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Arts Groups Offering Lots of Free Samples In Baltimore Festival

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· The Walters plans to bust loose with a party Oct. 6 with D'Marge, the toast of the Baltimore drag community, several bands, improv artists and a screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." On Oct. 7, the schedule is more family-oriented, with a checkers tournament and free cupcakes.

· Theater offerings include a sampling from the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival on Oct. 5, and the Baltimore Living History Theatre staging tributes to women from Baltimore history at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion on Nov. 5 and 19. A discussion of other famous Baltimoreans -- Edgar Allan Poe, Thurgood Marshall and H.L. Mencken -- will be part of a conversation with radio host Marc Steiner at the Baltimore Museum of Art on Oct. 5.

· The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra opens a rehearsal for "Heavenly Beauty" on Nov. 9 at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The work is drawn from the music of Mussorgsky, Theofanidis and Beethoven.

· The Baltimore Opera Company is saluting soprano Leontyne Price in a play at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum on Nov. 18.

· The Maryland State Boychoir is performing a concert and hosting a spaghetti supper for senior citizens on Oct. 15 at the Cathedral Church of St. Matthew.

The festival is funded by Creative Baltimore Fund, which was started last year from the city's general fund surplus and targeted for arts and humanities programs, and this year had $750,000 to give to groups to participate in Baltimore Free Fall. For more information, go to http://www.freefallbaltimore.com .

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