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The Allentown Branch of the NAACP will be having its 65th Annual Freedom Fund and Awards Banquet on Saturday July 21, 2007, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the DAYS INN & Conference Center located at the intersection of routes 22 and 309 in Allentown, PA.

Our keynote speaker will be Mr. Eddie C. Brown, Founder, President and CEO of Brown Capital Management Company. Mr. Brown is both a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Chartered Investment Counselor. In addition to serving on the Presidents' Roundtable, Mr. Brown is very active in community affairs in the Baltimore area.

Individual tickets can be purchased for a donation of $40.00 each. Please call 610-780-9903 for more information or to purchase tickets.

Moravian College Music Institute will hold the 15th Annual July Jazz Getaway from Sunday, July 8 to Saturday, July 14 at the Priscilla Payne Hurd Campus in historic Bethlehem, Pa.

The camp provides a memorable experience for amateur jazz musicians who flock to Moravian from across the region to learn from and to jam with some of the biggest names in jazz. JJG participants travel from several states across the country and represent various occupations. Among them are: college professor, scientist, mail carrier and advertising executive. What brings them together is their love of jazz.

Ravi Coltrane will be the guest artist at this year's July Jazz Getaway. He is a tenor and soprano saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, who has fronted a variety of jazz lineups, recorded critically-hailed albums as a leader, and produced recordings by other artists including his mother, the late Alice Coltrane. Ravi is the son of the legendary jazz saxophonist and composer John William Coltrane, a hugely influential jazz musician who has been credited with reshaping modern jazz and with being the predominant influence on successive generations of saxophonists.

July Jazz Getaway events open to the public . View events here.

The July Jazz Getaway Ensembles Concert will be held on Saturday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will feature the talents of camp participants. Admission is free.

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The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts provides a rich and comprehensive educational program for students grades 9 through 12 with talents and potential in dance, figure skating, instrumental music, theatre, visual art, and vocal music. Admission to LVPA is based on audition.

This regional model will enable each student to maximize his or her special talents. Our graduates will increase the quality of their life, the lives of people who surround them, and the respective communities of the Lehigh Valley

The student population is 425, with a high degree of diversity and 114 students in the current senior class. Of our 41 faculty members, 33 percent have advanced degrees and share an average of 6.3 years of teaching experience. The current staff to student ratio is 1 to 10.4.

Ask about our summer program scheduled for July and August for 4th-7th graders.

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Submit your ad info in time for the next issue of LV BNN (7/10/07)! Ads for July, August and September should be submitted this week for best exposure!

Unleashed is a powerfully enriching forty-poem book that was written with the intent of depicting the life many people would like to live or already are living. The intentions of each poem are to cause people to reflect on life, think about the future, about loving themselves and others, about the importance of family, and about ways to motivate themselves and others. The majority of my poems have no rhyme because they are done more so in the spoken-word format, which has allowed me to get more passionate and deeper, in many cases offering both graphic and humorous details. I titled the book Unleashed because I am unleashing my feelings, my fears, emotions, desires, and details of my trials and triumphs, all the while wondering how many other people in the world want to be unleashed within their minds and just be free to live life as they so wish and pray.

ANDRE D. WILLIAMS grew up in TakomaPark, Maryland, graduated from Montgom-ery Blair High in Silver Spring, Maryland,and attended the University of Maryland,where he completed his education in 1991.

He has worked at the Washington Post, the Montgomery Journal in Montgomery County, Maryland, the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, and the Morning Call in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, 1994 to the present. He also has done extensive radio and television broadcasting. Mr. Williams is a single father. He and his son, Chevon, currently live in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

On behalf of Touchstone Theatre and the Leadership Committee of the Lehigh Valley Black African Heritage History Project,please consider joining us at our next story-gathering session.

The Lehigh Valley Black African Heritage Project is a collaborative project of Muhlenberg College, the Lehigh County Senior Center, the Lehigh County Historical Society, Kutztown University, and Touchstone Theatre.

Help us continue Phase III of the project as we collect material for a play to be produced by Touchstone Theatre of South Bethlehem.
Come to a gathering to swap stories, memories, and pictures or just to satisfy your curiosity!

SAVE THE DATE FOR FUTURE STORY-GATHERING SESSIONS:

Saturday, June 23, 1-4pm at the Grace Deliverance Baptist Church 838 New Street, Bethlehem

Saturday, June 30, 1-4pm at the Easton Teen Center "THE CLUB" 1101 Northampton Street Easton, PA

This August 3-12, downtown Bethlehem, Pa. will sizzle with the sounds of more than 500 musical performances by artists from around the globe during Musikfest 2007.

Highlighting the lineup are acts such The Moody Blues, Patti LaBelle, Deep Purple, Petula Clark, Ludacris, Big & Rich, Jonatha Brooke, The Yardbirds and more.

In addition to the nonstop music on 13 indoor and outdoor stages, the festival features plenty of great special events, activities for families, visual arts and crafts and a closing-night fireworks spectacular. The event, which is celebrating its 24th year, is presented by ArtsQuest.


For tickets and more information, visit www.fest.org or call 610-332-FEST.

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St Paul Community Service Center
Allentown Art Museum
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Moravian College Music Department
Union Baptist Church Allentown PA.
Living Stone Fellowship Church
Private Industry Council of Lehigh Valley, Inc.
SouthSide Film Institute
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YWCA of Bethlehem
Art Quest
Coalition for Appropriate Transportation
Communities In Schools of the Lehigh Valley
Community Action Development Corporation Allentown
Greater Shiloh Church
God will Change Your Life Recovery Ministries
Lehigh County Senior Center
Lehigh Northampton Airport Authority
NAACP Allentown Chapter
Bridgeworks Enterprise Center
Rejoice Foster Care and Adoption Agency
Second Baptist Church of Bethlehem PA
State Theatre Center of the Arts
Teen Summit Program
Theatre Outlet
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley
Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley
Williams Center for the Arts Lafayette College
Ways to Work Family Loan Program
Northampton Community College
Lehigh University Human Resource Department
Northampton Community College
Touchstone Theatre
Women Unlimited Inc.
This Is Your Life Association
Care Net Pregnancy Center of the Lehigh Valley
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Second Baptist Church
Lehigh Valley Arts Council
Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts

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Since 1930, the "Loonie Tunes" and "Merry Melodies" of Warner Bros. have delighted audiences young and old with their wit and surprising sophistication. Originally shown in theatres, where they were the most popular cartoons of their day, the Warner Bros. cartoons developed new audiences with the rise of television in the 1950s.

Many people have seen these cartoons literally hundreds of times as they were growing up, yet most of these viewers are unfamiliar with the actual artwork from which these films were created. The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons is a greatly expanded version of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) show in New York, and consists of over 150 drawings, paintings, cels and animated films of Warner Bros. classic cartoons from the 1930s through 1960.

Works by all the directors, including Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng and Bob Clampett, now considered the giants of American animated filmmakers, are richly represented.

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