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East Coast, West Coast vs. The Real Americans

My daughter Minna has at times performs her memoir writings and occasionally spoken word. And Minna’s friend Sigal writes and performs one-woman plays. In fact, the two of them are working on a script together right now. So when I got not one but two emails from Minna in San Francisco, with an urgent recommendation from her and Sigal to see The Real Americans, I took the suggestion seriously.

Love returns to Love Park–Welcome House

The magic of worlds merging–homeless and well-heeled, city workers and city slickers, artists and would-be’s–suddenly has returned Love Park into a meeting place, under the spell of Marianne Bernstein’s Welcome House–a glass house or box framed in wood, set in the park not too far from the so-called Philadelphia Welcome Center.

Kessler documentary on Arbus’ Huberts photos

Post by Chris Paquette Documentation that supports that a cache of photos discovered last year of Huberts Side Show people were taken by Diane Arbus. Those who attended the November 13th Salon du Festival event, part of this weekend’s First Person Arts Festival, missed some of David Kessler’s documentary, The Huberts Collector on the Diane Art-Bus, about the lost Diane Arbus photos from her early days of hanging out with the freaks at Huberts Side Show in New York City. Kessler’s film had to be shown on a back up DVD player when the first system failed to operate. The ... More » »

Tonight, tonight, check it out…If you break the skin

If you haven’t seen David Kessler’s gutsy documentary about Zoe Strauss, tonight’s the night to catch it at its World Premiere! $10 at www.firstpersonarts.org or 800.838.3006The First Person Stage at 2111 Sansom StreetFor more information, call 267.402.2059 From the p.r.: The documentary If You Break the Skin, You Must Come In does more than just scratch the surface of the lives it examines. When a group of adolescents in foster care were chosen to help make a film about maverick photographer Zoe Strauss, the process was turned inside out by having them turn the camera on themselves. The result is ... More » »

Weekly Update – Maira Kalman at First Person Arts Festival

This week’s Weekly has my short a-list preview of Maira Kalman’s presentation at the First Person Festival. Below is the copy with a picture. Maira Kalman, gouache painting. Among other things, the artist loves hats and many of her paintings feature people in fanciful chapeaux. Maira Kalman brings her whimsical paintings and worldly observations to Philadelphia in the artist’s multimedia presentation for the First Person Arts Festival. Kalman paints with an old-fashioned sensibility that’s part Florine Stettheimer and part Andy Warhol—wry, fashionable and naive. Kalman—a New Yorker cover artist and children’s book author—makes friendly paintings that gush like a wide-eyed ... More » »