in program order) include Jin-Hwa Choi, Se-Yeon Oh, Anna Rubin, Ha-Eun Lee, Young-Wook Lee, Keith Kramer, Garth Baxter, Janice Macaulay, Gavin Brown, Ljiljana Becker, Ian Rashkin and Ariyo Shahry.

Field of Dreams

Friday, March 7
7 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center
3740 Blenheim Blvd
Free

ARTScreen celebrates the arts with a Free film series on Friday evenings in the City of Fairfax.

(1989) PG - Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.

Family Movie Night

Saturday, March 15
7:30 p.m.

Fairfax High School
$15 Adults,  $10 Seniors,  $0 Students under age 25

 Bring the whole family for a celebration of some of the best music from children’s films such as “The Incredibles,” “The Lion King,” “Frozen,” and “How to Train Your Dragon.”

Virginia Opera Touring Program: "A Loving Community"

Monday, March 17
3 p.m.

Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center
3740 Blenheim Blvd
Free

FREE event!  Targeted toward Junior High - Adults (15+) "A Loving Community" is a play with music commissioned by Virginia Opera as its educational touring program for the 2024-2025 season.  The production will feature music and history relevant to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.  This roughly 60-minute program will also include excerpts from the new opera “Loving v. Virginia” premiering April 2025. 

The program will be performed by the Opera’s four Herndon Foundation Emerging Artists with piano accompaniment. The performance will be followed by a brief Q&A with the performers and interested audience members. 

Accompanying the production will be a set of traveling display panels, created and curated by the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, to further enhance the understanding of the historical context that led to this significant decision and its impact on the larger 20th and 21st century American civil rights landscape.

Friday, March 21, 7 pm
Saturday, March 22, 11 am - 9:30 pm
Sunday, March 23, 10 am - 5 pm

The Sherwood Center
3740 Blenheim Blvd., Fairfax 

Women’s Stories Shared – In-person and online

Visit our site for more details and ticket information!

The 2025 Women's Storytelling Festival 2025 storytellers are:

Laura Deal, Swapna Deshpande, Linda Gorham, Jennifer Hillery, Tobey Ishli Anderson, Andrea Kamens, Amanda Lawrence, Carol Moore, Miriam Nadel, Ingrid Nixon, Laura Packer, Jessica Robinson, Aimee Snow and Sarah Snyder.  Karin Amano, Sarah Brady, Sarah Beth Nelson, Shani Womack, and Janel Woodland will be performing in a virtual-only concert, premiering March 20, 2025, and available to everyone who buys a ticket.The Women's Storytelling Festival, produced annually in March by Better Said Than Done, is a festival celebrating all women and gender nonconforming, spoken-word performing artists.  The festival debuted in March 2020 in Fairfax City, VA. The Women's Storytelling Festival is performed live, in-person, as well as live-streamed and available to online viewers for one month after the live-stream.

The Women's Storytelling Festival is intended for a mature audience.