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Year 35, No. 17
Celebrating 35 Years of Community News
Bestselling Author Rupi Kaur Explores Storybook Musical Theatre Life Themes in Live Poetry Performance Announces Season of Three Entertaining Musicals
Saturday, December 14 at the Merriam Theater alyst for important conversations. We look forward to Kaur sharing her words and humble honesty with our di-
In this live poetry reading, Rupi Kaur will candidly explore themes ranging from love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, migration, and revolution.
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verse Philadelphia audience.” Rupi Kaur started drawing at the age of five when her mother handed her a paintbrush and said ‘draw your Artistic visionary, bestselling author, and poet Rupi Kaur shares her moving and enlightening poetry heart out’. Rupi views her life with Philadelphia audiences at the Merriam as an exploration of that artistic journey. After completTheater on December 14. ing her degree in rhetoric studhe Kimmel Center Cultural Cam- ies, she published her first collection of poems, pus presents, in association with milk and honey, in 2014. The internationallyAEG, #1 New York Times bestsell- acclaimed collection sold well over a million ing author and illustrator of col- copies, gracing The New York Times bestsellers lections of poetry, Rupi Kaur, to list every week for over a year. It has since the Merriam Theater on Satur- been translated into over thirty languages. day, December 14, 2019 at 8 p.m. In this live Her long-awaited second collection, the sun poetry reading, Kaur will candidly explore and her flowers, was published in 2017, and themes ranging from love, loss, trauma, heal- debuted as a #1 global bestseller. Within the ing, femininity, migration, and revolution. first three months, it sold a million copies “Rupi Kaur is exceptional—utilizing her ar- and was beloved by readers worldwide. She’s tistic and literary talents to spotlight some- a Forbes 30 under 30, an editor of the 2016 times difficult, yet culturally relevant & time- Mays Literary Anthology of New Writing from ly subjects,” said Anne Ewers, President and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and CEO of the Kimmel Center for the Perform- one of BBC’s 100 women of 2017. ing Arts. “The Kimmel Center Cultural CamRupi has performed her poetry across the pus is a haven for artists like her, acting as a world. Her photography and art direction are hub for the creation of new works and a cat- warmly embraced, and she hopes to contin-
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Dorothy (Aileen Goldberg) tells her new friends, the Scarecrow (Carl Smith), the Tinman (Jeff Reim) and the Lion (Joel Guerrero) that she wants to find a way home in Storybook Musical Theatre’s production of “Wizard of Oz.” torybook Musical Theatre will open its 28th season of three original musicals, including a world premiere, on December 11, 2019. The musicals are based on tales by the L. Frank Baum, the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. The Abington-based, non-profit, professional, Equity children’s theatre will present all performances at the Gratz College Theater, Melrose Avenue & Old York Road, Route 611, in Melrose Park PA. Storybook’s season opener will be an original musical based on the beloved tale by L. Frank Baum, “The Wizard of Oz.” This musical adaptation has a book by Patricia Goldberg and original music by Kevin Arruda. “The Wizard of Oz” will be performed from December 11 to 30. This musical follows Dorothy as she follows the yellow brick road with the Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion, all having a special wish for the grand and
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B RYN M AWR R EHAB H OSPITAL’ S A RT A BILITY E XHIBITION AND S ALE Preview Event Nets over $325,000 – Exhibit Runs through January ain Line Health’s Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital launched its 24th annual Art Ability Exhibition and Sale with an opening Preview Event on November 2. More than 500 attendees enjoyed the creative works of 185 artists with physical, cognitive, and visual disabilities. The 24th Annual Art Ability Exhibition and Sale features over 450 works of art by artists from 31 states and three countries in such mediums as jewelry and fine crafts, sculpture, mixed media and photography as well as works on canvas and paper. During the event, guests mingled with exhibiting artists and purchased a variety of unique, oneof-a-kind works throughout the evening. This year’s featured artist, Carol Spiker of Wilmington, DE, was paralyzed as a result of a serious car accident, but considers herself
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one of the lucky ones, and art has become a driving force in her life, a focus that has sharpened even more after her accident. “Art provides therapy in so many ways,” said Gaby Heit, Art Ability curator. “Our exhibiting artists find therapy in their studio practice, and Carol Spiker, this year’s Art Ability Featured Artist, and her husband, Bill, who is also an exhibiting artist in this year’s show. the art gallery experience at Bryn Mawr Rehab is very uplifting and therapeutic for our patients. With the diversity and number of artwork on display, it is quite an impressive collection.” The program supports Main Line Health’s mission and vision and proSee Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital’s Art Ability Exhibition and Sale page 8