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Hey hon. It's a long weekend, October 9–11, with Monday off for Indigenous Peoples' Day, and Baltimore is packed all weekend. One art school turns 200, a park turns into a fiesta, and there are tacos everywhere. Most of the good stuff this week is free. Let's go.
🎨 THE BIG ONE: MICA Bicentennial Weekend
📍 Maryland Institute College of Art, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave.
🗓 Friday 5–10:30 pm, Saturday 10 am- 10 pm, Sunda11 am5 pm5pm
FREE
MICA is 200 years old, and it's throwing Bolton Hill a three-day birthday party. Alum Jeff Koons gives a talk, there's a MICA Art Market where you can take home original work, and there's a live Stoop Storytelling taping with Micah E. Wood and Eze Jackson. Some programs are 21+, so check the schedule before you bring the kids. mica.edu
💃 Fiesta Baltimore
📍 Patterson Park, 2900 Eastern Ave.
🗓 Saturday & Sund11 am7 pmm–7pm
FREE
In its eighth year, this is Baltimore's big Latino arts and culture celebration. More than 50 local vendors bring traditional food, plus live music, artisans, storytelling, and hands-on workshops for kids. Get there Sunday at 2 pm for the Latino Parade of Nations. It's free, outdoors, and in the city's best park. nuestrasraicesinc.org
🌮 Baltimore Taco Festival
📍 Power Plant Live!, 34 Market Place
🗓 Saturday & Sunday, 2–8 pm (VIP noon- 2 pm)
Tickets about $15 GA, kids under 10 free
More than 30 vendors fill a whole city block. Add margarita bars, a tequila expo, lucha libre, mariachi, hi and a hot chili pepper eating contest if you're brave. There's a pumpkin patch and piñatas for the little ones. Get tickets
🖼 Baltimore Open Studio Tour Weekend
📍 Studios all over the city (see the map)
🗓 Saturday & Sunday, 10 am–5 pm
FREE
Local artists open their studio doors, so you can see where the work gets made and buy straight from the people who made it. Pick a neighborhood, plan a route, and make a day of it. It pairs nicely with MICA weekend. promotionandarts.org
🎸 Modest Mouse
📍 Pier Six Pavilion, 731 Eastern Ave.
🗓 Friday,8 pmm
Tickets from about $95
The indie rock favorites bring their new album, "An Eraser and a Maze," to the waterfront, with Caroline Rose opening. An October night on the harbor with a band you loved in college sounds about right.
🪩 BSO: Disco Inferno – A '70s Celebration
📍 Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St.
🗓 Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 pm
$29–$133
The symphony goes full disco, with Broadway vocalists and a live disco band playing ABBA, the Bee Gees, Donna Summer,r and Gloria Gaynor. Dress to dance, because you will. bsomusic.org
⛳ Lost in Dreamland Putt Putt Pop-Up
📍 The Garage at R. House, 301 W. 29th St.
🗓 Friday 8–10 pm, Saturday 1–8 pm, Sunday 10 am- 3 pm
$15 adults, $5 kids. Mini golf as a fever dream: holes built by artists, carpenters, and engineers, running from "sweet dreams" to "deadly nightmares." Proceeds go to the 26th Street Green pedestrian plaza. 26thstgreen.org
🧟 "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
📍 Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, 7 S. Calvert St.
🗓 Saturday & Sunday,2 pmm
$35–$80
CSC opens its season with a Gothic classic, just in time for spooky season. Saturday is costume day, and Sunday has a pre-show talk with a UMBC Romanticism expert. chesapeakeshakespeare.com
🛶 Edgar Allan Row
📍 Pitango Bakery, 903 S. Ann St., Fell's Point
🗓 Saturday, 4–6 pm
FREE
Paddle the harbor while someone reads you Poe—very Baltimore. Bring your own kayak or SUP, or rent one along the water. baltimoreblueway.org
✨ "Inviting Light" Starlight Stroll
📍 Harmony Park, 1707 Barclay St., Station North
🗓 Friday, 6:30–9 pm
FREE
Take a nighttime walk through five light installations in Station North, led by the artists and curator Derrick Adams. It's an easy, free way to start the weekend.
🏈 Ravens at Falcons
🗓 Sunday, 8:20 pm, NBC/Peacock
The Ravens are in Atlanta for Sunday Night Football. Find a bar with purple on the walls and close out the weekend right.
🥕 Markets This Weekend
Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar: Sunday,7 amm–noon, under the JFX at Holliday & Saratoga. Fall produce, baked goods, vintage,ge and a breakfast you'll talk about all week.
My Sunday Market: Sunday, 11 am–4 pm, The Avenue at White Marsh. It's the last one of the season, with 50+ local makers and live acoustic music. FREE.
MICA Art Market: all weekend at MICA (see above). Original art from the makers.
Patapsco Flea Market: Saturday & Sunday, 1400 W. Patapsco Ave. A classic old-school flea, but check hours before you go.
🗓 Build Your Perfect Saturday
Time | Where to Be |
|---|---|
10:00 am | Open Studio Tour: pick a neighborhood and start knocking on (open) doors |
11:30 am | Fiesta Baltimore in Patterson Park for lunch from the vendor row |
2:00 pm | Taco Fest at Power Plant Live! for round two, plus a margarita |
4:00 pm | Edgar Allan Poe Row in Fell's Point, or a walk along the water if you're not a paddler |
6:00 pm | MICA Bicentennial in Bolton Hill: the Art Market and evening programs |
8:00 pm | Disco Inferno at the Meyerhoff. Wear the platforms. |
A 200-year-old art school, a park full of music, and a three-day weekend to enjoy it. Baltimore doesn't do it halfway, and neither should you, hon.
Have a great weekend, Baltimore. 🖤 — The Bmore This Week Team