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Chestnut Hill College graduate Aliyah Ali, owner of Blossom’Li floral design company, is helping to create a PHS Philadelphia Flower Show exhibit by the Black Girl Florists network.
Black women florists group blooms in the spotlight at the PHS Flower Show
When floral enthusiasts walk into the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show this week, somewhere amid the sweeping displays will be an exhibit showing barrels pouring streams of flowers into a foundation of colorful blossoms. It has local connections. more
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Gustave Courbet's landscape, depicting the source of the Lison River in France, was discovered in a storage box at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 2016. It was so darkened that only a few letters of the artist's signature were visible.
Forgotten painting by a 19th-century French rebel is discovered at Penn
The landscape, painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet, was found in a basement during renovations. more
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Cast members of Sweat, from left to right: Juan Caceres, Nolan Maher, Joe Henderson, Jerome Michael Neville, Marc C. Johnson, Nyieman Lunsford, Nancy Vander Zwan, and in the foreground, Leah O'Hara.
An excellent cast, a great play and drama that disturbs
With an evident sense of mission, theater director Nancy Ridgeway avoids fluffy entertainment in favor of dramas that disturb.  more
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Photographer and gallery owner Jonene Lee started her career as a breakdancer with a company founded by renowned choreographer Rennie Harris.
NoName Gallery hosts a happy hour infused with art
First Fridays on the Avenue just got a lift with the addition of an art-infused happy hour at NoName Gallery, 8127 Germantown Ave., next to Laurel Gardens. more
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Richard Troxell, the stage director for the Academy of Vocal Arts’ production of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale,” which was conducted by Germantown’s Richard Raub.
Choral Arts to premiere commissioned cantata March 4
Matthew Glandorf will conduct Choral Arts Philadelphia on March 4. more
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Joseph Starita will discuss the history-making career of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (above) during a Zoom presentation hosted by the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, Sunday, March 5, at 1:30 p.m. Picotte, the first Native American physician in the U.S., graduated from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1889, receiving her medical degree 31 years before women could vote and 35 years before Native Americans could become citizens in their own country. Reservations are required and can be made at ebenezermaxwellmansion.org.
Presentation on first Native American physician
A typical young Amish family in Lancaster County gets around in a horse and buggy, as their forebears did for centuries.
Local book author recounts her 10 years with Amish women
What are the lives of Amish women really like? Over the course of a decade, author Judy Stavisky spent hundreds of hours getting to know the women of Lancaster County's reclusive Amish community to elicit an answer to this question. more
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Gwyn Roberts, founder and director of the quartet, New World Recorders, will perform with the group Feb. 25, at Woodmere Art Museum.
Woodmere Art Museum to host recorder quartet on Feb. 25
Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Art Museum will host New World Recorders in recital Sat., Feb. 25, at 5 p.m. The repertoire will include music by Dufay to Bach and even on to Schumann and beyond. more
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Baritone Ethan Vincent
Region celebrates Black History Month with music
Members of the Fairmount String Quartet will be the principal musical performers in “Healing with the Arts.” more
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Steve Travers as Tony and Sarah Heddins as Theresa.
A theatrical take on stalkers
After her second date with Tony, Theresa knew this was not going to work. more
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Kristine Heiney (left) and Dawn Kramlich stand inside of Kramlich's installation, "A Solipsist's Cell," at Moore College of Art & Design, where Kramlich earned an MFA.
Queer artist's compelling 'Mark My Words' at SCH gallery
Dawn Kramlich is a “text-based artist” whose compelling fusion of words with images can currently be viewed in the spring art show at the Barbara Crawford Art Gallery. more
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James Miller is seen in his Chestnut Hill home with two of the books his new company, Chestnut Hill Press, has published in recent months.
At 78, publishing books after a lifetime of travel
After a lifetime of working in technology, with travel that took him all over Asia, James Whipple Miller started an improbable new career after settling in Chestnut Hill eight years ago.  He founded a publishing company. more
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Kelsey Hebert (left) as Anelle and Penelope Reed as Ouiser in a scene from "Steel Magnolias" at the Act II Playhouse in Ambler through Feb. 26.
‘Magnolias’ captures the warmth and the humor of small-town life
Even before the play opens, the Act II Playhouse production of "Steel Magnolias" under director Megan Bellwoar grabs your attention. more
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Swimming Pool at Hunting Park, 1975–1976, by Edith Neff. Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of Herbert and Faith Cohen, 2014.
Woodmere brings childhood back for the young at heart
For centuries, artists have been captivated by the miracle of childhood. Woodmere Art Museum’s newest exhibition is an ode to growing up. more
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Richard Raub, of Germantown, who will conduct an upcoming performance at the Academy of Vocal Arts, began taking piano lessons when he was in the second grade.
Germantown maestro conducts comic masterpiece ‘Don Pasquale’ at AVA
Longtime Germantown resident Richard Raub will conduct the Academy of Vocal Arts’ production of Gaetano Donizetti’s comic masterpiece, “Don Pasquale,” Feb. 16 to 23. more
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The Adult and Children’s Choirs at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church will sing to honor Black History Month in a concert at 7 p.m., Feb. 15.
St. Martin-in-the-Fields honors Black history with song
Tyrone Whiting, music director at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, had big plans. Then came Omicron. more
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Event Calendar: Black history, dystopian film and helping wildlife
Coming events in February more
Things to do for kids, teens and adults
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Actress April Woodall rehearses her role in “Ann,” a one-woman play about former Texas Gov. Ann Richards at Montgomery Theater in Souderton through Feb. 26.
A Texas firebrand burns brightly on stage
Montgomery Theater opens its 30th anniversary season with the first regional production of “Ann,” about former Texas governor Ann Richards. more
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Members of Filament Baroque chamber ensemble members (from left) Evan Few, John Walthausen and Elena Kauffman will perform French sacred music with vocalists Variant 6 in a free concert Sunday, Feb. 12, at 3 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church in Germantown.
Germantown Presbyterian church to host vocal concert
First Presbyterian Church in Germantown will present a concert entitled “Virtue & Vice” Sunday, Feb. 12, at 3 p.m. Admission is free with a suggested donation. more
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