Improv comedy class teaches science-minded students to think on their feet
Our students have easy access to the arts as spectators, participants, and creators right on our campuses.
Whether you are into drawing, painting, singing, dancing, acting, making your friends laugh, or playing an instrument in an ensemble鈥攐r if you simply want to be entertained and enlightened by the talents of your fellow students鈥擧opkins can satisfy your cultural cravings.
The , the nation’s first conservatory, is home to some of the world’s most gifted musicians and puts on more than 50 events each year that are open to the public鈥攐rchestral and jazz concerts, operas and symphonic performances, Renaissance music and modern arrangements that defy description.
But you don鈥檛 have to be a music major to perform at Hopkins鈥攚ith more than 30 student a cappella and dance groups and the Hopkins Pep Band (a fixture at football and lacrosse games), anyone can be a performer. There鈥檚 the Choral Society, founded in 1883 by Woodrow Wilson as the first student group on campus. We also have a chamber ensemble and a gospel choir, a wind ensemble and jazz bands, and the acclaimed .
If the stage is more your speed, you can choose from a handful of that perform everything from Shakespeare to improv comedy;or learn about acting, directing, and playwriting by pursuing an undergraduate minor in . And if you鈥檙e feeling especially adventurous, there鈥檚 the Entertainers Club, fit for fire-jugglers, unicyclists, yo-yo enthusiasts, and the like.
For the more visually inclined, our 聽gives students a studio environment to hone their painting, drawing, cartooning, design, and photography skills.聽For inspiration,聽drop by the neighboring Baltimore Museum of Art (which is right next to聽our Homewood campus), explore聽one of the , or visit聽some of the many other museums or galleries around Baltimore.
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