How to spend Valentine's Day at JHU

Looking for something to do this Valentine’s Day weekend?

Well, you’re in luck, because JHU and Baltimore have plenty of options!

First, let’s see what Hopkins has to offer.

This week is Shag Week presented by the HOP and CHEW. So look out for informative and entertaining sex-themed events around campus.

On Valentine’s Day itself, you can send Condom-grams to all your friends and lovers. You can chose the design and write a personalized message.

Thursday night is the Passion Party in Gilman 50, mysteriously described as “not your grandmother’s tupperware party.”

Or you can get to the “Love and Let Love” performance by the Peabody Chamber Opera. This event pairs Conversations of the Heart, a Cabaret show, with Svadba, Ana Sokolovic’s one-act opera about preparing for a Serbian wedding.

You can see “Love and Let Love” at the Baltimore Theater project until Sunday Feb. 17.

Friday afternoon is the Sex Fest in the Glass Pavilion from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Then at night you can head to Gilman 50 to see Sleepless in Seattle with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

Because you can never have enough sappy 90’s romance, right?

There are even more choices off-campus.

The Walters Art Museum features a super-charged version of the weekly Constellation Thursday Nights called Love is in the Art. There will be free hors d’oeuvres and candies as well as romantic tours of the museum. Rye’s Fell’s Point will provide specialty cocktails. There will also be a dance performance by Flux/us Dance Projects.

The Maryland Zoo offers an scandalous event called Love is Wild... Sex at the Zoo. At this adult-oriented get-together, you can learn about bizarre animal courtship rituals while enjoying hors d’oeuvres and cocktails.

Formal attire is suggested, so this can be your excuse to dress up.

For an avant-garde holiday,  you can go to a special V-Day screening at the Charles Theatre. The event, called Is This Desire? features experimental short films on 16mm.

As an added bonus, the screening is free with a JHU ID.

Or, if Valentine’s Day gets you down, the Sidebar Tavern offers something called Broken Hearts and Jaded Lovers — A Valentine’s Day of Despair. They will be crowning the Most Miserable Male and Female, so bring your sad face.

With all of these options, you’re sure to find something interesting to do for Valentine’s Day.

So bring your significant other, your friends, or just yourself to some of this weekend’s romantic events.

Or, of course, you could just stay at home.