Photo by John Kardys.
BALTIMORE PRIDE 2012 BLOCK PARTY
MAY 2013 Transmodern Performance Festival (May 2–5) TransmodernFestival.com A cultural phenomenon presenting radical, experimental, expectationdefying work from artists who defy cultural normative practices and disciplines.
Flower Mart (May 3–4) Mount Vernon Place FlowerMart.org A colorful festival of spring featuring flower sales, gardening items, high quality crafts, food and music.
Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race (May 4) Inner Harbor, Canton, Patterson Park KineticBaltimore.com The American Visionary Art Museum hosts this unique competition for amphibious, human powered works of art.
2013 Baltimore LGBT Visitors Guide
Dreamgirls (May 4–5) Modell PAC at The Lyric LyricOperaHouse.com Touring production of the famed Broadway musical.
Maryland Film Festival (May 8–12) MDFilmFest.com
Ride for the Feast (May 10–12) RidefortheFeast.org A two-day, 140-mile bike ride from Ocean City to Baltimore City raises awareness of nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and breast cancer.
Annual event presents approximately 50 feature films and 75 short films from all over the world.
Carter Johnson Leather Library (May 10–12) The GLCCB Bit.ly/CJLLBalt
Michael Feinstein: The Gershwins and Me (May 9) Modell PAC at The Lyric LyricOperaHouse.com
Traveling collection of thousands of books, magazines, posters, art, club and event pins, newspapers, event programs, and ephemera visits Baltimore.
Feinstein performs the classics celebrate the legacy of George and Ira Gershwin.
Videopolis (May 10–11) Metro Gallery TheMetroGallery.net/Videopolis Held across the street from the Charles Theater during the Maryland Film Festival, find work that doesn’t make more traditional festival formats.
138th Running of the Preakness Stakes (May 15–18) Pimlico Race Course Preakness.com Following the Kentucky Derby, the annual Preakness Stakes is run the third Saturday in May with a weeklong celebration.
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