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September 30, 2011
LOOK ON LANCASTER AVENUE
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Randy Dalton will curate "Discover a Dozen or more out of the blue" with a reception from 5 to 9 pm. The show will include artists John Taylor, Angela Klarner, Diane Keller, David Slovic, James Dupree, Tony Fink, Victor Thompson, Randy Dalton, Suzanne Wheeling, Michael Mooser, Nancy E.F. Halbert, Claes Gabriel, Lane Davis, and William Slovis. On the second floor Carolyn Healy and John Phillips are presenting a new site-specific installation with sculpture, sound and video. Also on display will be "Neighborhood Narratives" work by the students of Hana Iverson's course at Drexel University featuring visual and audio portraits of Lancaster Corridor residents. |
Sunday, March 13, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA RAILROADS
- A LECTURE BY JOEL SPIVAK
Philadelphia Chapter - Victorian Society of America
Upsal Station
Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
North Jersey Electric Railroad Society
The Dumpster Divers are now showing at their own gallery on South Street. Come down to 734 South to see their unique creations.
Last Friday in Philly is currently focused on the South Street space.
On this last Friday and for the foreseeable future, come check out all the new art galleries on South Street between 3rd st and 8th.
Featured Poets: Dorothea Grossman, Elaine Terranova
The late Allen Ginsberg called Dorothea Grossman's poetry "clear, odd, personal, funny or wild-weird, curious and lucid." The award winning poet lives, works and writes in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in a variety of poetry magazines and journals. She has three published books of poetry: Cuttings: Selected Poetry 1978-1988; Poems From Cave 17, and Museum of Rain. Her latest chapbook, The First Time I Ate Sushi, was published by Zerx Press in January, 2008. "Call & Response", her CD on the pfMentum label, features her in performance with trombonist Michael Vlatkovich. Visit Dorothea on the web here.
Elaine Terranova was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she came of age in a working class neighborhood. She received a Bachelor's degree in English from Temple University in 1961 and an MFA from Vermont's Goddard College in 1977. Terranova has been an editor and a teacher of creative writing, as well as an Artist in Education in Pennsylvania schools. She has served on the faculty of the University of Delaware, the Curtis Institute of Music, and Temple University. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Rutgers University, Camden, and teaches at the Community College of Philadelphia.
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
At the Community Education Center (CEC), 3500 Lancaster Avenue in the Blue Grotto 8:00 p.m.
Short plays by Philadelphia Dramatist Center Writers: Robert Castle, T.J. Stokes, William Burrison, and Gil Sokolow
With blues guitar by Don Golfen and featuring actors, Dawn Harvey, Steve Lippe, Lawrence Beck, Mark Cairns, and Jackie Douglas.
Free Admission. This series will presented again March 6, same time, same place.
Emancipation of a Soul
Friday, Feb. 27 and Saturday, Feb. 28, 8:00 p.m., Community Education Center (CEC) and Meeting House Theatre, 3500 Lancaster Ave. 215.387.1911
This weekend, several community-based dancers, musicians and storytellers will collaborate on a project called Emancipation of a Soul. Written by Philadelphia storyteller Joslyn Ladson, Soul tells the story of Africans in America through fables, dance and West African percussion. The multimedia production journeys from the Middle Passage to the present day through a series of vignettes created by Ladson and brought to life through the talent of Philadelphia's budding artists. Saturday night's show will be followed by the Free Soul Café, an open mic gathering that invites you to share your own stories, songs, poetry or music.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. The open mic is free with admission to the show and $5 without.
JANUARY 30, 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR
And Happy Lincoln Bicentennial!This Friday:
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM:
The first gathering of The Philadelphia Lincoln Highway Celebration Committee, right on the route that was part of the first road across the US.
Come out and join in the creation of a Lincoln Bicentennial Event. "the Lincoln Highway in Phila."
ALL ARE WELCOME.
DECEMBER 26, 2008
SINGING ALONG THE AVENUE
Holiday entertainers will stroll the avenuebeginning at the Grand Lighting Ceremony
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
FEATURING: JAY & THE YOUNG MINDS OF THE FUTURE
ENTERTAINERS WILL PERFORM AT THESE LOCATIONS:
ALSO AT THE BLUE GROTTO:
HALLOWEEN ON A RUE DO BLUE
On the last Friday of October, the 31st, Lancaster Avenue from 35th to 39th Streets will debut as a 'Rue "Do Blue"' offering exhibitions, outdoor light sculptures, entertainment, and a Best blue costume contest and dance party.
Do Blue is an avenue for individuals, organizations, and communities to demonstrate support for the arts and spark more resources for that beleaguered but vital sector of the economy.
Three exhibitions will be open from 5:30 pm to 8:30pm
Other activities at the Community Education Center (CEC):
Tour is free - pay for your own pizza.
Students from E3 Center West and local historian Joel Spivak will walk up Lancaster Avenue from 34th to 40th viewing the architecture and sharing the stories about the Avenue that the students have been collecting.
Along the way we will be stopping at the 4 pizza shops and comparing their styles. A food discussion will follow.
More info at (215) 514 2791
June 27, 2008
Ride the Market St. El
Guided Tour will begin at 7 PM Friday Jun 27th, 2008 at the front car end of the west bound platform. Details.... Joel 215 514 2791
Extended thru May:
RANDY DALTON: "HOMAGE TO DA CHAMP"
Plumbing the depths on the rocky road to Philly art.
5:00 p.m. 3820 Lancaster Ave.
OCTOBER 31, 2008
East Africa Center 3809 Pearl St.
3820 Lancaster Avenue
CEC - 3500 Lancaster Avenue
SEPTEMBER 26th, 2008
Walk tour and pizza eating
Fri Sept. 26 - 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Lancaster Avenue starting at 34th street, proceeding up to 40th st.
with a Transit Historian
and see the last remaining station
- (63rd St.) -
and a few sections of the Elevated structure
(opened on March 4th, 1907).
Tour is free and takes about 2 hours.
SEE PHOTOS FROM LAST FRIDAY IN PHILLY FOR MAY - MEMORIAL DAY
