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Year 33, No. 34
Celebrating 33 Years of Community News
May 2 – May 8, 2018
FIND YOUR COMMUNITY Musicopia String Orchestra to Premiere New Spring Potters Guild Sale at NEWS HERE! Work by Composer/Conductor Mark Laycock Community Arts Center Opens with Preview Party May 3
Master Storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston to Narrate May 12 Concert usicopia is honored to have its Musicopia String Orchestra (MSO) premiere a new work written for them entitled “Musicopia” Suite for String Orchestra, a.k.a. Musicopia: Sweet! For String Orchestra by composer Mark Laycock. The concert will take place on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 5 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square (1904 Wal-
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Composer/conductor Mark Laycock has written a new piece for Musicopia String Orchestra that will premiere at the May 12 free concert.
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nut Street) under the direction of Daniela Pierson. The piece will be narrated by celebrated master storyteller, Charlotte Blake Alston. The concert is free and open to the public. The MSO program is based on the philosophy that participating in serious, long-term musical endeavors can have a transBrett Thomas, ceramic artist and Potters Guild member, formative impact on students, encouraging discipline, team- loads the gas kiln in preparation for the spring sale. See the final pots at the Preview Party, May 3 at Community Arts work, and personal and creative Center, 414 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford. The sale runs development. MSO serves stuthrough May 6, 2018. dents throughout the greater Philadelphia region who lack cultural opportunities and constructive, creative outlets, particularly from high-needs comhe Potters Guild’s annual spring sale offering handmunities. crafted functional and decorative pottery opens in The Maestro Laycock is an internationally renowned conductor, and as a published composer, Duke Gallery at Community Arts Center, 414 Plush Mill has had his works performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orches- Road, Wallingford, with a preview party, 6:30-9 p.m., Thurs-
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Vincent Dixon at NºBA Artspaces Gallery in Bala Cynwyd ºBA Artspaces, Bala Cynwyd’s new gallery row, presents the Saturday, May 12, 2018 opening reception for “Vincent Dixon: Studio,” an exhibition of recent photographs and videos produced in several of the artist’s workspaces around the globe. The exhibition takes viewers behind the scenes of Dixon’s practice with an extensive collection of prints selected from among his studio productions in Paris, Pushkar, Los Angeles, London, Miami, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid, São Paulo, and many other sites over his thirty-year career. Creating sensitive portraits that turn strangers into intimates, offbeat compositions that raise more questions than they answer, and insightful observations about the connectedness of humanity, Dixon blurs the lines between commercial and fine art photography with a charm and wit uniquely his own. Having worked in a range of spaces from the finest professional studios to
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informally constructed environments, the open air, and even the occasional improvised garage, Dixon now transforms the NºBA gallery space into a working studio. The public is invited to participate in professional photo shoots and observe the printing and Vincent Dixon, untitled, Pushkar Studio, 2011-12, detail. View his work at the opening on May 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. at NºBA Artspaces, 200-206 Bala Ave., Bala Cynwyd. integration of portraits into the exhibition during the installation, at the opening reception, and periodically throughout the month of May. “Vincent Dixon: Studio” runs through Saturday, June 2, after which the galleries will close temporarily for interior modifications over the summer, and re-open in fall 2018. Vincent Dixon began his career in Paris, where he was awarded some of the See “Vincent Dixon: Studio” at NºBA Artspaces Gallery page 8