Upcoming list view

Deadline to buy tickets with the group (sit together is Friday,
Nov 20th. Email me directly for info.

**TICKETS were purchased 11/20 for all those who rsvp'd yes
as of that date**
if you are interested in going please purchase tickets on your own.
We are sitting in Row C Tier 2
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Peter Nero and the Philly Pops - Present "HOLIDAY POPS"

Verizon Hall - Kimmel Center 8pm

The most popular concert of the season returns to ring in the holidays !
Continue the tradition and join Peter Nero and the Philly Pops for this now
beloved classic concert featuring Broadway star Lauren Kennedy,
along with the incredible voices of the 150 person POPS Festival Chorus,
the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas Gospel Choir,
The Philadelphia Boys Choir, and organist Peter Conte.

Start your holiday season with The POPS—the perfect way to celebrate this festive time of year!

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA)

Admission to the Museum is $10.
Tour is part of the admission price.

We will arrive at the museum between 12-1pm
to browse.

At 1pm: There is a guided tour of the Permanent Collection,
and the Historic Landmark Building

At 2pm: There is a guided tour of the Special Exhibitions,
at the Samuel Hamilton Building

Tours are optional.

After the 2nd tour, I expect to be at the museum for another hour.

All segments are at your discretion/optional.

There is no before or after food event planned.
Visit the Museum website

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About the museum and collection:
PAFA was founded in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale,
sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders.
It is the oldest art museum and school in the nation.

History of the Museum and Collection
The current museum building opened in 1876. Designed by the American architects Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt, it has been designated a National Historic Landmark. As such, it is recognized as an important part of America's and Philadelphia's architectural heritage. It was carefully restored in 1976. The collection is installed in a chronological and thematic format, exploring the history of American art from the 1760s to the present.

Since its founding, the Academy has collected works by leading American artists, as well as works by distinguished alumni and faculty of its school. From 1811 to 1969, the Academy also organized important annual art exhibitions from which significant acquisitions were made. Harrison S. Morris, Managing Director from 1892 to 1905, collected contemporary American art for the institution. Among the many masterpieces acquired during his tenure were works by Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Frank Duvenek, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, and Edmund Tarbell. Work by The Eight, which included former Academy students Robert Henri and John Sloan, is well represented in the collection, and provides a transition between 19th- and 20th- century art movements.

Today, the Academy maintains its strong collecting tradition with the inclusion of works by modern and contemporary American artists such as Jennifer Bartlett, Richard Diebenkorn, Nancy Graves, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, Robert Motherwell, Raymond Saunders, and Frank Stella. Acquisitions and exhibition programs are balanced between historical and contemporary art, and the museum continues to show works by contemporary regional artists and features annual displays of work by Academy students.

Eastern State Penitentiary - Winter Adventure Tour

ESP
Opened in 1829 as part of a controversial movement to change the behavior of inmates through "confinement in solitude with labor," Eastern State Penitentiary quickly became one of the most expensive and most copied buildings in the young United States. It is estimated that more than 300 prisons worldwide are based on the Penitentiary's wagon-wheel, or "radial" floor plan.

Some of America's most notorious criminals were held in the Penitentiary's vaulted, sky-lit cells, including bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone. After 142 years of consecutive use, Eastern State Penitentiary was completely abandoned in 1971, and now stands, a lost world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers.

WINTER ONE HOUR (MOSTLY OUTDOOR) TOUR ! COST $12.00/Ticket

-An hour long tour of the beautiful, winter cellblocks with an expert tour guide

-The tours consist of a one hour guided walk through the empty penitentiary complex

-The tour route may change to accommodate weather, but will generally include
the cellblocks, center surveillance hub, Al Capone's cell, and the newly restored
Fleisher Memorial Synagogue.

ESP is beautiful in the stark, cold months of winter. But as striking as the
unheated building is, it's also very cold !!!

Tour Starts 12noon.
After the tour, we'll grab some food/hot chocolate at nearby venues.

As we approach January,2010, you will have to RSVP directly online
with ESP / information will be posted in December.

Eastern State Pen