2026 Baltimore Crankie Festival!

Watch the world’s greatest stories unroll before your eyes! Baltimore’s beloved festival of scrolled panoramas, known as “crankies,” returns for its 12th year of fireside wonder!

The festival, the largest of its kind in the country, works with artists to showcase crankies from Baltimore and beyond! A crankie is basic in concept: it is a scroll that provides the visual narration to a story or song. Versions of the crankie have been around for hundreds of years, if not longer; their most recent iteration is directly linked to moving panoramas popular in the 19th Century. In recent years, artists have begun to embrace the intimacy of the format, creating multi-layered, immersive experiences for audiences.

FRI FEB 6 | 8:00PM

SAT FEB 7 | 4:00PM

SAT FEB 7 | 7:00PM

SUN FEB 8 | 8:00PM

You may also like the following events from Creative Alliance:

• This Friday, 5th December, 07:00 pm, Mortified Baltimore: With Special Guests: BIG (Baltimore Improv Group) in Baltimore
• This Sunday, 7th December, 07:00 pm, Bluegrass Nutcracker 2025 in Baltimore
• Next Thursday, 11th December, 07:30 pm, Latin Jazz - El Arte del Bolero: Miguel Zenon and Luis Perdomo Duo in Baltimore

Also check out other Festivals in Baltimore, Arts events in Baltimore.