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Year 28, No. 37
Celebrating 28 Years of Community News
May 22 – May 28, 2013
FIND YOUR COMMUNITY Lansdowne Folk Club Concert with LOCAL DESIGN STUDIO RECEIVING NEWS HERE! Brian Ashley Jones and Christie Lenee AIGA PHILADELPHIA DESIGN AWARD
placed in film and television and recorded by a variety of other performing artists. Jones’ songs find influence in the guitar-driven Country, Blues and Bluegrass that he absorbed in his hometown, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Brian performs internationally at festivals and con cert series and leads seminars for music education programs, music business conferences, and NSAI chapters around the USA. Check out Brian at www.brianashleyjones.com. Christie Lenee has been capturing a wide audience across the US—many times being seen on stage with Tim Reynolds (guitarist for Dave Matthews Band) and a stellar cast of musicians including Amy Ray (Indigo Girls), Jeff Coffin, and Stanley Jordan. Her recent EP “Give and Take In” has been receiving excellent reviews and gaining momentum through various radio stations, touching souls with
WP Design Studio, a close-knit design studio focusing on corporate and event branding, as well as website and print design, will be receiving an AIGA Philadelphia Design Award (PDA) 2013 for their work on branding renowned Mona Ross Berman Interiors located in Chestnut Hill. The AIGA Philadelphia Design Awards 2013 CWP Design Studio, a design studio foundrecognize the top 100 designers ed by Corey Weber Pontz, will be receiving an AIGA Philadelphia Design Award representing the (PDA) 2013. best talent Philadelphia has to offer. Four very different all-star judges did the judging. Each judge had a different design background, sense of style and view on aesthetics. The judges were Patrick Coyne, Karl Maier, Debbie Millman, and Mig Reyes. The PDA Reception will be held on Wednesday, May 29 at the TRUST building in Old City from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. CWP Design Studio is located in the heart of Narberth. The firm was founded by Corey Weber Pontz, who has worked with clients in the Healthcare, Hospitality, and Technology industries to help increase their brand profile with highimpact, high-value design. She is a past executive board member of AIGA. In 2010, she created the Fresh Award for the Philadelphia Chapter, which honors up-and-coming designers. For information about CWP Design Studio, visit www.cwpdesignstudio.com. AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. AIGA, the professional association for design, is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, par ticipate in critical analysis and research and advance
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Lansdowne Folk Club is continuing its 20th Year of presenting great live music with a Guitar Extravaganza Night featuring Brian Ashley Jones and Christie Lenee (shown) on June 6.
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ansdowne Folk Club is continuing its 20th Year of presenting great live music with a Guitar Extravaganza Night featuring Brian Ashley Jones and Christie Lenee on Thursday, June 6. The concerts are held at the newly renovated Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA. Freshly prepared dinner and desserts from Marnie Miller will be available for sale before and during the show. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 with advance reservation and $18 cash only at the door. Free street parking available. For reservations or for information call 484-466-6213, visit www.folkclub.org or email lfolkclub@gmail.com. Brian Ashley Jones is a soulful singer, accomplished guitarist, and versatile Americana songwriter whose compositions have been
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“Black Bodies in Propaganda” New Exhibition at the Penn Museum PBS History Detectives Host Tukufu Zuberi Curates Unique Collection of Propaganda Posters Tukufu Zuberi, the Lasry Family unique collection of Professor of Race Relations, posters, collected and Professor of Sociology and curated by Penn proAfricana Studies at the Univerfessor and PBS History Detec sity of Pennsylvania, and a tives host Tukufu Zuberi, forms host of the hit public television the basis of a provocative series “History Detectives,” new exhibition at the Penn began collecting propaganda Museum: Black Bodies in Propwar posters in 2005 with a aganda: The Art of the War focus on Africans and AfricanPoster, opening at 1 p.m. on Americans. Here, he is picJune 2, 2013, and running tured in the Penn Museum’s through March 2, 2014. Archives with a sampling of Propaganda has long been the posters that will be in the used to mobilize people in new exhibition, “Black Bodies times of war, and this exhibiin Propaganda: The Art of the tion presents 33 posters, most War Poster,” running June 2, targeting Africans and African2013 through March 2, 2014. American civilians, in times of war. These carefully design changing messages on race ed works of art were aimed and politics through propaat mobilizing people of color ganda—from the American in war efforts, even as they Civil War, to World War I, faced oppression and injusWorld War II, and through tice in their homelands. The exhibition explores See Penn Museum Exhibit on page 12
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