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DEAR FRIENDS, As Zoellner Arts Center looks to celebrate its past 25 years, and envisions the next 25, we want to pause and thank all of our supporters. Each of you, who helped keep us moving forward during these uncertain times, also kept up the spirits of the center’s team. Over this past year, we found many opportunities for joy: as public school children entered Zoellner with awe and wonder after a two-year hiatus; as the Lehigh Photo Courtesy Fig Magazine University choral and music ensembles' notes soared in Baker Hall; as theatre students smiled working on their craft in the Fowler Black Box and Diamond Theater; and as we walked through Butz Lobby seeing hundreds of students from across campus rehearse for Dancefest. Now, we have reached a milestone. During this 25th Anniversary Season, we honor some of our founders, who in the early 1990s with Lehigh University leadership, embraced a vision to bring arts to the forefront of our community with a ‘dramatic new facility destined to become a major landmark.’ Years later, Tony Bennett said this right after he sang Fly Me to the Moon a cappella in Baker Hall, “Listen to that, they don’t build them like this anymore. It’s really beautiful. The acoustics in here are amazing.” We agree Mr. Bennett. This fall season world class artists like Michael Feinstein, Postmodern Jukebox, and the New York Philharmonic, who inaugurated Baker Hall in 1997 and is honoring us with a performance for our 25th, will create many more moments of joy. In the spring, we will expand our cultural programming. Third Coast Percussion and Flutronix perform their new work Rubix and the talented artist Wu Fei joins us for a residency and performs Hello Gold Mountain with Professor Paul Salerni conducting students in Lehigh University’s Philharmonic and Choir. And be sure to save this date: April 15, 2023, for the return of our gala with The Philadelphia Orchestra featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, where we will also have a free outdoor performance by vertical dance company Bandaloop. These amazing artists will soar across the sky on the exterior of Zoellner Arts Center. They grace the cover of this brochure and prove that art is not subject to the confines of four walls. How grateful and excited I am to be the Executive Director of Zoellner Arts Center at this moment in time. We celebrate the impact we've had over the last 25 years, and look forward to the next 25 of engaging and connecting with you in and beyond our building. Mark Fitzgerald Wilson Executive Director 610.758.2787 2
PAGE INDEX 4 CORNERSTONE EVENTS 7 PRESENTING SERIES 13 MUSIC DEPARTMENT Hally beauty shot with page # index 16 DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE 16 NOTATIONS | LUAG 17 MORE INFO CONNECT WITH US! ZoellnerArts zoellnerarts ZoellnerArts zoellnerartscenter GO TO WEBSITE inzactix@lehigh.edu #artshaveimpact 3 zoellnerartscenter.org
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | OCT 1 MICHAEL FEINSTEIN | NOV 5 Celebrating 25 Years of Cornerstone Events: Honoring the Impact of the Zoellner, Baker, Diamond, and Ulrich Families' Zoellner Arts Center Initiatives to Help Establish the Arts Center. THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA | APR 15 POSTMODERN JUKEBOX | DEC 17
GET Zoellner Arts Center 2022 FALL SEASON AT A GLANCE STUDENTS Executive Director TICKETS Presenting Series Picks HELL'S KITCHEN HOME FREE WIND ENSEMBLE FUNK ORCHESTRA OCT 29 AND SYMPHONIC SEP 10 BAND A New Beginning NEW YORK NOV 20 PHILHARMONIC OCT 1 LUVME LEHIGH UNIVERSITY DAN AND The Life and Love of JAZZ REPERTORY CLAUDIA ZANES Joe Coogan & The ORCHESTRA Holiday Sing Along Overlook Quartet OCT 30 NOV 27 NOTATIONS: SEP 24 NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES THE SALONNIÉRES GALATEA LEHIGH UNIVERSITY OCT 11 SEP 28 – OCT 1 NOV 4 – 12 PHILHARMONIC Reflections & Celebrations DEC 2 & 3 HOME FREE NEW YORK MICHAEL FEINSTEIN LEHIGH UNIVERSITY OCT 29 PHILHARMONIC Get Happy! CHORAL ARTS OCT 1 Celebrating the Judy Christmas Vespers Garland Centennial DEC 4 NOV 5 AMAZING MAX LEHIGH UNIVERSITY WESTMINSTER MICHAEL OCT 8 FACULTY STRING CONCERT FEINSTEIN QUARTET BELL CHOIR NOV 5 Strings and Threads DEC 16 NOV 6 THE WEEKLINGS LEHIGH UNIVERSITY SCOTT BRADLEE'S BEATLESBASH STUDENT JAZZ POSTMODERN DAN AND OCT 15 ENSEMBLES JUKEBOX NOV 12 Holiday Tour CLAUDIA ZANES DEC 17 NOV 27 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ACADEMY OF CHRISTMAS WITH CHORAL ARTS VOCAL ARTS THE CELTS Brahms and Poulenc Various Opera DEC 18 SCOTT BRADLEE'S OCT 22 & 23 Ensembles POSTMODERN NOV 13 JUKEBOX DEC 17 KEY: PRESENTING SERIES | MUSIC DEPARTMENT | DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE 5 zoellnerartscenter.org
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SAT OCT 1 | 7:30pm The New York Philharmonic, which helped with Bomsori Kim as soloist. The rediscovered inaugurate Zoellner Arts Center in 1997, and Symphony No. 4 by Florence Price completes marked its 10th anniversary, returns for a third the program. Price was a pioneering composer performance in Baker Hall to commemorate our in the 1930s. She was the first woman of African 25th anniversary. Music Director Jaap van Zweden American descent to receive national recognition conducts the orchestra in a concert that blends as a symphonic composer and have her music the impressionistic delicacy of Debussy’s Prelude performed by a major American orchestra during to the Afternoon of a Faun with the Romantic that period. virtuosity of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Price $75/65 Performance in Honor of the Ulrich Family Legacy 610.758.2787 6
PRESENTING SERIES OCTOBER SAT OCT AMAZING MAX SAT THE WEEKLINGS BEATLESBASH OCT WITH THE HORNS & STRINGS ORCHESTRA 8 Professional magician Max Darwin is an actor, designer and visual artist with over 35 years of experience working with young people as a performer and artist-in-residence. He has 15 We asked The Weeklings to ‘get back’ to Baker Hall after their amazing performance last year. You don’t want to 1:00pm been featured on National Geographic’s hit TV series, Brain 7:30pm miss this chance to see America’s most unique celebration Games, and has worked as a magic consultant for Gotham, of THE BEATLES! Experience a note-for-note celebration Blindspot and America’s Got Talent. His solo show, The of timeless music—Eleanor Rigby, Something, Sgt. Pepper’s Amazing Max, has received rave reviews from The New York Lonely Hearts Club Band, Back in the USSR and more— Times, Huffington Post and PBS Kids for “an awesome and featuring a 10-piece horns and strings orchestra. There is hilarious live magic show.” something in the way they play! Price $12 | Child $10 Price $45/35 GENERAL ADMISSION FAMILY SERIES 7 zoellnerartscenter.org
NOVEMBER SAT OCT HOME FREE SUN ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS NOV VARIOUS OPERA ENSEMBLES 29 Following their victory on NBC’s The Sing-Off, a cappella group Home Free have made their mark on the music scene: racking up nearly 600,000 album equivalents globally; 13 Great voices accompanied by live orchestra share the drama and the passion of classic opera in a celebration of various 7:30pm embarking on major international tours; amassing OVER 5:00pm major opera ensembles. The Academy of Vocal Arts in 1 MILLION YouTube subscribers, and garnering praise Philadelphia trains young artists with tremendous potential from Country Living, The Rolling Stones and others. These as international opera soloists. These singers share their extraordinary showmen have continued to build a loyal talent, training and unique gifts on our concert stage. fanbase with their harmony-laden versions of hits by John Price $20 Mayer, Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Maren Morris, The Oak Ridge Boys and more. Price $65/55/45 Programs Subject to Change 8
Performance in Honor SAT NOV 5 | 7:30pm of the Baker Family Legacy Legendary performer Michael Feinstein salutes talent and charisma. No one could break or lift your and celebrates the great Judy Garland in the heart like Judy Garland! Feinstein will lead you on year that honors her 100th Birthday! Executive a historical journey through Garland’s amazing life, produced by Liza Minelli, audiences are invited to telling stories that he has learned from Liza Minnelli join a nostalgic and spectacular musical journey and other close friends. Audiences will be treated of Garland’s illustrious career. Filled with special to recently discovered, previously unheard musical surprise moments, Feinstein and audiences will arrangements, as well as gain rare insight into the come together in celebrating Garland’s unparalleled enduring Garland mystique. Price $45/35 9 zoellnerartscenter.org
DECEMBER SUN DAN AND CLAUDIA ZANES NOV HOLIDAY SING ALONG FRI WESTMINSTER CONCERT BELL CHOIR DEC IN PACKER MEMORIAL CHURCH 27 WHERE YOUR KIDS RELAXED PERFORMANCE CAN BE THEMSELVES 16 Bells will be ringing once again in Packer Church during the holiday season! Comprised of students at Westminster Choir Grammy-Award winner Dan Zanes and his musical wife, 1:00pm Claudia Zanes, and her best friend Pauline Jean, perform a 7:30pm College at Rider University, the bell choir has performed at multicultural all-ages wintertime celebration. Hear a variety Carnegie Hall and even joined Julie Andrews, Christopher of traditions and songs from near and far — Christmas and Plummer, Charlotte Church and the Royal Philharmonic Hanukkah classics in English, Hebrew, and Ladino as well Orchestra for the acclaimed A Royal Christmas tour. as holiday songs from Korea, Tunisia and more. Songbooks Their holiday performances have been heard annually on are distributed and the audience becomes a part of the NPR’s Performance Today, and are part of its Christmas festivities. Guests of all ages join the trio on-stage. Around The Country II recording. Price $12 | Child $10 Price $20 | FREE SHUTTLE from parking garage GENERAL ADMISSION GENERAL ADMISSION FAMILY SERIES inzactix@lehigh.edu 10
SCOTT BRADLEE’S Performance POSTMODERN JUKEBOX in Honor of the Diamond SAT DEC 17 | 7:30pm Family Legacy One of our favorite bands is back with their festive holiday show! PMJ mashes up timeless holiday classics and pop hits with vintage doowop, ragtime, Motown and jazz melodies with snazzy instrumentation to create the ultimate jingle jangle speakeasy concert vibe. Scott Bradlee describes the show this way: “Put simply, it’s the touring equivalent of Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie." Their worldwide legion of fans account for over one billion YouTube views and hundreds of sold-out shows. Join us and have yourself a merry little evening! Price $65/55/45 11
SAVE THE DATE APRIL 15, 2023 SUN DEC CHRISTMAS WITH THE CELTS 18 First there was Riverdance, then Celtic Woman, now Christmas with The Celts is here! The Celts mix lively traditional Irish music and instrumentation with American 5:00pm pop music and their own originals. Their popular program aired on over 200 PBS channels. Performing classics like An evening with Little Drummer Boy, Count Your Blessings, White Christmas, I’ll be Home for Christmas and Santa Claus is Coming to Town this array of top-flight musicians on uilleann pipes, The Philadelphia Orchestra Irish whistles, fiddle, bodhran, banjo, five-string bass, drums, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell along with Irish dancers is a perfect holiday treat. Performance with a special performance by Bandaloop Price $45/35 in Honor of the Zoellner Family Legacy 610.758.2787 12
MUSIC DEPARTMENT SEPTEMBER SAT HELL’S KITCHEN FUNK ORCHESTRA 10 The NYC-based orchestra returns to perform selections from their new recording, Chain Reaction. The group’s 8:00pm music is a mixture of adventurous, modernistic pieces, Jazz-tinged Salsa and Post-Bop hipness. Jazz Times refers to Bill Warfield as a “top-rate craftsmen, perhaps one of the best on the scene.” Price $18 SAT LUVME 24 THE LIFE AND LOVE OF JOE COOGAN & THE OVERLOOK QUARTET 7:30pm A concert performance of a one-act opera based on a Dick Van Dyke TV show episode by Carl Reiner, libretto by Kate Light, music by Paul Salerni. Special guest ensemble The Overlook Quartet performs music by Shelley Washington and Trevor Weston. Guest singers include Disella Larusdottir, Keith Phares, Branch Fields, Tyrone Chambers, Helen Huang, Sarah Ann Duffy and even Zoellner’s Executive Director, Mark Fitzgerald Wilson. Price $20 OCTOBER SAT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY CHORAL ARTS 22 BRAHMS AND POULENC The 200 plus singers of Choral Arts perform Nänie by 8:00pm Johannes Brahms and Francis Poulenc’s Gloria. Steven Sametz and Sun Min Lee, directors. SUN Price $18 23 4:00pm ALL MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS ARE GENERAL ADMISSION 13 zoellnerartscenter.org
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY SUN OCT 30 JAZZ REPERTORY ORCHESTRA Bill Warfield directs the Jazz orchestra performing classic 3:00pm repertoire from all the greats. Price $15 NOVEMBER SUN LEHIGH UNIVERSITY 6 FACULTY STRING QUARTET 3:00pm STRINGS AND THREADS Lehigh string faculty members Michael Jorgensen, Erica Dicker, Sharon Fischer and Chris Gross perform chamber music written in and about the United States featuring the iconic Dvořák American String Quartet, Op. 96. Other repertoire: Jessie Montgomery, Strum; Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 5. Price $15 SAT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY 12 STUDENT JAZZ ENSEMBLES 8:00pm Lehigh University's student Jazz musicians present classics, performed by combos and Big Bands. Bill Warfield, director. Price $12 Programs Subject to Change 14
SUN NOVWIND ENSEMBLE AND 20 SYMPHONIC BAND A NEW BEGINNING 3:00pm During this Sunday afternoon filled with musical notes, you’ll enjoy classic repertoire for concert band. Price 15 $ DECEMBER FRI LEHIGH UNIVERSITY PHILHARMONIC 2 REFLECTIONS & CELEBRATIONS Director Paul Salerni conducts his orchestral piece A Time 8:00pm to Mourn, a Time to Dance, alongside Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Eugene SAT Albulescu as piano soloist. 3 Price $18 8:00pm SUN LEHIGH UNIVERSITY CHORAL ARTS 4 CHRISTMAS VESPERS IN PACKER MEMORIAL CHURCH 4:00pm Lehigh University Choral Arts presents its annual 8:00pm Christmas gift to the community. Steven Sametz and Sun Min Lee, directors. Free; No tickets required. Early arrival suggested. ALL MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS ARE GENERAL ADMISSION 15 zoellnerartscenter.org
DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE NOTATIONS NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES TUE OCT 11 | 7pm Hannah-Jones is the creator and lead writer of The New York Times' major multimedia initiative, The 1619 Project. Named for the year the first THE SALONNIÉRES enslaved Africans arrived in America, the project features an ongoing series of essays and art on the relationship WED SEP 28* - SAT OCT 1 | 7:30pm between slavery and everything from In pre-Revolutionary Paris, a young girl fresh from the social infrastructure and segregation, convent is promised in marriage to an older nobleman to to music and sugar—all by Black pay off her father’s debts. She flees to the literary salon of American authors, activists, journalists her late mother’s friends, aristocratic women who conceal and more. Named a MacArthur radical politics within reinvented folk tales. But which of them Genius, she’s won a Peabody, a Polk, is her fairy godmother, and which is the cruel stepmother? Is and a National Magazine Award for the duke a Prince Charming or a Beast? And is the maid the her story on choosing a school for her humble nobody they treat her as, or the hero of a story none daughter in a segregated city. of them knows they are in? Augustine Ripa, director. Price $12 Notations are FREE events; No tickets required. GALATEA NOV 4, 5, 9* – 12 | 7:30pm • SUN NOV 6 | 2pm Galatea is a queer fantasia about love at the end of the Starstruck: An American Tale Shimon Attie: Horger Artist-In-Residence world. Loosely based on John Lyly’s 1585 play, Galatea is a trans love story set in a forest featuring Greek gods, poetry, LUAG Main Gallery and lesbian separatist nymphs. Two young people disguise themselves to escape virgin sacrifice and hide in the woods August 24, 2022 - December 4, 2022 where they meet and fall in love. Lyam B. Gabel, director. G G Lehigh University Price $12 DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE EVENTS ARE GENERAL ADMISSION A Art Galleries * The Dept. of Theatre is offering Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays. Contact Ticket Services for details. inzactix@lehigh.edu 16
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Order early PICK 3-PACKAGE AND SAVE! for best seats PACKAGE STUDENT/CHILD Select 3 or more & save up to 20%! DATE & TIME TOTAL PRICE PRICE SEPTEMBER 2022 GA= General Admission PRICE # TICKETS + PRICE # TICKETS MUS Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra GA Sat 10 - 8pm $15 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ MUS LUVME: Joe Coogan/Overlook GA Sat 24 - 7:30pm $17 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ THR The Salonniéres GA circle one: 28 • 29 • 30 - 7:30pm $10 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ OCTOBER 2022 PS New York Philharmonic Sat 1 - 7:30pm $61 x ____ $39 x ____ $______ THR The Salonniéres GA Sat 1 - 7:30pm $10 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ PS Amazing Max GA Sat 8 - 1pm $12 x ____ $9 x ____ $______ PS The Weeklings Sat 15 - 7:30pm $30 x ____ $19 x ____ $______ MUS LU Choral Arts: Brahms & Poulenc GA Sat 22 - 8pm $15 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ MUS LU Choral Arts: Brahms & Poulenc GA Sun 23 - 4pm $15 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ PS Home Free Sat 29 - 7:30pm $46 x ____ $28 x ____ $______ MUS LU Jazz Rep Orchestra GA Sun 30 - 3pm $13 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ NOVEMBER 2022 THR Galatea GA circle one: 4•5•9•10•11•12 - 7:30pm $10 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ 6 - 2pm PS Michael Feinstein Sat 5 - 7:30pm $30 x ____ $19 x ____ $______ MUS LU Faculty String Quartet GA Sun 6 - 3pm $13 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ MUS LU Student Jazz Ensembles GA Sat 12 - 8pm $10 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ PS Academy of Vocal Arts Sun 13 - 5pm $17 x ____ $10 x ____ $______ MUS LU Wind Ens. & Sym. GA Sun 20 - 3pm $13 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ PS Zane Holiday Sing Along GA Sun 27 - 1pm $12 x ____ $9 x ____ $______ DECEMBER 2022 MUS LU Philharmonic: Reflections… GA circle one: Fri 2 • Sat 3 - 8pm $15 x ____ $5 x ____ $______ PS Westminster Bell Choir (in Packer Chapel) GA Fri 16 - 7:30pm $17 x ____ $10 x ____ $______ PS Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox Sat 17 - 7:30pm $46 x ____ $28 x ____ $______ PS Christmas with the Celts Sun 18 - 5pm $30 x ____ $19 x ____ $______ SUBTOTAL $______ ONE-TIME HANDLING FEE $__10.00_ (MUST SELECT 3 OR MORE EVENTS TO RECEIVE DISCOUNT) TOTAL $______ SEATING PREFERENCES:������������������������������� (OVER) ��������������������������������������������������� FREE EVENT PARKING ATTACHED TO CENTER | Programs Subject to Change. SPECIAL NEEDS: GET ADA SPACE(S) _______ COMPANION SEAT(S)_______ PLEASE note, all seats besides ADA seating (and row S in Baker Hall) are STUDENTS accessed by using stairs. Refer to page 17 for seating charts. TICKETS
YOU HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE ARTS Great Performances Support our mission to present high-quality multi-disciplinary programs. Tickets cover less than 50% of costs for the Presenting Series. Community Education & Outreach Underwrite tickets, programming and transportation for hundreds of students who benefit from our school show matinees, workshops and school partnerships. Accessible Arts Impact, inspire, educate and encourage children of all abilities to experience the arts through our STEAM-based programs, social-emotional learning and artist residencies. The Creative Campus Initiative Help us connect the sciences, business, engineering and the humanities through transformative works of art. RENT OUR SPACE Hold your special occasion at Zoellner! Perfect for receptions, recitals, parties, ceremonies and more! Contact our rental manager: 610-758-5387 or inrental@lehigh.edu GIVE THE GIFT OF ENTERTAINMENT Do you need a venue for your event? Our gift certificates never expire. We've hosted hundreds! Contact our Purchase these at Ticket Services or online in any amount. Certificates cannot be rental manager for details. redeemed for rental events. Photo Credits: Shimon Attie, Jorg Badura, Beata Bernina, Lynn Farley, Fig Magazine, Linda Ganus, ICM Partners, John Kish IV, Chris Lee, Lehigh University, LU Dept. of Theatre, LU Music Dept., Zach Mahone, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Blair McGhee, Christa Neu, Carol Rosegg, George Simian, Westminster Choir College, Ron Yoshida © 2022 Lehigh University 21 zoellnerartscenter.org
ABOUT US Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University | Celebrating 25 Years Over 25 years ago, Lehigh University had a vision to design a vibrant arts environment where students, artists, faculty and community could create and learn. It wanted to educate, captivate and inspire performers and patrons by presenting a variety of outstanding performing arts events, exhibits and educational programs, and developing new works. In 1997, this vision manifested in Zoellner Arts Center—home to the Presenting Series, Lehigh University Music Department, the Department of Theatre, and the Art Galleries—a place for creativity and innovation; for exploring all corners of artistic disciplines; and for opening up minds to new ideas and new ways of seeing the world. In a recent year, the center held 240 events, including over 350 artists from 10 countries, and more than 50 campus and community events, lectures, business meetings, convocations, recitals, concerts, conventions and more. In total, the center provided arts engagement and communal space to over 55,000 people in attendance from 12 states and to over 3,000 local school children. Additionally, we created partnerships with 35 community organizations in the arts, sciences, health and literacy. As we step forward, Zoellner Arts Center will continue building organizational partnerships like those achieved as the lead organization for the Kennedy Center’s Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child program in Bethlehem. We will further expand into the community by focusing on K-12 education to deliver arts enrichment programs, cultural programs, social-emotional learning programming, and artist-in-residencies specifically tied to school curriculum. Zoellner Arts Center strives to go beyond our four walls and challenge people to think while encouraging them to see the world through a different lens to connect and understand our community. We seek to be a leader in the arts and culture scene in the Lehigh Valley by being bold, forward-thinking, innovative, and by bringing our diverse community together through shared experiences. We are dedicated to presenting arts for all through being inclusive, diverse, equitable and accessible. 22
CONNECTING TO OUR COMMUNITY Our Mission The mission of Zoellner Arts Center is to infuse the arts into the life of Lehigh University and the greater Lehigh Valley community by presenting high-quality multi-disciplinary programs, by fostering life-long patronage of the arts, and by integrating our educational resources to enhance our human experience. The Numbers Over 55,000 patrons come to Zoellner Arts Center each year Over 7,000 students attend Lehigh University Over 100,000 children of all ages have visited the center since 1997 Over 85 community organizations have benefited from ticket donations Where Community Gathers The arts center is proud to host events for many Lehigh Valley organizations including: Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Touchstone Theatre Young Playwrights’ Festival The Bach Choir Concerts Ben Franklin TechVentures I-xchange Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit Art has the power to change lives and engage our community Our doors are open to all in the community. Your support is the key ingredient in creating an arts rich community for all residents. By engaging with the center you help us enrich the lives of people across the Lehigh Valley. Together, we can make the arts accessible to areas in our community where geographic location and economics pose barriers. An arts rich community is able to mold creative critical thinkers to lead us into the future. Thank you. 23
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