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City Safari: Flattening the curve…or is it Politics?

“The vaccine is only 75 percent effective so we won’t be out and about for another 10 months just to be safe.”

By Thom Nickels ing themselves as if the city down. healthy people (without preJust to be safe. And are you Contributing Editor were stuck in a perpetual I’m reminded of two famous existing conditions) afraid to prepared to wait a lifetime just March 2020 time warp. I know quotes about living in fear: take the slightest liberties behe institution of of men still fearful of going out “Of all the liars in the cause of the virus. Sadly, they to be safe?

The corona virus doomsday overkill-corona-virusand getting a haircut, couples world, sometimes the worst remain stagnant like swamp lockdowns has now who won’t socialize or dine are our own fears.” ―Rudyard gas, some of them waiting for predictions about what might happen this fall and winter are become the favorite sport of outdoors (even with masks), Kipling. a vaccine to be developed, discouraging. These predicfear-mongering politicians. and people fearful of using “It is not death that a man although when a vaccine is tions are based on dramatic But revisiting the fear and public transit. Fear like this should fear, but he should available they will more than news reports that indicate a panic of March 2020 is not an seems excessive to me. Living fear never beginning to likely still find reasons to hisurge in “infections.” Some option for intelligent people. your life in this state of mind live.” ― Marcus Aurelius bernate: “We have to wait a “experts” claim the virus will As of this writing, there are (for months) truly has the Because of fear not much year before the effects of the still Philadelphians quarantin- makings of a nervous breakis happening in the lives of vaccine becomes evident,” or, be here until the end of 2021, while others suggest that social distancing might be necesCenter City Philadelphia's Community Newspaper sary for a decade, while the August 12, 2020 really dour prophets suggest that we will be wearing masks for the rest of our lives.

Whatever spike Philadelphia may go through this fall and winter, it’s important that Philadelphians watch that the city avoids following a totalitarian approach as set by the city of Melbourne, Australia. That totalitarian game plan might be called the Maoist offspring of George Orwell’s, 1984.

Australia, known as “The Lucky Country,” has had a seasons. But this strange year, relatively modest corona virus things are not looking all that death toll even as that nation’s good for a September reopen- politicians are behaving as if

By Richard Lord ing of theatre doors. So, this this was not the case.

Contributing writer August seems a good time to In the city of Melbourne, survey the local theatre landthe death of 7 people within Good times and bum times, I’ve scape and see what’s happen- a 24-hour period has caused seen ‘em all ing there.

Melbourne’s Victorian preAnd, my dear, I’m still here ….

What’s Been Happening: mier, Daniel Andrews, to put I’ve run the gamut, A to Z 1812 Productions ran an that city in the most draconian Three cheers and dammit, engaging series of theatrelockdown of recent memory.

C’est la vie, I got through all of focused chats/interviews in The six-week stage 4 locklast year, its I Put On Pants For This pro- down, from August 2 to SepAnd I’m still here. gram. Hosted by 1812’s artistic tember 13, imposes a nightly - Stephen Sondheim director Jennifer Childs and curfew from 8 pm to 5 am (as X within her husband, actor Scott Greer, if the virus operates 1812’s artistic director Jennifer Childs(R) and her husband, actor Scott Greer(L). his Sondheim song this program ran through the ...time perimeters). Melbourne is perhaps the most end of July and featured vari- residents are not permitted to famous number from ous theatre artists discussing leave their homes except to Five months into the pan“we’re still here!” August is his acclaimed Follies. These their particular art with the purchase food and essential demic shutdown, one of the the month when the flood days, it could well serve as the prime activities of the area’s co-hosts.

The last of these ran items. Exceptions include of live theatre performances survival anthem for most of on July 31, but the 1812ers are health care workers and esleading theatre groups is sim- usually slowed to a trickle as the Philadelphia area’s theatre ply to establish presence, to sential workers in other cattroupes prepared for the Sep- looking to start the chats up companies. egories. You may leave home if let audiences and fans know tember opening of their new Pageof x family violence continued on page 4 there’s a risk (being coopedXup in a small space with too many people, ... or even the “wrong” person, may generate animosity).

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By Marc Holmes III ian Anderson was a singer of go shopping you must do so Contributing Writer “classical music and spiritualone (no couples allowed). als,” which understates her You may only leave your hen she died, Marimportance to both art forms. continued on page 4 ian Anderson left During one of her many conthe world a treasure cert tours, famed conductor Page x trove of riches that represent Arturo Toscanini told her that DRIVE-IN a life of accomplishment and she had a voice “heard once in achievement in an art form a hundred years.”

The drive to despite being initially rejected A significant portion of Orefield, Pennbecause of who she was and Marian Anderson’s physical sylvania is rich not because of what she did or legacy is now at the Univerin mountains, how she did it. What Marian sity of Pennsylvania’s Kislak forests, and Anderson did, she did magnifCenter for Special Collections, other scenic icently! That Marian was the Rare Books and Manuscripts beauties... granddaughter of a slave with Department. David McKnight, whom she grew close when Director and Curator of ManuPage 5 her father died at an early scripts says the collection has POLITICS.....................................3 age makes her journey more been digitized and is available FUNDRAISER................................5 remarkable. If you google her Marian Anderson, 1944, Creator-Philippe Halsma. Marian Anderson Collection of to scholars, music historians, NOTES ON MUSIC..........................7 name, you will learn MarPhotographs,1898-1992 Collection University of Pennsylvania: Marian Anderson Collection

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During her early teen years, Marian sang at continued from page 1 local functions earning about five dollars a week, academics, and the gen- which was a considerable eral public to study and sum in the early twentiperuse. The title of the eth century. digitized collection is Marian’s father’s death Marian Anderson: Artresulting from a workist On The World Stage, place accident when she which is indicative of was twelve forced the who Marian Anderson family to move into the was and the importance household of her grandthe material has to the father only to see him music and academic die just a year later. The world. family persevered, and Ms. Anderson has a Marian was able to comlong and storied history plete study at the Stanton with Philadelphia, the Grammar School from city of her birth, which which she graduated in occurred on February 1912. Family finances 27, 1897. As young as made attending high six years of age, Marian school for Marian probsang. Her aunt, Mary, lematic until her church brought Marian to sing pastor, Reverend Wesley at local church concerts Parks, leaders from the as a member of the juPeoples Chorus of Philanior church choir where, delphia, and other leadeven at that young age, ers in the black commuMarian sang solos and nity raised money on her duets often with her behalf. The fundraising aunt. It was her aunt effort allowed her to get Mary that Marian credits singing lessons and atwith inspiring her and tend South Philadelphia propelling her to pursue High School, from which a career in music. When she graduated in 1921.

Marian was ten years old The ugly face of racat the urging of her aunt, ism surfaced when Ms. she joined the People’s Anderson presented to Chorus of Philadelphia, apply for admission to where she sometimes the Philadelphia Music performed as a soloist.

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versity of the Arts). The words that could have derailed a promising future “We don’t take colored.” constituted the reply to Marian’s attempt at enrollment.

Her grit and determination and the support and encouragement of the black community were motivating factors that stoked Ms. Anderson to pursue private study with noted teachers despite being rejected by the Philadelphia Music Academy.

For performers, the golden fleece they seek is that first big break that will propel them to stardom. Marian Anderson’s first big break came in the form of first prize in a prestigious singing competition sponsored by the New York Philharmonic.

Although winning first place was in itself noteworthy, it was the prize awarded to the winner that would have been of great moment for Marian.

On August 26, 1925, the young lady from Philadelphia, aspiring to greatness, whose path in life to this point has many obstacles to overcome, appears in concert

Franz Rupp, Marian Anderson, January, 1943. Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs, 1898-1992. Collection University of Pennsylvania: Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs

with the New York Philharmonic. The audience and music critics in attendance praise her performance.

While Ms. Anderson continued to pursue a career in music, racial prejudice permeated American culture to the distinct disadvantage of racial minorities, and progress for Marian slowed. In 1928 she made her first appearance at Carnegie Hall.

A critical turn in Ms. Anderson’s life and career came in 1929, with a Rosenwald Fellowship award that included a fifteen-hundred dollar stipend to study in Berlin, Germany.

The harsh, cruel, and sometimes violent treatment experienced by African-Americans living in the South, and the less extreme form of racism practiced by whites in the North made Europe an appealing option for some blacks. American blacks residing in Europe did not experience the discrimination and racism prevalent in the United States.

Marian traveled to Europe, studied with noted American singer Sara Charles-Cahier, followed by a highly successful tour of Europe during which she met Scandanavian composer Jean Sibelius. Marian did not experience racial prejudice while she was in Europe.

She had adoring fans all over the continent. Jean Sibelius said he believed that Marian had “penetrated the Nordic soul.”

Marian Anderson returned to the United

States in 1934, and for the next four years, she alternately toured the U.S. and Europe. The mantle of success was hers, and it was universal. Ms. Anderson’s U.S. recital schedule consisted of about seventy performances a year, and in some cities, she once again had to face the ugliness of prejudice in her native country. The fame Marian Anderson achieved as a singer internationally acclaimed was not enough to dissuade certain hotels from denying her accommodations nor, was it enough to persuade some restaurants to allow her the right to dine in their facility.

Although Marian Anderson’s fame was not enough to spare her the indignity and pain of discrimination, she had the friendship and support of Albert Einstein, an outspoken advocate for human and civil rights.

On various occasions, Einstein’s generosity and caring extended to hosting Marian, a practice beginning in 1937, when she was denied hotel accommodations before a performance at Princeton University.

On April 9, 1939, an event occurred that had repercussions throughout the African-American community and reached the highest level of government. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused Marian permission to appear in concert at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., conforming to a “white performers only” policy

they enforced at the Hall.

Since Washington had a policy of enforcing segregation of the races, even if the concert were to occur, blacks who attended would have to sit in the back of the Hall. Another impediment was the requirement to have segregated bathrooms.

The indignity and insult suffered by Marian Anderson, resulting from the refusal by the DAR to let her perform at Constitution Hall, sparked the African-American community to action. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), cofounder, Charles Edward Russell, also chaired a citywide Inter-Racial Committee that met and formed the Marian Anderson Citizens Committee (MACC).

Requests were made to other venues to hold the concert, and all the appeals were unsuccessful, including a request to the Washington D.C., Board of Education, to use a white public high school auditorium. The D.C. Board of education’s refusal drew the ire of the individuals and organizations comprising MACC, and they picketed, called for a mass protest for the next Board meeting, and circulated petitions condemning the Board.

Public anger that erupted resulting from the DAR action caused significant membership losses, including Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the then sitting president

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Shutdown of Pennsylvania casinos caused $424 million in lost rose to record tax revenue, analysis finds poker setting highs, the total

By Dave Lemery The Center Square

third category, which became available last year after it was made legal by ike many sectors state lawmakers, was the of the economy, lone bright spot, though Pennsylvania’s not nearly enough to offcasinos took a massive set the losses in the more hit when they were traditional categories. forced to close in the ef“Call it intuition or just fort to fight the spread of plain luck that internet coronavirus. But given gaming made its debut the high rates of taxes in Pennsylvania casinos imposed on the gaming in July 2019,” Bowser industry, the impact on and Gamrat wrote. state and local revenue “While not all casinos was disproportionately in Pennsylvania offer high. online gaming options, The Allegheny Instifor those that do, total tute, in an analysis by re- internet gaming revenue search assistant Hannah (including online table Bowser and Executive games, internet slot maDirector Frank Gamrat, chines and online poker) sought to quantify those jumped from $13.9 millosses. They calculated lion in January 2020 to that from March to June, $50 million in June, an incasinos in Pennsylvania crease of 258.6 percent.” missed out on $968.8 milThey noted a slight dip lion in revenue – which, in internet gaming revin turn, meant a loss of enue from May to June $424.2 million in tax rev- this year after casinos enue. began to reopen, but it The analysis looked remained well above the at the three key revenue pre-pandemic numbers. sources for casinos: slot “[Al]though online machines, table games gaming revenue from and internet gaming. The slots, table games and

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intake from January through June ($206.6 million) doesn’t even cover a quarter of the estimated losses from slot and table games,” they wrote.

For slot machines, a significant source of tax proceeds, the numbers were much more dire.

From the time they closed in mid-March to the beginning of reopenings in June, casinos missed out on a period when they’d typically see some of their biggest income numbers. March in particular has been a peak month for Pennsylvania casinos, Bowser and Gamrat wrote.

They estimate that casinos missed out on $143.5 million in revenue in March and another $415 million over the course of April and May. Even with the reopenings in June, they calculate another $140.3 million in lost revenue. The total losses come in at $699 million, with $381.1 million of that representing lost tax proceeds.

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“The total number of closure there still made a individuals employed big impact. Bowser and by all 12 casinos in the Gamrat estimate a loss commonwealth by the of $270 million in table gaming revenue, leading end of the 2018-19 fiscal to the state and local gov- year stood at 16,717,” ernments missing out on Bowser and Gamrat wrote. “Since the lock$43.1 million in taxes.

The institute’s analysis down included a complete stoppage of all also looked at the costs nonessential functions related to casino workand only a few managers ers being out of work and maintenance crews while their employers were likely deemed eswere shut down. Citing sential and kept on the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they note job, it is safe to assume that most of the 16,717 that employment in the casino employees were amusement, gambling and recreation sector was furloughed.” down 70 percent in April,

Op-Ed: Pennsylvania needs to be business friendly instead of anti-business

By Sen. Doug Mastriano

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restaurant from Ohio recently awarded Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf with its “employee of the month award.”

The recognition was tongue-in-cheek, but the honor was very deserving.

After all, Pennsylvanians residing near the Ohio border have been flocking to the Buckeye State to enjoy restaurants, as well as food and beverage establishments, that are either shuttered here or operating at limited capacity.

As part of his unilateral, autocratic mandates, Gov. Wolf shut down all businesses he considered to be non “life sustaining” back in March, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic.

(No one knows for sure what criteria, if any, was used to determine what the governor deemed as “life sustaining,” because the governor has refused to comply with a subpoena seeking that

information).

Unfortunately, restaurants were adversely impacted during the shutdown and only permitted to offer takeout. Many restaurants were unable to survive on that business model, and closed their doors … some, sadly, for good.

Meanwhile, large box stores and supermarkets were allowed to operate at full capacity. If we can observe social distancing, sanitation and other state and federally recognized health and safety practices at Walmart and Home Depot, why can’t we do the same at mom and pop businesses?

As we approached early June, the governor slowly lifted the flawed color-coded model that he placed upon counties, and allowed restaurants to reopen.

Initially, the restrictions were few. But subsequently, the governor decided more government overreach was needed and quickly imposed a 25 percent capacity limitation upon restaurants.

Bars, if they do not

have food, were not allowed to reopen.

Some restaurants simply cannot operate at a 25 percent capacity.

But it got worse.

Surprisingly, the governor – along with his failed Secretary of Health – defined what did and what did not constitute a meal. Since when did we need the government telling us what we are allowed to eat and drink?

The government overreach needs to stop.

Throughout the 201920 legislative session, the committee that I chair – the Senate Intergovernmental Operations panel – has passed eight measures that reduce government bureaucracy, streamline regulations and cut red tape.

But for many businesses, including in the 33rd Senate District, it is already too late.

The restaurants that remain open are struggling to survive. Many have already closed their doors because they were unable to cope with the governor’s draconian edicts.

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As a member of the General Assembly, I recently called upon Gov. Wolf to provide a specific reopening plan that will allow restaurants, as well as food and beverage establishments, to operate at full capacity.

Instead of helping our businesses recover from the irreparable damage they’ve incurred, the Wolf administration is sending inspectors around to make sure restaurants are complying with social distancing, masks and other pandemic protocols.

There is no specific law detailing any of these practices, but that does not matter to the governor.

The governor and his administration no longer trust state businesses to practice health and safety guidelines.

Instead of being business friendly, Wolf enjoys being a fearmonger.

How are restaurants supposed to operate at 25 percent capacity? What is the next step of Wolf’s so-called plan, and when will those steps occur?

Restaurants cannot continue to operate in this manner. Business owners deserve answers from the Wolf administration.

It is time for leadership, not inaction ambiguity and indecisiveness.

Sen. Mastriano represents the 33rd District in the Pennsylvania Senate.

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house once a day to shop. You may exercise for one hour per day but you are not permitted to exercise further than 5 kilometers (3 miles) from your home. Masks are mandatory when leaving your home but if you are a jogger you are permitted to jog without a mask if you have an excuse like, “Masks aren’t practical while running.”

People with medical conditions are exempt from wearing masks as are children under 12. Ironically, teachers are not required to wear masks in the classroom but students are. Teachers and students both must wear masks while traveling to and from schools.

Visitors are not permitted in your home. Residents are not permitted to visit another person’s home except for giving and receiving health care.

According to The Guardian, you are permitted

to leave your house if you are in “an intimate personal relationship” with another person but you must be mindful that your ‘bonk visit’ must end before 8 pm but if it does not (passion unhinged), you are required to spend the night with your special friend and leave sometime after 5 a.m. the next day.

Home improvement projects, such as remodeling, plumbing, painting, extensive gardening or putting up a fence, are all prohibited. Contractors may not visit your home for any reason, however if you have “an intimate personal relationship” with a contractor you might be able to sneak in a project appraisal or a night of work posing as love.

Melbourne’s home improvement project ban is reminiscent of Mayor Kenney’s recent announcement that Philadelphians stop their home improvement projects because these projects are adding to

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Philadelphia’s mounting trash problem, by the way, has been blamed on “staffing problems” (an ambiguous phrase that warrants further explanation). Still, the added trash is to be expected when you are told that you can’t go anywhere, or when your covid-19 fears are so high that you won’t go anywhere even when you are told that you can. Rehabbing the bathroom or painting the dining room might help you from going insane if you’re the ultra-quarantine type.

In Melbourne, restaurants and cafes must offer take-out and delivery only. However, if you are a regular patron of that city’s brothels and strip clubs you will have to wait until after September 13. Melbourne’s churches and places of worship must limit participants to ten or under.

Fines for breaking any of these rules range from $200 to $5,000.

According to The Guardian, this stage 4 lockdown will cost Australia some nine billion dollars and put the unemployment rate up to 13 per cent.

Daily Mail.com UK reported that the Institute of Public Affairs has called the city’s stagefour restrictions, “the greatest incursion into our basic liberties ever on Australian soil”. The stage 4 restrictions give the police unprecedented powers, “including the ability to seize private property, enter people’s homes and stop them in the street.”

What caused the City of Melbourne to panic?

Those 7 deaths that occurred in the city within a 24-hour period, despite the fact that of the 7 that died, 3 of the deceased were over 70, 2 were in their 80s and 2 were well into their 90s. There is even some question as to whether some of the dead had pre-existing medical conditions.

Because the world is a global village, it’s almost certain that some United States mayors are studying Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown status for possible implantation in their cities this fall and winter.

It’s a well-known fact that politicians lie. In Melbourne’s case, the big lie surrounding the stage

4 lockdown can be traced to the reason given for the first lockdown in March 2020. That first lockdown was instituted “to flatten the curve,” a fair and benign judgment by most standards. Melbourne’s stage 4 draconian lockdown, however, has nothing to do with “flattening the curve,” but with politics.

As the controversial and indomitable Katie Hopkins explains in a You Tube video about the Melbourne lockdown: “Locking people down because someone dies…

Is that good enough of an excuse?”

Melbourne, Hopkins believes, is nothing but a test case scenario. “This is a test case for how much control they can have over you and how much freedom they can take away. Remember, they told you initially that it was all about flattening the curve, now it is about stopping 90-year olds from dying of corona.”

Hopkins is asking if it is it reasonable to lock down an entire city and to give the police power to enter your homes (without a warrant) because of 7 elderly deaths.

Melbourne’s police have been quite adamant in their threats to come down hard on Stage 4 lawbreakers. Although the police frame their threats in saccharin sentiments such as, “We hate to do this, and we understand your pain, but we must proceed nevertheless,” they mean business and are prepared to break into private homes.

Hopkins believes that other cities will eventually follow Melbourne’s example if the citizens of Melbourne don’t stand up and say enough is enough. Many Melbourne residents, it is reported, are already in a state of anger and despair.

It is unlikely that Philadelphia would survive another long economic lockdown. Many businesses here have already left the city, and many restaurants like The Bards, Dmitri’s in Northern Liberties, Mama’s Vegetarian, Lalo in Old City, Poi Dog and V Street, have closed their doors forever, Philadelphia must not go the way of Melbourne, Australia.

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again come September.

Theatre Exile initiated a similar series with its Conversations in Exile program. As with I Put On Pants For This, Exile’s program offered insightful interviews with actors, directors and playwrights. The next Conversation (scheduled for Thursday, August 13) features sportswriter Ray Didinger, whose play Tommy and Me has become a local favorite for all sports fans who also happen to be theatre lovers. Past Conversations in Exile (five to date) can still be enjoyed on the Theatre Exile website.

Theatre Exile also devised an interesting online participation program, its Play Club.

This functions like a virtual book club: the Exile team selected a play that they had produced in the recent past and sent out copies of the play to everyone registered for the Club. Then, for two nights each month starting in June, they arranged a Zoom meeting for members who had read the play and were eager to share their thoughts on any aspect of the work they wished to discuss with others. At the early August session, Exile’s artistic director Deborah Block said she was hoping to start up the Play Club sessions again in the Fall, though she and her team were planning to skip September and see how things looked in October.

Performing in a pandemic: These 1812 and Exile programs appeal to theatre insiders as well as all theatre fans who want to learn more about how a theatre production is put together or to meet those who are the creative forces in theatre.

But there are many fans who are much more interested in just seeing or hearing theatre during these times of live theatre famine. These folks have also had offerings to keep them satisfied as other local theatre companies have sought ways to shout out “we’re still here!” during the pandemic.

Lantern Theater Company devised a series with the encouraging name “Lantern Any-

where”. The main feature of this program was “Shakespeare NOW”, a series of rehearsed virtual readings of Shakespeare plays. “Shakespeare NOW” launched in late April, offering impressive readings on Zoom of some of the less well-known pieces of the Bard.

The Lantern plan called for an online presentation every two weeks. Four plays were scheduled, though the Lantern team suggested that if the program proved popular, they might just continue and cover every play in the Shakespeare canon. If continued on that biweekly basis, this would have meant running “Shakespeare NOW” for over a further year and a half, or until early 2022.

Unfortunately, the program didn’t even make it until the early summer of this year. As the wideranging protests around the Black Lives Matter took shape, the scheduled June 5 presentation of Troilus and Cressida was postponed at short notice. This, despite the fact that the large cast would have already been primed to present this work. As of this writing, that postponement is still in effect and we’ve yet to see Lantern’s virtual Troilus and Cressida. We can only hope that the series will reZoom before long.

Lantern also had a program called Sonnet Sessions which featured two of their regular actors (Lindsay Smiling and Tony Lawton) doing contrasting dramatic readings of the Bard’s sonnets. Though the Lantern website promised to share additional sonnets over the spring and summer, this, too, ended early – after just three sonnets, 151 short of the full cache of Shakespeare’s 14-liners.

The Wilma Theatre had slated an Obie Award-winning piece, Is God Is, to close out its regular 2019-20 season.

When a live performance was rendered impossible, the Wilma team decided to offer the show as a radio play. This was radio play pure, meaning a piece written for the stage but now stripped of all visuals.

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COVID-19: Film lovers can still catch a flick at Lehigh Valley Drive-In Shankweiler’s, a historic Drive-In Theater in Orefield, Pennsylvania, gives viewers a much-needed source of safe, socially distanced entertainment.

ler’s Drive-In Theater, located about an hour north of Philadelphia, has been in the business since 1934. It is the oldest drive-in in America, and movie lovers from across

By Jarek Rutz the country visit the hisPhildelphia torical site.

Neighborhoods Paul Geissinger and his wife Susan have owned the theater since he drive to Ore1984. From ushering field, Pennsylat the Plaza Theater at vania is rich in the Whitehall Mall and mountains, forests, and other scenic beauties that spending the majority of rural Pennsylvania offers. his high school years in It is also rich in film histo- the audio/visual room, ry, marking a spot where Geissinger has had a passion for film and projecfamilies and friends congregate to watch their tion since his youth. In favorite flicks. Shankwei- 1971, he was first asked to

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work as a projectionist at Shankweiler’s.

His prior job at the Plaza Theater got him used to working with state-ofthe-art equipment.

“I nearly shit my pants,” Geissinger said, describing his reaction to seeing Shankweiler’s outdated projection technology for the first time.

“I thought pigeons were going to fly out.”

As a 17-year-old, he had a talent for film projection, which allowed him to work as the handyman and fixerupper of all things tech at Shankweiler’s in the 1970s. These skills helped

Beech launches resources directory supporting families, individuals and communities

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n celebration of its th 30 Anniversary in service to the community, the Beech Companies, Inc., through Beech Community Services, has published an online, digital community resources directory in an effort to identify local, regional and national resources that can help uplift and improve the quality of life for families, individuals and communities in the Philadelphia region. The directory was produced in partnership with Progressive Images Marketing Communications.

“This directory is especially important to those in need during the current pandemic crisis and this unique time in our nation’s history,” said Beech CEO/President Dr. Kenneth Scott.

“The resources in this directory can be accessed from organizations, programs and digital data that provide valuable information on a variety of subjects. It includes detailed descriptions of programs and services from local, regional and national sources that are just a click away when you need them.”

Included is the civics, government & leadership section that provides a link to information on the three branches of government. “Most people don’t know what the three branches of government are and what they do, since civics is no longer taught in school,” explained

Scott. “This section also includes links to federal, state and local officials, which is very important at this time.”

Other sections in the directory include healthcare, law & justice, housing & homelessness, food insecurity, education, violence prevention & domestic abuse, disaster preparedness, employment & training, reentry, families & youth, seniors, veterans, business & commerce, arts & culture and more.

Some of the more unique resources in the directory include a database of all academic programs offered by the 107 HBCUs, the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, the digital Slave Narratives collection, a digital collection of Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases, and the Library of Congress Digital Collection.

Of course, the directory includes information on Beech Community Services, Beech Business Bank and its services, including a link to the COVID-19 Relief Pennsylvania Statewide Small Business Assistance Program.

“Beech Community Services is always here to help and urges each of you to take charge of your community,” said Christine Brown, its director. “The directory provides information to help people do just that.

Hopefully, the information in our community

resources directory will educate and inspire you to take charge of your lives!”

Established in 2006, Beech Community Services serves as a liaison between the residents and business owners of the Cecil B. Moore community and works to strengthen, enhance and improve the quality of life for the residents of North Philadelphia, with the ultimate goal of empowerment and selfsustainability.

“Much thanks to Progressive Images Marketing Communications for partnering with us to compile and produce this outstanding, oneof-a-kind, directory on our behalf,” Scott said.

“Supporting Black families and communities will continue to be our mission for another 30 years and beyond. Following the tradition of Floyd W. Alston, our first president, Beech always strives to inform, educate and empower!”

Founded by Dr. Bernard C. Watson and the late Floyd W. Alston in 1990, The Beech Companies has successfully used the concept of social enterprise to reimagine and revitalize disadvantaged communities in Philadelphia by utilizing business principles and strategies to solve social problems with the ultimate goal of empowerment and self-sustainability. Located on Cecil B. Moore Avenue in the continued on page 8

him build and maintain a successful business.

With indoor theaters shut down for the foreseeable future, drive-ins seem to be a safe option for those eager to see a movie.

At Shankweiler’s, viewers are typically either in or directly outside their vehicles, all naturally spaced by radio poles. The layout of a drive-in seems to perfectly meet CDC guidelines, while still offering some summer fun.

Coronavirus risks at the theater include the brief moment when a customer interacts with a ticket agent, or leaving one’s car to go to the bathroom or concession stand.

Geissinger takes the risks of those actions seriously. “If you’re going to go to the restroom or snack bar, you have to wear a mask,” he said, “I don’t want my employees exposed to it because if one of my employees gets it, everyone gets it, and I don’t want to take that chance.”

To mitigate any spread, all customers receive a

Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theater

COVID Rules pamphlet and signs across the grounds encourage social distancing by listing restrictions on the number of people allowed in the bathrooms and snack shop at a time.

Signs throughout Shankweiler’s instruct customers on protocols and what limitations are in place to ensure their safety.

A young couple, John Buback and Madison Undercuffler, shared their excitement for the drivein.

“This is way more fun than just sitting in a dark room,” Undercuffler said.

“This is way better than watching on Netflix.”

The gorgeous sunsets

and perfect summer weather cannot be enjoyed at an indoor theater.

“I hope they make a comeback,” Buback added. “We’ve come here each of the last three weeks!”

The couple said the great selection of both classic and contemporary flicks at Shankweiler’s gives it an advantage over standard indoor theaters. Despite the seeming boost in interest and demand, Geissinger explains, the pandemic has not actually been a financial windfall. Many drive-ins, Shankweiler’s included, are actually losing business. continued on page 8

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for young children weekly. The podcasts contincontinued from page 4 ued for 49 episodes until early July. At the end es were all strong, and of Episode 49, host Liz the soundscape created Filios announced a break, as an audio platform for hoping to return in the those performances was Fall. However, it was a impressive. However, the hope and not a promise. lack of any visuals deThe Bristol Riverside prived the actors of any Theatre came up with facial or body expresa similar strategy. This sion, and the powerful company’s production climatic action came off of Cabaret was brought as confusing rather than to a sudden halt when gruesomely cathartic. the lockdown was anUnlike the Lantern’s nounced, and its annual Shakespeare performanc- summer and theatre proes, which was free to all grams looked doomed who registered prior to as well. But pandemic be presentation, Wilma’s Is damned, they decided God Is was offered on a to present that popular per-pay basis. The entry summer music program price was quite low, but in a virtual format. it was a limited online This past weekend, radio play. they staged A Night At Theatre Horizon had The Movies, and they’re an ongoing online podplanning to offer a Broadcast program for young way Summer Spectacular kids, the Children’s Half on September 2, 4 and 6.

Hour with Liz Filios and The September 2 show Friends. This package will be a live perforof varied talents offered mance presented via refreshing entertainment streaming, while the two

following sessions will be recordings of the first evening. Tickets will go for $35, with no differential for the seat you happen to be sitting in when you stream in. (Choose a comfy chair at home.)

They’re hoping that ticket sales will provide the necessary revenue to keep the theatre afloat during and after the pandemic. Tickets are available on the Bristol Riverside Theatre website.

To some it all up, it would be ludicrously upbeat to say Philly’s theatre scene is healthy at present. But a close temperature check of the patient does allow for a good deal of optimism.

Theatre makers at every level – actors, directors, tech people, set and sound designers, producers – are working in their various ways to stand up tall and declare “I’m still here.” Sondheim has to be smiling.

Maori Karmael Holmes is appointed Curator-at-Large for Film at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Mediamaker-in-Residence at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

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aori Karmael Holmes, Artistic Director and CEO of BlackStar Film Festival, has been appointed Curator-atLarge for Film at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Mediamaker-inResidence at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

As Curator-at-Large for Film, Holmes will work with Annenberg Center Executive and Artistic Director Christopher Gruits to develop a series of films that will complement and amplify the Annenberg Center’s season programming across all disciplines. She will also develop ancillary activities such as lectures and discussions, creating opportunities for students to engage with filmmakers and others working in the film industry.

As Mediamaker-inResidence at the Annenberg School, Holmes will teach an undergraduate course and provide mentorship to doctoral and undergraduate students. She also will advise on projects includ-

ing the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA) and CAMRA Fellows.

Additionally, the Annenberg School will serve as a home for seen: a journal of film and visual culture, a new journal edited by Holmes, and provide additional support to the BlackStar organization.

“It’s an honor to be appointed to these positions at both the Annenberg Center and School, two institutions that I deeply respect,” said Holmes. “The capacity of film, both empathetically and intellectually, to explore personal and communal experience in a time like this is a tremendous power, and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to teach and share with this community.”

“The Annenberg Center has a long history of presenting film, starting in the 1970s, and we’re excited to work with such a noted film scholar as Maori Holmes to offer our audiences a more robust film program,” said Gruits.

“Our collaboration with Maori and partnership with BlackStar Film

Fest and the Annenberg School for Communication will build upon the Annenberg Center’s ongoing commitment to presenting a breadth of diverse artists and perspectives for both the Penn and Philadelphia communities. We are grateful to the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Executive Vice President for their support in bringing Maori on board with the Annenberg Center.”

Said John L. Jackson, Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor, “Annenberg has been a long-time sponsor of the Blackstar Film Festival, and this new arrangement further solidifies our investment in providing opportunities for students to examine film as a media industry that changes over time and impacts larger social, cultural and political issues. Having Maori Holmes in the classroom and providing support to our students serves our goal of carefully integrating theory with arts/media/technology practice in organic and meaningful ways. It also reinforces our commitment to engaging the media and arts communities across campus and beyond Penn.”

About Maori Karmael Holmes Maori Karmael Holmes is a curator, filmmaker and writer.

She is founder and Artistic Director/CEO of BlackStar Projects, which produces the widely acclaimed BlackStar Film Festival. A native of Los Angeles, she has organized programs in film at a myriad continued on page 8

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he Philadelphia Orchestra presents a special concert on Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. with Yannick Nezet-Seguin on the podium for Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Also on Aug. 12 at 1 p.m. is a Woodwind Master Class hosted by Principal Flute Jeffrey Khaner and Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia, English horn. Both available at philorch.

Org  Something new on the North side of town: Sunset Social, a restaurant, bar and public space on the 1.2 acre Cira Green, the rooftop park at 129 S. 30th St. with a full slate of fun, social-distancing events including yoga, movie nights, Sat. morning cartoons, Happy Hours as well as Tues. Yappy Hours for dogs and their owners, plus beachthemed Thurs. Info at reply@universitycity. org  Celebrated dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied offers a Master Class in ballet with L.A. Dance Project where he is Artistic Director, featuring virtual workouts, a video library with wellness tips, performances and interviews. Available anytime at now@ladanceproject. org  Here’s a chance to try your hand at pickling, thanks to the Ashkenazi Jewish food company sharing their secrets on Aug. 12 at 7 p.m., a ticketed session that includes a culinary lesson and an introduction to Jewish history and cuisine. Visit eventbrite. com and search “Gastro Obscura Pickling”.  The Philadelphia Free Library on Mondays from 10 to 11 a.m. is giving away used books

and magazines outside of the Church of the Holy Trinity, 1904 Walnut St. Frequent emails from Central Library give hope that it won’t be long before they are all open again and already some are permitting books to be reserved and old reserves to be returned. Users of the City Institute Library at 1905 Locust St. will be delighted to know that the new brand-new elevator, which they call a “lift”, has been completed and will soon add to the pleasures when this most popular library branch re-opens on Rittenhouse Square.  The impressive National Constitution Center is open again now and is free through Sept. 5, a chance to relish the history and accomplishments of our nation and to enjoy the extremely motivating documentary which opens visitors’ tours, called by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor “the best 17-minute civics lesson in the country”. A new show opens on Aug. 26 tracing how women won the vote.

525 Arch St.  Lincoln Center’s annual summer-time tribute “Mostly Mozart Festival” is appearing currently on WQXR through Aug. 16 where every hour of radio programming is devoted to the Austrian wunderkind. wqxr.org/story/ mostlymozart  David Zwirner’s “At Sea Digital Exhibition” boasts more than 30 works by Courbet, Arbus and Cecily Brown among others, paintings and photographs of 19th century realism or modern depictions of seas and oceans. Aug. 14, anytime at davidzwirner.com/viewing-room/

at-sea.  British actor/playwright/director presents his 2001 play “The Secret Love Life of Ophelia”, a two-hander now re-imagined by Greenwich Theater in England with 40 actors including none other than the great Helen Mirren as Hamlet’s mother. Sounds like fun, free through Aug. 14 on the company’s YouTube channel. N  Drive-in movies are springing back to life in our state and now we have drive-in concerts as of Aug. 16, backed

by Live Nation and the Phillies and called Live-In/Drive-In featuring live bands and comedians in the Citizens Bank Park parking lot. Funnyman Bert Kreischer opens the series followed on Aug. 19

by AJR. The series runs through Sept. 7. Audio will be transmitted on an FM radio signal and attendees in masks can leave their cars for restrooms. phillies.com/ drivein  This just in: the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site welcomes back visitors on Aug. 14 and for now only Fridays through Sundays with social distancing, face masks and timed tickets purchased in advance. Sadly, “Terror Behind the Walls”, the Halloween spectacular has been postponed until 2021.2027 Fairmount Ave., 215-236-3300.  Dance from the Middle East presented by the Annual Battery Dance Festival presents pieces

by Hoedy Saad, TAG, Tanin Torabi and Ayman Safish, Aug.16 at 7 p.m. batterydance.org  The Metropolitan Opera’s nightly free streaming of great operatic productions in sumptuous productions

with the world’ finest singers and orchestra are available until 6:30 p.m. the following day.

Aug. 12, Verdi’s “Rigoletto”; Aug. 13, Puccini’s “Turandot”; Aug. 14, Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” with Deborah

Voigt; Aug.15, Puccini’s “La Boheme” streaming only through Noon the next day; Aug. 16, Verdi’s “Luisa Miller”. A special event on Aug. 16 is the Met’s new ticketed concert series, this one starring tenor Robert

Alagna and his soprano wife Aleksandra Kurzak Live in Concert from the French Riviera at 1:30 p.m. in romantic arias, duets and songs baked by the Morphing Chamber Orchestra. metopera.org 

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Currently, Geissinger defines a bad night as a “soft sellout.” How many cars he turns away is indicative on how well the show is selling, as he sells out almost every night.

The problem with this, he explains is that current Pennsylvania policy only allows him to operate at 50% capacity.

“We’re filling it every weekend, but we still have the same bills,” Geissinger said. “I have some bills to pay and I have some bills to make up.”

He has also had to increase staff to monitor and manage social distancing, help sanitize, and to help customers leave safely after the movie.

“The payroll is actually more because we have to have more people here to get them in and get them out,” he said. “It’s been rough, no if, ands, or buts about it.”

Whether the obvious demand for drive-ins will be sustained after the pandemic is something Geissinger would rather not speculate on. He is a man passionate about

funds in North Philadelphia communities continued from page 5 through the four primary organizations under its operation: Beech heart of North Central Philadelphia, it has lever- Interplex, Inc., Beech Business Bank, Beech aged over $2 billion in community reinvestment Community Services

and the Alston Beech Foundation.

To access the Beech Community Resources Directory visit https:// beechcompanies.com/.

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at the University of Pennsylvania Library describes the Marian Anderson collection as consisting of five-hundred boxes containing music programs, notebooks, diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, recorded interviews, awards, recordings of her singing in concert, her presidential medal, and other memorabilia amassed over a lifetime of performing and public service. Dr. James reports that of all the collections at the Kislak Center, the Marian Anderson collection is the most popular reflecting the love and admiration Philadelphians had for her. For some, it’s the memory of her singing they treasure, according to Dr. James, herself a professional classical singer who attributes Marian’s appeal to the uniqueness of her voice. Marian Anderson sang in the contralto range, which Dr. James says is the lowest for female singers.

David McKnight says having the Marian Anderson archive at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center, “reintroduces a very

important Philadelphian, American, and artist of international reputation with the kind of materials evidence of her success, and struggles.”

For information about the “Marian Anderson: Artist On The World Stage” collection, contact the University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center, 3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Phone: 215- 898-7088.

Note: Through my late father, I came to know of Marian Anderson and her importance to the world of classical music.

It was more than that magnificent voice he wanted me to appreciate; it was her contribution to human rights that her music gave life and meaning. Marian Anderson was not a political activist speaking out on behalf of causes, but her voice called us to share in the beauty of life and embrace love and respect for one another. With her voice, Marian Anderson penetrated the soul of all people. Hers was a life filled with an abundance of dignity and grace and showed us a path to triumph over injustice. @ MHolmesIII

com, Visit Philadelphia, and Grammy® Awardcontinued from page 6 winning singer-songwriter India.Arie. She of organizations includ- currently serves as Meing Anthology Film diamaker-in-Residence Archives, Institute of at the Annenberg School Contemporary Art (Phil- for Communication and adelphia), Lightbox Film Curator-at-Large for Film Center, Museum of Con- at the Annenberg Center temporary Art (Los Anfor the Performing Arts, geles), The Underground both at the University of Museum, and the Whit- Pennsylvania in Philadelney Museum of Ameriphia. can Art—where she In 2012, she founded most recently organized the BlackStar Film Fesscreening programs in tival, which focuses on conjunction with the independent filmmak2019 Biennial. Holmes ers of color from across was named one of Black the globe. She was guest Public Media’s 40 Mecurator for the Flaherty dia Game Changers in New York screening 2020. As a filmmaker, series in Fall 2017 and her works have screened guest programmer for internationally including Scribe Video Center in her feature documentary Spring 2017. Other projScene Not Heard: Women ects include KinoWatt in Philadelphia Hip-Hop (2011-2012, co-curated (2006). She has also with Sara Zia Ebrahimi) directed and produced and Black Lily Film & works for Colorlines.

Music Festival (2006-

2010).

Holmes most recently served professionally as Executive Director of ARRAY Alliance in 2018.

Prior to that position, she served as Director of Public Engagement at the Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, a role she originated, creating a new department. She previously held positions at the Leeway Foundation, Painted Bride Art Center, Department of Media Studies & Production at Temple University, the Netter Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association, Sony Music, and Washington City Paper. She has taught at Drexel University, Temple University, University of the Arts, Villanova University, Scribe

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of the United States.

Considerable press coverage ensued, and at the urging of Mrs. Roosevelt, movies and projection, in store for film buffs ev- the federal government responded by making and never has focused erywhere. too much on the business Editor’s note: Our spe- the steps to the Lincoln cial reporting on COVID-19 Memorial available for side of drive-ins. the concert.

That said, Paul and his may focus on communities On April 9, 1939, at the wife Susan are looking outside Philadelphia because Lincoln Memorial, Ms. for their next adventure. many of our student journalists are now temporarily Marian Anderson apShankwieiler’s is curpeared in triumph before rently up for sale, and the located outside of the city. a crowd of seventy-five Instead, our reporters will asking price is just over thousand, and a national $1 million. Geissinger is cover how the coronavirus ready to call it a career, is impacting their own com- radio audience in the millions. She began the munities from across the but for the business to program with a rendition stay open he urges mov- country and around the of “My Country, ‘Tis of ie-lovers to strictly follow world. We will return to the theater’s rules. hyperlocal coverage of Phila- Thee.”

David McKnight, Kisdelphia’s neighborhoods as “We’re open because lak Center Special Colsoon as possible. we follow the regulalections Director, says of Please email any questions,” he said.

If viewers can abide by tions or concerns about this particular significance in the recently digitized the rules and the business story to: editor@philadelcollection is a series of angle of drive-ins can get phianeighbors.com. unexpurgated interviews through the pandemic Marian had with a New restrictions, there are York Times music critic. beautiful drive-in sunsets In these, Marian discusses her experiences as an African-American performer subjected to racism and discrimination as she traveled throughout the country.

April James, Ph.D., Reader Services Librarian at the Kislak Center Vehicles naturally spaced by the radio poles on July 9, 2020. Viewers have the option to stay in their cars or set up directly on the end of their car to watch the film.

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Video Center, Philadelphia Community Access Media (PhillyCAM) and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she is currently an adjunct lecturer.

Her writing has appeared in Film Quarterly, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly, Washington City Paper and Blu Magazine, as well as on BlackAmericaWeb.com and Alternet.org. Holmes contributed essays to the following books: We Inspire Me: Cultivate Your Creative Crew to Work, Play and Make, edited by Andrea Pippins (Chronicle, 2018); Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, edited by adrienne maree brown (AK Press, 2019); How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance, edited by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin (Nation Books, 2019); and Fresh, Bold and So Def, edited Martha Diaz and Felicia Pride (2012). Her interview with director Kasi Lemons appeared in the December 2019 issue of The Believer.

Included in ESSENCE Magazine’s 2019 Woke 100 List (as #25), Holmes is a 2019 Soros Equality Fellow and has received awards from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, Independence Media, Women’s Way, and Philadelphia Commission on Human Rights. She was named a Creative Ambassador by Visit Philadelphia in 2009 and was a fellow at the 2014 Flaherty Film Seminar and a 2016 Ford Foundation Rockwood JustFilms Fellow. This spring, she will be honored by the Asian Arts Initiative for her service in the Philadelphia cultural sector.

Holmes received her MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University and her BA in History from American University, with additional graduate-level studies in Design & Production at California Institute of the Arts.

She currently serves on the board of American Documentary, the advisory boards of Vidiots, Ulises and Lightbox Film Center, and was a juror for the 2019 Full Frame

Documentary Film Festival and the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. She began her career with internships at the National Museum of American History and Dallas Austin’s Rowdy Records.

About BlackStar Film Festival The BlackStar Film Festival is an annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and of global communities of color, showcasing films

by Black, Brown and Indigenous people from around the world. The 2020 festival, presented online due to COVID-19, takes place August 2026, and comprises more than 80 films, including 24 world premieres and representing over 20 countries. The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is a Producing Partner and the Annenberg School for Communication is a Silver Sponsor of the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival.

Visit blackstarfest.org.

About the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts serves as a major cultural destination and crossroads connecting the University of Pennsylvania and the Greater Philadelphia region through innovative human expression in theatre, music, dance and film, serving an annual audience of over 80,000. The Annenberg Center also serves as a key resource for the arts at Penn, connecting master artists with Penn students in support of and as an enhancement to the arts curriculum. Student performing arts groups are also key users of the Annenberg Center’s multiple performance and rehearsal spaces, while also staffing many operational roles throughout the academic year. In reflection of Penn’s core values as a world-respected academic institution, the Annenberg Center emphasizes artistic and intellectual excellence, diversity and rigor in its presentations; prioritizes broad inclusiveness in the artists, audiences and groups it serves; manages outstanding performance, conference and meeting facilities; and stresses comprehensive event planning, produc-

Philadelphia Museum of Art Plans to Reopen on September 6, 2020, Rodin Museum Also to Reopen

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he Philadelphia Museum of Art announced Monday that it will reopen to the public on Sunday, September 6, 2020, following a nearly six-month closure that was necessitated by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rodin Museum will also be reopening on this date.

Admission to the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be Pay-What-YouWish on opening day, which will follow three Members-Only days (September 3, 4, 5).

Both museums will operate with reduced hours (see below) and visitors are strongly advised to reserve admission tickets in advance online, beginning August 17.

These dates are subject to change in the event of any government directives or advisories related to the pandemic.

What to Expect When You Visit The main building will be accessible only via the North Entrance, tion support and customer service. The Annenberg Center is a major provider of performing arts access for school children and actively engages a broad range of primary, secondary and post-secondary student audiences and inclusive constituencies from the campus, community and surrounding region. Visit AnnenbergCenter.org.

About the Annenberg School for Communication Founded in 1959 through the generosity and vision of diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is devoted to furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education and service. With strengths in health communication, political communication, culture and communication, media institutions, digital media and social networks and global communication, the Annenberg School is one of the top Communication schools in the nation.

facing Kelly Drive (East and West entrances will be closed initially). Inside, the following safety measures will be implemented: The museum will have a reduced visitor capacity in compliance with city, state and federal guidelines.

Timed general admission. Touchless tickets will be available for designated times (last ticket will be sold one hour prior to closing each day; see museum hours below). The museum requests that visitors arrive no more than 15 minutes prior to entry, to assist in avoiding unnecessary waiting lines.

Visitors above the age of 2 and museum staff will be required to wear masks at all times.

Temperature checks, via digital scanner, will be required upon arrival at the North Entrance.

A six-foot social distance will be required between visitors (or their party) and others, including museum workers.

Children must remain with adults at all times.

Hand sanitizer units will be stationed at locations throughout the building.

Enhanced cleaning of high-touch surfaces will be in effect throughout each day.

In accordance with new safety procedures, the Main Store will welcome shoppers on-site in limited capacity. (Online shopping is available 24/7 via store.philamuseum.org.)

Food and dining services will not be immediately available.

Further information on the museum’s new safety policies, how to purchase tickets, plan a visit, and shop, is available viaphilamuseum.org/visit.

In the Galleries With nearly all of the 200-plus galleries open in the main building, ranging from the arts of Asia to the European, American, and contemporary collections, visitors are encouraged to revisit favorite works from the collection and discover new treasured favorites, from the Japanese Ceremonial Teahouse to the recently-installed All about the Benjamins

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Century Vase by Philadelphia artist Roberto Lugo, Mary Cassatt’s Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, and Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers are among the highlights in the galleries of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that had only recently been reinstalled before the March closure.

Temporary exhibitions have been extended, including Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction

by Artists from South Asia (though October 25); A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from Dietrich American Collection (through November 15); Horace Pippin: From War to Peace (through December); and Marisa Merz (through

July 2021).

In the American galleries, beginning mid-September, Thomas Eakins’s The Gross Clinic will return from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to be reunited with the artist’s other famous medical painting, The Agnew Clinic, together bearing testimony to the triumphs of medicine in 19th-century Philadelphia. In recognition of the essential healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition Art of Care (September 16, 2020–January 3, 2021) will examine the ways in which artists have portrayed medical care over the last century.

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Pennsylvania’s top education official to step down

By Christen Smith The Center Square

ennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera announced Tuesday he will resign in October to become president of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology.

Gov. Tom Wolf said he will nominate Deputy Secretary of Postsecondary and Higher Education Noe Ortega to fill the cabinet position.

“Noe Ortega has a proven record of advocating for equity and access for all students,” Wolf said. “Recently, Noe has been spearheading Pennsylvania’s efforts to diversify our educator pipeline to make our classrooms better reflect the students we educate, and his expertise will continue to advance the department’s mission of ensuring

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nent-collection installations in the modern and contemporary art galleries will highlight works by women, Black artists, and other artists of color. Expanded Painting from the 1960s and 70s will feature works

by Sam Gilliam, Dorothea Rockburne, Alma Thomas, and Jack Whitten, offering a fresh view of the history of nuanced and inclusive view of this period in the history of abstract painting (early October). Ghosts and Fragments presents works

by Nick Cave, Lonnie Holley, Glenn Ligon, and Susan Rothenberg that conceptually speak to the haunting absences and fractured presences of marginalized bodies (early October). Painting Identity will explore how a diverse selection of 20thcentury American artists

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera takes part in a news conference Jan. 16, 2020, to announce grants intended to combat sexual assaults on college campuses. Photo courtesy of Commonwealth Media Services

said Maryann Marotta, chair of the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology Board of Trustees the pandemic. and Vice President of “His leadership has Marotta/Main Archibeen critical during tects. “His experience in the commonwealth’s education, leadership, response to COVID-19 and governmental policy and the relationships align with the needs of he cultivated with the institution, and his education stakeholders strength and drive will during his tenure have serve to advance the strengthened the ties mission of the college between state and local throughout the Compartners and allowed monwealth, impacting local schools to inform the lives of economistate education policy,” cally and socially unhe said. derserved students and Rivera joined the administration in 2015 after their families for generations.” serving as the superinChristen Smith tendent of the School Staff Reporter District of Lancaster. He Christen Smith follows also spent years working Pennsylvania’s General in the School District of Assembly for The Center Philadelphia as a teachSquare.

She is an awarder, principal and execuwinning reporter with tive director. more than a decade of “Secretary Rivera is experience covering a demonstrable leader state and national policy with nationally recognized experience to lead issues for niche publicathe college through these tions and local newsrooms alike. very challenging times for higher education,”

Pennsylvania’s learners have access to the educational opportunities that will help them succeed.”

Rivera’s departure comes amid a turbulent time for educators, administrators and lawmakers alike as they

grapple with school reopening plans that prioritize social distancing.

The state Department of Education has been criticized for its handsoff role in implementing these policies, preferring instead to leave deci-

sions about returning to in-person instruction up to each of the state’s 500 school districts.

Wolf’s statement on Tuesday, however, credited Rivera with helping the state navigate its educational response to

used portraiture and figure painting to explore the characters of their subjects and reflect upon broader social issues, from Portrait of James Baldwin by Beauford Delaney and Taboo by Jacob Lawrence to Last Sickness

by Alice Neel and Miss T by Barkley Hendricks (December).

Please note that until further notice the Dorrance Special Exhibition Galleries will be closed, along with two very small galleries in which social distancing and other safety precautions would not be possible: gallery 361 (room from Het Scheepje, or The Little Ship) and gallery 283 (Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés).

At the Rodin Museum, Rethinking the Modern Monument has been extended until January 2022.

For a list of upcoming exhibitions and installations through spring

2021, see the advance schedule.

Public programs—such as evening performances, school visits, and family festivals—will be postponed until public health and safety conditions change favorably to facilitate large gatherings.

The Perelman Building will also remain closed through the next year.

Looking Ahead The completion of the Core Project phase of the Facilities Master Plan, overseen by architect Frank Gehry, has been delayed from fall 2020 to early 2021 (date to be announced) due to the pandemic. Visitors may look forward to seeing the newly refurbished and reopened Lenfest Hall (West Entrance), a vast new Forum space at the heart of the building, the completion of the Vaulted Walkway spanning 640 feet across the building from north to south at ground level, and two suites of generously sized new galleries on the first floor, each comprising more than 10,000 square feet. One suite will be inaugurated with a major reinstallation of American art spanning the years 1640 to 1840. New interpretations of this collection will explore the artistic ties linking North America, South America,

Drexel project on civil dialog this week outside Nesbitt Hall

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As we enter the fifth month of people finding creative ways to stay connected, I wanted to bring your attention to one that’s happening this week on a building in University City.

Dr. Frank Lee, the Drexel professor known for his interactive architectural art installations that have converted the Cira Center into giant video games [1] a few times over the years, is trying something new – using a guided conversation on Twitter to generate a

collaborative art display projected on one of the buildings in the middle of Drexel’s campus.

Each night from 9-10:30 this Wednesday – Saturday (8/12-15) people from around the city and around the world can join in the conversation/collaboration by following @ civil_dialog on twitter and either checking out the west side of Nesbitt Hall (33rd and Market) in person or on Twitch

and Periscope. Dr. Lee’s group is soliciting conversation starters from the public and will be using them to guide an interactive dialog, which will be converted into a high-def projected animation on the building throughout the evening.

Here is some background on the project and some video to give you an idea what it will look like: https://drexel.edu/ now/archive/2020/August/Civil-Dialog/

and Asia; the role of enslavement in the production and financing of art throughout the period; Philadelphia’s role as an influential cultural capital; and the stories and works of Black, women, and Indigenous artists.

The other suite of new galleries will open with an exhibition celebrating art-making in Philadelphia today through the perspectives of a diverse selection of artists working in a variety of media.

Together these new galleries will illuminate the exceptional range of

creative expression that has flourished in Philadelphia past and present and reaffirm the spirit of resilience and innovation pervading the city today.

New Hours: Philadelphia Museum of Art (Main Building) Monday, Closed Tuesday, Closed Wednesday, 12:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. (PWYW admission from 5:00–7:30 p.m.)

Thursday, 10:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.

Friday, 12:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

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Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Rodin Museum Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Monday, 10:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Closed Wednesday, Closed Thursday, Closed Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Saturday, 10:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.

The Perelman Building, Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove historic houses remain closed until further notice.

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