St. Martin’s Day Festival
College Park Arts Exchange holds an annual secular celebration of St. Martin’s Day, making paper lanterns to usher in the winter holiday season. This annual celebration is led by Birgit Meade, CPAE board member and native German, who remembers the Lantern Festival as a folk tradition of her homeland. Martin of Tours was a […]
Eric Maring New CD Releases
Eric Maring, one of College Park’s most beloved performer-educators, is releasing two new albums this fall, one for children and one for adults, and College Park Arts Exchange is hosting release parties at the Old Parish House for both CDs. The album for adults, entitled “Hero in the Epic,” will be unveiled on October 26 […]
Kids’ Multicultural Book Club
The CPAE Kids’ Multicultural Book Club starts this Saturday, hosted by College Park Community Library, 9704 Rhode Island Avenue. We will meet on Saturdays, Oct.19th and Nov.16th, from 10 – 11 am. Please contact info@cpae.org if your kid is interested in joining! The first book we will read is “Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented […]
Tribute to Joan Almon
Joan Almon has been a great friend to children around the world, and especially here in College Park. As our neighbor across the street from the Old Parish House, she has always been a warm presence nearby that will be sorely missed. When I first took this job in 2005, Joan was already prepared to […]
College Park Chorale
The College Park Chorale is off to a great start this semester! Our theme for this fall is Opera Choruses. We are singing works by Puccini, Verdi, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as Bernstein, Gershwin, and some musical theater thrown in for good measure! This wonderful group welcomes musicians at every level and brings them […]
Why Book Club?
On our website you can see a list of books going back to 2015, but in my emails, I find a trail of non-fiction by women going back at least to 2007. In those days, Vertigo Books was still located in College Park, and one of their employees was the volunteer coordinator for the book […]
Trolley Trail
The Trolley Trail between Berwyn and Hyattsville is an easy, fun stroll. My family decided to park a car on Berwyn Road and walk the Trolley Trail to Hyattsville on a recent sunny Saturday. We parked on the street near one of our favorite restaurants, Fishnet, and it took a little over an hour to […]
College Park Chorale Celebrates Fifth Season!
The College Park Chorale will celebrate its fifth year with a concert on Sunday, May 19th, at the University of Maryland Chapel. The Chorale started in 2013 with a group of 15 singers and has grown to over 50 members. The choir prides itself on being a welcoming, inclusive, fun group that sings a […]
Pink Floyd Tribute Concert
As a grassroots arts organization, College Park Arts Exchange has the privilege of helping talented musicians from the local community present special concerts at the Old Parish House for their friends and neighbors. Hearing great music in such a small and informal venue as the Old Parish House is a special treat – like the […]
New Women’s Choir Starting
We are forming a Women’s Choir in College Park! We will sing 4-5 part music for women, with an emphasis on female composers and arrangers. All genera and musical styles are possible. Rehearsing once a week on Mondays from 8 to 9:15pm at the Old Parish House in College Park. $10 per class drop in fee. […]