Fri 12/4 – Historic Baldwin Hall – Millersville – check out Something’s Blooming Annapolis for their Holiday Wreath Workshop – You can attend the workshop in person or virtually!
Sat 12/5 – Beverly Triton Park – Animal Tracks – Join a ranger and learn how to track many different species of animals in the upland forests or Maryland.
https://www.aacounty.org/news-and-events/events/event/12/05/2020/animal-tracks-2
Sun 12/6 – First Sunday Arts Festival – This year, instead of the Chocolate Binge Festival in December, they’re doing a Holiday Market. Check out all the vendors on the first block of West Street and shop local to help support all the great local businesses that could use our support, especially this year.
With multiple options to enjoy the festival. First, they’re officially doing the festival in-person again, on the first block of West Street with 50 vendors with lots of fun stuff. Second, you can shop online from over 200 festival artists. Also, after the festival is over, they’ll be converting to Dinner Under the Stars for outdoor dining and live music!
https://www.firstsundayarts.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1083528858773061/
Wine & Design in Annapolis is still doing virtual take home classes as well as a few in-person classes. This week check out their holiday lighthouse, funky winter tree, pastel evergreens, hangin with my gnomies, paw print christmas tree, light the way, peaceful winter, evening in color and Art Buzz for Kids’ virtual event with imaginary friends classes. And be sure to check out their Small Business Saturday offerings.
https://www.wineanddesign.com/calendar/annapolis-md
Local by Design
Virtual group workshops – Enjoy a fun evening crafting “together” virtually. Some of their workshops past workshops have been ornament making, cookie decorating, wood signs, drawing/painting and more. Message us with your dates and ideas.
https://www.localbydesignannapolis.com/workshops
https://www.localbydesignannapolis.com/events/virtual-group-workshops
Art Farm – Annapolis
Check out ArtFarm’s online Market – ArtFarm Studios brings you a curated collection through ArtFarm Market. Each sale directly supports working artists and small businesses. Artwork is Work and we are happy to get this work out to the world.
Clay Bakers – Annapolis
Tues 12/1 – There’s another Old Fashioned Glazed Christmas Tree workshop and also check out their Handmade Clay Ornaments with multiple workshops Wednesday!
https://www.theclaybakers.com/events/
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AACPL
…has a bunch of programs going on online if you head over to aacpl.net and click on Watch Online – Virtual Programming
… including Facebook Live Storytimes (including bilingual storytimes) every weekday as well as a children’s book discussion… including an Arabic-English bilingual story time and an Ice Skating STEM story time
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/babies-bloom-story-time-hosted-deale-library-7
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/facebook-live-babies-bloom-61
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/arabic-english-bilingual-storytime-discoveries-0
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/deale-presents-ice-skating-stem-storytime
Tomorrow 12/4 – The Great Movies: The Last Laugh. Praised by Hitchcock as “an almost perfect film”, one of the crowning achievements of the German impressionist movement. And it can be watched through the library’s access to Kanopy.
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/great-movies-last-laugh-1924
Mon 12/7 – Intro to Genealogy Resources at the library
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/intro-genealogy-resources-aacpl-1
Tues 12/8 – Zoom for Entrepreneurs
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/zoom-entrepreneurs
Wed 12/9 – Don’t Let the Covid Grinch Steal Your Cookie Making Fun
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/dont-let-covid-grinch-steal-your-cookie-making-fun
Check out a lot of interesting things at the library… like Author Works: Denise Williams and “How To Fail at Flirting”, Family Trivia Night, various Writers Cribs talks, Best Books of 2020, Afternoon of Poetry, Virtual Poetry on Zoom, Co-Conspirators Murder We Read Group, Conflict Resolution Workshop, We Read Wednesdays, and Kids Writers Live.
Unallocated Space – Severn
Tonight 12/3 – UAS hasn’t been having any in-person classes but they’re still doing some things virtually. On Thursday nights, they’ve been doing an online virtual Happy Hour
https://www.meetup.com/Unallocated-Space/events/htgkvrybcqbfb/
Tonight 12/3 – Intermediate Level Scratch Programming Group – Program along with a father and son team walking through how to create an interactive Maze Game in the Scratch programming language.
https://www.meetup.com/Unallocated-Space/events/274519456/
Tomorrow – 12/4 – Virtual DC443 Hack The Box Working Group – honing cybersecurity skills in a fun and social environment
https://www.meetup.com/Unallocated-Space/events/wzcmwrybcqbgb/
Sat 12/5 – Unallocated Space’s 10 Anniversary Virtual Party
https://www.meetup.com/Unallocated-Space/events/269348286/
Mon 12/7 – Project Night – Following proper social distancing and mask guidelines, join UAS for their project night.
https://www.meetup.com/Unallocated-Space/events/wvtwxrybcqbkb/
Annapolis Makerspace
Tonight 12/3 – Check out one of our bi-weekly open house and new member orientation nights. If you want to see what the shop is like before deciding to join, tonight’s a good night to drop by.
https://www.meetup.com/Annapolis-Makerspace/events/nxdmxrybcqbfb/
And remember to shop local this holiday season. The Downtown Annapolis Partnership has a website with all the businesses in downtown and how to shop online from them. Check out https://www.downtownannapolispartnership.org/ and before you hit Amazon, hunt around locally, even if it’s just gift cards… local businesses need all the help they can get this time of year, especially this year.