Kent County Maryland Calendar of Events- April 2016
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April 1
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History Happy Hour
- Friday, | 4:00 pm
- Location: Bordley History Center
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Featuring two of our exhibitors, Jody Primoff and Jeanne Saulsbury
- Friday, | Opening reception 5-8pm
- This event runs April 1 to April 26
- Location: 239 High St.
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First Friday in Downtown Chestertown
- Friday, | 5pm - 8pm
- Location: Downtown
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Explore Chestertown's vibrant Arts & Entertainment District and enjoy longer shopping hours every First Friday of the month. Many retailers and galleries are open from 5-8pm and feature speci...
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Beeing Up Close with Sam Droege: Photography Exhibition
- Friday, | 5 - 7pm
- Location: SANDBOX: 107 S. Cross St.
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First Friday art exhibit with photographs by Sam Droege. This event will kick off our month-long series of events on Pollinators. Come meet the photographer. Droege is a biologist with the USGS Patuxe...
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9th Annual Kent County Poetry Festival
- Friday, | 4 - 7pm
- Location: 112 South Cross Street
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Drop in and read your favorite poem
An evening of shared poems to celebrate National Poetry Month .
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April 2
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Shakespeare in Concert
- Saturday, | 8pm & 1pm
- This event runs April 2 to April 3
- Location: Washington College's Decker Theater in the Gibson Center for the Arts
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Prithee, come hear why “music be the food of love,” as the Chester River Chorale teams up with actors from Shore Shakespeare and the Chester River Youth Choir to bring you Shakespeare&rsqu...
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Afternoon Delight
- Saturday, | Doors open at Noon- Show at 1pm
- Location: Chester River Yacht & Country Club
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Luncheon and Fashion Show with a little shopping thrown in. Local Shops with spectacular fashions and local vendors for display. Special Bead sale-Silent Auction- Cork sale-and fashions galore. Advanc...
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Spuyten Duyvil
- Saturday, | 8pm
- Location: The Mainstay, 5753 Main Street, Rock Hall
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Spuyten Duyvil (pronounced "SPITE-en DIE+vul") hails from the lower Hudson River Valley. Their soaring vocals, traditional jug band energy, slide guitar and Chicago-style blues harp send the...
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Project Clean Stream
- Saturday, | 9am - 12pm
- Location: Sassafras River Watershed
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Help rid our rivers of trash as part of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s annual Project Clean Stream! Last year, more than 5,000 volunteers from 6 states removed over 300,000 pounds of tras...
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Crafting for Grownups: Create-a-Card
- Saturday, | 11am
- Location: 111-B1 N. Main Street, Galena, MD
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Put spring in someone's heart (and mailbox!) with a one-of-a-kind card made by YOU! Bring your creativity to this free crafting program for grownups and teens. Card making supplies will be provid...
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April 6
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Greener Gardens: One Step at a Time
- Wednesday, | 5:30pm
- Location: 408 High Street
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Creating a greener garden does not have to involve big changes. In this talk, horticulturalist Barbara Ellis will discuss a range of options--from simple steps to ambitious projects--that can create s...
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April 7
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Film- Vanishing of the Bees
- Thursday, | 6:30pm
- Location: Sumner Hall, 206 S Queen Street
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Follow commercial beekeepers as they strive to keep their bees healthy. Bees pollinate a third of the food we eat but they are vanishing from their hives at an alarming rate. FREE and open to the pu...
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Presentation and Book Signing with Local Author Kate Livie
- Thursday, | 7pm
- Location: The Kitty Knight House Tavern, 14028 Augustine Herman HWY, Galena, MD 21930
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Kate Livie is an Eastern Shore native, professional Chesapeake educator, and author of Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay’s Foundation and Future. SRA is excited to be hosting her for this event, which...
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Individualized Education: An Overview of the Special Education Process
- Thursday, | 6pm
- Location: Kent County Middle School media center
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A program to help families and caregivers become better partners with schools in providing the best education outcomes for their children with special needs. How children are identified, how services ...
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April 9
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Lawn Fertilizer Workshop and Native Plant Sale
- Saturday, | 10 - 11:30am
- Location: Sumner Hall
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The Chester River Association is hosting a lawn fertilizer workshop and native plant sale event as part of a new River-Friendly Yards campaign. CRA wants to educate residents of the Chester River wate...
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Free Community Shred Event
- Saturday, | 9 - 11am
- Location: The Peoples Bank, 600 Washington Avenue
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2 Banker type boxes of personal documents shredded free. Free refreshments. Questions call: 410-778-5500.
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Francesca Blanchard
- Saturday, | 8pm
- Location: The Mainstay, 5753 Main Street, Rock Hall
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23-year-old singer and songwriter Francesca Blanchard was born and raised in France. She traveled the globe with her family before settling in Vermont. Her intimate music, sung in French and English, ...
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April 10
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Joseph Priestley: A "Radio" Show
- Sunday, | 3pm
- Location: 914 Gateway Drive
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Joseph Priestly was an English theologian, chemist, educator and liberal political thinker who lived from 1733 to 1804. His writings and preaching contributed to the founding of Unitarianism in Englan...
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April 13
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Dealing with Stress/Lidiando con el estres
- Wednesday, | 6pm
- Location: Kent County Middle School media center
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A special bilingual program in English and Spanish presented by Elizabeth Matienzo-Bray of Johns Hopkins Healthcare. Parents and caregivers will learn techniques to identify and manage stress, and inc...
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Beuna Vista, Carneros Wine Dinner
- Wednesday, | 6pm
- Location: 337 High St
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Theatrical wine dinner event to please the palate. Four course dinner with five different wine pairings. $65.00 per person and reservations are required....
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April 15
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Sassafras Sips
- Friday, | 5 - 8pm
- Location: The Kitty Knight House Tavern, 14028 Augustine Herman HWY, Galena, MD 21930
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Sassafras Sips is a monthly happy hour hosted by SRA and sponsored by the Kitty Knight House. They are held at the Kitty Knight House on the third Friday of every month from 5-8pm. Stop by for happy h...
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April 16
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Easter Egg Hunt
- Saturday, | 2:00 p.m.
- Location: Galena Town Park
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The Easter Bunny will be serving refreshments and giving prizes for Special eggs found by each age category.
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Red White Ball
- Saturday,
- Location: Kent School 6788 Wilkins Lane
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Annual Spaghetti Dinner
- Saturday, | 5pm, 7pm
- Location: Rock Hall Yacht Club
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The Sailing School's 8th annual fundraiser! Open to all! A delicious meal (including Harry's homemade meatballs!) served by our RHYCSS junior sailors. Please let us know if you'd like t...
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Magic Dick and Shun Ng
- Saturday, | 8pm
- Location: The Mainstay, 5753 Main Street, Rock Hall
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Magic Dick’s innovative and legendary harmonica playing anchored the distinctive sound of the J. Geils Band. He toured with top names and jammed with the likes of Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, ...
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Strengthen Your Finances - ID Theft & Privacy Prevention
- Saturday, | 10:30am
- Location: 5585 Main Street, Rock Hall, MD
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FREE | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Learn how to secure your personal information and how to identify potential scams! Led by Dr. Melissa Welsh from the University of Maryland Extension, this free worksho...
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Strengthen Your Finances - Budget Basics
- Saturday, | 1pm
- Location: "Yellow Building" 207 Calvert Street
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FREE | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Learn the basics of how to spend and save money wisely. This free workshop, led by Dr. Melissa Welsh from the University of Maryland Extension, will help you examine h...
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April 19
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Beeing Up Close with Sam Droege: a lecture on the 430 native Maryland bee spieces
- Tuesday, | 5:30pm
- Location: Hynson Lounge, Washington College
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An event in the month-long Pollinator Series, Sam Droege will give a lecture on the effects of what you plant on the native bee population in Maryland. Not all bees are honey bees, and their existence...
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April 20
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Brown Bag Lunch at the Bordley
- Wednesday, | Noon
- Location: Bordley History Center
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Bring your lunch and a thirst for Kent County history to the Historical Society of Kent County Library. Learn about our local history, books, and archival materials....
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April 21
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State of the Chester
- Thursday, | 5 - 7pm
- Location: Hynson Lounge at Washington College
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Join the Chester River Association for our first annual State of the Chester event. The staff at CRA will introduce the 2015 Water Quality Report Card as well as our new River Watch data website featu...
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Computer Connections: Intro to Email
- Thursday, | 10am
- Location: 408 High Street
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FREE | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Learn the basics of using email in everyday life. This free class covers tips for composing and sending emails, managing your email account, replying to emails, and ho...
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April 22
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Mutt Strut Weekend
- Friday, | various
- This event runs April 22 to April 24
- Location: Wilmer Park & Downtown Chestertown
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A whole weekend of celebrating and supporting our furry friends. Festivities kick off with a Friday eve cocktail party, Saturday begins with the Mutt Strut through town to Wilmer Park, where festiviti...
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More than Honey: a film screening and mead tasting with Charm City Meadworks
- Friday, | 6pm
- Location: Custom House Lawn (101 S. Water St)
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As part of our Earth Month/Pollination Series, on Earth Day 2016, the Center for Environment & Society will host a film screening of More than Honey on the Custom House lawn at 7 pm. Starting at 6...
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April 23
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Chestertown Earth Day Festival
- Saturday, | 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Location: Memorial Row, Chestertown
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Celebrate our planet and learn to live sustainably. Eco-friendly goods, services, solar energy contractors, wind energy proponents, energy auditors, free conservation organizations. Children's a...
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Kent Chamber Music Concert
- Saturday, | 7:00 p.m.
- Location: Hotchkiss Recital Hall, Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College, 300 Washington Avenue (Route
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The Eastport Oyster Boys
- Saturday, | 8pm
- Location: The Mainstay, 5753 Main Street, Rock Hall
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The Eastport Oyster Boys bring their goodtime maritime music and humor to Rock Hall just in time for Spring launch. They play originals with island rhythms, boogie, Dixie-swing, waltzes and good ol&rs...
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April 24
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Draw for Sight Bicycle Poker Run
- Sunday, | Reg 07:30a-08:30a / Ride starts at 08:30a / Ends 2:00pm
- Location: Begins from Betterton Volunteer Fire Company
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The Chestertown Lions Club welcomes cyclists to Bicycle
Poker Run Ride. The tour consists of a rolling to flat course. The route takes in the scenery of the heartland of Upper Kent County in Marylan...
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April 30
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The Myriam Phiro Quintet Featuring Vinny Raniolo, Chuck Redd, Elias Bailey and Gordon Au
- Saturday, | 8pm
- Location: The Mainstay, 5753 Main Street, Rock Hall
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An evening of jazz with the vibrant French-Canadian actress, jazz singer, dancer & cabaret chanteuse Myriam Phiro whose style combines elegance of The Jazz Age, the energy of the Big Band Era, and...
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