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Arts and Entertainment

Arts and Entertainment: Spoken Word, Comedy and Storytelling Communities Band Together For a Cause

June 4, 2014

“I don’t know half of you but I love all of you,” said MJ Harris – a rapper, teacher, storyteller, poet, actor and cancer patient – setting the tone for the first Inter Genre Story

Arts and Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment: Luis Marrero, A Powerful Voice

September 27, 2013

Luis Marrero is making a name for himself in Philadelphia’s arts and entertainment community. It started in 2008, when Marrero took the stage in his first open-mic show at Center City’s Art Institute. From there

Education

Logan: Book Spine Poetry Offers Teens Alternative Form of Writing

April 4, 2012

April has been celebrated as National Poetry Month in the United States since 1996. And to acknowledge the month, Belita Thornton, library supervisor at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Logan branch at 1333 Wagner Ave.,

Mantua

Mantua: Storyteller Shares His Tales with Youth

February 13, 2012

https://vimeo.com/36576606] Ron Carter had the 20-plus children in the room transfixed. They laughed and gasped, hanging onto his words. He had the rhythmic flow of a Caribbean storyteller, and to the inattentive listener the story

Arts and Entertainment

Chestnut Hill: Woodmere Art Museum Gets All Jazzed Up

June 2, 2011

https://vimeo.com/24388851] The Woodmere Art Museum is known for bringing new, exciting exhibits to Chestnut Hill. More recently, however, art in a different form has taken hold of visitors. Jazz at Woodmere has rapidly developed into

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