B. Someday Productions and Walking Fish Theatre team up with the Historical Society of Frankford and Hidden City Philadelphia for a special event! It's a Wine Tasting and Soundscape-Hearing Evening at one of Philadelphia's hidden historical treasures, Historical Society of Frankford, 1507 Orthodox Street tonight, June 25, 2013 starting at 6:30pm and going until 9:00pm. The cost is a suggested donation of $20 for both wine and the exhibit. Enjoy a glass of wine in the bucolic gardens adjoining the Historical Society of Frankford, then venture downstairs to experience the soundscape installation amongst the historical artifacts as part of the Hidden City Philadelphia Data Garden.
Proceeds from this one-time event will go toward funding the Navajo Summer Arts Camp and Performance Project in New Mexico this summer. From July 22-August 2, B. Someday Productions' Artistic Director, Michelle Pauls will bring two weeks of theatre games and activities, including a specially tailored version of B. Someday's Barrymore Award-winning OF MYTHIC PROPORTIONS program to Navajo teens living on the Navajo Nation Reservation. The camp will serve grades eight through twelve and will focus on storytelling, theatre games, and creating an original piece of performance, based on stories from their own lives. The camp will culminate in an original piece of theatre, which the teens will perform for each other and for the community of the reservation. Traditional stories shared by community elders will also be incorporated. The Public Performance will be audience-interactive, and the whole community will be invited to share in the young people's original piece of live performance!
LOCATION:
Frankford Historical Society
1507 Orthodox Street
Philadelphia, PA 19124
Data Garden and its collaborators created a wired sound installation combining contemporary as well as outdated audio technologies that allow the public to "play" and mix the sound of the historic museum and its artifacts. Data Garden will also present a concert of experimental, contemporary electro-acoustic music featuring King Britt, violist Gretchen Lohse, theremin player Laura Baird and Dino Lionetti on 8bit sound technology.
Historical Society of Frankford collects, preserves and presents the history of Northeast Philadelphia and the region. Recognizing the neighborhood of Frankford as the historic and geographic gateway to the region, HSF documents and interprets the history of the people, places, events and traditions of the greater Northeast Philadelphia area and serves as an advocate for the preservation of the region's historic resources. Through its collections and programs HSF provides opportunities for its members, the surrounding community, and the general public to explore and appreciate the history of Northeast Philadelphia and its place in the world.
ABOUT B. SOMEDAY PRODUCTIONS AT WALKING FISH THEATRE:
B. Someday Productions, a 501.c.(3) non-profit theatre-arts corporation, is a small independent producing and presenting theatre company, producing mainstage shows, cabaret productions, educational outreach programs, co-producing comedy, and family theatre programs. B. Someday was honored with its first Barrymore Award for its outreach program, Of Mythic Proportions in 2010 by the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Established in 2007, Walking Fish Theatre, home to B. Someday Productions, is located in Kensington, on the Frankford Avenue Corridor of the Arts in Philadelphia. B. Someday is committed, within its community and beyond, to bringing and creating art on the Frankford Avenue Arts Corridor.
B. Someday Productions uses theatre, literature and myth to bring together artists and the community to discover new strategies for urban our challenges. B. Someday celebrates tradition while renewing the creative process through producing theatre--original, adaptation and in existence--providing educational programs and operating the Walking Fish Theatre.
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