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Year 35, No. 1

Celebrating 35 Years of Community News

August 14 – August 20, 2019

Retrospective Exhibition Featuring Work Local Holocaust Survivor to of Prolific Sculptor Etta Winigrad Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Book Publishing

“Playing with Fire: The Life & Work of Etta Winigrad” September 7 - October 20, 2019 at Main Line Art Center he first ever survey exhibition of the works of ceramic sculptor Etta Winigrad opens at Main Line Art Center on September 7. “Playing with Fire: The Life & Work of Etta Winigrad” will be on view in the Center’s galleries through October 20, 2019 with an opening reception on Saturday,

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“Playing With Fire: The Life & Work of Etta Winigrad” will be on view in the Main Line Art Center’s galleries September 7 - October 20, 2019, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 14 at 6 p.m. Shown is Etta Winigrad’s “To The Top,” 2011.

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September 14 at 6 p.m. The exhibition, celebrating the creative evolution, artistic career, and abundant life of the Philadelphia based ceramic sculptor, will feature over 100 pieces of work and inspirations spanning over five decades of Winigrad’s prolific career and travels around the world. Ruth Kapp Hartz, a hidden child survivor of Primitive shape and metaphor Nazi-occupied France during World War II, will speak on form the basis of Etta’s artistic Sunday, September 8, 2019, from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., at Gratz vocabulary. Her unique and disCollege. The event celebrates the 20th anniversary of the tinct smoking technique imprints book published about Ruth, “Your Name is Renée,” the work with a timeless and by Stacy Cretzmeyer. emotional quality that purposely obscures the origin of her subn Sunday, September 8, 2019, from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., at jects, rendering them identifiable Gratz College, 7605 Old York Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027, only as human. At once archaic the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center and symbolic, whimsical and serious, Etta’s sculptures attempt to illustrate ideas and concerns of existence by using realis- of Philadelphia (HAMEC) and Gratz College, will celebrate tic and fantastical elements. Observers are invited to draw on their own imagination and the 20th anniversary of the book, “Your Name is Renée,” by life experiences for interpretation and connection. For over 50 years, through clay and smoke, Stacy Cretzmeyer, which details the experiences of the fea-

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Come From Away Philadelphia Premiere October 22 - November 3 Portion of Ticket Sales Donated to “Pilots to the Rescue” to Raise Funds for Local Animal Shelter Organizations

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he Kimmel Center Cultural Campus is thrilled to announce the upcoming national tour of Come From Away, a Broadway musical about the true story of the small town that welcomed the world. Come From Away will make its Philadelphia debut October 22 through November 3 at the Academy of Music on the Kimmel The First North American Tour Center Cultural Campus. Come From Company of “Come From Away.” Away tickets are on sale now online at Photo/Matthew Murphy www.kimmelcenter.org! New this year, the Kimmel Center will partner with local charities to donation a portion of ticket sales to charity. As such, a portion of Come From Away ticket proceeds will be donated to local area animal shelters through “Pilots to the Rescue,” an organization that employs volunteers including airplane pilots, shelters, ground teams, and veterinarians to save potential pets facing euthanasia and give them a second chance through an advanced flight rescue system. $1 per ticket purchased with code RESCUE will be donated, up to a $5,000 donation. More info about “Pilots to the Rescue” is available at www.PilotstotheRescue.org. “We are thrilled to host this 9/12 story’s premiere in Philadelphia, a story rich with heart that captures the love and resilience of the human spirit in

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the wake of the unthinkable, all through a lens of hospitality and grace,” said Ed Cambron, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. “With an inspirational storyline and Tony Award for Best Musical, we welcome our Philadelphia theater fans to See “Come From Away” Philadelphia Premiere page 8


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