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Year 30, No. 48
Celebrating 30 Years of Community News
August 12 – August 18, 2015
Jazz Singer Khadijah Renee to Perform Gunnar Montana Presents “Purgatory” 2015 Fringe at CD Release Party at LaRose Festival Performance
Ticket Price Includes Donation to Jazz Bridge oted jazz singer and actress Khadijah Renee and her trio will appear at LaRose Jazz Club on Sunday, August 16, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
N 1812 Productions Presents “The Shoplifters” Page 6
Meet Author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz Page 12
Atlantic Coast Opera Festival Performances Page 16
Education News Pages 8 - 10
Healthy Living Page 11
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Showcasing the very real and human struggles that raise people up and break people down
Jazz singer and actress Khadijah Renee and her trio will appear at LaRose Jazz Club on Sunday, August 16, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., celebrating the release of her new CD, “Sentimental Me.” celebrating the release of her new CD, “Senti mental Me.” Renee has graciously and generously offered to donate $5 of the $30 ticket price – which includes a copy of her new CD – to our region’s non-profit, Jazz Bridge. LaRose is located on 5531 Germantown Avenue, and dinner and cash bar will be available. Khadijah Renee has an extensive background as a jazz singer, stylistically reminiscent of legendary jazz vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Nancy Wilson. Since the late 1980s, she’s appeared at most of the major spots in the tri-state area, which have included performances at the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival in Maryland and a number of shows at LaRose. This one-time member of the Delaware Council of Jazz Advocates recently graced the stage at the Delaware School of Music, where she performed “September Song” at a tribute to late trumpeter Clifford Brown. Renee is also a graduate of Philadelphia’s famed Freedom Theater and completed acting courses at Philadelphia’s Bushfire Theater. She has always been accompanied by our area’s finest musicians, and accompanying her at this LaRose performance are three of the best: pianist Dave Posmontier, bassist Madison Rast and drummer Bryon “Wookie” Landham. Jazz Bridge, an award-winning nonprofit dedicated to assisting Greater Philadelphia Metro area jazz and blues musicians and vocalists in times of crisis, sponsors these neighborhood concerts throughout the region to keep the sound of Philadelphia alive. For tickets and information, call 215-910-8902 or 484-844-7864 and/or visit www.khadijahrenee.com.
Gunnar Montana will perform his 2015 Philadelphia Fringe Festival piece “Purgatory” eleven times between September 9 and 19 at The Latvian Society, 531 North 7th Street, Philadelphia. unnar Montana has announced his 2015 Philadelphia Fringe Festival performance will be called “Purgatory,” and will appear eleven times between September 9 and 19 at The Latvian Society, 531 North 7th Street, Philadelphia. Montana has designed this year’s show to be a raw, and somewhat uncomfortable exploration of the notion of Purgatory, communicated through a series of vignettes, to showcase the very real and human struggles that raise people up
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See Gunnar Montana’s “Purgatory” on page 4
“What is Old is New” Art Show at Main Line Unitarian Church onstance Culpepper will be showing her paintings Sep tember 12 through Octo ber 8, 2015 in the Fireside Gallery, at Main Line Unitarian Church, 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon. Hours are Monday through Fri day 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is in vited to the reception on September 12, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Culpepper’s collective work is a study in domesticity and the commonalities of personal experience. She depicts heavily patterned interior scenes with vibrantly colored objects that she uses as a framework for conveying emotion. She says of her “Interiors”: “The rooms I create are portraits of me, my family, my friends. Reenvisioning my surroundings, I intertwine household belongings with saved and found objects,
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never meant to look new or cherished, to craft a narrative about domestic life, its inhabitants and the role of women in this domain. “My work continues to be about one’s surroundings and personal space, but here specifically considering how we reuse and recycle what we have, be it material See “Life of the Party,” by Constance Culpepper, in a show of her work September 12 through October 8, 2015 in the Fireside Gallery, at Main Line Unitarian Church, in Devon. possessions, relationships or past experiences being relived or repeated in a slightly altered fashion. This is what I’m thinking as I’m working.” Call 484-341-8014 for information, or visit www.mluc.org for details.