ALL AREA-405-PRESENTED EVENTS IN JUNE ARE FREE! HAPPY PRIDE 🌈!

Experience something fresh and inspiring every month at Station North's Second Friday Art Walk — art, community, and surprises await!

This series of monthly self-guided tours of all the art and culture that Station North (near Baltimore's Penn Station) has to offer is a grassroots, artist-led effort organized by community members and stakeholders. Spanning the neighborhoods of Charles North, Greenmount West, and Barclay, Station North is a diverse collection of artist live-work spaces, studios, galleries, rowhomes, and businesses, all just steps away from Penn Station and several higher learning and cultural institutions in the heart of Baltimore.

AREA 405 will open the door at 5:00 p.m. to welcome you into the space, and we will witness Red Rae’s Closing Performance with Live set by GRL PWR together at 8:00 p.m.

Check out the map for venues and create your own self-guided tour! Map will continue to be updated. Printed maps available at some venues. Follow @stationnorth on Instagram for updates and map pdf!

Free and Open to the Public

Live Performance by Red Rae, Live set by GRL PWR
Door at 5:00 p.m., Performance at 8:00 p.m.

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Free and Open to the Public
Red Rae and Eli Erlick

Celebrate the beginning of a beautiful friendship! Mid Atlantic Improv and Area 405 will bring a monthly performance of Law & Order: Special Improv Unit to Central Baltimore!

A never before seen episode will be created, from your suggestions, before your very eyes! From the discovery of the victim (played by an audience member) to cynical quips from an aging detective to lawyers berating every witness on the stand, you will get the complete Law & Order experience right down to a verdict decided by the audience.

Law & Order SIU -- These are Your Stories!

Sliding Scale: $10–$50
Door at 7:00 p.m., Performance at 8:00 p.m.
Red Rae, Soleil, Bao Nguyen, and Live DJ Set by ILUSM

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Sliding Scale: $10–$50
Door at 7:00 p.m., Performance at 8:00 p.m.
Red Rae, Alex D’Agostino, and Rahne Alexander

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Sliding Scale: $10–$50
Door at 7:00 p.m., Performance at 8:00 p.m.
Red Rae, Alex D’Agostino, and Bao Nguyen

Learn more here

Sliding Scale: $10–$50
Door at 7:00 p.m., Performance at 8:00 p.m.
Red Rae, Alex D’Agostino, and Rahne Alexander

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AREA 405 is proud to present Paradise Portals, a seven-channel multimedia video installation and performance directed by Red Rae, a 2024 Rubys Artist Grant awardee. The exhibition opens on May 9, 2025, and runs through June 13, 2025, featuring performances each weekend, 8 in total, with a sliding-scale ticket price of $10–$50. The opening reception will take place May 9 from 5:00 – 9:00, participating in the Station North Second Friday Art Walk.

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Fix-It Fair is a FREE, family friendly event hosted by the Station North Tool Library (SNTL) and open to the public. At Fix-It Fair, you’ll get help from experienced volunteers making common repairs on clothes, furniture, leather items, bikes, etc. This Spring, SNTL are partnering with the Department of Public Works (DPW) and will be offering new services on textiles and electronics.

Learn more here: toollibrary.org.

Witness the last and also take a moment to reflect on the values we hold — polycentric, becoming, collaboration. By returning to our workshop explorations and interventions, and revisiting the crossings, tensions, and temporary structures built in the process, we step into the exhibition’s dynamic exploration of instability, transformation, and rebellion, transcending temporal and spatial boundaries.

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Exhibition Trembling Grounds: Push-Pull Practice dismantles and reconfigures the boundaries of art-making. The show spotlights nine artists — Deborah Castillo, Roman Sheppard Dawson, Sasha Fishman, Elli Fotopoulou, Maya Gurantz, Scott Keightley, Lucia Shuyu Li, Andrew Luk, and Yuhan Shen — whose works delve into multi-centered discourses and span disciplines including performance, video, interdisciplinary sculpture, and site-specific installation. By bringing together these constantly evolving practices, Trembling Grounds examines the concept of "crossing" as a transformative act — crossing subjects, media, languages, physical walls, restrictions, and so on. Crossing is not merely a movement but a rebellion, an active, dynamic force that traverses media and unsettles the familiar.

Learn more here: area405.com/trembling-grounds

Michael Harris and the hilarious actors from MidAtlantic Improv have brought improvised plays to venues from Baltimore to Fredrick to DC, including the sold out hit, BAH HUMBUG: A Christmas Carol (Mostly) Improvised.

Now they bring you Law & Order SIU: Special Improv Unit! You'll see every aspect of the Law & Order formula from the discovery of the victim (played by an audience member) to a tough but fair Lieutenant pushing for results to a final verdict decided by you!

This is Law & Order SIU -- And these are your stories.

Become a part of this workshop and engage in a nonverbal exchange, communicating solely through objects. Each person will receive an object and be invited to express their thoughts through interaction to explore the narrative autonomy of objects and their ability to convey meaning beyond language.

Learn more at area405.com/trembling-grounds.

"I Never Said Goodbye,” a film by Yev K'banchik and produced by Pinecone Collective, makes its U.S. premiere at AREA 405. The film explores themes of memory, displacement, and the search for closure through a deeply personal lens. Following the screening, guests are invited to join a discussion about the film’s themes and creative process. Light snacks will be provided as we gather for an evening of storytelling and reflection.

Learn more at pineconecreative.org.

Join Sasha Fishman for a hands-on workshop sculpting with living mycelium dough — a blend of reishi mycelium, clay, and paper pulp — developed by Sasha in collaboration with Lera Niemackl. After a brief presentation on mycelium’s role in sustainable design and construction, participants will shape dynamic, growing forms to take home or keep as they are in the gallery space.

Door at 5:00 p.m.
Performance at 6:00 p.m.

Maya Gurantz presents Endurance Performance Proposition #2 (Lenny Bruce Live at Carnegie Hall), a durational engagement reanimating the raw volatility of Bruce’s infamous 1961 performance, interrogating the friction between comedy, free speech, and bodily limits. Lucia Shuyu Li’s SING!SING!SING! explores vocal endurance as both rebellion and release of body movement and functionality.

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Exhibition Trembling Grounds: Push-Pull Practice dismantles and reconfigures the boundaries of art-making. The show spotlights nine artists — Deborah Castillo, Roman Sheppard Dawson, Sasha Fishman, Elli Fotopoulou, Maya Gurantz, Scott Keightley, Lucia Shuyu Li, Andrew Luk, and Yuhan Shen — whose works delve into multi-centered discourses and span disciplines including performance, video, interdisciplinary sculpture, and site-specific installation. By bringing together these constantly evolving practices, Trembling Grounds examines the concept of "crossing" as a transformative act — crossing subjects, media, languages, physical walls, restrictions, and so on. Crossing is not merely a movement but a rebellion, an active, dynamic force that traverses media and unsettles the familiar.

Learn more here: area405.com/trembling-grounds

Chaired by Andre Stone

Meetings take place at AREA 405 (405 E Oliver St) on March 10 at 7:00 p.m. and are open to the community (please email andrestone26@gmail.com for a copy of the agenda in advance).

All requests for community letters of support (e.g. for the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals) must be presented by the requester at a regular meeting. See the Committee Protocols and Procedures for details on location, how to request a place on a meeting agenda, and the committee’s rules.

For more information please visit greenmountwest.org.