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Graduation Rehearsal takes place in the morning, times tbd.
Graduation Ceremony takes place at 7pm. Location tbd.
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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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This pop-up alumni exhibit will feature work of various alumni artists.
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This event takes place from 6-10 pm at the Palace Center in Allentown, 623 Hanover Avenue.
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The Charter Arts New Play Festival is a must-see! The following four plays were selected to be produced for this year’s festival. Congratulations to these playwrights!
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This event takes place in the Commons Cafe.
Charter Arts will graduate its first class of literary arts majors this year. The seniors will showcase their work and talk about their high school experience at this special event.
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Corpora Gallery, 6-9pm.
This is a non-ticketed event, but donations to benefit the visual art department are welcome and appreciated.
May 3-5
Evening Performances on May 3-5 at 6:00pm. Note this unique show time of 6:00pm for this event.
There are NO matinee performances of YCC.
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!!
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“I have attended your spring gala each year for the last 4 years and it continues to be one of the best fund raising events I attend each year. The food is always top notch, the location is perfect, and best of all the entertainment provided by your incredibly talented students makes the gala a perfect evening. My guests always thank me for inviting them, and comment on what a great event the gala is to attend. Please keep up the great work, I’m proud to sponsor a table each year, and look forward to a very entertaining evening once again this year.”— Rob C.
“Our daughter began her Charter Arts journey last year and immediately we knew this was the right choice for her. We decided to attend the gala as a show of support for the school and a nice night out. We had an amazing time. We expected the food and entertainment to be great … and they were; but, the best part was meting other parents. I would encourage any parents to attend the gala and request to be seated at one of the “parents” tables. We had a great time and made some new friends too. Hope to see you at this year’s event!”— Denise M.
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This event takes place at Godfrey Daniels.
Reservations are suggested through Godfrey Daniels, www.godfreydaniels.org.
This is a non-ticketed event, but donations are welcome and appreciated.
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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.
https://www.charterarts.org/adult-enrichment-workshop-series/
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.
This event takes place in the Commons Cafe.
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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.