Outdoor Adventures: Huntley Meadows
Let our expert naturalists take you around the region to discover natural history and enjoy new adventures.
Ticket Price: $10 Resident, $13 Non-Resident
Activities & Events Calendar
24 events found.
Events
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I Heart Yoga
Stretch toward your fitness goals! Learn basic yoga to improve health and flexibility through deep breathing and controlled stretching.
Ticket Price: Free
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Charcuterie Creations
Come and join us and create your own charcuterie board. Add fruit, cheese, crackers, and veggies. This will be immersive and hands-on. Guaranteed to unleash the chef in you!
Ticket Price: $25 Resident/ $27 Non- Resident
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Black History Arts & Crafts
Express your inner artist while celebrating Black history and culture! Kids and their parents/guardians are encouraged to join us.
Ticket Price: Free
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Reimagining Shelter: Exploring Identity and Community through Art and Storytelling
Through art making and storytelling, this workshop aims to redefine shelter as a space of security, warmth, safe space, and family, fostering empathy and understanding. Resident artist Nikki Brooks will lead participants in guided meditation, an art...
Ticket Price: $5
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Celebrating Black Culture: Art, Music & Community
Experience Black culture through powerful art exhibits, a creative Sip & Paint session, and a special visit from the Mobile Go-Go Museum. This immersive, museum-style event invites the community to explore the rich history, creativity, and cultural...
Ticket Price: Free
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Genuine - Artist & Curator Talk
Curated by Asha Elana Casey in honor of Black History Month, Genuine celebrates the depth, resilience, and authenticity of Black artistic expression. Featuring works by Lionel Frazier White III, Khaleelah Harris, Jessica Valoris, and Desmond Beach, this exhibition explores themes of identity, heritage, and...
Ticket Price: free
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Mame Ndiaye: Glimpses of Heaven - Artist & Curator Talk
In Glimpses of Heaven, Mame Ndiaye invites viewers into a dazzling world of mixed media works that sparkle with vibrancy and imagination. Using glitter as a central medium, Ndiaye creates otherworldly pieces that evoke a sense of...
Ticket Price: free
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Berliner Helicopter Weekend
Discover the thrill of vertical flight and how it started right here at College Park Airport! Explore the new exhibition, The Berliner Helicopter: America’s Forgotten Helicopter, get hands-on with interactives, and explore the wonders of vertical flight technology.
Ticket Price: FREE, no admission required
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Cub Corner
Celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, "The Berliner Helicopter: America’s Forgotten Helicopter," with a reading of "Rosie Revere, Engineer," by Andrea Beaty.
Ticket Price: Free
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Skunk Cabbage Walk
Enjoy a naturalist-led, woodland nature hike. A naturalist will guide you through our winter woodlands on a search for skunk cabbage!
Ticket Price: $4 Resident, $6 Non-Resident
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Plummer's Kitchen: Pathways to Freedom
Join us for our annual Plummers’ Kitchen Black History Month program highlighting historic African American food traditions. Our Kitchen Guild volunteers will prepare dishes using recipes once familiar with enslaved communities in Maryland.
Ticket Price: Free
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Runway Rhythms featuring Riverdale Chamber Music: Music and Film with the Salon Trio
Step into the golden age of flight with the Salon Trio in this one-of-a-kind concert blending historic aviation film footage and live classical music.
Ticket Price: FREE, no admission required
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Voices From the Past: Black Music of the Colonial Period and Forgotten Patriots
This riveting, narrated recital takes audience members back to America’s colonial period to explore the music, instruments, voices, and lives of enslaved Africans and forgotten patriots. The music will include period instruments, traditional folk songs, patriotic selections,...
Ticket Price: free
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Diabetes Prevention Workshop
Learn practical strategies and tools to take control of your health. This engaging session focuses on lifestyle changes, nutrition tips, and exercise ideas to help reduce the risk of developing diabetes.
Ticket Price: Free
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Fit & Strong
Are you looking for a class to improve exercise frequency, increase strength, and help with goal setting to promote overall health? Join us for the Fit & Strong! program that combines aerobics, stretching, balance, strength, endurance exercises, and health education to promote healthy behavior changes.
Ticket Price: Free
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Living Strong
Living Strong is a great way to stay active and build strength in a supportive environment.
Ticket Price: $15
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Going the Distance with Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater
This performance is part of our Education on Stage Series and is recommended for Grades 1-6. Race to the finish line with two black Olympians who changed history in this original musical play from Discovery Theater! Soaring...
Ticket Price: $8 Adult / $6 Child
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Farm Story & Craft
Go green with your creativity! Nature provides an abundance of materials and inspiration for making art. Participants will enjoy hands-on nature craft activities.
Ticket Price: $4 Resident, $6 Non-Resident
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Going the Distance with Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater
This performance is part of our Education on Stage Series and is recommended for Grades 1-6. Race to the finish line with two black Olympians who changed history in this original musical play from Discovery Theater! Soaring...
Ticket Price: $8 Adult / $6 Child
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Craft Tuesdays: Black Heroines
Go green with your creativity! Nature provides an abundance of materials and inspiration for making art. Our artistic naturalists will assist you in transforming your ideas and creativity into an art piece.
Ticket Price: $4 Resident, %6 Non-Resident
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Beyond the Frame: Silhouette Artist Moses Williams
Silhouettes were commonly created to remember loved ones when portraits were too pricey for the average person. Kids will learn the history of silhouettes and how an enslaved boy named Moses Williams from Baltimore developed a talent for "shadow art" and went...
Ticket Price: $5
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Dine, Learn & Move: Power to the Heart: Food, Fitness & Culture
In recognition of both Black History Month and Heart Health Month, join us for an empowering session focused on taking care of your heart through food and movement.
Ticket Price: Free
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Timberdoodle Hike
Join a naturalist for a night hike to see the spectacular courtship display of the Timberdoodle, or American Woodcock. This mysterious bird reliably performs a spiraling flight display shortly after sunset.
Ticket Price: $4 Resident, $6 Non-Resident
