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New Student Orientation

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Teacher In-Service

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Oui, Bethlehem Exhibit

Oui, Bethlehem Photography Exhibit –Ron Yoshida

Opening Reception: Friday, July 6 . 6-8 PM

Closing Reception: Friday, August 3, 6-8 PM

Corpora Art Gallery, Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER:

Ron Yoshida was born in Los Angeles (1948). He received his degrees from the University of Southern California. He completed a fulfilling professional career in the field of education that began in 1974 at UCLA, included the US Department of Education, Fordham University, Queens College – City University of New York, Lehigh University and ended in 2015 after 15 months with the Qatar Foundation in Doha, Qatar. A longtime amateur photographer, he has sought to capture beauty in people, and places. This exhibit is a celebration of Bethlehem, the hometown of his and his wife Sharon’s heart.

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Comedy Improvisation for Beginner

July 30-August 3

9am-12pm daily

Fun with Art: Painting & Drawing

There are spots still available for this workshop. Please call 610-868-2971 Ext. 3185 to reserve a space today.

THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELLED

July 16-20
9am-12pm daily
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Lights, Sound, Action -Theatre Tech Workshop

This workshop is no longer available.

July 9-13

9am-12pm daily

Musical Theatre Audition Workshop

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Oui, Bethlehem Photography Exhibit

Oui, Bethlehem Photography Exhibit –Ron Yoshida

Opening Reception: Friday, July 6 . 6-9 PM

Corpora Art Gallery, Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER:

Ron Yoshida was born in Los Angeles (1948). He received his degrees from the University of Southern California. He completed a fulfilling professional career in the field of education that began in 1974 at UCLA, included the US Department of Education, Fordham University, Queens College – City University of New York, Lehigh University and ended in 2015 after 15 months with the Qatar Foundation in Doha, Qatar. A longtime amateur photographer, he has sought to capture beauty in people, and places. This exhibit is a celebration of Bethlehem, the hometown of his and his wife Sharon’s heart.

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Teen Acting Workshop for Commercial, TV & Film

Venture Academy V #3

VENTURE ACADEMY V SUMMER 2018

Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts

321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem

Wednesdays 6:15 – 8:00 pm

June 6, June 13, June 20

This session’s theme:

ENCOUNTERING OUTSIDER ART IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD:

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

Your Guide: Norman Girardot, Professor Emeritus, Lehigh University

To Register: Call 610-868-2971 ext. 3185

What is Venture Academy?

Now in its fifth installment, this series of guided explorations is designed to promote provocative ideas, images, and sensations for venturesome adults seeking to cope with an increasingly complex, bewildering, exciting, wondrous, and sometimes scary world. “LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE: A pilgrim’s journey for the young of mind and heart.”

These sessions are open to the public and all proceeds benefit the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts.

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SESSION DATES:
June 6 (In the Beginning was the Mark),
June 13 (An Angel of Art Cometh to Bethlehem),
June 20 (Saving Mr. Imagination’s Environmental Vision)

THEME & DESCRIPTION:
ENCOUNTERING OUTSIDER ART IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

A series of special guided explorations about the mysteries of human art-making (both visual and performative) and why art is not just what certain white men called “artists” (who learned how to draw representationally and perspectively) defined as the only “real” art. There is, in fact, a whole other universal and global tradition of skillfully and imaginatively “making visible” or “making/seeing/experiencing something hidden and special in the world.” This includes tribal art, children’s art, art of the insane, prison art, self-taught art, visionary art, folk art, and so on – or just about everything outside of what elite Western tradition presumptuously called fine or schooled art by excluding everything else. In the contemporary sense, to be an “outsider,” or in this case, an “outsider artist,” loosely means someone who in some fashion is marginal to mainstream culture, someone who does not depend on, or conform to, what is taken as the prevailing cultural norms. There can, of course, be a light and dark side to being an outsider in that real innovative forward-looking creativity, or a dark regressive demonology, can both flow from a culturally unmoored imagination. Be careful.Venture Academy V will explore some of these issues in a general and semi-traditional historical and academic way (lectures, films, discussion), but will focus primarily on a concrete case of outsider art as exemplified by Bethlehem’s own late great outsider “found object” artist Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack, 1948-2012; see among numerous other articles and videos, catalog essays, and book chapters, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO52kzGUgxk&t=6s ).

The academy will also include some volunteer opportunities for hands-on project-based creative activities in the recycled environmental art park on the Lehigh campus inspired by Mr. Imagination.

See in particular: https://residenttouristbethlehempa.com/2016/01/31/lehigh-millennium-folk-arch-and-art-enclave/ .

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Venture Academy V #2

VENTURE ACADEMY V SUMMER 2018

Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts

321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem

Wednesdays 6:15 – 8:00 pm

June 6, June 13, June 20

This session’s theme:

ENCOUNTERING OUTSIDER ART IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD:

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

Your Guide: Norman Girardot, Professor Emeritus, Lehigh University

To Register: Call 610-868-2971 ext. 3185

What is Venture Academy?

Now in its fifth installment, this series of guided explorations is designed to promote provocative ideas, images, and sensations for venturesome adults seeking to cope with an increasingly complex, bewildering, exciting, wondrous, and sometimes scary world. “LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE: A pilgrim’s journey for the young of mind and heart.”

These sessions are open to the public and all proceeds benefit the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts.

More about this session:

SESSION DATES:
June 6 (In the Beginning was the Mark),
June 13 (An Angel of Art Cometh to Bethlehem),
June 20 (Saving Mr. Imagination’s Environmental Vision)

THEME & DESCRIPTION:
ENCOUNTERING OUTSIDER ART IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

A series of special guided explorations about the mysteries of human art-making (both visual and performative) and why art is not just what certain white men called “artists” (who learned how to draw representationally and perspectively) defined as the only “real” art. There is, in fact, a whole other universal and global tradition of skillfully and imaginatively “making visible” or “making/seeing/experiencing something hidden and special in the world.” This includes tribal art, children’s art, art of the insane, prison art, self-taught art, visionary art, folk art, and so on – or just about everything outside of what elite Western tradition presumptuously called fine or schooled art by excluding everything else. In the contemporary sense, to be an “outsider,” or in this case, an “outsider artist,” loosely means someone who in some fashion is marginal to mainstream culture, someone who does not depend on, or conform to, what is taken as the prevailing cultural norms. There can, of course, be a light and dark side to being an outsider in that real innovative forward-looking creativity, or a dark regressive demonology, can both flow from a culturally unmoored imagination. Be careful.Venture Academy V will explore some of these issues in a general and semi-traditional historical and academic way (lectures, films, discussion), but will focus primarily on a concrete case of outsider art as exemplified by Bethlehem’s own late great outsider “found object” artist Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack, 1948-2012; see among numerous other articles and videos, catalog essays, and book chapters, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO52kzGUgxk&t=6s ).

The academy will also include some volunteer opportunities for hands-on project-based creative activities in the recycled environmental art park on the Lehigh campus inspired by Mr. Imagination.

See in particular: https://residenttouristbethlehempa.com/2016/01/31/lehigh-millennium-folk-arch-and-art-enclave/ .

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LAST DAY FOR TEACHERS

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FINAL EXAMS- Make Up Day

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Graduation Rehearsal/ Graduation Ceremony

Graduation Rehearsal takes place in the morning, times tbd.

Graduation Ceremony takes place at 7pm. Location tbd.

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FINAL EXAMS- Make-Up Day

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Venture Academy Lecture on Outsider Art

VENTURE ACADEMY V SUMMER 2018

Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts

321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem

Wednesdays 6:15 – 8:00 pm

June 6, June 13, June 20

This session’s theme:

ENCOUNTERING OUTSIDER ART IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD:

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

Your Guide: Norman Girardot, Professor Emeritus, Lehigh University

To Register: Call 610-868-2971 ext. 3185

What is Venture Academy?

Now in its fifth installment, this series of guided explorations is designed to promote provocative ideas, images, and sensations for venturesome adults seeking to cope with an increasingly complex, bewildering, exciting, wondrous, and sometimes scary world. “LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE: A pilgrim’s journey for the young of mind and heart.”

These sessions are open to the public and all proceeds benefit the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts.

More about this session:

SESSION DATES:
June 6 (In the Beginning was the Mark),
June 13 (An Angel of Art Cometh to Bethlehem),
June 20 (Saving Mr. Imagination’s Environmental Vision)

THEME & DESCRIPTION:
ENCOUNTERING OUTSIDER ART IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

A series of special guided explorations about the mysteries of human art-making (both visual and performative) and why art is not just what certain white men called “artists” (who learned how to draw representationally and perspectively) defined as the only “real” art. There is, in fact, a whole other universal and global tradition of skillfully and imaginatively “making visible” or “making/seeing/experiencing something hidden and special in the world.” This includes tribal art, children’s art, art of the insane, prison art, self-taught art, visionary art, folk art, and so on – or just about everything outside of what elite Western tradition presumptuously called fine or schooled art by excluding everything else. In the contemporary sense, to be an “outsider,” or in this case, an “outsider artist,” loosely means someone who in some fashion is marginal to mainstream culture, someone who does not depend on, or conform to, what is taken as the prevailing cultural norms. There can, of course, be a light and dark side to being an outsider in that real innovative forward-looking creativity, or a dark regressive demonology, can both flow from a culturally unmoored imagination. Be careful.Venture Academy V will explore some of these issues in a general and semi-traditional historical and academic way (lectures, films, discussion), but will focus primarily on a concrete case of outsider art as exemplified by Bethlehem’s own late great outsider “found object” artist Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack, 1948-2012; see among numerous other articles and videos, catalog essays, and book chapters, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO52kzGUgxk&t=6s ).

The academy will also include some volunteer opportunities for hands-on project-based creative activities in the recycled environmental art park on the Lehigh campus inspired by Mr. Imagination.

See in particular: https://residenttouristbethlehempa.com/2016/01/31/lehigh-millennium-folk-arch-and-art-enclave/ .

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FINAL EXAMS- Early Dismissal 11AM

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SCHOOL CLOSED- Memorial Day

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Prom

This event takes place from 6-10 pm at the Palace Center in Allentown, 623 Hanover Avenue.

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FULL DAY OF SCHOOL

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Keystone Exam Testing Window

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FULL DAY OF SCHOOL

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Keystone Exam Testing Window

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2018 Gala of Dreams

This annual event is Charter Arts’ largest fundraiser of the year. This year’s gala will once again take place at the beautiful ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks. So, come join us for this elegant dinner and auction that is jam-packed with fun surprises, great entertainment, and dancing!!

EARLY DISMISSAL- 11AM

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Snow Make-Up Day- Full Day

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SCHOOL CLOSED- Spring Break

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Snow Make-Up Day- Full Day

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Snow Make-Up Day- Full Day

This date has turned into a FULL DAY for all students. It was originally scheduled as a day off as part of spring break, but is now a snow make up day.

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Adult Enrichment Workshop: Art Appreciation

https://www.charterarts.org/adult-enrichment-workshop-series/

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East Central PA Scholastic Art & Writing Award Ceremony

This event will take place at 1:00 PM in the Charter Arts Theatre. Doors open at 12:30 PM. Please enter at the 3rd Street entrance.

The exhibit of gold and silver keys will be held at the Banana Factory in the Banko Gallery through the month of March.

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Haiti Health Trust Benefit Concert

This event takes place in the Commons Cafe.

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Adult Enrichment Workshop: Art Appreciation

School Safety Presentation

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EARLY DISMISSAL- 11AM

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Fashion Show Fundraiser

The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Parent Association will hold its seventh annual fashion show fundraiser on Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 2:30pm. The event takes place at the school which is located at 321 East 3rd Street in Bethlehem. This year’s show is titled “Monarch” which celebrates the ‘beauty within’. Designs by area retailers, boutiques and student designers are sure to impress guests. This year’s show will also feature some canine fashions.

Tickets range from $20- $60 VIP (the VIP ticket includes VIP seating, a swag bag, and VIP raffle). All proceeds benefit the school. BUY TICKETS

Upon arrival, prior to the show, guests can enjoy a fun vendor area and light refreshments.

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First Friday at Charter Arts- “Celebrating 15 Years” exhibit

Corpora Art Gallery, 6-9pm.

This is a non-ticketed event. Donations are welcome and appreciated.

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Black History Show

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SCHOOL CLOSED- Auditions

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SCHOOL CLOSED- Presidents’ Day

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Auditions

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SCHOOL CLOSED for Auditions

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SNOW MAKE UP DAY- 11 AM Dismissal

This is now a school day for students, with an 11AM dismissal.

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Parent Meeting- Title I & Internet Safety

In response to parents’ requests for valuable information regarding internet safety, the Charter Arts Parent Association has designed this important event.

Where and When:

Wednesday, January 24 at 6pm in the Commons Cafe.

Itinerary:

6-6:30pm– Presentation by members of Charter Arts’ administration regarding school safety policies and Title I.

6:30pm-8:00pm- Digital Citizenship: Speaker David Shallcross, PA Attorney General’s Office.

This Digital Citizenship presentation will include: cyber bullying, a digital footprint, Internet predators, Internet trolls, and Pennsylvania law pertaining to Internet crimes.

Parents who plan to attend, please RSVP to communications@charterarts.org.

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Keystone Exam Testing Window

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Full Day of School

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Keystone Exam Testing Window

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SCHOOL CLOSED- Martin Luther King Day

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Admissions Open House

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