🎤🎶 Open Mic Night @BAPL 🎶🎤
Join us for an open mic hosted by Bill Medei! Come enjoy listening to music, comedy, and poetry acts or sign up to perform yourself! 🎸😂📜
Performers, please arrive around 5PM to sign up. Currently, there is a fifteen-minute time limit for musicians and a six-minute time limit for poets and comedians. No registration is required. 🎙️✨
📅 Mondays, 5:00pm -7:30pm
📍 11 West Church Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018
Come showcase your talent or enjoy the performances! 🎵
🔗 More Info:https://bethlehemarea.librarycalendar.com/events/upcoming?keywords=mic
The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Black Student Union presents “The Black Excellence Show” on Saturday, February 16 at 5 PM. (This is a NEW date for this event which was originally scheduled for February 8 but was postponed due to weather)
This show is fully curated by and collaborated between students and their artistic departments and is a collection of artistic mediums including uplifting songs, emotional monologues, powerful dance, fashion and a short film. This showcase embodies the brilliance, beauty, resilience and power within the Black community. Join us for an evening of celebration!
Admission is free. Seating is first come, first served. This show does fill to capacity. Monetary donations to support and benefit the Black Student Union will be accepted at the door.
Three of the works in LUAG’s Spring 2025 Art, Architecture and Design Faculty Exhibition are inspired by a pilgrimage. But what is pilgrimage? What makes pilgrimage different from any other form of travel or tourism? What are some of the reasons people make a pilgrimage?
In The Art of Pilgrimage, Phil Cousineau writes:
Pilgrimage is the kind of journeying that marks just this move from mindless to mindful, soulless to soulful travel. The difference may be subtle or dramatic; by definition it is life-changing.
Pilgrimage encompasses a desire to experience something authentic, and a belief that the way to achieve that is through a meaningful journey. The journey itself will present obstacles to overcome, and the effort and attention required will be transformative.
At this Art in Dialogue series event, panelists will discuss their perspectives on pilgrimage, followed by a discussion with the audience and light refreshments.
Panelists (please click the links below to read their full bios):
Anna Chupa
Chaplain Lloyd Steffen
Rabbi Steve Nathan
Imam Tariq Ameer
Moderator: Erica Hoelscher
Space is limited to 35 participants. Register in advance here.
If you require assistance filling out this form or prefer to share your registration information via email or phone, please email Elise at ejs421@lehigh.edu call 610-758-6882. Questions, concerns, and any accessibility needs can also be directed to Elise at ejs421@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-6882
Art in Dialogue is a series of interdisciplinary conversations between members of the university and the wider community – reflecting the ways in which their work is dynamically engaged with other fields of inquiry.
Image: Anna Chupa. The Road to Santiago, 2022. Quilt. Courtesy of the artist, supported by a Faculty Research Grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Thomas Shillea, photographer, and Doug Zucco, printmaker, will be exhibiting a joint exhibition entitled “Artists and Teachers” at the Bethlehem Town Hall Rotunda Gallery from February 23 to April 1, 2025. This exhibition will focus on these two creative forces and their duality as both artists and educators , emphasizing their impact within our arts community. There will be an artist reception on Sunday, February 23 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM with an artist talk at 3:00 PM. The Rotunda Gallery is located at 10 E. Church Street. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
For five decades, Thomas Shillea has focused on the complex interaction of identity that include constructs like gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, and aesthetics. A pioneer in experimental photography, he also employs a classical approach to his art using his 100-year-old large format view camera and printing his unique images on paper hand-coated with metals like platinum and gold. He has also created commissioned portraits of public figures such as President Ronald Reagan, Coretta Scott King, and Malcolm Forbes, to name a few. Most recently, he participated internationally at Paris Photo in France and The Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, James A. Michener Art Museum, and others. Beside establishing an illustrious art career, he brings his wealth of knowledge to his students as art professor and concurrently serves as Director of Arts Program at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Working alongside Shillea at the college is his talented colleague, Doug Zucco. This artist/teacher is a well-known master printmaker with degrees from Kutztown University and the University of Georgia. He has previously taught at Kutztown University, Moravian University, Cedar Crest College. and presently, at Northampton Community College. Zucco has received grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Ford Foundation. His artwork incorporates symbols, allegory, and myth. With his imagery becoming a visual iconography back through time, Zucco’s interest in history prompts him to think in layers of meaning and alternative symbolic meanings. Using the recognizable imagery of a modern deck of playing cards as his inspiration for this show, he takes the ordinary and makes it iconic, creating their own compelling mythology. Zucco exhibits his artwork extensively throughout the United States. In 2023, his artwork was on display at the National Museum in Romania. He is currently represented in the collections of The Pew Charitable Trust, the Philadelphia Public Library, Muhlenberg College, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Getty Museum, among others.
The joint exhibition is sponsored by the Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission (www.bfac-lv.org) and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
EVENT CALENDAR:
Bethlehem Town Hall Rotunda Gallery
10 E. Church Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018
Hours: Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Closed Weekends and Holidays
Thomas Shilea and Doug Zucco
“Artists and Teachers”
February 23 to April 1, 2025
This exhibition focuses on these two creative forces and their duality as both artists and educators, emphasizing their impact within our arts community.
Reception: Sunday, February 23 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM , Artist Talk at 3:00 PM
Set amidst the Athenian woods, A Midsummer Night’s Dream offers a merry and mystical introduction to Shakespeare’s work. This enchanting comedy is a delightful fusion of humor and romance, complete with playful fairies and magical potions. Within this bewitched woodland, a quarreling King and Queen encounter four runaway lovers and a band of actors, leading to tumultuous love triangles, bewitching mists, and evening revelries. Join Pennsylvania Youth Theatre at the Charles A. Brown IceHouse on February 14th at 7:00PM and February 15th at 2:00PM to experience the magic! Tickets can be purchased online or at the door.
Set amidst the Athenian woods, A Midsummer Night’s Dream offers a merry and mystical introduction to Shakespeare’s work. This enchanting comedy is a delightful fusion of humor and romance, complete with playful fairies and magical potions. Within this bewitched woodland, a quarreling King and Queen encounter four runaway lovers and a band of actors, leading to tumultuous love triangles, bewitching mists, and evening revelries. Join Pennsylvania Youth Theatre at the Charles A. Brown IceHouse on February 14th at 7:00PM and February 15th at 2:00PM to experience the magic! Tickets can be purchased online or at the door.
Set amidst the Athenian woods, A Midsummer Night’s Dream offers a merry and mystical introduction to Shakespeare’s work. This enchanting comedy is a delightful fusion of humor and romance, complete with playful fairies and magical potions. Within this bewitched woodland, a quarreling King and Queen encounter four runaway lovers and a band of actors, leading to tumultuous love triangles, bewitching mists, and evening revelries. Join Pennsylvania Youth Theatre at the Charles A. Brown Ice House on February 14th at 7:00pm and February 15th at 2:00pm to experience the magic!
Set amidst the Athenian woods, A Midsummer Night’s Dream offers a merry and mystical introduction to Shakespeare’s work. This enchanting comedy is a delightful fusion of humor and romance, complete with playful fairies and magical potions. Within this bewitched woodland, a quarreling King and Queen encounter four runaway lovers and a band of actors, leading to tumultuous love triangles, bewitching mists, and evening revelries. Join Pennsylvania Youth Theatre at the Charles A. Brown Ice House on February 14th at 7:00pm and February 15th at 2:00pm to experience the magic!
The next Bethlehem Palette Club Visiting Artist Program will be Sunday, February 16, 1:30 to 4 p.m. at The Edgeboro Moravian Church, 645 Hamilton Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18017. The Church is on the corner of Hamilton & Elm St. Parking lot and entrance are on Hamilton, or street parking is available. IN CASE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER: Go to Facebook “The Bethlehem Palette Club”.
Our presenter for this meeting will be Coopersburg artist LINDA ANDERSON. She will demo a landscape painting in watercolor. Linda has a BA from the University of Maryland and a MFA from Maryland Institute of Arts and has studied at the Barnstone Studio and the Baum school. At present she teaches art in Coopersburg. Painting is a way of preserving a moment in time when studying an individual or when looking intently at a scene. Painting outdoors, on location, brings a rush of excitement that comes from working quickly with accuracy. In portraiture, I try to capture on canvas the beauty of the inner soul that I see in an individual.
🎤🎶 Open Mic Night @BAPL 🎶🎤
Join us for an open mic hosted by Bill Medei! Come enjoy listening to music, comedy, and poetry acts or sign up to perform yourself! 🎸😂📜
Performers, please arrive around 5PM to sign up. Currently, there is a fifteen-minute time limit for musicians and a six-minute time limit for poets and comedians. No registration is required. 🎙️✨
📅 Mondays, 5:00pm -7:30pm
📍 11 West Church Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018
Come showcase your talent or enjoy the performances! 🎵
🔗 More Info:https://bethlehemarea.librarycalendar.com/events/upcoming?keywords=mic