Happy New Year!! Creative Alliance hosts its annual First Day Poetry and Performance Bash, with skits by Baltimore Improv Group troupes, words and music by Rafael Alvarez and Rahne Alexander, and poetic/musical numbers by Blaster Al Ackerman, Yao, Aware and Outraged (Ron Kipling Williams and Moziah), Chezia Thompson Cager, Mary Azrael, Kendra Kopelke and others. A hot brunch will be available (reservations required). Proceeds benefit CA’s Open Minds art programs for kids. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; $5 cash bar (brunch sold separately). Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore. 410-276-1651; www.creativealliance.org

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