The excitement of the Annapolis Film Festival returns for a fifth year with more than 70 films, features and documentary, both short and full length, in all genres; Q & A sessions and workshops with filmmakers and visiting industry guests; special panels and showcases; and great parties! Guests include more than 100 filmmakers and actors from all around the world. Admission: See website. Four-day all access pass, $125 Runs from Thursday, March 30 – April 2
Saturdays, April through October. Meet in the Visitor Center at 9:30 am. Most mornings will wrap up around 11:30 am. Make your mark in London Town’s gardens! No green thumbs required! Lend us a hand maintaining and enhancing our ornamental and woodland gardens, and we’ll provide all the knowledge and equipment. Each week will be different as the seasons and needs of the gardens change. Questions? Contact Meenal Harankhedkar, director of horticulture, at [email protected] or 410-222-1919 x203. Free!
The exquisite collection of furniture and fine art acquired for the Hammond-Harwood House has benefited from the expertise of trained museum professionals. Marvin Ross (1904-1977), an early trustee, is a prime example. Ross, who was an expert on the Byzantine era, led an extraordinary life as Curator of Medieval and Subsequent Arts at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and later as the first curator of Hillwood, heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post’s private estate in northwest Washington, D.C. During World War II, Ross was a member of the “Monuments Men” — the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section of the Allied Forces. This group of curators, architects, and historians...