Allentown Artsfest 2015

Join the Alternative Gallery for three days of ongoing music performances by local and regional bands of all genres, a dedicated Street Art area highlighting breakdancing and live graffiti art demonstrations, a full scale skate park, the area’s finest craft beer and locally made food in addition to over 100 unique artists and vendors with [...]

Banana Factory Exhibit Features Paintings of Allentown Native Joshua Franco

A retrospective by acrylic painter Joshua S. Franco of Los Rancheros, N.M. is the focus of the new exhibit, A Mine Hole Adventure, on display in the Crayola Gallery at the Banana Factory, 25 W. Third St., Bethlehem now through Aug. 9. The exhibit features vibrant images that invite viewers to bring their own experiences [...]

ManDudeBro Musikfest Preview

ManDudeBro Friday, August 7  @ 11:15 PM Venue: Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas Price: $5 ManDudeBro is the improvisational comedy team of Matt Candio, Jon Lunger, Dan Maher and Evan Stutts. Based in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, the group has been delighting audiences with longform improv since 2012. The members of ManDudeBro have trained [...]

Free Children’s Arts Programs at Sigal Museum

Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society’s Sigal Museum Art Series Funded through Crayola The Sigal Museum in downtown Easton announced a new art program offering free workshops for children during summer and fall of 2015. According to director Barbara Kowitz, the museum is “taking inspiration, in equal measure, from the museum’s history exhibits and the [...]

Welcome Brittany Schrum

Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society Introduces New Curator of Exhibitions The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society introduced its new Curator of Exhibitions to community leaders, historians, and museum visitors on Thursday evening at the Sigal Museum. Brittany Schrum, an artist and exhibit designer, brings with her more than six years of experience, working [...]

Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre’s Theatrical Season Begins

The Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre festival at Muhlenberg College announces the lineup for its 2015 summer season — the 35th in the festival's history. The season will feature the raunchy but heartwarming musical "Avenue Q," the classic matchmaker musical "Hello, Dolly!," and "Grimm!" a new musical for young audiences, based on the stories of the [...]

Attention All Artists – Riverside Festival of Arts

2015 poster design contest winner, Monica ShellOn Saturday and Sunday September 19 & 20, 2015 the 19th annual Riverside Festival of the Arts will be held in downtown Easton along the scenic banks of the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers. The Festival continues to host more juried artists and fine craftspeople each year. Exhibiting artists and [...]

Contemporary Romeo and Juliet at Muhlenberg

Modern retelling of 'Romeo and Juliet' sheds light on race relations, police violence Muhlenberg's Troy Dwyer rewires Shakespeare's romantic tragedy to speak to contemporary audiences During one month in the summer of 2014, in separate incidents in cities across the United States, four unarmed black men were killed while being arrested by police officers. None [...]

‘Dance Emerge’ at Muhlenberg College

'Dance Emerge' dance concert showcases eclectic work by 11 student choreographers, 60 dancers and Muhlenberg faculty member Megan Flynn in a nationally acclaimed program Muhlenberg College dancers tell their stories through movement, as the Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance Department presents "Dance Emerge," a showcase for dance works created by emerging choreographers, April 16-18 in the [...]