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                                                                               January 2012

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In This Issue
Main Street Happenings
Events and Happenings Around Town

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Cups N Cakes

 

50 West Third Avenue - in Collegeville Station
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Aprille and Claudia
Owners Aprille and Claudia

 

Lunch Box on Main

 

454 East Main Street

 

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My Friends Tavern
 
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Back in business at 315 East Main Street.  Check their FB page regularly for dinner specials.

 

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Appalachian Brewing Company
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DaVinci's Pub

 

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For a complete entertainment listing visit DaVinci's Entertainment

 

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Collegeville Borough

 

Council meeting - First Wednesday of every month at 7:00 PM at Borough Hall, 491 East Main Street 

 

Note:  The January 2012 Council meeting will be held on TUESDAY, JANUARY 3rd.  The meeting will begin with new council members being introduced, etc. and then the monthly council meeting will follow.

 

Collegeville Borough American Red Cross Blood Drive

 

Friday, December 30

1:00 PM to 7:00 PM

 

Collegeville Fire Company

 

Appointments are preferred.  Sign up at redcrossblood.org.  Enter sponsor code 02214339.

 

  

 Blood Bonus

Collegeville Farmers Market

  

Select year-round Collegeville Farmers' Market vendors are selling inside the Longview Center for Agriculture Farm Store (formerly Willow Creek Orchards), 3215 Stump Hall Rd., Collegeville, PA 19426 for the winter.

 

The Collegeville Winter Farmers' Market will be held each Saturday from 10 AM to 1 PM, beginning Saturday, January 7, and then every Saturday through April. 

 

Starting May 5th, the Collegeville Farmers' Market will re-open for the 2012 summer season on Saturdays from 9 AM until 1 PM at our current Collegeville Main St. site behind the AmeriGreen Gas Station.

Community Music School


In the Gallery at CMS: Color Play, an exhibit by Alice Laputka of Conyngham, PA.
Exhibit runs through January 7, 2012

A Little Night Music Concert Series

 

Alexandre Moutouzkine, piano

 

Saturday, January 14, 2012 
8:00 PM

 

Mr. Moutouzkine burst onto the U.S. concert scene at the age of 19, when he received the Special Award for Artistic Potential at the XI Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and has since appeared widely on the world's great concert stages. His performance in London's Wigmore Hall was hailed by International Piano magazine as "grandly organic, with many personal and pertinent insights, offering a thoughtful balance between rhetoric and fantasy...technically dazzling."

 

In the Gallery at CMS: Etudes in Color an exhibit of original quilt designs by Rachel Derstine of Schwenksville, PA.

 

Exhibit runs January 14 through February 11, 2012

 

Bach's Lunch - Lunchtime Concert Series

Third Thursday of the month
12:10 PM to 12:50 PM 

Bring your boxed lunch and enjoy beautiful performances by our highly talented faculty artists. 

 

Winter Blues Jazz Brunch

 

Sunday, January 29, 2012
(snow date Sunday, Feb. 12th)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

 

$25 per adult (age 13+)
$15 per child (ages 12 and under)

 

Register by January 20.  Contact: Jennifer O'Donnell at  [email protected] or 610-489-3676 ext. 101


For a complete schedule of events visit Community Music School.

 

Ursinus College

 

Second Annual Community Partnership Parade

April 2012 

 

Join in and be a part of the planning process leading to the culminating event which will be a procession through Collegeville.  Work with the Philadelphia-based community arts group Spiral Q Puppet Theater (www.spiralq.org) to create a fun and celebratory procession/parade.  The working theme for the project is "Reaching Out/Reaching In: The Power of Partnerships" and everyone participating in it will be encouraged to interpret that theme in their own way, using their own meaningful symbols, etc."

 

To get involved, contact Sue Shifrin at [email protected].

 

The Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College

 

Currently at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College,in the Henry 1948 & June Pfeiffer Wing: The Lenfest Gallery and Cosgrave Works on Paper Study Room, the museum's new addition:

 

Modern Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Berman & Corazza Collections

Lenfest Gallery, through March 25

 

Curated by Matthew Mizenko, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Ursinus College, and Frank L. Chance, Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, this installation features a selection of images from a collection of more than 300 modern Japanese woodcut, etching, and silkscreen prints. The works are gifts to the permanent collection by Muriel and Philip Berman and Dr. and Mrs. Leo Corazza.  The Bermans actively collected prints in their travels to Japan.  Dr. Corazza, Class of 1945, acquired his works through service in the military in the Far East and through a long association with The Red Lantern Shop. A major exhibition of these works, funded by a grant from the Freeman Foundation, was mounted in 2005 and was accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, which is available for purchase.

 

Picture Making: Recent Acquisitions in Photography
Cosgrave Works on Paper Study Room, through June 1.

 

From an important collection of photographs that were made available to museums and educational institutions, 17 photographs by significant figures in the field were acquired from the Randall Plummer and Harvey S. Shipley Miller collection to be used for teaching, study, and exhibition.  Additionally, in honor of the retirement last May of Donald E. Camp, Visiting Professor of Art at Ursinus, William Earle Williams, Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College, donated 12 images that cover the breadth of photographic processes.  Included in this installation are images by Walker Evans,  Alfred Steiglitz, Frank Herrmann, Erich Salomon,  Margaret Bourke-White, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen,  and George Hurrell.

 

Upcoming in January and February:
 

RE-IMAGINING THE DISTAFF TOOLKIT

January 24 through April 1

 

Main Gallery, curated by Rickie Solinger

 

Funded in part by Dorothy Nofer, and an Anonymous Donor

 

Opening Reception:  Sunday January 29,  2 to 4 p.m.

 

"HOLDING THE EYES AND SOUL": OBJECT AND VIEWER IN 2012

February 15 through April 1

 

Upper Gallery, curated by Michelle Ermatingas-Salas, Class of 2012

 

Opening Reception: Wednesday February 15, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.


Family StagesFamily Stages


The Emperor's New Clothes
 
February 12 & 13
Sunday, 2:00 PM  & Monday, 10:00 AM
 
A vain emperor wants to wear the finest clothes ever designed. Enter a sly trickster who makes "magic" clothes that only the emperor can see - or so he says. Who will tell the emperor the truth about the clothes? Not the ministers in the court. It's the children!

Augustus Lutheran Church
717 Main Street (Ridge Pike), Trappe, PA 19426

Tickets $9.00

For information or to register visit Family Stages or email [email protected] or call 215-886-9341

Perkiomen Valley Library

Year of the Dragon
  
Saturday, January 21
11:00 AM

 

Ages 3-6 with adult.  Celebrate Chinese New Year with stories, snacks and a craft! 

Perkiomen Valley Library at Schwenksville
290 Second Street, Schwenksville, PA 19473
 
Registration requested. Sign up at the library or call 610-287-8360 to register.

 

For a complete list of events visit special events.

2012 Memorial Day Parade

Collegeville will host next year's Collegeville-Trappe Memorial Day Parade, which will be held on May 28, 2012.  For more information or to volunteer, contact Andrea Baptiste at 610-733-4329, or e-mail her at [email protected].

 

Keystone Grange Programs


Telford Diving Unit

 

Wednesday, January 18

7:30 PM

 

192 West Main Street, Trappe

 

For information contact: Gene Zvarick at [email protected].

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