Calendar of Events

Event List Calendar

Salute to our Vets Jazz Concert

Registration Required.

Bethlehem Area Public Library

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An Evening with Guitar

Charter Arts Theatre

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Figure Skating Exhibition at Steel Ice

The figure skating department will be performing during the Jack-O-Lantern Figure Skating Competition at Steel Ice Center.

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First Friday Reception: InVision Exhibit: Carol Front & David Haas

charterartsinvisionadCorpora Art Gallery.

6-9pm

Free event and open to the public.  Donations are welcome and appreciated.

 

 

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SCHOOL CLOSED- Teacher In-Service

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Vocalist Cafe

Godfrey Daniels

Reservations suggested:  www.godfreydaniels.org

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Venture Academy Fall Session #5

https://www.charterarts.org/venture-academy-2016-adults/

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Jazz Cafe

This event takes place in the Charter Arts Theatre.

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Venture Academy Fall Session #4

https://www.charterarts.org/venture-academy-2016-adults/

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Admissions Open House

Doors open at 5:30 for tours.

Presentation by school administration begins promptly at 6:30pm in the Charter Arts Theatre.

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Charter Arts Foundation Meeting

Charter Arts, 2nd floor conference room

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Spirit Week

October 24-28

Monday:  Pajama Day

Tuesday: Twin Day

Wednesday: Dad Day

Thursday: Pink Out

Friday:  Halloween Parade/Contest at Charter Arts!!!

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Theatre Production: Blood Wedding

TICKET LINK

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InVision Photo Festival Exhibit: David Haas & Carol Front

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InVision Photo Festival Exhibit:
David Haas and Carol Front

Poetry of the Industrial and Rural Landscape
Corpora Art Gallery
Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts
321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA
Twenty black and white photographs capture tranquil and contemplative scenes from the greater Lehigh Valley. Among the small group of talented artists still devoted to traditional photographic methods, Carol Front and David Haas for decades have paid tribute to the history and beauty of rural and industrial scenery of the greater Lehigh Valley and beyond. Although Haas has printed Front’s photographs for many years, while sharing an affinity for evocative and historical imagery, these gifted artists have never before exhibited together. Dr. Christine I. Oaklander is guest curator for the exhibition.
Exhibit runs October 21- November 21

First Friday Reception – Friday, November 4, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Gallery will be open during south Bethlehem First Fridays and through special request.

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Vocal Master Class w/ Ola Gjeilo

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Touring Choir at Peggy’s Bell Dedication

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Songwriters Cafe

This event takes place at Godfrey Daniels.

Reservations are recommended:  www.godfreydaniels.org

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Literary Arts to Master w/Nikki Giovanni

Meet and greet at Zoellner, 4pm.

Lecture in the evening.

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PSAT Administration

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Venture Academy Fall Session #3

https://www.charterarts.org/venture-academy-2016-adults/

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Venture Academy Fall Session #2

https://www.charterarts.org/venture-academy-2016-adults/

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SCHOOL CLOSED- Teacher In-Service

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First Friday Reception: Sandra Corpora’s New Dutch Landscapes

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EARLY DISMISSAL- 11am

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An Evening of Song

This event takes place at Godfrey Daniels.

Reservations are recommended: www.godfreydaniels.org

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Venture Academy Fall Session #1

https://www.charterarts.org/venture-academy-2016-adults/

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Back to School Bingo- Fundraiser

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Peter Sklar Seminar

FREE SEMINAR with PETER SKLAR

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Financial Aid Seminar-Seniors

Charter Arts Theatre

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SteelStacks Performance

Free Concert performed by Charter Arts students.

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Music Department Parent Meeting

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Back to School Night for Parents

More information to follow on times, etc.

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Music Department NEW Parent Meeting

This meeting is for NEW parents of vocal and instrumental students.

Please enter at Columbia Street entrance.

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Battle Trance Concert

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The follow-up to their widely acclaimed debut Palace of Wind (2014), Battle Trance’s Blade of Love is an elemental composition that aims to fulfill the tenor saxophone’s expansive potential as an ensemble instrument. Working within the intimate intersection of the human body/breath and the saxophone, Blade of Love is a spiritual and enigmatic work with a deep emotional resonance.

Since forming in 2012, the four saxophonists in Battle Trance (Travis Laplante, Patrick Breiner, Matt Nelson, Jeremy Viner) have spent hundreds of hours deepening their musical connection with each other, maturing as an ensemble through relentless touring everywhere from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, Montreal to Vancouver, and most places in between.

The three movements of Blade of Love were composed by Battle Trance leader Travis Laplante and recorded by the group in a wooden room with soaring ceilings in the Vermont forest, after spending two years of rigorous rehearsals working to perfect the array of extended techniques, both virtuosic and primal, required to bring the challenging piece to life.

Blade of Love’s central focus is on the physical and spiritual intersection of the saxophone and the human body. The saxophone is one of the few instruments that literally enters the body of the person playing it, and Blade of Love is a medium for this sacred meeting place, with each member of Battle Trance using the saxophone as a vessel for the human spirit.

Travis Laplante – tenor saxophone
Patrick Breiner – tenor saxophone
Matthew Nelson – tenor saxophone
Jeremy Viner – tenor saxophone

“mesmerizing…a floating tapestry of fascinating textures made up of tiny musical motifs, and a music that throbs with tension between stillness and agitation, density and light.” – New York Times

music that soars, glides, and dives to realms that few musicians have dreamt about, let alone touched… wonderful insanity through musical kinship” – PopMatters, Best Albums of 2014

 

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

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Dance Parent Meeting

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School Picture Day

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School Closed- Labor Day

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First Friday Reception- New Dutch Landscapes Exhibit

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FREE ADMISSION.  Donations are welcome and appreciated.

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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

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New Student Orientation

New Student Orientation takes place in the morning.

Teacher In-Service continues in the afternoon.

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School Board Meeting

Executive Session begins at 6pm.  Open Session begins at 6:30pm.

2nd floor conference room.

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Teacher In-Service

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Venture Academy #6

Join us this summer for:

VENTURE ACADEMY 2016

LIFE IS A VENTURE, AN ADVENTURE FOR THE YOUNG OF MIND AND HEARTworld

This series of guided explorations is designed to promote provocative ideas, images, and sensations for the curious adult seeking to cope with an increasingly complex, bewildering, exciting, wondrous, and interesting world.

A special opportunity to collaboratively explore the astounding strangeness of our global world, as well as many other unknown worlds, with a stimulating array of seasoned and highly qualified guides.


Participants will uncover a new Exploration/Adventure each week, including:

SESSION I: Thursday, July 7 from 6pm-8:30pm
“The Dead Still Speak: Understanding the Living by Exploring a Bethlehem Cemetery”

For this exploration there will be some small preliminary readings/discussion, then we will visit the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem.  In the cemetery we will focus on how the monuments of the past advertised the lives or aspired-to lives of those buried, as well as how they speak to us today.  The cemetery will be a guided tour and an assignment for participants to isolate and gather specific types of information which we will discuss at the end of the tour.

Guide:  David Small, Professor of Archaeology Lehigh University; with special expertise in cultural anthropology, archaeological theory, archaeological digs, comparative mortuary/cemetery tradition.

SESSION II:  Tuesday, July 12 from 6pm-8:30pm
“Profound Changes Beneath the Middle Eastern Sand Dunes”

Most of our information about the Arabic World comes from short sound bites or media clips.  Let’s go beneath the surface and explore the tensions developing as the Arabic and Islamic World in the Middle East confronts the issues of women in the workplace, of international curricula in schools, and of secular influences in the culture.

Guide:  Roland Yoshida, Former Professor and Dean of the College of Education, Provost Emeritus of Lehigh University, has special expertise in the education theory of exceptional children and international education. He has recently served for fifteen months as an advisor to the Pre-University Education Division of the Qatar Foundation in Doha.  

SESSION III: Tuesday, July 19 from 6pm-8:30pm
“An Insider’s History of Bethlehem- through the Amazing Life of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)”

Explore the history of the great city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from the Moravian settlement to the rise of the steel industry, through the memoirs of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), a pioneering feminist-and pacifist, and one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.  This will be an interactive discussion and a walking tour.

Guide:  Seth Moglen, Associate Professor of English, Lehigh University;  is a scholar of 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature and American studies. He is currently at work on a book, “Bethlehem: American Utopia, American Tragedy,” which explores the 270-year history of one iconic American city.

SESSION IV:  Tuesday, July 26 from 6pm-8:30pm
“The Constructive Imagination in the Art of Invention: the Role of Creativity in the Art of Architecture”

This interactive exploration will demonstrate how the use of analogy, simulation and metaphor are used in the creative process. There will be examples from his design studios and workshops conducted at Lehigh and internationally. Possible walking tour of Viscardi’s constructions on the Lehigh campus.

Guide: Anthony Viscardi, Professor of Architecture & Art, Lehigh University, a nationally and internationally known scholar-teacher in the design and art of architecture.  Throughout his career in architectural practice and as a professor of architecture, Viscardi has continued to work as an artist and has had many solo and group exhibitions.

SESSION V:  Tuesday, August 2 from 6pm-8:30pm
“Moravian Lives through the Centuries”

Before there were blogs, Facebook or Internet searches how were our life stories told? Based on the Moravian tradition of writing a Lebenslauf (memoir) as a validation of one’s life to be shared with their community, we will interactively explore the oral and written practices of the past and discover possibilities for ourselves today.

Guide:  Frank Shipman is currently completing studies at Moravian Theological Seminary. He was the 2015 recipient of the Herman T. Frueauff Memorial Prize for his work and research in Moravian history. 

SESSION VI:  Tuesday, August 9 from 6pm-8:30pm
“A Pilgrim’s Guide to What You Need to Know about Religion Today”

Religions have decidedly not withered away under the laser-like scrutiny of rationality and scientific scrutiny.  In fact, ever since the new millennium and especially after the cataclysmic event of 9/11, it is clear that “religions” in all of their significantly positive and terrible forms have come roaring back into our global and internet connected world. So why do we do religion, where does it come from, where is it going, is it something we can’t live without, and do we need to get rid of it?  An interactive and comparative exploration of some of these issues along with discussion, some internet spelunking, and provocative short videos and/or power point.

Guide:  Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, Lehigh University, is an author and scholar with special expertise in Chinese religion, prehistoric religion, popular religion, outsider art and religion, and the strangeness of the human condition.


Dates and Times for the Explorations

Venture Academy is held from 6pm-8:30pm on the following dates.  Your Adventure Pass covers all six sessions.

SESSION #1:  Thursday, July 7 6pm-8:30pm  (*this is the only Thursday night)

SESSION #2:  Tuesday, July 12 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #3:  Tuesday, July 19 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #4:  Tuesday, July 26 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #5:  Tuesday, August 2 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #6:  Tuesday, August 9 6pm-8:30pm

CONCLUDING BONUS EVENT:  Participants will be invited to attend a free social gathering and special TED talk-style Venture Academy Talk (VAT) on August 16th at 6pm.  This session will include a vibrant topic and guest speaker that will kick-off the VAT series of presentations, to begin in the fall of 2016.  This session will also serve as a way for participants to meet for discussion and feedback with the Academy guides and Charter Arts staff regarding the Venture Academy experience.  Refreshments will be served.


Registration

Open to adults, 18+.

ADVENTURE PASS (Single):   $125

COUPLE/BUDDY PASS (Two):  $95 each

Early Registration Discount:  $10 off if registered by May 31, 2016

‘One Session’ Pass: $45 each (early registration discount does not apply)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM

The above program is an adult enrichment workshop series, open to the community. Proceeds from the program benefit teachers’ salaries at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts.

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First Friday- Forgotten Finds Exhibit

Forgotten Finds- Orphaned works from New York

Charter Arts is proud to host this special exhibit of twenty works that were previously displayed in the Minerals Technology corporate office in the Chrysler Building in New York City.

Gallery will be open for First Friday on August 5, 6pm-8pm.

All other viewings by appointment only. Call 610-868-2971 ext. 2434

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Venture Academy #5

Join us this summer for:

VENTURE ACADEMY 2016

LIFE IS A VENTURE, AN ADVENTURE FOR THE YOUNG OF MIND AND HEARTworld

This series of guided explorations is designed to promote provocative ideas, images, and sensations for the curious adult seeking to cope with an increasingly complex, bewildering, exciting, wondrous, and interesting world.

A special opportunity to collaboratively explore the astounding strangeness of our global world, as well as many other unknown worlds, with a stimulating array of seasoned and highly qualified guides.


Participants will uncover a new Exploration/Adventure each week, including:

SESSION I: Thursday, July 7 from 6pm-8:30pm
“The Dead Still Speak: Understanding the Living by Exploring a Bethlehem Cemetery”

For this exploration there will be some small preliminary readings/discussion, then we will visit the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem.  In the cemetery we will focus on how the monuments of the past advertised the lives or aspired-to lives of those buried, as well as how they speak to us today.  The cemetery will be a guided tour and an assignment for participants to isolate and gather specific types of information which we will discuss at the end of the tour.

Guide:  David Small, Professor of Archaeology Lehigh University; with special expertise in cultural anthropology, archaeological theory, archaeological digs, comparative mortuary/cemetery tradition.

SESSION II:  Tuesday, July 12 from 6pm-8:30pm
“Profound Changes Beneath the Middle Eastern Sand Dunes”

Most of our information about the Arabic World comes from short sound bites or media clips.  Let’s go beneath the surface and explore the tensions developing as the Arabic and Islamic World in the Middle East confronts the issues of women in the workplace, of international curricula in schools, and of secular influences in the culture.

Guide:  Roland Yoshida, Former Professor and Dean of the College of Education, Provost Emeritus of Lehigh University, has special expertise in the education theory of exceptional children and international education. He has recently served for fifteen months as an advisor to the Pre-University Education Division of the Qatar Foundation in Doha.  

SESSION III: Tuesday, July 19 from 6pm-8:30pm
“An Insider’s History of Bethlehem- through the Amazing Life of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)”

Explore the history of the great city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from the Moravian settlement to the rise of the steel industry, through the memoirs of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), a pioneering feminist-and pacifist, and one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.  This will be an interactive discussion and a walking tour.

Guide:  Seth Moglen, Associate Professor of English, Lehigh University;  is a scholar of 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature and American studies. He is currently at work on a book, “Bethlehem: American Utopia, American Tragedy,” which explores the 270-year history of one iconic American city.

SESSION IV:  Tuesday, July 26 from 6pm-8:30pm
“The Constructive Imagination in the Art of Invention: the Role of Creativity in the Art of Architecture”

This interactive exploration will demonstrate how the use of analogy, simulation and metaphor are used in the creative process. There will be examples from his design studios and workshops conducted at Lehigh and internationally. Possible walking tour of Viscardi’s constructions on the Lehigh campus.

Guide: Anthony Viscardi, Professor of Architecture & Art, Lehigh University, a nationally and internationally known scholar-teacher in the design and art of architecture.  Throughout his career in architectural practice and as a professor of architecture, Viscardi has continued to work as an artist and has had many solo and group exhibitions.

SESSION V:  Tuesday, August 2 from 6pm-8:30pm
“Moravian Lives through the Centuries”

Before there were blogs, Facebook or Internet searches how were our life stories told? Based on the Moravian tradition of writing a Lebenslauf (memoir) as a validation of one’s life to be shared with their community, we will interactively explore the oral and written practices of the past and discover possibilities for ourselves today.

Guide:  Frank Shipman is currently completing studies at Moravian Theological Seminary. He was the 2015 recipient of the Herman T. Frueauff Memorial Prize for his work and research in Moravian history. 

SESSION VI:  Tuesday, August 9 from 6pm-8:30pm
“A Pilgrim’s Guide to What You Need to Know about Religion Today”

Religions have decidedly not withered away under the laser-like scrutiny of rationality and scientific scrutiny.  In fact, ever since the new millennium and especially after the cataclysmic event of 9/11, it is clear that “religions” in all of their significantly positive and terrible forms have come roaring back into our global and internet connected world. So why do we do religion, where does it come from, where is it going, is it something we can’t live without, and do we need to get rid of it?  An interactive and comparative exploration of some of these issues along with discussion, some internet spelunking, and provocative short videos and/or power point.

Guide:  Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, Lehigh University, is an author and scholar with special expertise in Chinese religion, prehistoric religion, popular religion, outsider art and religion, and the strangeness of the human condition.


Dates and Times for the Explorations

Venture Academy is held from 6pm-8:30pm on the following dates.  Your Adventure Pass covers all six sessions.

SESSION #1:  Thursday, July 7 6pm-8:30pm  (*this is the only Thursday night)

SESSION #2:  Tuesday, July 12 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #3:  Tuesday, July 19 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #4:  Tuesday, July 26 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #5:  Tuesday, August 2 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #6:  Tuesday, August 9 6pm-8:30pm

CONCLUDING BONUS EVENT:  Participants will be invited to attend a free social gathering and special TED talk-style Venture Academy Talk (VAT) on August 16th at 6pm.  This session will include a vibrant topic and guest speaker that will kick-off the VAT series of presentations, to begin in the fall of 2016.  This session will also serve as a way for participants to meet for discussion and feedback with the Academy guides and Charter Arts staff regarding the Venture Academy experience.  Refreshments will be served.


Registration

Open to adults, 18+.

ADVENTURE PASS (Single):   $125

COUPLE/BUDDY PASS (Two):  $95 each

Early Registration Discount:  $10 off if registered by May 31, 2016

‘One Session’ Pass: $45 each (early registration discount does not apply)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM

The above program is an adult enrichment workshop series, open to the community. Proceeds from the program benefit teachers’ salaries at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts.

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Summer Dance

Monday Nights:

4:30-6:00pm  Intermediate/Advanced Ballet

4:30-6:00pm Basic Jazz

6:00- 7:30pm   Intermediate/Advanced Jazz

6:00-7:30pm  Stretch Class (all levels)

Download Dance Class Fees and Registration Form

These classes are part of the 2016 Summer Academy, a program of arts enrichment workshops open to the community.

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Pop & Jazz Vocal Workshop

Pop & Jazz Vocal Workshop
So you want to perform like a Pop Star or Jazz Singer? This program is designed to give vocal students a major edge in all aspects of performing in front of an audience. Each student will develop their music skills through coaching and ensemble work. Participants will create a show to be performed at Musikfest on August 12.
Open to teens entering 8th-12th grade
One Week Session:   August 1-5
9:30am-12:00pm daily
$175
Instructor: Brown

To Register:  610-868-2971 ext. 3185

This workshop is part of the 2016 Summer Academy, a program of arts enrichment workshops open to the community.

There are a limited number of scholarships available for the pop and jazz vocal workshop. Email communications@charterarts.org for more information.

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ART EXHIBIT- Opening Reception “Forgotten Finds”

Forgotten Finds- Orphaned works from New York

Charter Arts is proud to host this special exhibit of twenty works that were previously displayed in the Minerals Technology corporate office in the Chrysler Building in New York City.

Opening Reception- Sunday, July 31st

2pm-4pm

Gallery Talk by Anthony Crisafulli at 3pm

Gallery will be open for First Friday on August 5, 6pm-8pm

All other viewings by appointment only. Call 610-868-2971 ext. 2434

 

 

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Summer Dance

Thursday Nights:

4:30-6:00pm  Intermediate/Advanced Ballet

6:00-7:30pm  Intermediate/Advanced Modern

Download Dance Class Fees and Registration Form

These classes are part of the 2016 Summer Academy, a program of arts enrichment workshops open to the community.

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Venture Academy #4

Join us this summer for:

VENTURE ACADEMY 2016

LIFE IS A VENTURE, AN ADVENTURE FOR THE YOUNG OF MIND AND HEARTworld

This series of guided explorations is designed to promote provocative ideas, images, and sensations for the curious adult seeking to cope with an increasingly complex, bewildering, exciting, wondrous, and interesting world.

A special opportunity to collaboratively explore the astounding strangeness of our global world, as well as many other unknown worlds, with a stimulating array of seasoned and highly qualified guides.


Participants will uncover a new Exploration/Adventure each week, including:

SESSION I: Thursday, July 7 from 6pm-8:30pm
“The Dead Still Speak: Understanding the Living by Exploring a Bethlehem Cemetery”

For this exploration there will be some small preliminary readings/discussion, then we will visit the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem.  In the cemetery we will focus on how the monuments of the past advertised the lives or aspired-to lives of those buried, as well as how they speak to us today.  The cemetery will be a guided tour and an assignment for participants to isolate and gather specific types of information which we will discuss at the end of the tour.

Guide:  David Small, Professor of Archaeology Lehigh University; with special expertise in cultural anthropology, archaeological theory, archaeological digs, comparative mortuary/cemetery tradition.

SESSION II:  Tuesday, July 12 from 6pm-8:30pm
“Profound Changes Beneath the Middle Eastern Sand Dunes”

Most of our information about the Arabic World comes from short sound bites or media clips.  Let’s go beneath the surface and explore the tensions developing as the Arabic and Islamic World in the Middle East confronts the issues of women in the workplace, of international curricula in schools, and of secular influences in the culture.

Guide:  Roland Yoshida, Former Professor and Dean of the College of Education, Provost Emeritus of Lehigh University, has special expertise in the education theory of exceptional children and international education. He has recently served for fifteen months as an advisor to the Pre-University Education Division of the Qatar Foundation in Doha.  

SESSION III: Tuesday, July 19 from 6pm-8:30pm
“An Insider’s History of Bethlehem- through the Amazing Life of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)”

Explore the history of the great city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from the Moravian settlement to the rise of the steel industry, through the memoirs of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), a pioneering feminist-and pacifist, and one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.  This will be an interactive discussion and a walking tour.

Guide:  Seth Moglen, Associate Professor of English, Lehigh University;  is a scholar of 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature and American studies. He is currently at work on a book, “Bethlehem: American Utopia, American Tragedy,” which explores the 270-year history of one iconic American city.

SESSION IV:  Tuesday, July 26 from 6pm-8:30pm
“The Constructive Imagination in the Art of Invention: the Role of Creativity in the Art of Architecture”

This interactive exploration will demonstrate how the use of analogy, simulation and metaphor are used in the creative process. There will be examples from his design studios and workshops conducted at Lehigh and internationally. Possible walking tour of Viscardi’s constructions on the Lehigh campus.

Guide: Anthony Viscardi, Professor of Architecture & Art, Lehigh University, a nationally and internationally known scholar-teacher in the design and art of architecture.  Throughout his career in architectural practice and as a professor of architecture, Viscardi has continued to work as an artist and has had many solo and group exhibitions.

SESSION V:  Tuesday, August 2 from 6pm-8:30pm
“Moravian Lives through the Centuries”

Before there were blogs, Facebook or Internet searches how were our life stories told? Based on the Moravian tradition of writing a Lebenslauf (memoir) as a validation of one’s life to be shared with their community, we will interactively explore the oral and written practices of the past and discover possibilities for ourselves today.

Guide:  Frank Shipman is currently completing studies at Moravian Theological Seminary. He was the 2015 recipient of the Herman T. Frueauff Memorial Prize for his work and research in Moravian history. 

SESSION VI:  Tuesday, August 9 from 6pm-8:30pm
“A Pilgrim’s Guide to What You Need to Know about Religion Today”

Religions have decidedly not withered away under the laser-like scrutiny of rationality and scientific scrutiny.  In fact, ever since the new millennium and especially after the cataclysmic event of 9/11, it is clear that “religions” in all of their significantly positive and terrible forms have come roaring back into our global and internet connected world. So why do we do religion, where does it come from, where is it going, is it something we can’t live without, and do we need to get rid of it?  An interactive and comparative exploration of some of these issues along with discussion, some internet spelunking, and provocative short videos and/or power point.

Guide:  Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, Lehigh University, is an author and scholar with special expertise in Chinese religion, prehistoric religion, popular religion, outsider art and religion, and the strangeness of the human condition.


Dates and Times for the Explorations

Venture Academy is held from 6pm-8:30pm on the following dates.  Your Adventure Pass covers all six sessions.

SESSION #1:  Thursday, July 7 6pm-8:30pm  (*this is the only Thursday night)

SESSION #2:  Tuesday, July 12 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #3:  Tuesday, July 19 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #4:  Tuesday, July 26 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #5:  Tuesday, August 2 6pm-8:30pm

SESSION #6:  Tuesday, August 9 6pm-8:30pm

CONCLUDING BONUS EVENT:  Participants will be invited to attend a free social gathering and special TED talk-style Venture Academy Talk (VAT) on August 16th at 6pm.  This session will include a vibrant topic and guest speaker that will kick-off the VAT series of presentations, to begin in the fall of 2016.  This session will also serve as a way for participants to meet for discussion and feedback with the Academy guides and Charter Arts staff regarding the Venture Academy experience.  Refreshments will be served.


Registration

Open to adults, 18+.

ADVENTURE PASS (Single):   $125

COUPLE/BUDDY PASS (Two):  $95 each

Early Registration Discount:  $10 off if registered by May 31, 2016

‘One Session’ Pass: $45 each (early registration discount does not apply)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM

The above program is an adult enrichment workshop series, open to the community. Proceeds from the program benefit teachers’ salaries at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts.

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